In the first segment of Episode 6, the United States of the future is a totalitarian dystopia. On reaching age 12, each child is required to take an intelligence test. When Dickie Jordan reaches his examination day, he is nervous but confident that he will ace it.

His parents, Richard and Ruth Jordan, also are nervous, but Dickie reassures them that an older friend has already passed the test and said it was easy and should be no problem for Dickie.

Richard and Ruth drop off their son at the examination facility. Dickie is administered a drug to ensure that he cannot cheat. Dickie is extremely pleased that he has little trouble with the battery of tests that he is given.

At the end of the testing, a government official contacts Richard and Ruth to inform them that Dickie’s intelligence is high, very high. In fact. the boy is so intelligent that, by law, he has been executed, and the government needs to know how the parents want his remains to be processed.

This iteration of “The Twilight Zone” ran on television in 1985 and 1986. The first and last episodes of original series, hosted by creator Rod Serling, were broadcast on 1//2/59 and 6/19/64, respectively. The Examination Day segment is based on a short story of the same name written by Henry Slesar and first published in “Playboy” magazine’s February, 1958 issue.

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