Wish Bank (The Twilight Zone)

"**Wish Bank**"
"Wish Bank"
The Twilight Zone episode
Episode no.	Season 1; Episode 4b
Directed by	Rick Friedberg
Written by	Michael Cassutt
Original air date	October 18, 1985
Guest appearances
	Dee Wallace-Stone: Janice Hamill ; Julie Carmen: Mary Ellen ; Julie Payne: Clerk ; Harvey Vernon: Mr. Willoughby ; Peter Land: Mr. Brent
Episode chronology
← Previous; "Little Boy Lost"	Next →; "Nightcrawlers"
	List of episodes

"Wish Bank" is the second segment of the fourth episode from the first season (1985-1986) of the television series The Twilight Zone. In this segment, upon finding a genie's lamp at a garage sale, a woman tries to cash in three wishes at the Department of Magical Venues, a satire of the department of motor vehicles.

Plot[]

Visiting a garage sale, Mary Ellen and Janice Hamill stumble upon a golden lamp that is engraved: "Rub me and your wish will come true. Certain restrictions may apply." When Janice rubs the lamp, she is transported to the Department of Magical Venues, a bank-like room where a broker types up her three wishes: $10,000,000, to look 10 years younger, and for her ex-husband Craig to suffer moderate sexual dysfunction for 18 months. Her broker gives her a stack of papers to sign and tells her that she will have to pay taxes on the wishes. Then he directs her to stand in a long line at the validation window to get her wishes approved.

After finally getting to the front of the line, Janice is told that she is missing a form and is directed back to her broker only to find a supervisor has just fired him for an error he committed. He then tells her that it is quitting time and everyone but Janice disappears. Frustrated, Janice wishes she had never found the lamp in the first place and is transported back to the garage sale. It is moments before she found the lamp, but this time she leaves for a sale at Fashion Square.

Production[]

The black hats the employees wear as they prepare to leave are painted energy domes, and the raised "DEVO" lettering can be seen when one falls off an actor's head.

External links[]

"Wish Bank" at IMDb

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Season 1	"Shatterday" "A Little Peace and Quiet" "Wordplay" "Dreams for Sale" "Chameleon" "Healer" "Children's Zoo" "Kentucky Rye" "Little Boy Lost" "Wish Bank" "Nightcrawlers" "If She Dies" "Ye Gods" "Examination Day" "A Message from Charity" "Teacher's Aide" "Paladin of the Lost Hour" "Act Break" "The Burning Man" "Dealer's Choice" "Dead Woman's Shoes" "Wong's Lost and Found Emporium" "The Shadow Man" "The Uncle Devil Show" "Opening Day" "The Beacon" "One Life, Furnished in Early Poverty" "Her Pilgrim Soul" "I of Newton" "Night of the Meek" "But Can She Type?" "The Star" "Still Life" "The Little People of Killany Woods" "The Misfortune Cookie" "Monsters!" "A Small Talent for War" "A Matter of Minutes" "The Elevator" "To See the Invisible Man" "Tooth and Consequences" "Welcome to Winfield" "Quarantine" "Gramma" "Personal Demons" "Cold Reading" "The Leprechaun-Artist" "Dead Run" "Profile in Silver" "Button, Button" "Need to Know" "Red Snow" "Take My Life...Please!" "Devil's Alphabet" "The Library" "Shadow Play" "Grace Note" "A Day in Beaumont" "The Last Defender of Camelot"
Season 2	"The Once and Future King" "A Saucer of Loneliness" "What Are Friends For?" "Aqua Vita" "The Storyteller" "Nightsong" "The After Hours" "Lost and Found" "The World Next Door" "The Toys of Caliban" "The Convict's Piano" "The Road Less Traveled" "The Card" "The Junction" "Joy Ride" "Shelter Skelter" "Private Channel" "Time and Teresa Golowitz" "Voices in the Earth" "Song of the Younger World" "The Girl I Married"
Season 3	"The Curious Case of Edgar Witherspoon" "Extra Innings" "The Crossing" "The Hunters" "Dream Me a Life" "Memories" "The Hellgramite Method" "Our Selena Is Dying" "The Call" "The Trance" "Acts of Terror" "20/20 Vision" "There Was an Old Woman" "The Trunk" "Appointment on Route 17" "The Cold Equations" "Stranger in Possum Meadows" "Street of Shadows" "Something in the Walls" "A Game of Pool" "Room 2426" "The Mind of Simon Foster" "The Wall" "Cat and Mouse" "Rendezvous in a Dark Place" "Many, Many Monkeys" "Love Is Blind" "Crazy as a Soup Sandwich" "Special Service" "Father and Son Game"