Four O'Clock story
A fanatical one-man moral crusader decides to shrink those he deems evil to a height of two feet at four o'clock. Directed by: Lamont Johnson. Story by: Price Day, Rod Serling.
13 total · 2 choice · 6 major · 5 minor
| Theme | Level | Motivation |
|---|---|---|
| obsession | choice | Mr. Crangle was obsessed with rooting out all the evildoers in the world. |
| vigilante justice | choice | Mr. Crangle was busy maniacally administering his own justice to whomever he felt like designating "an evildoer". |
| conspiracy theory | major | Among many other things, Mr. Crangle had a theory of a Red conspiracy calling the shots in Washington. |
| guilt and evidence | major | Mrs. Lucas asked Mr. Crangle by what right he presumed to sit in judgment of her husband, and we must indeed ponder by what right he levied his many baseless charges. |
| poetic justice | major | Mr. Crangle took it upon himself the designate and punish all the world's evildoers, but ended up punishing himself. |
| unbounded thought powers | major | Mr. Crangle maintained that he could will, if he wished, a variety of changes to the world. He decided to make every evildoer in the world two feet tall, at four o'clock. In the end he only changed himself. |
| what if I was accused of a crime that I didn't commit | major | Mrs. Lucas pleaded for clemency on behalf of her husband who was taking Mr. Crangle's accusations rather hard. |
| what is good and evil | major | Mr. Crangle railed maniacally about all the evil he would expunge from the world. |
| husband and wife | minor | Mr. and Mrs. Lucas, indirectly. |
| master and pet | minor | Mr. Crangle kept a pet parrot named Pete. |