<Tr> <Td> ← Previous "Once Upon a Time" </Td> <Td> Next → "A Quality of Mercy" </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Td_colspan="2"> List of season 3 episodes </Td> </Tr> <P> "Five Characters in Search of an Exit" is episode 79 of the television anthology series The Twilight Zone . It originally aired on December 22, 1961 . </P> <Table> <Tr> <Td> "</Td> <Td> Clown, hobo, ballet dancer, bagpiper, and an Army Major--a collection of question marks . Five improbable entities stuck together into a pit of darkness . No logic, no reason, no explanation; just a prolonged nightmare in which fear, loneliness, and the unexplainable walk hand in hand through the shadows . In a moment, we'll start collecting clues as to the whys, the whats, and the wheres . We will not end the nightmare, we'll only explain it--because this is the Twilight Zone . </Td> <Td>" </Td> </Tr> </Table>

Twilight zone characters in search of an exit