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Short summary

In an office building, a man in a crowded elevator asks one of the aliens that are riding with him to leave and wait for the next one, since the elevator can hold only 10 people. The alien has another idea.

Never shown during its network run, this segment aired in syndication.

This epsoae's title's a play on the title of an episode of 'The Twilight Zone (1959)_. The episode? 'Room For One More'.

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    • Author: Quashant
    There was a Rod Serling Twilight Zone episode titled 'Twenty Two' which had a recurring line by one of it's characters stating "Room for one more, Honey". It's kind of a creepy story but doesn't really have anything to do with this Night Gallery short except that it's something I recall for some odd reason. This one takes place on an elevator with a sign posted indicating a restriction of no more than ten people at a time. No problem, as an alien that comes on board has a unique way of making the occupancy limit. My question - where was the vampire for this one?
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    • Author: Ishnsius
    My following review will take you longer to read than the amount of time it will take you to watch this extremely short segment, which is barely a minute long. This is what I call a "Jack Laird special", meaning he was the director/writer of many shorter comedic segments, which Rod Serling detested, I heard. Listening to Serling's quick monologue seconds before this story began, he almost seems resigned to the fact that he must take one for the team, so to speak. I think he and Laird butted heads over the comedy aspect for this show. In any event, I still enjoy the 70's cheesiness for some of these skits. Regarding this one, we get to see inside a somewhat darkened elevator, which appears full of people, probably headed to and from their jobs. Weirdness ensues when a man quickly turns into an alien(Lee J. Lambert) with a giant head; soon after, the elevator operator(James Metropole)shows the creature a sign that mentions something about 10 people being the maximum limit for the elevator, so the alien must get off. I'll let you wait and see what happens next, but it's not funny nor scary. If you can wait barely a minute, then you can sit through this one.
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    • Author: Fararala
    An ugly malformed alien enters a crowded elevator. When the elevator operator informs said alien that the elevator can only hold a maximum of ten people, he makes the operator disappear. And that's about it, folks. Barely lasting a minute long, this slight single joke anecdote is moderately amusing at best. Moreover, it's no surprise that Rod Serling didn't care for these dopey tongue-in-cheek comedic filler shorts that were a specialty of producer Jack Laird. With the notable exception of the one starring Victor Buono as a picky cannibal, they frankly aren't that funny and tended to stick out like proverbial sore thumbs.
  • Episode credited cast:
    Lee J. Lambert Lee J. Lambert - Alien
    James Metropole James Metropole - Elevator Operator
    Rod Serling Rod Serling - Himself - Host
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