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{{Infobox television episode
| series = [[The Twilight Zone (1959 TV series)|The Twilight Zone]]
| caption =
| season = 2
| episode = 23
| airdate = {{Start date|1961|04|07}}
| production = 173-3654
| writer = [[Rod Serling]]
| director = [[Buzz Kulik]]
| guests =
*[[Cliff Robertson]] as Chris Horn
*[[John Crawford (actor)|John Crawford]] as Joe
*Miranda Jones as Martha Horn
*[[Evans Evans]] as Mary Lou
*[[John Astin]] as Charlie
*[[Edward Platt]] as Doctor
| music = [[Fred Steiner]]
| season_article = The Twilight Zone (1959 TV series, season 2)
| episode_list = List of The Twilight Zone (1959 TV series) episodes
| prev = [[Long Distance Call]]
| next = [[The Rip Van Winkle Caper]]
}}

"'''A Hundred Yards Over the Rim'''" is episode 59 of the American television [[anthology series]] ''[[The Twilight Zone (1959 TV series)|The Twilight Zone]]''. It originally aired on April 7, 1961, on [[CBS]].

==Opening narration==
{{cquote|The year is 1847, the place is the territory of [[New Mexico]], the people are a tiny handful of men and women with a dream. Eleven months ago, they started out from [[Ohio]] and headed west. Someone told them about a place called [[California]], about a warm sun and a blue sky, about rich land and fresh air, and at this moment, almost a year later, they've seen nothing but cold, heat, exhaustion, hunger, and sickness. This man's name is Christian Horn. He has a dying eight-year-old son and a heartsick wife, and he's the only one remaining who has even a fragment of the dream left. Mr. Chris Horn, who's going over the top of a rim to look for water and sustenance and in a moment will move into the Twilight Zone.}}

==Plot==
In the year 1847, Chris Horn is the leader of a small [[wagon train]] from [[Ohio]] attempting to reach [[California]]. Horn's wife and young son Christian are riding in one of the group's [[covered wagon]]s. Christian is dangerously ill and the others advise Horn they wish to turn back, as they are running out of supplies and lack medicine for the sick. Determined to keep going, Horn sets off alone in a desperate search for water and sustenance, which he tells himself he will find over the rim of a nearby hill.

Upon crossing over the rim, Horn suddenly finds himself in 1961 [[New Mexico]] and is perplexed to see power lines, a hard black road, and a large truck coming at him. He stumbles out of the way, accidentally firing his rifle and grazing his arm. He comes to a small café and gas station, owned by Joe and Mary Lou. Joe gives Horn water while Mary Lou tends to his injury, offering him [[penicillin]], which she explains will ward off infection. They ask where he is from, curious about his old-fashioned clothes and "antique" yet seemingly new rifle. However, they do not believe his story. As Joe tells him of a nearby spring, Horn is shocked to see a calendar with the year "1961" on it, leading the couple to believe the desert heat made him mentally unstable.

Joe calls a local doctor to come check on Horn. The doctor finds him fit and seemingly rational, with only the implausibility of the man's biography giving him reason to think otherwise. He calls the sheriff as the appropriate authority to look after him. Meanwhile, Horn has found an encyclopedia containing a brief biographical entry for "Horn, Christian Jr., M.D.", who did great work with children's diseases in late 19th-century California. Horn proudly concludes this is his son, and believes that he has been brought to this place to save him. Taking the penicillin tablets with him, he bolts from the café and runs back toward the rim.

The arriving sheriff and Joe pursue Horn, who stumbles and drops his rifle before scrambling back over the rim. He sees the wagon train where he had left it, then looks back over the rim to find the territory unsettled. After giving his son a dose of penicillin, Horn leads the party onward to the spring and California.

Concurrently, Joe and the sheriff have returned to the café. Joe tells Mary Lou that Horn simply vanished and all they found was Horn's rifle on the ground where he dropped it. Looking at it, they see that it now shows the effects of more than 100 years of exposure.

==Closing narration==
{{cquote|Mr. Christian Horn, one of the hearty breed of men who headed west during a time when there were no concrete highways or the solace of civilization. Mr. Christian Horn, family and party, heading west, after a brief detour to The Twilight Zone.}}

==Production==
The location shooting for the scenes of the wagon train in the sand dunes and the exterior of the roadside diner was carried out at [[Olancha, California]] in the Owens Valley, located on U.S. Route 395, approximately 300 km north of Los Angeles, adjacent to the [[Sierra Nevada]] mountains. This is one of two ''Twilight Zone'' episodes filmed at this locale, the other being "[[Third from the Sun]]" (1960).

The distinctive geography of the Olancha area was also used for location shooting for the feature films ''[[Tremors (1990 film)|Tremors]]'' (1990), ''[[Bug (2006 film)|Bug]]'' (2006), and ''[[Iron Man (2008 film)|Iron Man]]'' (2008).

This was the first of two appearances on ''The Twilight Zone'' by Cliff Robertson, the second being in the 1962 episode "[[The Dummy]]".

==References==
* DeVoe, Bill. (2008). ''Trivia from The Twilight Zone''. Albany, GA: Bear Manor Media. {{ISBN|978-1-59393-136-0}}
* Grams, Martin. (2008). ''The Twilight Zone: Unlocking the Door to a Television Classic''. Churchville, MD: OTR Publishing. {{ISBN|978-0-9703310-9-0}}

==External links==
* {{IMDb episode|0734541}}

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