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{{about|a ''The Twilight Zone'' television episode}} {{Use American English|date=January 2025}} {{Use mdy dates|date=January 2025}} {{Infobox television episode | series = [[The Twilight Zone (1959 TV series)|The Twilight Zone]] | image = The Twilight Zone Lili Darvas Billy Mumy 1961.jpg | caption = [[Lili Darvas]] as Grandma Bayles and [[Billy Mumy]] as Billy Bayles. | season = 2 | episode = 22 | airdate = {{Start date|1961|03|31}} | production = 173-3667 | writer = Maxwell Sanford (uncredited)<br/>Charles Beaumont<br/> [[Bill Idelson|William Idelson]] | director = [[James Sheldon]] | guests = * [[Philip Abbott]] as Chris Bayles * [[Lili Darvas]] as Grandma Bayles * [[Patricia Smith (actress)|Patricia Smith]] as Sylvia Bayles * [[Bill Mumy]] as Billy Bayles * [[Jenny Maxwell]] as Shirley * Reid Hammond as Mr. Peterson * Henry Hunter as Dr. Unger * Lew Brown as Fireman * [[Arch Johnson]] as Fireman * Jutta Parr as Nurse | music = uncredited | season_article = The Twilight Zone (1959 TV series, season 2) | episode_list = List of The Twilight Zone (1959 TV series) episodes | prev = [[The Prime Mover]] | next = [[A Hundred Yards Over the Rim]] }} "'''Long Distance Call'''" is episode 58 of the [[American television]] anthology series ''[[The Twilight Zone (1959 TV series)|The Twilight Zone]]''. It originally aired on March 31, 1961, on [[CBS]]. In the episode, a 5-year-old boy named Billy communicates with his dead grandmother using a toy telephone that she gave him on his birthday. It was one of the six episodes of the second season which was shot on videotape in a short-lived experiment aimed to cut costs.<ref name="Zicree"/>
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