Smith appears and gives him an offer that seems too good to be true but leads Douglas down a path to a fate almost worse than death.īurgess Meredith with a gleam in his eye, and an ever-present crooked cigar turns in a truly devilish performance, making the devious Mr. When a large newspaper conglomerate moves into town, small time editor Douglas Winter feels down on his luck, and sees only one very desperate way out, until a mysterious Mr. There are several Twilight Zone episodes that deal with the devil (see what I did there?), and I almost went with season one’s Escape Clause, however being an enormous Burgess Meredith fanboy, I went instead with Printer’s Devil from season four. Sam’s daughter Susanna is left with questions that for her, are best left unanswered and her engagement to Walter is reduced to dust. One of Walter’s much older ex-wives appears and reveals the long-hidden secret behind Walter’s inability to age, before delivering a fatal physical blow. ![]() Walter Jameson is a respected college professor, but when he asks for the hand of a fellow professor’s daughter in marriage, his colleague is hesitant and suspicious, because in the twelve years Sam Kittridge has known him, Walter hasn’t aged a day. However, when Martin Senescu takes the “Murderer’s Row” exhibit of figures from the soon to be torn down wax museum that employed him into his home, he quickly becomes obsessed with his new wax companions to the point that he believes them to be real and will do whatever it takes to keep them safe, no matter who gets in his or their way, descending further and further into madness as he goes.ġ0) Long Live Walter Jameson (Season 1, Episode 24) We’ve all heard the expression, “don’t take your work home with you”. Is Willie real, or is he only real at the bottom of the bottle Jerry empties every night? What happens when the voice that’s being thrown is thrown in the other direction, taunting him, and what happens to Jerry if art really does decide to imitate life?ġ1) The New Exhibit (Season 4, Episode 13) Jerry Etherson portrayed by Cliff Robertson who may be better known as Uncle Ben in 2002’s Spiderman, is a ventriloquist trying to catch his big break and aspires to go to Kansas City, but desperately wants to get away from his ventriloquist dummy Willie, who Jerry is convinced is real, but to all others is just a wooden caricature. Jess-Belle makes a deal with a suspected witch in the Blue Ridge mountains of the Appalachian territory to win back the love of her ex Billy-Ben Turner, but there’s a price to pay for dabbling in witchcraft, for all parties involved, including Jess-Belle most of all.ĭoes anyone else think that ventriloquist dummies are creepy? If you didn’t before, you should after watching this episode. ![]() However, the extra runtime gives this episode the proper amount of time it needs to unfold. Season four switched from a half hour format to a full hour, but only for the fourth season. Where are these mysterious lights coming from amongst the darkness of the forest, and who or what is the cause of the strange sounds emanating from the rooftop? Morning soon arrives, and our protagonists discover that there truly are times when the only thing to fear is fear itself. The penultimate episode of the series, The Fear finds Highway Patrolman Robert Franklin and fashion editor Charlotte Scott trapped in a remote cabin over the course of a terrifying evening. With Jordan Peele’s revival of the show currently in production, and this being the Halloween season, let’s look at fourteen of my favorite spooky stories that can be found…in The Twilight Zone. The episodes within this article will be as spoiler free as possible for those who have never watched the show, because their respective reveals are worth watching unfold naturally. The monster dwelling out there in the darkness, and the monster found within, and Rod Serling along with a plethora of talented writers, producers and directors brought these tales to the forefront. John Carpenter once said, there are two basic tales for horror. Mood, atmosphere and what lies within our subconscious can be just as frightening. Terror or horror doesn’t necessarily have to be blood and guts, or shock and gore. Running from 1959 to 1964, Rod Serling entered the viewers living room every week with a new tale offering a glimpse into the human psyche. ![]() The Twilight Zone is my favorite television program of all time.
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