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'The Twilight Zone'' original series
Season five (1 / 2 / 3 / 4 / 5)'''
Fall 1963 – Summer 1964
List of The Twilight Zone episodes
Episodes:
  1. In Praise of Pip
  2. Steel
  3. Nightmare at 20,000 Feet
  4. A Kind of a Stopwatch
  5. The Last Night of a Jockey
  6. Living Doll
  7. The Old Man in the Cave
  8. Uncle Simon
  9. Probe 7, Over and Out
  10. The 7th Is Made Up of Phantoms
  11. A Short Drink From a Certain Fountain
  12. Ninety Years Without Slumbering
  13. Ring-a-Ding Girl
  14. You Drive
  15. The Long Morrow
  16. The Self-Improvement of Salvadore Ross
  17. Number 12 Looks Just Like You
  18. Black Leather Jackets
  19. Night Call
  20. From Agnes—With Love
  21. Spur of the Moment
  22. An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge
  23. Queen of the Nile
  24. What's in the Box
  25. The Masks
  26. I Am the Night—Color Me Black
  27. Sounds and Silences
  28. Caesar and Me
  29. The Jeopardy Room
  30. Stopover in a Quiet Town
  31. The Encounter
  32. Mr. Garrity and the Graves
  33. The Brain Center at Whipple's
  34. Come Wander With Me
  35. The Fear
  36. The Bewitchin' Pool

Cast

Synopsis

[Spoiler warningSpoiler warning]: Plot and/or ending details follow.
'' Set in a future where any boxing involving human fighters has been criminalized—the sport is now dominated by fighting robots. Former boxer Steel Kelly manages a B2 model robot that breaks down right before a fight. In order to collect the money necessary for repairs, Steel enters the fight disguised as a robot. Steel is almost killed in the ring by the B7 robot he was fighting against, but he manages to survive and collects half the prize money.

Trivia

Reportedly Richard Matheson's favorite Twilight Zone episode.

The episode was also rumored to be the inspiration for The Simpsons episode I, D'oh-Bot.

Themes

An update of the legend of John Henry. The stories of both John Henry and Steel Kelly tell of an exceptional human being who attempts—and fails—to prove man’s superiority to the machines that seek to replace him but succeed in showing man’s ability to rise to all challenges with “blind animal courage”. Similar themes are revisited in “The Brain Center at Whipple’s”.

References

External link

Twilight Zone links

 

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