![]() I also have witnessed a difference in certain objects that’s similar to “The Purple Testament”. We told the Flight Attendant what we’d seen and she assured us that she’d have someone look into it. We agreed to tell the crew about it when we landed, but when we did, the rough landing caused that bolt to fall back into place. Bob pointed it out to me, and the rest of the flight, I felt like William Shatner in “Nightmare at 20,000 Feet” - worried that the engine was going to fall off. In another Twilight Zone moment, I was on a flight from Chicago to Philadelphia, and my co-worker (Bob Filipowski) noticed a bolt sticking up at least 8″-10″ above the wing near the closest engine. My whole life, I’ve encountered the strange and unusual, so of course I was attracted to The Twilight Zone. I experienced something similar to the coin landing on its edge in “A Penny For Your Thoughts.” While working for Wrigley Gum in 1986, a coworker and I saw a stick of gum land and stay!”on its short edge, on a moving conveyor. I’ve had some of my own Twilight Zone-type experiences, so I can really relate to it. Throughout my youth, I watched The Twilight Zone and became a big fan. I was scared of the mannequins thinking that they were alive like I’d seen in The Twilight Zone. Sometimes when we picked him up from work, we had to wait in the dark store until he came out. Penny, working in the warehouse at night. I distinctly recall watching “After Hours” and being freaked out. My uncle would turn on the TV to occupy us while my mom and my aunt cared for their mother, and one of the shows we watched was The Twilight Zone. My mother, my brother and I would visit grandmother several times a week. At the time, my grandmother was dying of cancer, and she was living with my aunt about five miles from my parent’s house. Zicree, Marc Scott: The Twilight Zone Companion.I was born in 1967, so The Twilight Zone was only in re-runs by the time I watched it.The ending used in the 1989 version was the original ending as intended by Johnson. In that 1961 version, starring Jack Klugman and Jonathan Winters, Jesse wins and is bound to take up Fats's mantle as the greatest pool player in history. This episode was written by George Clayton Johnson for the original Twilight Zone series. As Fats disappears Jesse screams that it is not over, that he will practice more, and that he will eventually win. However, Fats had only led Jesse to believe he would immediately die if he lost because he wanted Jesse to play his best. If he had beaten Fats he would have lived forever. Jesse questions him about the life or death stakes, and Fats tells Jesse that he will indeed die, eventually. Jesse gets a shot at the last ball and hits it, but it fails to go all the way to the pocket.įats lines up his shot and sinks it. Fats then sinks all but the last ball he needs to win. ![]() With Jesse needing to sink only one more ball to win, Fats distracts him by scuffing his pool chalk, making him miss. Fats goads him into a match in which if Jesse loses, he will die, but if he wins, he lives - seemingly gaining nothing from victory. Fats tells Jesse that because he is legendary, in a sense he lives forever. He turns around to see Fats Brown sitting in the bar. He boasts that if Fats were alive he could beat him. In a pool hall after closing time, a young pool player named Jesse Cardiff practices his shot and complains about being compared to pool legend Fats Brown. It is a remake of the original series 1961 episode of the same name, dealing with a pool match between an up-and-coming player and a deceased pool legend. " A Game of Pool" is the fifty-fifth episode and the twentieth episode of the third season (1988–89) of the revived television series The Twilight Zone. ![]() 55th episode of the 3rd season of The Twilight Zone " A Game of Pool" ![]()
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