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The Twilight Zone
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| Title: | The Mighty Casey |
| Episode Number: | 35 |
| Season: | 1 |
| Season Episode #.: | 35 |
| Production Number: | 173-3617 |
| Original Airdate: | Friday June 17th, 1960 |
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A robot pitcher named Casey is hired by the manager of a losing baseball club.
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| Abraham Sofaer's most famous role is that of Hadji on I Dream of Jeannie.
| The story was reworked from an earlier Serling play.
| Mouth Mcgarry was originally played by Paul Douglas but during the initial filming he acted erratically and it was believed he was having a recurrence of a drinking problem. Two days later he died of a heart attack. All of Douglas' scenes were refilmed with Jack Warden, with Rod Serling making up the cost of $27,000 out of his own pocket.
| Jack Warden had previously appeared in "The Lonely" but may be best known in the TV version of The Bad News Bears as Coach Morris Buttermaker and Crazy Like a Fox along with many movie roles including Coach Halas in Brian's Song.
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| Opening Narration
Narrator: Once upon a time there was a major-league baseball team called the Hoboken Zephyrs who, during the last year of their existence, wound up in last place and shortly thereafter wound up in oblivion. There's a rumor, unsubstantiated of course, that a manager named McGarry took them to the West Coast and wound up with several pennants and a couple of world's championships. This team had a pitching staff that made history. Of course, none of them smiled very much, but it happens to be a fact that they pitched like nothing human. And if you're interested as to where these gentlemen came from, you might check under 'B' for baseball, in the Twilight Zone.
| Team Physician: Well, there's not a thing wrong. Everything is just fine. It's just that...
Mr. Beasley: Just that what?
Team Physician: Well, this man doesn't have any pulse. No heartbeat. This, this man isn't alive.
Dr. Stillman: It'll have to come out now, Mr. McGarry.
Mr. Beasley: What's this all about, Mouth? What are you trying to pull off?
Mouth McGarry: Well, you're not going to like this, Beasley, but...
Dr. Stillman: Doctor, I think you should know this before you go any further. This man hasn't a pulse or a heartbeat because he doesn't have a heart. He's a robot.
Team Physician: A what?
Dr. Stillman: That's right, a robot.
Team Physician: You're sure?
Dr. Stillman: By all means. I built him.
Team Physician: And he's been pitching for the Hoboken Zephyrs. Under the circumstances, as team physician, I'm afraid I must notify the baseball commissioner.
Mouth McGarry: Casey, move over.
| Commissioner: Article Six, Section Two of the baseball code. I quote: a team shall consist of nine men, end of quote. Men, understand? Not robots! He's suspended. That's my final decision.
Mr. Beasley: Commissioner, to all intents and purposes, he is human! Casey, talk to him! Tell him about yourself.
Casey: What should I say?
Mouth McGarry: You see, he talks better than me. And he's a lot smarter than most of those mutton heads I got on the club.
Commissioner: He is not human!
Mr. Beasley: How human do you want him? He's got arms and legs and a face and he talks.
Commissioner: And no heart! He doesn't even own a heart. How can he be human without a heart?!
| Casey: The thing is, Mr. McGarry, I just couldn't strike those poor fellows out. I didn't have it in me to do that. Hurt their feelings. I felt compassion.
Dr. Stillman: That's it. He's got compassion. See how he smiles? Give a man a heart, Mr. McGarry, particularly someone like Casey, who hasn't been around long enough to understand competitiveness or drive or ego. That's what happens.
Casey: I'm sorry, Mr. McGarry. I just can't hurt fellow's careers. Dr. Stillman thinks I should go into social work.
Dr. Stillman: That's right.
Casey: I want to help people. Goodbye.
| Closing Narration
Narrator: What you're looking at is a ghost, once alive but now deceased. Once upon a time, it was a baseball stadium that housed a major-league ball club known as the Hoboken Zephyrs. Now it houses nothing but memories and a wind that stirs in the high grass of what was once an outfield, a wind that sometimes bears a faint, ghostly resemblance to the roar of a crowd that once sat here. We're back in time now, when the Hoboken Zephyrs were still a part of the National League and this mausoleum of memories was an honest-to-Pete stadium. But since this is strictly a story of make-believe, it has to start this way. Once upon a time, in Hoboken, New Jersey, it was tryout day. And though he's not yet on the field, you're about to meet a most unusual fellow, a left-handed pitched named Casey.
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| Casey throws a pitch which the batter hits past his left shoulder. In the corresponding close-up though, he looks over his right shoulder.
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