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The Twilight Zone: The Last Rites of Jeff Myrtlebank
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Episode Info
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Episode number: 3x23 Production Number: 4811 Airdate: Friday February 23rd, 1962 |
Co-Guest Stars
Recap
The townspeople have gathered at the church for the funeral of Jeff Myrtlebank. Rev. Siddons speaks on his behalf as everyone mourns and speaks on Jeff's behest. However, everyone stares as the casket opens and Jeff sits up, alive and well. Everyone runs outside in terror as Jeff looks around and then comes up and wonders who put him in a coffin. Siddons believes a mistake has been made but everyone insists that Jeff was sick of flue and then he died. Jeff is hungry and goes to his parents, but they're frightened of him as is everyone else, including his fiance Comfort. Only his little sister Liz finally runs to him and the others accept to him. Comfort apologizes for reacting badly and says she's glad to have him back...Read the full recap
Episode Notes
Sherry Jackson was Pittman's daughter-in-law.
In one scene, a row of mailboxes is shown. One of them has the name "M. Pittman" on the side of it, a reference to the writer/director of this episode.
Dub Taylor was a veteran actor who appeared in Little House on the Prairie and Don't Eat the Daisies.
Edgar Buchanon is best known for his appearance on Petticoat Junction as Joseph P. 'Uncle Joe' Carson.
Ezelle Poule is also in "The Howling Man."
James Best appears in two more episodes, "The Grave", "Jess-Belle." and as Sheriff Rosco P. Coltraine on The Dukes of Hazzard.
Jon Lormer also appears in "Execution" and "Jess-Belle."
Episode Quotes
Opening Narration
Narrator: Time, the mid-twenties. Place, the Midwest, the southernmost section of the Midwest. We were just witnessing a funeral, a funeral that didn't come off exactly as planned, due to a slight fallout from the Twilight Zone.
Narrator: Time, the mid-twenties. Place, the Midwest, the southernmost section of the Midwest. We were just witnessing a funeral, a funeral that didn't come off exactly as planned, due to a slight fallout from the Twilight Zone.
Doc Bolton: I know what it is. I know what it is. The miracle that happened here in our country. The medical term for it: Ipso suspendo animatus. Very rare. In fact there's only been 30 cases in the last 1,500 years.
Pa Myrtlebank: You just covering up for your own miscalculations, Doc? I ain't never heard of no sickness like that.
Doc Bolton: Ain't likely you would, with only 30 cases in 1,500 years. all them in Europe. Best thing for you to do is quit slandering my name, take that boy home.
Pa Myrtlebank: You just covering up for your own miscalculations, Doc? I ain't never heard of no sickness like that.
Doc Bolton: Ain't likely you would, with only 30 cases in 1,500 years. all them in Europe. Best thing for you to do is quit slandering my name, take that boy home.
Closing Narration
Narrator: Jeff and Comfort are still alive today, and their only son is a United States Senator. He's noted as an uncommonly shrewd politician, and some believe he must have gotten his education in the Twilight Zone.
Narrator: Jeff and Comfort are still alive today, and their only son is a United States Senator. He's noted as an uncommonly shrewd politician, and some believe he must have gotten his education in the Twilight Zone.
Other Episode Crew
| • Creator | Rod Serling |
| • Executive Producer | Rod Serling |
| • Producer | Buck Houghton |
| • Editor | Bill Mosher |
| • Music | Tommy Morgan (2) |
| • Set Decorator | H. Web Arrowsmith |
| • Director of Photography | Jack Swain |
| • Art Director | George W. Davis | Philip Barber |
| • Production Manager | Ralph Nelson |
| • Sound Editor | Bill Edmondson | Franklin Milton |
| • Main Title Theme | Marius Constant |
| • Assistant Director | E. Darrell Hallenbeck |
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