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The Twilight Zone: Jess-Belle
Jess-Belle enlists the help of a local witch to cast a spell on Billy-Ben Turner to fall in love with her and forget his fiancé Ellwynn. But the spell does have a drawback that strikes at midnight.
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Episode Info
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Episode number: 4x7 Production Number: 4855 Airdate: Thursday February 14th, 1963 |
Recap
Jess-Belle is determined that Billy-Ben Turner and Ellwyn Glover not marry. She enlists the aid of a local witch who casts a spell that makes Billy-Bob completely forget Ellwyn, and fall madly in love with Jess-Belle. The price paid by Jess-Belle shows up at midnight when she turns into a leopard until dawn. A hunting party sees the leopard and shoots it, and it disappears in a cloud of smoke. A year later, Billy-Bob again is set to marry Ellwyn, but Jess-Belle reappears. Billy-Bob learns from the witch that to kill Jess-Belle he must stab one of her dresses with a silver object. He returns home to find Ellwyn possessed by Jess-Belle. He grabs one of her dresses and stabs it. Jess-Belle appears in that dress then disapears for good...Read the full recap
Episode Notes
This episode has no closing narration.
Episode Quotes
Opening Narration
Narrator: The Twilight Zone has existed in many lands, in many times. It has its roots in history, in something that happened long, long ago and got told about and handed down from one generation of folk to the other. In the telling the story gets added to and embroidered on, so that what might have happened in the time of the Druids is told as if it took place yesterday in the Blue Ridge Mountains. Such stories are best told by an elderly grandfather on a cold winter's night by the fireside--in the southern hills of the Twilight Zone.
Narrator: The Twilight Zone has existed in many lands, in many times. It has its roots in history, in something that happened long, long ago and got told about and handed down from one generation of folk to the other. In the telling the story gets added to and embroidered on, so that what might have happened in the time of the Druids is told as if it took place yesterday in the Blue Ridge Mountains. Such stories are best told by an elderly grandfather on a cold winter's night by the fireside--in the southern hills of the Twilight Zone.
Poem spoken at the end:
Fair was Elly Glover,
Dark was Jess-Belle,
Both they loved the same man,
And both they loved him well.
Fair was Elly Glover,
Dark was Jess-Belle,
Both they loved the same man,
And both they loved him well.
Other Episode Crew
| • Creator | Rod Serling |
| • Executive Producer | Rod Serling |
| • Producer | Herbert Hirschman |
| • Associate Producer | Murray Golden |
| • Music | Van Cleave |
| • Set Designer | Henry Grace |
| • Set Decorator | Don Greenwood, Jr. |
| • Director of Photography | Robert Pittack |
| • Art Director | George W. Davis | Edward C. Carfagno |
| • Production Manager | Ralph Nelson |
| • Sound Editor | Joe Edmondson | Franklin Milton |
| • Main Title Theme | Marius Constant |
| • Film Editor | Edward Curtiss |
| • Assistant Director | John D. Bloss |
| • Assistant To The Director | John Conwell |
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