A Piano in the House

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Joan Hackett as Esther Fortune
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Joan Hackett as Esther Fortune

The Twilight Zone original series
Season three (1 / 2 / 3 / 4 / 5)
Fall 1961 – Summer 1962
List of The Twilight Zone episodes

Episodes:

  1. Two
  2. The Arrival
  3. The Shelter
  4. The Passersby
  5. A Game of Pool
  6. The Mirror
  7. The Grave
  8. It's a Good Life
  9. Deaths-Head Revisited
  10. The Midnight Sun
  11. Still Valley
  12. The Jungle
  13. Once Upon a Time
  14. Five Characters in Search of an Exit
  15. A Quality of Mercy
  16. Nothing in the Dark
  17. One More Pallbearer
  18. Dead Man's Shoes
  19. The Hunt
  20. Showdown With Rance McGrew
  21. Kick the Can
  22. A Piano in the House
  23. The Last Rites of Jeff Myrtlebank
  24. To Serve Man
  25. The Fugitive
  26. Little Girl Lost
  27. Person or Persons Unknown
  28. The Little People
  29. Four O'Clock
  30. Hocus-Pocus and Frisby
  31. The Trade-Ins
  32. The Gift
  33. The Dummy
  34. Young Man's Fancy
  35. I Sing the Body Electric
  36. Cavender Is Coming
  37. The Changing of the Guard

“A Piano In the House” is an episode of the American television anthology series The Twilight Zone.

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[edit] Cast

  • Fitzgerald Fortune: Barry Morse
  • Esther Fortune: Joan Hackett
  • Marge Moore: Muriel Landers
  • Marvin (the Butler): Cyril Delevanti
  • Gregory Walker: Don Durant
  • Throckmorton: Phil Coolidge

[edit] Synopsis

Spoiler warning: Plot and/or ending details follow.

Drama critic Fitzgerald Fortune buys his wife Esther a player piano as a birthday present, and discovers it has magical properties: its music reveals people's hidden fears, loves, and secrets. Its music causes a hard-hearted owner of a curio shop to become sentimental, and later, it makes a solemn butler burst out laughing. Fitzgerald's wife reveals that she detests him for his cruelty. He tries it out on his wife's party guests. A jaded playwright admits to being in love with Fitzgerald's wife, and a heavy woman, entranced, admits to a dream of being tiny, light, and graceful as she dances around the room. Fitzgerald announces he's going to reveal the devil himself, delighted, but Esther inserts instead a different piano roll. This music causes Fitzgerald to show himself as no more than a frightened and sadistic child. All of the guests depart, along with Esther.

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