Mr. Garrity and the Graves
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“Mr. Garrity and the Graves” is an episode of the American television anthology series The Twilight Zone.
[edit] Details
- Episode number: 152
- Season: 5
- Production code: 2637
- Original air date: May 8, 1964
- Writer: Rod Serling, from a story by Mike Korologos
- Director: Ted Post
- Producer: William Froug
- Director of photography: George T. Clemens
- Music: Tommy Morgan
[edit] Cast
- Jared Garrity: John Dehner
- Gooberman: J. Pat O'Malley
- Jensen: Stanley Adams
- Ace: John Mitchum
- Lapham: Percy Helton
- Zelda: Kate Murtagh
[edit] Synopsis
A traveling peddler comes to the little lately-renamed town of Happiness, Arizona, offering to bring the townsfolk's dead back from Boot Hill. The townsfolk however are less than pleased with this and eventually bribe the peddler not to revive the people, with the peddler and his assistant riding away with the money, joking about how he can't actually bring the dead back to life: he had simply performed a few smoke and mirrors trick to con them. The last scene though, is of the cemetery, where the dead really are rising from the grave, with one commenting that the peddler underestimates his own ability.