Shadow Play (1961 The Twilight Zone episode)

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The Twilight Zone original series
Season two (1 / 2 / 3 / 4 / 5)
Fall 1960 – Summer 1961
List of The Twilight Zone episodes

Episodes:

  1. King Nine Will Not Return
  2. The Man in the Bottle
  3. Nervous Man in a Four Dollar Room
  4. A Thing About Machines
  5. The Howling Man
  6. The Eye of the Beholder
  7. Nick of Time
  8. The Lateness of the Hour
  9. The Trouble With Templeton
  10. A Most Unusual Camera
  11. Night of the Meek
  12. Dust
  13. Back There
  14. The Whole Truth
  15. The Invaders
  16. A Penny for Your Thoughts
  17. Twenty-Two
  18. The Odyssey of Flight 33
  19. Mr. Dingle, the Strong
  20. Static
  21. The Prime Mover
  22. Long Distance Call
  23. A Hundred Yards Over the Rim
  24. The Rip Van Winkle Caper
  25. The Silence
  26. Shadow Play
  27. The Mind and the Matter
  28. Will the Real Martian Please Stand Up?
  29. The Obsolete Man

“Shadow Play” is an episode of the American television anthology series The Twilight Zone.

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A man convicted of murder, Adam Grant, tries to convince those about to execute him that it’s all just a recurring nightmare of his. He claims the warden and the lawyers are all people he has known in his waking life now playing the parts in a dream. They ask why he cares about dying if it's all a dream. He explains that he can't get a decent night's sleep because he always wakes up screaming. A stay of execution arrives too late, and the opening scene recurs as he's sentenced to death for murder again, albeit with different people in different roles (e.g. a fellow inmate is now the judge at the trial).

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