The Dummy

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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

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

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Spoiler warning: Plot and/or ending details follow.

Jerry Etherson, a ventriloquist, and his dummy Willie have been having problems. Jerry is convinced that Willie is not only alive, but also evil. The owner of the club where Jerry is scheduled to perform a late show insists that Jerry go on with the show regardless of conflicts with Willie. Instead, Jerry decides to dump Willie and use a new dummy for his act. Willie isn’t very happy about this. After Jerry and his new dummy finish their act, Jerry realizes that Willie is after him, and begins to fear for his safety. The episode closes with the roles reversed: Willie as the ventriloquist, and Jerry as the dummy.

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Influenced by a 1945 British film entitled Dead of Night, in which Michael Redgrave played a ventriloquist convinced that his dummy was coming evilly to life. Further inspiration was taken from an episode of Alfred Hitchcock Presents entitled The Glass Eye, in which Jessica Tandy plays a woman who falls for a handsome ventriloquist (played by Billy Barty), only to find that the ventriloquist is in fact the dummy, while the hideous dummy is the actual ventriloquist.

R.L. Stine's Goosebumps series features a saga of several books/stories (the first of which is entitled Night of the Living Dummy) with a similar premise.

Abner Biberman also directed Number Twelve Looks Just Like You.

Burgess Meredith, who was the voice of Willie, was also in the 1978 movie "Magic" which was obviously inspired by "The Dummy".

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