The Jungle (The Twilight Zone)

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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: Two The Arrival The Shelter The Passersby A Game of Pool The Mirror The Grave It's a Good Life Deaths-Head Revisited The Midnight Sun Still Valley The Jungle Once Upon a Time Five Characters in Search of an Exit A Quality of Mercy Nothing in the Dark One More Pallbearer Dead Man's Shoes The Hunt Showdown With Rance McGrew Kick the Can A Piano in the House The Last Rites of Jeff Myrtlebank To Serve Man The Fugitive Little Girl Lost Person or Persons Unknown The Little People Four O'Clock Hocus-Pocus and Frisby The Trade-Ins The Gift The Dummy Young Man's Fancy I Sing the Body Electric Cavender Is Coming The Changing of the Guard

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

[edit] Details

Episode number: 77
Season: 3
Production code: 4806
Original air date: December 1, 1961
Writer: Charles Beaumont
Director: William Claxton

[edit] Cast

Alan Richards: John Dehner
Doris Richards: Emily McLaughlin
Chad Cooper: Walter Brooke
Vagrant: Jay Adler
Mr. Templeton: Hugh Sanders
Mr. Hardy: Howard Wright
Mr. Sinclair: Donald Foster

[edit] Synopsis

Spoiler warning: Plot and/or ending details follow.

Alan Richards does not believe in the curse a shaman put on him, his wife, and his company for building a dam through the natives’ village. As he leaves for work, his wife tells him he will not return alive. When he opens his door, he sees the carcass of a goat lying outside.

Later he is in a bar with a friend discussing the dam and how ridiculous this “lion curse” is. They leave the bar, but the lion-tooth charm his wife has given him is left behind. The friend drives away, and Alan starts up his car, but it breaks down. No one is there to help, so he walks until he finds a taxi, which picks him up and suddenly stops. The driver is dead. Alan walks on, now hearing animal noises. He meets a bum and offers him money to accompany him through the park. The bum doesn't hear any animal noises. Alan runs home and the animal noises stop. He enters his bedroom and finds his wife’s body on the bed, along with a lion. The lion attacks him.