The Last Night of a Jockey

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The Twilight Zone original series Season five (1 / 2 / 3 / 4 / 5) Fall 1963 – Summer 1964 List of The Twilight Zone episodes
Episodes: In Praise of Pip Steel Nightmare at 20,000 Feet A Kind of a Stopwatch The Last Night of a Jockey Living Doll The Old Man in the Cave Uncle Simon Probe 7, Over and Out The 7th Is Made Up of Phantoms A Short Drink From a Certain Fountain Ninety Years Without Slumbering Ring-a-Ding Girl You Drive The Long Morrow The Self-Improvement of Salvadore Ross Number 12 Looks Just Like You Black Leather Jackets Night Call From Agnes—With Love Spur of the Moment An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge Queen of the Nile What's in the Box The Masks I Am the Night—Color Me Black Sounds and Silences Caesar and Me The Jeopardy Room Stopover in a Quiet Town The Encounter Mr. Garrity and the Graves The Brain Center at Whipple's Come Wander With Me The Fear The Bewitchin' Pool

“The Last Night of a Jockey” is an episode of the American television anthology series The Twilight Zone.

[edit] Details

Episode number: 125
Season: 5
Production code: 2616
Original air date: October 25, 1963
Writer: Rod Serling
Director: Joseph M. Newman
Producer: William Froug
Music: stock

[edit] Cast

Grady: Mickey Rooney

[edit] Synopsis

Spoiler warning: Plot and/or ending details follow.

A jockey is sitting alone in his room after being banned from horse racing for life because of altering races by drugging horses. All he ever wanted was to be a big man. He wakes from a nap to find he is now eight feet tall. The racing authorities call to say he’s been given another chance, but it's now too late, he’s too tall to ride a horse.

[edit] Trivia

With exactly one performer appearing—either in image or voice—this episode features the smallest cast of any Twilight Zone episode. Close runner-ups include “Where Is Everybody?”, “King Nine Will Not Return”, “Nervous Man in a Four Dollar Room”, “The Invaders” and “Two”.

CBS's Program Practices department criticised this episode for use of the word "dwarf" in a negative context, suggesting that instead the terms "half-pint" or "shrimp" could be used.^[1]