The Last Rites of Jeff Myrtlebank

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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 Last Rites of Jeff Myrtlebank” is an episode of the American television anthology series The Twilight Zone.

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[edit] Cast

  • Jeff Myrtlebank: James Best
  • Comfort Gatewood: Sherry Jackson
  • Orgram Gatewood: Lance Fuller
  • Mr. Peters: Dub Taylor
  • Pa Myrtlebank: Ralph Moody
  • Ma Myrtlebank: Ezelle Poule
  • Ma Gatewood: Helen Wallace
  • Liz Myrtlebank: Vickie Barnes

[edit] Synopsis

Spoiler warning: Plot and/or ending details follow.

A man wakes up at his own funeral in a small rural town in the "southernmost part of the Midwest." The hillbilly mentality of the local townspeople causes them to believe that the man must be possessed by wandering demons. He seems normal enough, yet he has changed--he has suddenly become a hard worker and a good fistfighter, and now he wants to marry his long-time girlfriend, Comfort, who is unsure but loyal. In the final scene, just as his girlfriend has finally agreed to marry Jeff, a truckload of angry townspeople shows up ready for some mob action. Myrtlebank makes an inspired speech in which he tells them they have nothing to fear from him; but if he were a demon, they had better be kind or something terrible might happen to each of them. When they leave, he pulls out a match and makes it spontaneously ignite just by looking at it.

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