Caesar and Me

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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

“Caesar and Me” is an episode of the American television anthology series The Twilight Zone.

[edit] Details

Episode number: 148
Season: 5
Production code: 2636
Original air date: April 10, 1964
Writer: Adele T. Strassfield
Director: Robert Butler
Producer: William Froug
Director of photography: George T. Clemens
Music: Richard Shores

[edit] Cast

Jonathan West/voice of Caesar: Jackie Cooper
Susan: Morgan Brittany
Mrs. Cudahy: Sarah Selby
Pawnbroker: Stafford Repp

[edit] Synopsis

Spoiler warning: Plot and/or ending details follow.

Jonathan West, an unsuccessful ventriloquist, starts to commit robberies based on the advice of his dummy, Little Caesar. The landlady’s niece learns about his crimes and decides to call the police. Unable to defend himself, Jonathan is taken to jail and the dummy gets away with it. He then plans to run away with the landlady’s niece.

[edit] Trivia

Strassfield was the secretary of William Froug, the producer of the second half of the final season of The Twilight Zone. According to Froug, they worked out this episode together.