Dead Man's Shoes (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

“Dead Man's Shoes” is an episode of the American television anthology series The Twilight Zone.

[edit] Details

Episode number: 82
Season: 3
Original air date: January 19, 1962
Writer: Charles Beaumont
Director: Montgomery Pittman

[edit] Cast

Warren Stevens: Nate Bledsoe
Richard Devon: Dagget
Joan Marshall: Wilma
Ben Wright: Chips
Harry Swoger: Sam
Ron Hagerthy: Ben
Florence Marly: Dagget's Girlfriend
Joseph Mell: Jimmy

[edit] Synopsis

Spoiler warning: Plot and/or ending details follow.

A bum snatches a pair of nifty shoes from the target of a mob hit, and receives a dose of personality. The shoes infuse him with the personality of the victim, and he goes to deliver a message to the boss who had him killed, only to be shot. The body (with shoes) is dumped in the same place the original victim was dumped, and another bum finds the corpse and steals the shoes. As the episode ends, a look of determination slowly appears on his face.