In His Image

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The Twilight Zone Original series Season four (1 / 2 / 3 / 4 / 5) January 1963 – June 1963 List of The Twilight Zone episodes

Episodes: In His Image The Thirty-Fathom Grave Valley of the Shadow He's Alive Mute Death Ship Jess-Belle Miniature Printer's Devil No Time Like the Past The Parallel I Dream of Genie The New Exhibit Of Late I Think of Cliffordville The Incredible World of Horace Ford On Thursday We Leave for Home Passage on the Lady Anne The Bard

“In His Image” is an episode of the American television anthology series The Twilight Zone.

[edit] Details

• Episode number: 103
• Season: 4
• Original air date: January 3, 1963
• Writer: Charles Beaumont, from his short story
• Director: Perry Lafferty
• Producer: Herbert Hirschman
• Director of photography: George T. Clemens

[edit] Cast

• Alan Talbot/Walter Ryder Jr.: George Grizzard
• Jessica Connelly: Gail Kobe
• Old Woman: Katherine Squire
• Man: Wallace Rooney
• Sheriff: James Seay
• Driver: George Petrie

[edit] Synopsis

Alan Talbot seems to be an average man. He leads a seemingly normal life and even falls in love with a woman named Jessica Connelly. One day, however, he starts hearing strange noises that give him head pains and the urge to kill. Upon visiting his home-town with Jessica his memory seems to betray him because nothing in the town is as he remembers. He seeks out answers when he comes face to face with his double. It turns out he's a robot created in the image of Walter Ryder, provided with Walter memories from twenty years before. Knowing of his impending demise, Alan tries to tell Walter all about Jessica so that Walter can replace him, but he malfunctions and tries to kill Walter. After the struggle with an ambiguous outcome, one of the two goes to Jessica in the morning and is implied that the two eventually marry. In the ending scene it is revealed that the man was Walter.