Mr. Garrity and the Graves

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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

“Mr. Garrity and the Graves” is an episode of the American television anthology series The Twilight Zone.

[edit] Details

Episode number: 152
Season: 5
Production code: 2637
Original air date: May 8, 1964
Writer: Rod Serling, from a story by Mike Korologos
Director: Ted Post
Producer: William Froug
Director of photography: George T. Clemens
Music: Tommy Morgan

[edit] Cast

Jared Garrity: John Dehner
Gooberman: J. Pat O'Malley
Jensen: Stanley Adams
Ace: John Mitchum
Lapham: Percy Helton
Zelda: Kate Murtagh

[edit] Synopsis

Spoiler warning: Plot and/or ending details follow.

A traveling peddler comes to the little lately-renamed town of Happiness, Arizona, offering to bring the townsfolk's dead back from Boot Hill. The townsfolk however are less than pleased with this and eventually bribe the peddler not to revive the people, with the peddler and his assistant riding away with the money, joking about how he can't actually bring the dead back to life: he had simply performed a few smoke and mirrors trick to con them. The last scene though, is of the cemetery, where the dead really are rising from the grave, with one commenting that the peddler underestimates his own ability.