Showdown with Rance McGrew

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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

“Showdown With Rance McGrew” is an episode of the American television anthology series The Twilight Zone.

[edit] Details

• Episode number: 85
• Season: 3
• Original air date: February 2, 1962
• Writer: Rod Serling
• Director: Christian Nyby
• Producer: Buck Houghton
• Director of photography: George T. Clemens
• Music: Stock

[edit] Cast

• Rance McGrew: Larry Blyden
• Jesse James: Arch Johnson
• Director: Robert Cornthwaite
• TV Jesse James: Robert Kline
• Property Man: William McLean
• Cowboy #1: Troy Melton
• Cowboy #2: Jay Overholts
• TV Bartender: Robert J. Stevenson
• Old Man: Hal K. Dawson
• Double for Rance: Jim Turley

[edit] Synopsis

TV cowboy star Rance McGrew is ready to shoot a scene in which Jesse James shoots him in the back when he suddenly finds himself in a real Old West saloon. The real Jesse James walks in and explains that he, Billy the Kid and other famous outlaws are not pleased with the way that they are portrayed on McGrew's show. James then challenges McGrew, who has never shot a gun in his life, to a showdown. McGrew attempts to flee, but James corners him. McGrew drops to his knees, pleading. He says that he will do anything if James will only spare him. James accepts. McGrew finds himself back on the set, and his agent is announced. The agent turns out to be Jesse James himself in Hollywood garb, come to ensure that outlaws get their due — beginning with the TV bad guy throwing McGrew out the saloon window.

[edit] The Twilight Zone Links

• The Twilight Zone
• Episode list

[edit] Source

Zicree, Marc Scott. The Twilight Zone Companion, Bantam Books, 1982. ISBN 0-553-01416-1