The Trade-Ins

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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

“The Trade-Ins” is an episode of the American television anthology series The Twilight Zone.

[edit] Details

Episode number: 96
Season: 3
Production code: 4832
Original air date: April 20, 1962
Writer: Rod Serling
Director: Elliot Silverstein
Producer: Buck Houghton
Director of photography: George T. Clemens

[edit] Cast

John Holt: Joseph Schildkraut
Marie Holt: Alma Platt
Mr. Vance: Noah Keen
Farraday: Theodore Marcuse
Young John Holt: Edson Stroll
Gambler #1: Terence de Marney
Gambler #2: Billy Vincent

[edit] Synopsis

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An elderly couple realize they haven't much time, so they decide to trade their bodies in for new, young ones. To their dismay, the swap will cost $10,000 for both, and they have only half that. The old man attempts to earn the rest of the money in a high stakes poker game, but loses it all. The soft-hearted gamblers allow him to take his money back. Finally, the old man goes ahead and has himself changed, then use his young body to earn the money for his wife. In the end, they realize they can't wait for each other and would rather be old together. He opts for the return clause.