Caesar and Me
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| “Caesar and Me” | |||||||
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| The Twilight Zone episode | |||||||
 Jackie Cooper as Johnathan West and the voice of Caesar |
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| Episode no. | Season 5 Episode 148 |
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| Written by | Adele T. Strassfield | ||||||
| Directed by | Robert Butler | ||||||
| Guest stars | Jackie Cooper : Jonathan West/voice of Caesar Morgan Brittany : Susan Sarah Selby : Mrs. Cudahy Stafford Repp : Pawnbroker |
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| Featured music | Richard Shores | ||||||
| Production no. | 2636 | ||||||
| Original airdate | April 10, 1964 | ||||||
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| List of Twilight Zone episodes | |||||||
"Caesar and Me" is an episode of the American television anthology series The Twilight Zone.
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[edit] Opening narration
| “ | Jonathan West, ventriloquist, a master of voice manipulation. A man late of Ireland, with a talent for putting words into other people's mouths. In this case, the other person is a dummy, aptly named Caesar, a small splinter with large ideas, a wooden tyrant with a mind and a voice of his own, who is about to talk Jonathan West into the Twilight Zone. | ” |
[edit] Synopsis
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Jonathan West, an unsuccessful ventriloquist, starts to commit robberies based on the advice of his dummy, Little Caesar. The landlady’s niece learns about his crimes and decides to call the police. Unable to defend himself, Jonathan is taken to jail and the dummy gets away with it. He then plans to run away with the landlady’s niece.
[edit] Closing narration
| “ | Little girl and a wooden doll, a lethal dummy in the shape of a man. But everybody knows dummies can't talk--unless, of course, they learn their vocabulary in the Twilight Zone. | ” |
[edit] Trivia
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- Strassfield was the secretary of William Froug, the producer of the second half of the final season of The Twilight Zone. According to Froug, they worked out this episode together. Strassfield is the only woman credited with writing an original teleplay for the original version of "The Twilight Zone", though several women received credit for stories that were adapted for the show.
- The Dummy was previously used in the episode called "The Dummy"
- Caesar can be seen at Disney's Hollywood Studios in the dark corner of a barred off exhibit to the side of one of the elevator exits of the "Twilight Zone Tower of Terror" ride. Whether or not this dummy was used in the actual episode is unconfirmed.
[edit] See also
[edit] References
- Zircee, Marc Scott: The Twilight Zone Companion. Sillman-James Press, 1982 (second edition)
