Showdown with Rance McGrew
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| “Showdown with Rance McGrew” | |||||||
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| The Twilight Zone episode | |||||||
 Scene from "Showdown with Rance McGrew" |
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| Episode no. | Season 3 Episode 85 |
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| Written by | Rod Serling | ||||||
| Directed by | Christian Nyby | ||||||
| Guest stars | Larry Blyden : Rance McGrew Arch Johnson : Jesse James Robert Cornthwaite : Director Robert Kline : T.V. Jesse James William McLean : Property Man Troy Melton : Cowboy #1 Jay Overholts : Cowboy #2 Robert J. Stevenson : T.V. Bartender Hal K. Dawson : Old Man Jim Turley : T.V. Double for Rance |
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| Featured music | Stock | ||||||
| Production no. | 4812 | ||||||
| Original airdate | February 2, 1962 | ||||||
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"Showdown With Rance McGrew" is an episode of the American television anthology series The Twilight Zone.
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[edit] Opening Narration
| “ | Some one-hundred odd years ago, a motley collection of tough mustaches gallopped across the west and left behind a raft of legends and legerdemains. And it seems a reasonable conjecture that if there are any television sets up in cowboy heaven and any one of these rough and wooly nail-eaters could see with what careless abandon their names and exploits are being bandied about, they're very likely turning over in their graves. Or worse, getting out of them. Which gives you a clue as to the proceedings that will be begin in just a moment when one Mr. Rance McGrew, a three-thousand buck a week phoney-balogna, discovers that this weeks current edition of make-believe is being shot on location. And that location is the Twilight Zone. | ” |
[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] Closing Narration
| “ | The evolution of the so-called "adult western" and the metamorphisis of one Rance McGrew, formerly phoney-balogna, now upright citizen with a preoccupation in all things involving tradition, truth and cow-poke predecesors. It's the way the cookie crumbles and the six-gun shoots in the Twilight Zone. | ” |
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[edit] Source
Zicree, Marc Scott. The Twilight Zone Companion, Bantam Books, 1982. ISBN 0-553-01416-1
