Keep an eye-and ear-out for the marvelous mid-episode jump cut from Weaver getting electrocuted to a sizzling steak in a suburban oven, a surreal, even Dada juxtaposition that The Twilight Zone traveled in often. One of two of director John Brahm’s Twilight Zone episodes to make this “13 Episodes” list (along with #6, “Mirror Image”), “Shadow Play” plays out like a tense, taut television noir, betraying Brahm’s German Expressionist background in dark, moody suspense films like his1944 take on the Jack the Ripper legend, The Lodger. Though convicted murderer Dennis Weaver (in one of the epitomes of these tense Twilight Zone performances) tries to share his recurring nightmare of electrocution with his fellow death-row inmates in the aptly-titled “Shadow Play” (the second of writer Beaumont’s two great Twilight Zone episodes about the nature of dreams the other, season one’s “Perchance to Dream”), beseeching anyone who’ll listen that they, too, are all part of his dream, it is to no avail-he is condemned to walk the last mile every night. #3 “Shadow Play” (written by Charles Beaumont, directed by John Brahm, aired May 5, 1961):
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13 EPISODES THAT DEFINE THE TWILIGHT ZONE: Counting down 13 days until my 60th ANNIVERSARY OF THE TWILIGHT ZONE live multimedia presentation, at the Triad Theater ( in NYC on Saturday, March 30th, with 13 episodes that most define the legendary TV series created by Rod Serling.
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