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"The Twilight Zone"
It's a Good Life (1961)


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User Rating: 9.1/10 (421 votes)
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Overview

Director:
James Sheldon
Writers:
Jerome Bixby (story)
Rod Serling (teleplay) ...
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Original Air Date:
3 November 1961 (Season 3, Episode 8)
Plot:
On an isolated family farm, a young boy with vast mental powers, but lacking emotional development, holds his terrified family in thrall to his every juvenile wish. | add synopsis
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Cast

 (Episode Complete credited cast)
John Larch ... Mr. Fremont

Cloris Leachman ... Mrs. Fremont

Don Keefer ... Dan Hollis
Bill Mumy ... Anthony Fremont (as Billy Mumy)
Alice Frost ... Aunt Amy
Max Showalter ... Pat Riley (as Casey Adams)
Jeanne Bates ... Ethel Hollis
Lenore Kingston ... Thelma Dunn
Tom Hatcher ... Bill Soames
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Additional Details

Runtime:
25 min
Country:
USA
Language:
English
Aspect Ratio:
1.33 : 1 more
Sound Mix:
Mono (Westrex Recording System)
Certification:
USA:TV-PG

Fun Stuff

Trivia:
Contains the longest opening narration of the series (or any Twilight Zone series). more
Quotes:
[first lines]
Narrator: Tonight's story on The Twilight Zone is somewhat unique and calls for a different kind of introduction. This, as you may recognize, is a map of the United States, and there's a little town there called Peaksville. On a given morning not too long ago...
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Movie Connections:
Referenced in "Buffy the Vampire Slayer: Older and Far Away (#6.14)" (2002) more

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20 out of 26 people found the following comment useful:-
Excellent, 24 April 2006
Author: lutheranchick from United States

I certainly cannot agree with the previous poster who found this episode partly humorous-- in fact, this is one of the few almost unbearably frightening Twilight Zone shows. A young boy's power to control his community through his childish whims is an excellent allegory of the power of any dictator. I imagine that office holders in North Korea spend most of their day saying something similar to "it's good that you did that." This episode powerfully portrays unchecked narcissism. I do agree that the "special effects" version in the Twilight Zone movie is inferior, not only because it is overproduced but because the little boy is presented as brilliant and perhaps even redeemable.

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