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"The Twilight Zone" It's a Good Life (1961)
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Original Air Date:
3 November 1961
(Season 3, Episode 8)
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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. | full synopsis
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Abuse Of Power
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Dictator
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This episode makes me soooooo angry!
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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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25 min
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1.33 : 1 more
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Mono (Westrex Recording System)
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Contains the longest opening narration of the series (or any Twilight Zone series).
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Referenced in "Buffy the Vampire Slayer: Older and Far Away (#6.14)" (2002)
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I voted that it's awful, but maybe the visceral reaction I get to watching this episode is what was intended? Children that are catered to like this are part of the problem in the world today, so this is still quite a timely episode. I can never watch it again though, for fear I will seek and destroy the boy! In the Twilight Zone New Year marathon they interviewed the boy in this episode (who is now, obviously a man) and he seemed quite nice, so I give him credit for being an excellent actor. They redid this episode for The Twilight Zone movie, I believe and the resolution was different enough that you could watch both and not see one as a rehash of the other.