The Last Night of a Jockey
- Episode aired Oct 25, 1963
- TV-PG
- 25m
IMDb RATING
6.4/10
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A washed-up jockey gets his wish while waiting for the results of his race fixing hearing.A washed-up jockey gets his wish while waiting for the results of his race fixing hearing.A washed-up jockey gets his wish while waiting for the results of his race fixing hearing.
Rod Serling
- Narrator
- (uncredited)
- …
Storyline
Did you know
- TriviaWith exactly one performer appearing--either in image or voice, not counting Rod Serling's routine turn as host--this episode features the smallest cast of any in the series. Close runner-ups include Where Is Everybody? (1959), King Nine Will Not Return (1960), Nervous Man in a Four Dollar Room (1960), The Invaders (1961) and Two (1961).
- GoofsTowards the end of the show, when Grady starts throwing furniture around his room, he tosses his dresser drawers from his left to his right. When the dresser lands you can see it from the back and see that there are no drawers in it - it is obviously a stage prop and not a real piece of furniture.
- Quotes
Narrator: [closing narration] The name is Grady, ten feet tall, a slightly distorted offshoot of a good breed of humans who race horses. Unfortunately for Mr. Grady, he learned too late that you don't measure size with a ruler, you don't figure height with a yardstick, and you never judge a man by how tall he looks in a mirror. The giant is as he does. You can make a pari-mutuel bet on this, win, place, or show, in or out of The Twilight Zone.
- ConnectionsFeatured in American Masters: Rod Serling: Submitted for Your Approval (1995)
Featured review
The dullest 25 minutes in the entire dimension of sound, sight, and mind
Do you also love the intro-sequences of "The Twilight Zone" so much? Rod Serling's stern and ominous narrating voice saying stuff like: You unlock this door with the key of imagination. Beyond it is another dimension - a dimension of sound, a dimension of sight, a dimension of mind... Well, in "The Last Night of a Jockey", all three the dimensions apparently fit into one single and utterly DULL room!
As much as I love Rod Serling and the wonderful Sci-Fi/fantasy universe he created with "The Twilight Zone", this must - hands down - be the most boring and uninteresting script he ever penned down. I never cared much for Mickey Rooney as an actor, so he's well cast as the whiny and self-pity-sick jockey (he is short, after all) who's banned from professional horse-racing. As if one Rooney isn't enough yet, he starts talking to his own conscience that appears as another Rooney in every reflecting object. And that really is all they do... talk. Knowing Rod Serling, I'm sure there's a valuable life-lesson hidden somewhere, but the dialogues were just too dull to listen to.
As much as I love Rod Serling and the wonderful Sci-Fi/fantasy universe he created with "The Twilight Zone", this must - hands down - be the most boring and uninteresting script he ever penned down. I never cared much for Mickey Rooney as an actor, so he's well cast as the whiny and self-pity-sick jockey (he is short, after all) who's banned from professional horse-racing. As if one Rooney isn't enough yet, he starts talking to his own conscience that appears as another Rooney in every reflecting object. And that really is all they do... talk. Knowing Rod Serling, I'm sure there's a valuable life-lesson hidden somewhere, but the dialogues were just too dull to listen to.
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- Coventry
- Sep 21, 2022
Details
- Runtime25 minutes
- Color
- Aspect ratio
- 1.33 : 1
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