Caesar and Me: Information from Answers.com

"Caesar and Me"

The Twilight Zone episode

Jackie Cooper as Johnathan West and the voice of Caesar

Episode no.

Season 5
Episode 148

Written by

Adele T. Strassfield

Directed by

Robert Butler

Featured music

Richard Shores

Production no.

2636

Original airdate

April 10, 1964

Guest stars

Jackie Cooper: Jonathan West/voice of Caesar
Morgan Brittany: Susan
Sarah Selby: Mrs. Cudahy
Stafford Repp: Pawnbroker

Episode chronology
← Previous	Next →
"Sounds and Silences"	"The Jeopardy Room"

List of Twilight Zone episodes

"Caesar and Me" is an episode of the American television anthology series The Twilight Zone.

1 Opening narration
2 Synopsis
3 Closing narration
4 Preview for next week's story
5 Adele Strassfield
6 See also
7 References
8 External links

Opening narration

“

Jonathan West, ventriloquist, a master of voice manipulation. A man late of Ireland, with a talent for putting words into other people's mouths. In this case, the other person is a dummy, aptly named Caesar, a small splinter with large ideas, a wooden tyrant with a mind and a voice of his own, who is about to talk Jonathan West into the Twilight Zone.

”

Synopsis

Please help improve this article by expanding it. Further information might be found on the talk page. (January 2008)

Jonathan West, an unsuccessful ventriloquist, starts to commit robberies based on the advice of his dummy, Little Caesar (incidentally, the same prop used in the episode "The Dummy"). The landlady's niece (who loves to play with a blowgun loaded with "poisoned" darts) learns about his crimes and decides to call the police. Unable to defend himself, Jonathan is taken to jail, and the dummy gets away with it. The dummy then plans to run away to New York with the landlady's niece. "What about my aunt?", the niece wonders. "Honey", Caesar suggests, "you still got those poisoned darts?". He then chuckles at seeing the girl's fiendish gleam in her eyes...

Closing narration

“

Little girl and a wooden doll, a lethal dummy in the shape of a man. But everybody knows dummies can't talk--unless, of course, they learn their vocabulary in the Twilight Zone.

”

Preview for next week's story

Announcer: "And now, Mr. Serling."

“

Next time out, you'll share a study in depth of human terror with Martin Landau and John van Dreelen. You'll stay in a hotel room of a European city which has been booby-trapped with a plastic bomb. You'll walk around this room with violent death resting on your shoulder. It could be anywhere - a picture, a chair, a faucet, or simply the carpet you're walking on. Next time out on The Twilight Zone, "The Jeopardy Room".

”

Adele Strassfield

The writer of the episode, Adele Strassfield, was the secretary of William Froug, the producer of the second half of the final season of The Twilight Zone. According to Froug, they worked out this episode together. Strassfield (billed in the credits as "A.T. Strassfield") is the only woman credited with writing an original teleplay for the original version of The Twilight Zone, though several women received credit for stories that were adapted for the show. She later wrote a first season episode of Gilligan's Island with executive producer Froug's assistance.

References

DeVoe, Bill. (2008). Trivia from The Twilight Zone. Albany, GA: Bear Manor Media. ISBN 978-1593931360
Grams, Martin. (2008). The Twilight Zone: Unlocking the Door to a Television Classic. Churchville, MD: OTR Publishing. ISBN 978-0970331090
Zircee, Marc Scott: The Twilight Zone Companion. Sillman-James Press, 1982 (second edition)

External links

This entry is from Wikipedia, the leading user-contributed encyclopedia. It may not have been reviewed by professional editors (see full disclaimer)

Donate to Wikimedia

Caesar and Me

The Twilight Zone: Caesar and Me

Plot

Contents