The Jeopardy Room (The Twilight Zone)

The Jeopardy Room is an episode of the television series The Twilight Zone.

Details

Episode number: 149

Season:5

Production code: 2639

Original air date: April 17, 1964

Writer: Rod Serling

Director: Richard Donner

Cast

Major Ivan Kuchenko: Martin Landau

Commissar Vassiloff: John VanDreelen

Boris:Robert Kelljan

Synopsis

Trying to defect, Ivan Kuchenko is trapped inside a hotel room with Commissar Vassiloff, a hitman, and Boris, his assistant, in the room across the street. Vassiloff has planted a bomb in the room and Ivan must find it within three hours. Vassiloff has hidden the bomb in the room's telephone, where it will be triggered by an incoming call. Ivan manages to escape and also causes Boris to trigger the bomb accidentally, killing himself and Vassiloff.

Trivia

• This was the last episode written by Rod Serling to be produced.

• Unusual entry in the series as it contains no supernatural or science-fiction elements. Other such episodes include Where Is Everybody?, The Silence and The Shelter (The Twilight Zone).

• On September 18, 1964 this became the final Twilight Zone to be broadcast (as a rerun) in its original Friday night timeslot on CBS. The following week saw the debut of Gomer Pyle, U.S.M.C. in Twilight Zone's place.

External link

• TV Tome episode page

References

• Zicree, Marc Scott: The Twilight Zone Companion. Sillman-James Press, 1982 (second edition)

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