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The Twilight Zone original series season one Fall 1959 – Summer 1960 List of The Twilight Zone episodes

Episodes: Where Is Everybody? One for the Angels Mr. Denton on Doomsday The Sixteen-Millimeter Shrine Walking Distance Escape Clause The Lonely Time Enough at Last Perchance to Dream Judgment Night And When the Sky Was Opened What You Need The Four of Us Are Dying Third from the Sun I Shot an Arrow Into the Air The Hitch-Hiker The Fever The Last Flight The Purple Testament Elegy Mirror Image The Monsters Are Due on Maple Street A World of Difference Long Live Walter Jameson People Are Alike All Over Execution The Big Tall Wish A Nice Place to Visit Nightmare as a Child A Stop at Willoughby The Chaser A Passage for Trumpet Mr. Bevis The After Hours The Mighty Casey A World of His Own

“The Fever” is an episode of the television series The Twilight Zone.

Details

• Episode number: 17
• Season: 1
• Production code: 173-3627
• Original air date: January 29, 1960
• Writer: Rod Serling
• Director: Robert Florey
• Producer:
• Music: Stock (taken primarily from Jerry Goldsmith’s “jazz themes”, which are used as incidental music on many other Twilight Zones)

Cast

• Franklin Gibbs: Everett Sloane
• Flora Gibbs: Vivi Janiss

Synopsis

A man goes to Las Vegas, Nevada with his wife because she won a competition. The man quickly becomes addicted to gambling on the slot machine. He hears the slot machine calling out his name, and when he is almost out of money and the machine breaks down he becomes convinced that the machine is mocking him. He imagines the machine is chasing him, and then falls backwards out of the window to his death.

Trivia

• "Serling celebrated [the signing of his new show, The Twilight Zone by spending a weekend in Las Vegas. While Carol Serling was having good luck nearby, he became enslaved by a merciless one-armed bandit, an incident he would turn into one of his first Twilight Zone episodes, “The Fever”... —Gordon F. Sander, excerpt from Serling: The Rise and Twilight of Television's Last Angry Man.

• Serling wrote an expanded ending to this episode when he adapted it to short story form. The addition read:

Flora Gibbs flew back to Elgin, Kansas, to pick up the broken crockery of her life. She lived a silent, patient life from then on and gave no one any trouble. Only once did anything unusual happen and that was a year later. The church had a bazaar and someone brought in an old used one-armed bandit. It had taken three of her friends from the Women's Alliance to stop her screaming and get her back home to bed. It had cast rather a pall over the evening." —Excerpt from “The Fever”, published in Stories From the Twilight Zone in April 1960.

Themes

A warning about the dangers of gambling. Similar themes are addressed in “The Silence”.

External link

• TV.com episode page

References

• Sander, Gordon F.: Serling: The Rise And Twilight of Television's Last Angry Man. New York: Penguin Books, 1992.
• Zicree, Marc Scott: The Twilight Zone Companion. Sillman-James Press, 1982 (second edition)

Twilight Zone links

• The Twilight Zone
• Episode List
• Season 1

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