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I Am the Night—Color Me Black

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Cast

Synopsis

Template:Spoiler On the day of Jagger’s hanging, the sun does not rise in the morning in a small town. There is also still some dispute as to whether or not Jagger is guilty of murder. However, Jagger is hanged anyway, much to the delight of the town. The sun still does not rise, and the disturbance spreads to other places of hate.

Trivia

  • Similar in many ways to “Many Many Monkeys”, a script written for Twilight Zone by its producer, William Froug, but never shot. In that script an epidemic breaks out in which afflicted persons’ eyes seal shut as folds of flesh grow over them. Though a nuclear explosion is initially blamed, one character proposes that it is a physical manifestation of hate that is blinding them. The network bought the script but then shelved it, possibly finding its subject matter too disturbing, but was eventually produced in 1987, during the first revival of Twilight Zone (see “Many, Many Monkeys”).
  • The date that this episode occurs on is supposedly May 25, 1964, even though the last public hanging in the United States occurred in 1936 (although the last person hanged in the United States was Billy Bailey in 1996, and the punishment remains an option in one U.S. state: Washington).

Themes

Similar themes are explored in Four O' Clock.

References

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