" A Game of Pool "
A "TWILIGHT ZONE EPISODE ON TV 1961"
A young pool player finds himself playing against a long-dead
master pool shark. The stakes: his life.
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| The best ever game of pool, however was in an old TV show. Maybe you remember an episode of the old Twilight Zone series called "A Game of Pool." Jack Klugman stars as Jesse Cardiff, a man obsessed with the game who is tired of being compared to the late, great Fats Brown. If only he had a chance to play Fats, he could prove he was the best! But as Rod Serling says, "Being the best at anything carries its own special risks, in or out of the Twilight Zone." Of course, the ghost of Fats comes down to play him one game of straight pool to 300 for the title of "Best Pool Player of All Time." The game is chock full of strategy and skill shots, and even some mistakes, too. The writer (George Clayton Johnson) and director (Buzz Kulik) obviously love and play the game of pool, because they pepper it with great shots and pool philosophies. There's even a nice message about how you should take time out and enjoy life. There's more to life than pool. Klugman is too far into it to understand that, though. The episode was first broadcast in October of 1961, So it was no doubt riding on the success of "The Hustler" but lucky for is it is not a cheap imitation.
Writer: George Clayton Johnson |
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There is a fifth dimension beyond that which is known to man. It is a dimension as vast as space and as timeless as infinity. It is the middle ground between light and shadow, between science and superstition, and it lies between the pit of man's fears, and the summit of his knowledge. This is the dimension of imagination. It is an area which we call THE TWILIGHT ZONE. Rod Serling |
