Duelo con Rance McGrew
Título V.O.: Showdown with Rance McGrew
Guión: Rod Serling, Frederick Louis Fox
Director: Christian Nyby
Fecha de emisión en USA: 02/02/1962
Guest Starring: Larry Blyden (Rance McGrew), Arch Johnson (Jesse James), Robert Cornthwaite (Director), Robert J. Stevenson (Bartender), Bill McLean (Prop Man), Troy Melton (Cowboy), Jay Overholts (Cowboy #2), Hal K. Dawson (Old Man), Bob Kline (TV Jesse James), Jim Turley (Stunt Double)
Sinopsis: Un actor de una mediocre serie de televisión del oeste se ve transportado al verdadero oeste, donde conoce al verdadero Jesse James.
Frases destacadas:
Opening Narration: Some one-hundred-odd years ago, a motley collection of tough mustaches galloped across the West and left behind a raft of legends and legerdemains, and it seems a reasonable conjecture that if there were any television sets up in cowboy heaven and any of these rough-and-woolly nail-eaters could see with what careless abandon their names are bandied about, they're very likely turning over in their graves. Which gives you a clue as to the proceedings that will begin in just a moment, when one Mr. Rance McGrew, a three-thousand-buck-a-week-phony-baloney discovers that this week's current edition of make-believe is being shot on location-and that location is the Twilight Zone.
Closing Narration: The evolution of the so-called "adult" western, and the metamorphosis of one Rance McGrew, formerly phony-baloney, now upright citizen with a preoccupation with all things involving tradition, the truth and cowpoke predecessors. It's the way the cookie crumbles and the six-gun shoots... in the Twilight Zone.
