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Episode Guide > Season 3, Episode 30

The Twilight Zone (1985): Father and Son Game

 

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Air Date

Saturday April 15, 1989

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Episode Summary

A 79-year-old man wants to keep on living so he transplants his brain into a younger body. His son, however, resents his father's continued life and tries to wrestle power from him.

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    8 Great

    Hard working man holds on to life by using the best techonology availabble in his time. hide show

    In a very special kind of way i wanted this guy to live, even though, he looked like a poor version of Robocop. What we have in this episode is a person trying to live his life past the limits given by nature. He is a half human, half machine businessman who has fought very hard to build a big company, however, his son thinks it is time for him to have control of the company. Well, this “kid” really needs to die; what a horrible person he is, but I guess that is what we deserve when we do not teach our children to earn their own living. The ending was a little relief, because our main character managed to survive his son’s hate in a very special way. I hope he was uploaded to a new machine or robot and managed to spank his son one last time.

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  • (Opening Narration)
    Narrator: Don’t be deceived by the youthful appearance of our subject: Darius Stephens. He abused his body for 79 years. Now he is walking on his own bought-and-paid-for two feet, down a path he hopes will lead him into a new life. []
  • (Opening Narration)
    Narrator: Darius Stephens, the product of a new generation of medical miracles that began with false teeth, expanded into prosthetic limbs, and reached near godhood in plastic surgery and mechanicals hearts. As we continue to second-guess and improve upon nature, we are reminded that there is more to being alive than mere flesh and blood, in the Twilight Zone. []

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