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The Jungle

Episode Number: 77    Season Num: 3    First Aired: December 1, 1961    Prod Code: 4806
Alan Richards plans to build a dam in Africa on a tribe's ancestral land. The tribe's witch doctor puts a curse on him.

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Writer: Charles Beaumont, Charles Beaumont
Director: William F. Claxton
Star: Rod Serling (Narrator/Host),  John Dehner (Alan Richards)
Recurring Role: Jay Overholts (Taxi Driver)
Guest Star: Donald Foster (Mr. Sinclair),  Howard Wright (Mr. Hardy),  Hugh Sanders (I) (Mr. Templeton),  Jay Adler (Vagrant),  Walter Brooke (Chad Cooper),  Emily McLaughlin (Doris Richards)

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Included on volume 19 of Image-Entertainment's DVD collection. (edit)
This episode is based on the short story "The Jungle" by Charles Beaumont. The story was first published in If (December, 1954). (edit)
A sequence where Richards takes a cab, but his cab driver silently drops dead at a red light, is absent from the syndicated version. (edit)

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Closing Narration
Narrator: "Some superstitions, kept alive by the long night of ignorance, have their own special power. You'll hear of it through a jungle grapevine in a remote corner of the Twilight Zone." (edit)
Opening Narration
Narrator: "The carcass of a goat, a dead finger, a few bits of broken glass and stone, and Mr. Alan Richards, a modern man of a modern age, hating with all his heart something in which he cannot believe and preparing, although he doesn't know it, to take the longest walk of his life, right down to the center of the Twilight Zone." (edit)

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When Alan Richards first gets into his car, the driver's side window is rolled up. After a quick cutaway, the car is shown again and the window is down. (edit)

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The Jungle
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A mix of voodoo, retribution , ignorance and white capitalism mix in "The Jungle". Mr. Richard wants to build a dam on sacred land and put the people living there homeless.
Continue » Posted Jul 3, 2006 5:35 pm PST
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