After a very strong season of episodes, I am afraid that season 1 ended with a couple of clunkers for me.

Spoilers

“The Mighty Casey”

A terrible baseball team from New Jersey holds try outs and they wind up with a new pitcher. Casey is a left handed master who was as dominant as he could be. There was only one problem.

Casey was a robot.

When the league found out about the truth, they insisted that Casey was suspended. However, Casey’s creator, Dr. Stillman, said he could give Casey a heart, thus making him human. The surgery was a success, meaning that Casey could continue to pitch. Unfortunately, Casey’s new heart turned him into a pitcher who could not get anyone out.

Jack Warden played manager “Mouth” McGarry.

I found this episode to be my least favorite episode of the season so far. It was a silly premise and the execution was worse yet. When Casey was pitching, they added stupid sound effects to his fastball, slowball and curve ball. The whole episode was just a joke and was a huge step down from anything that I had seen before.

“A World of his Own”

I had always thought that I had seen my share of the episodes of The Twilight Zone, but as I have watched the first season, I did not recognize or was familiar with any of them. That is, until this episode. I remembered parts of this episode as I was watching it so this is the first of the Twilight Zone episodes that I had seen before. It would have been decades ago though.

This was also not a favorite of mine, though better than the baseball one I just watched.

Gregory was a writer who had the power to bring to life characters that he created. All he had to do was speak into his tape recorder and the characters would come to life.

This led to a conflict with his wife Victoria, who came upon Gregory snuggling up with a blonde woman (called Mary). When Gregory explained that she was just a creation of his, Victoria was ready to have him committed.

Gregory could take the tape, cut it out with his scissors and toss it into the fire, which caused the person to disappear.

The end of the episode did help save it a bit. Victoria was shown to be a creation as well and she, not believing it, tossed her own tape into the fire. She disappeared. That was fairly obvious as it was happening. The best part was when Rod Serling appeared in the room to narrate the events and Gregory tossed his tape into the fire too, cause Rod to disappear. That was the best part of the episode.

“Leaving Mr. Gregory West—still shy, quiet, very happy… and apparently in complete control of The Twilight Zone.”

This ends the first season of The Twilight Zone. The Daily Zone will be continuing into the second season soon.