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The stories could take place in a futuristic dystopia or a suburban street not unlike your own. Churchville, MD: OTR Publishing.Just ask anyone who’s pored through all five seasons or spent an entire holiday weekend indoors thanks to all-day marathons - almost 60 years after it debuted, Rod Serling’s sci-fi anthology show remains a groundbreaking, genre-busting take on the gray area between the pit of man’s fears and the summit of his knowledge.

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This version used the original alternate ending that Johnson intended for the original 1961 version. The remade version featured Esai Morales as Jesse Cardiff and Maury Chaykin as Fats Brown. The episode was remade in the 1980s version of The Twilight Zone. If you'd beaten me, you'd have lived forever." Fats disappears, while Jesse vows to keep practicing until he is good enough to face the champion again. Seeing this, Fats explains that he will die "as all second-raters die: you'll be buried and forgotten without me touching you. George Clayton Johnson's script originally featured an ending in which Jesse loses the game and yet finds himself still alive. These are the ground rules in the Twilight Zone. Fats Brown, on the other hand, having relinquished the champion's mantle, has gone fishing. Jesse Cardiff, who became a legend by beating one, but who has found out after his funeral that being the best of anything carries with it a special obligation to keep on proving it. Meanwhile Fats has gone fishing, relieved of his obligation.

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Known even in death as the greatest pool player ever, Jesse has no choice but to face an endless series of would-be successors until someone beats him and relieves him of his title. Long after his own death, Jesse is summoned from the afterlife to travel to Mason's Pool Hall in Sandusky, Ohio, to play against a challenger. Fats thanks Jesse for beating him, leading Jesse to angrily call him a sore loser, before Fats disappears. Jesse sinks the ball and revels in his victory, now secure in his status as the best pool player of all time. With one ball left on the table and both men needing to sink it in order to win, Fats misses his shot, and he warns Jesse that he may get more than he bargained for if he wins the game. Jesse ignores Fats, convinced that he is just trying to distract him.

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Throughout the game, Fats laments that Jesse has done nothing with his life but play pool, explaining that he himself lived a full life in addition to becoming a great player. Jesse accepts these conditions and the two begin to play. If Jesse wins, he will be acknowledged as the greatest pool player ever if he loses, he forfeits his life. He appears in the pool room and offers to play against Jesse, with a wager attached. He says he would give anything to play one game against Fats, prompting Fats himself to wearily rise from a pool table in the afterlife. Jesse bitterly muses that he would be considered the greatest pool player of all time, if it were not for the memory of the late James Howard "Fats" Brown overshadowing him. Pool shark Jesse Cardiff stays after hours at Lister's Pool Room in Chicago, practicing. Jesse Cardiff, pool shark, the best on Randolph Street, who will soon learn that trying to be the best at anything carries its own special risks. According to Rod Serling, it is "the story of the best pool player living and the best pool player dead." It originally aired on October 13, 1961, on CBS. " A Game of Pool" is episode 70 of the American television anthology series The Twilight Zone.

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The Twilight Zone (1959 TV series) (season 3) Jonathan Winters as James Howard “Fats” Brown.Stock and new music by Jerry Goldsmith (uncredited) 5th episode of the 3rd season of The Twilight Zone " A Game of Pool"