Printer's Devil
- Episode aired Feb 28, 1963
- TV-PG
- 51m
IMDb RATING
8.0/10
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A man sells his soul to the Devil to save his failing newspaper and gets more than he bargained for.A man sells his soul to the Devil to save his failing newspaper and gets more than he bargained for.A man sells his soul to the Devil to save his failing newspaper and gets more than he bargained for.
Pat Crowley
- Jackie Benson
- (as Patricia Crowley)
Leon Alton
- Bartender
- (uncredited)
Michael Chain
- Paperboy
- (uncredited)
Ryan Hayes
- Paper Hawker
- (uncredited)
Bernard Sell
- Café Patron
- (uncredited)
Rod Serling
- Narrator
- (uncredited)
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Did you know
- TriviaReferring to the title, a printer's devil was an apprentice in a printing establishment who performed a number of tasks, such as mixing tubs of ink and fetching type.
- GoofsWhen Mr Smith gets Winter to sign the contract, the liquor bottle changes from "Pebble Ames Bourbon" to "Golden Delight Sour Mash Whiskey".
- Quotes
Narrator: [Opening Narration] Take away a man's dream, fill him with whiskey and despair, send him to a lonely bridge, let him stand there all by himself looking down at the black water and try to imagine the thoughts that are in his mind. You can't, I can't. But there's someone who can - and that someone is seated next to Douglas Winter right now. The car is headed back toward town, but its real destination is the Twilight Zone.
- ConnectionsFeatured in Top 10 Twilight Zone Episodes (2009)
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Mr. Smith
Robert Sterling stars as a newspaper editor named Douglas Winter who is at the end of his rope, since his newspaper the Courier is in big financial trouble, making him consider suicide. Intervening is devilish Mr. Smith(played by Burgess Meredith) who offers Winter the standard deal of success if he sells his soul, which he agrees to not believing it to be true, but when Smith keeps his word when the papers fortunes turn around, Winter realizes that he better find a way to trick this devil if he is to redeem his eternal soul... Amusing episode with a good cast and clever ending, though otherwise it treads quite familiar ground that had been done before, and in less than an hour...
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Details
- Runtime51 minutes
- Color
- Aspect ratio
- 1.33 : 1
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