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‘The Dummy’ episode airs on ‘The Twilight Zone’ 50 years ago this hour (1962)

May 4, 20121960s, Television 1960sadmin


Video: 'The Dummy' clip

(Friday, May 4, 1962, 10 p.m. ET) — A ventriloquist is convinced that his dummy, Willie, is alive and evil on tonight’s episode of the CBS-TV anthology series The Twilight Zone.

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