{"id":14477,"date":"2016-01-06T18:00:15","date_gmt":"2016-01-06T22:00:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=14477"},"modified":"2020-08-11T18:37:05","modified_gmt":"2020-08-11T22:37:05","slug":"z-view-twilight-zone-escape-clause-season-1-episode-6","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=14477","title":{"rendered":"Z-View  Twilight Zone: &#8220;Escape Clause&#8221; [Season 1, Episode 6]"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/stallonezone.com\/zone\/2016\/z010616zview_twilightzone_s1ep6_escapeclause.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"500\"><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Twilight Zone: &#8220;Escape Clause&#8221; <\/strong>[Season 1, Episode 6]<br \/>\nOriginal Air Date: <strong>November 6, 1959<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Director: <strong><span class=\"itemprop\">Mitchell Leisen<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Writer: <strong>Rod Serling<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Starring: <b>David Wayne <\/b>and<b> Thomas Gomez<\/b><\/p>\n<p><strong>The Overview:&nbsp; Beware of Spoilers\u2026<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Walter Bedeker&nbsp;<\/strong>[Wayne]<strong>&nbsp;<\/strong><span class=\"mceItemHidden\">is a <span class=\"mceItemHidden\">hypochondriac<\/span>&nbsp;who despite being perfectly healthy believes he is on death&#8217;s doorstep. &nbsp;While lamenting that life is too short, <strong>Bedeker<\/strong> is visited by the<strong> Devil<\/strong> [Gomez] who offers immortality for <strong>Bedeker&#8217;s<\/strong> soul. &nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span class=\"mceItemHidden\">The soul is collected on <strong>Bedeker&#8217;s<\/strong> death but since he is immortal how will the <strong>Devil<\/strong> collect? &nbsp;<\/span><span class=\"mceItemHidden\">Ah, there is an escape clause should <strong>Bedeker<\/strong> decide he no longer wishes to live. &nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span class=\"mceItemHidden\"><strong>Bedeker<\/strong> accepts and comes to learn rather quickly that immortality in certain situations isn&#8217;t all he thought it would be.<\/span><span class=\"mceItemHidden\">&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Final Thoughts: <\/strong>&nbsp;This is a fun episode. &nbsp;I enjoyed <strong>Bedeker&#8217;s<\/strong> plan to get rich. &nbsp;<strong>Joe Flynn&#8217;s<\/strong> cameo was fun. &nbsp;A nice twist ending caps the episode.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Rating:<\/strong><br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/stallonezone.com\/zone\/logo\/zview_b.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"100\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Twilight Zone: &#8220;Escape Clause&#8221; [Season 1, Episode 6] Original Air Date: November 6, 1959 Director: Mitchell Leisen Writer: Rod Serling<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":912,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[17,50,74],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14477","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-celebs","category-tv","category-z-view","comments-off"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14477","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/912"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=14477"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14477\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24347,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14477\/revisions\/24347"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14477"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14477"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14477"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}