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 is driving the car, three different shots of the speedometer show the car racing, but the odometer never moves.
- 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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There is a 4th main character
"The Printers devil" is one of my favorite hour long episodes of TZ. The another variation on the "selling your soul to the devil" story, this one is made delightful by Burgess Meredith's devil. I think this is my favorite of his 4 characters he did on TZ.. Some of the others were better stories , but the delight of seeing him play the linotype machine with the crooked cigar in his mouth was a delight. By the way, I think the linotype machine was the 4th main character in the episode. Loved seeing one of those old mechanical marvels in action, they are truly incredible machines. After seeing this episode for the first time, I spent many hour researching both the history and the function of these machines of the pre computer era.
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- Runtime51 minutes
- Color
- Aspect ratio
- 1.33 : 1
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