LOVE the final scene!!! :D

One of the better episodes, still effective over 40 years later. Cliff Robertson plays the schizophrenic (or not) ventriloquist, and he superbly conveys the character's alarming dilemma. Frank Sutton, who played the sergeant on "Gomer Pyle" and was one of the accused rapists in "Town Without Pity", is his frustrated manager, and he's also exceedingly good. The dummy, an Edward G. Robinson knock-off, is terrifying (then again, as a kid I used to find Jerry Mahoney and Knucklehead Smith terrifying). The ending, although you can see it coming from a mile away, is still unnerving in the extreme.

The way the dummy laughs when the ventriloquist is struggling with the wrong dummy just cracks me up. I love this episode

Bet this one gave lots of people a recurring phobia of ventriloquist dummies!! ;D

One of the creepiest endings, probably ranking at the very top of that list along with "the Lateness of the Hour". Probably ranks in my top 10 favorites. I like how in this episode, the person experiencing the supernatural element questions his own sanity, whereas in most other ones, the person(s) experiencing the supernatural seem to accept it pretty quickly.

At first you're not sure if the dummy is really speaking or is his owner just crazy? Of course at the end we find out he's for real.

This has been the spookiest TZ episode for me over the long term. Like the other episodes that truly frightened me when I first watched them, it exploits (in Serling's words) "the fear of the unknown working on *you,* which you cannot share with others." No one--not his manager, not the psychiatrists, not Noreen--believes Jerry when he says that his dummy Willy is really alive, since it's much easier to dismiss that idea as being all in his mind. As anyone who has seen the chilling ending knows, obviously Jerry's fears had more substance than anyone else could have imagined. But that doesn't mean that the psychological explanation was entirely wrong, either. A careful look at some ostensibly irrelevant things in this episode--the way that mirrors are used, the shadow of Willy that Jerry can't escape any more than he can his own, the way Jerry and Willy each relate to women--suggest that Willy *is* literally Jerry's "alter ego" or other self, a part of Jerry that he can't express any other way. And if you watch the uncut version (which may be more worth seeking out than the uncut version of any other TZ episode), it isn't hard to guess exactly which part that is. I think there's something here for the adult and child--not to mention the Jerry and Willy--in all of us.

those of you that Have seen Batman The Animated Series will see a bit of Willy (the dummy) and Jerry in Scarface and Ventriliquest.

Good, but yet another creepy episode.

Good performance by Cliff Robertson.

Very well done, although if you get a chance, see the British anthology movie Dead of Night in which virtually the same story is done better (and earlier) than this. Thoroughly creepy episode.