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Mr. Dingle, the Strong

The Twilight Zone original series
season two
Fall 1960 – Summer 1961
List of The Twilight Zone episodes

Episodes:

  1. King Nine Will Not Return
  2. The Man in the Bottle
  3. Nervous Man in a Four Dollar Room
  4. A Thing About Machines
  5. The Howling Man
  6. The Eye of the Beholder
  7. Nick of Time
  8. The Lateness of the Hour
  9. The Trouble With Templeton
  10. A Most Unusual Camera
  11. Night of the Meek
  12. Dust
  13. Back There
  14. The Whole Truth
  15. The Invaders
  16. A Penny for Your Thoughts
  17. Twenty-Two
  18. The Odyssey of Flight 33
  19. Mr. Dingle, the Strong
  20. Static
  21. The Prime Mover
  22. Long Distance Call
  23. A Hundred Yards Over the Rim
  24. The Rip Van Winkle Caper
  25. The Silence
  26. Shadow Play
  27. The Mind and the Matter
  28. Will the Real Martian Please Stand Up?
  29. The Obsolete Man

Episode name: Mr. Dingle, the Strong

Episode number: 55

Season: 2

Original airdate: March 3, 1961

Writer: Rod Serling

Director: John Brahm

Notable cast members: Burgess Meredith, Don Rickles, James Westerfield, James Millhollin

Episode Summary

Spoiler warning: Plot or ending details follow.

For an experiment, a couple of Martians give vacuum-cleaner salesman and perrenial loser Luther Dingle superhuman strength. Discovering his new powers, Dingle starts performing various tricks from lifting statues to spliting boulders — and starts gaining lots of publicity. But the Martians become appalled at Dingle's foolish behavior. They yank away his powers just before he attempts to lift a building before a live TV audience. Unable to make good his claims, he is made a laughing stock. As the Martians leave, they bump into two Venusians searching for an Earthling to test their experiment on. The Martians recommend Dingle. So the Venusians give Dingle super intelligence. Discovering his new powers, Dingle starts performing various tricks...

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