Dead Run (The Twilight Zone)
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| “Dead Run” | |
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| The New Twilight Zone episode | |
 Steve Railsback as Johnny Davis |
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| Episode no. | Season 1 Episode 19 |
| Guest stars | Steve Railsback |
| Written by | Alan Brennert |
| Directed by | Paul Tucker |
| Original airdate | February 21, 1986 |
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Dead Run is an episode of the television series The New Twilight Zone.
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[edit] Cast
Johnny Davis: Steve Railsback
Pete: Barry Corbin
The Dispatcher: John de Lancie
Draft Dodger: Brent Spiner
[edit] Plot
A truck driver (Steve Railsback) accepts a job to deliver souls to Hell.
[edit] Opening Narration
None.
[edit] Synopsis
A truck driver finds himself out of work. His friend recommends a bizarre job that, regardless of its oddity, he accepts: delivery of souls to Hell via truck. He comes to the conclusion that the choice of who gets sent to Hell is unfair and begins to choose which of the dead should go to Hell and which he should free to find a way to Heaven.
[edit] Closing Narration
Centuries ago, hell was reached by chalk-white horses pulling shuttered coaches; by Spanish galleons borne on black sails through uncharted seas. Legend has it Leonardo da Vinci was one commissioned to build a flying machine to carry souls to hell, but it never returned from its maiden flight. But along this particular road to hell lies redemption for the damned as well as for drivers who had found work... in The Twilight Zone.
[edit] Themes
An attack on the perceived immorality of the Moral Majority.
[edit] Trivia
- This episode is based on the short story "Dead Run" by Greg Bear. The story was first published in Omni (April, 1985).
- Brent Spiner and John de Lancie would later have a long working relationship in Star Trek: The Next Generation, with Spiner starring as Data and de Lancie as frequent guest-star Q.
[edit] References/External links
- TV.com episode page
- Zicree, Marc Scott: The Twilight Zone Companion. Sillman-James Press, 1982 (second edition)
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