'A Game of Pool'

This was a remake of an original Twilight Zone episode. The original starred Jack Klugman as the young pool shark (Jesse) and Jonathan Winters as the deceased legend, Fats.

The remake pretty much followed the plot of the original, except with one big exception. In the original, Jesse won. The twist was that now Jesse had to spend the rest of his afterlife constantly defending his title against one after another young hotshot who challenged his legendary status. In the remake, Fats won, and the upstart would waste away the rest of his life in dirty old pool halls, trying to get beter, in hopes of someday avenging his loss to Fats.

I understand the remake actually followed an original alternate ending to the original. I wonder if the morality of the time period had to do with the selected ending, or was the alternate ending chosen in 1989 just to mess with people like me. The original ending resembles the story of the gunfighter who has to wander from town to town, constantly defending his reputation, until someone finally brings him down.

The story also resembles an episode of Night Gallery, where a boxing champ has to fight the best boxer of all time. The Ring With the Red Velvet Ropes.






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