- The Hunt
Infobox Television episode
Title = The Hunt
Series = The Twilight Zone
Caption = Scene from "The Hunt"
Season = 3
Episode = 84
Airdate =January 26 ,1962
Production =4810
Writer =Earl Hamner, Jr.
Director =Harold Schuster
Guests =Arthur Hunnicut : Hyder Simpson
Jeanette Nolan : Rachel Simpson
Titus Moede : Wesley Miller
Orville Sherman : Tillman Miller
Charles Seel : Reverend Wood
Robert Foulk : Gatekeeper
Dexter Dupont : Messenger
Music =Robert Drasnin
Episode list =List of Twilight Zone episodes
Prev = Dead Man's Shoes
Next =Showdown with Rance McGrew "The Hunt" is an episode of the
American television anthology series "The Twilight Zone".Opening Narration
ynopsis
Hyder Simpson lives with his wife and his hound Rip in the backwoods. Mrs. Simpson does not like having the dog indoors, but Rip saved Hyder's life once, and Hyder won't be parted from him. Mrs. Simpson has seen an omen and warns Hyder not to go hunting that night. When Rip dives into a pond after a
raccoon , Hyder jumps in after him, but only the raccoon comes up out of the water. Next morning, Hyder and Rip wake up next to the pond. When they return home, Hyder finds that neither his wife, the preacher, nor the neighbors can hear him or see him—they seem to think that he and Rip are dead.Walking along the road, he encounters a fence he doesn't recognize, and decides to follow it. Presently, both come to a gate. The gatekeeper explains that Simpson can enter the
Elysian Fields , but Rip will have to stay outside, as dogs are not allowed in. Angrily, Simpson takes Rip and goes on down the "Eternity Road" rather than enter the gate without Rip, where he meets an angel whose job is to bring them toHeaven , and who is looking specifically for "Hyder Simpson and his dog Rip." The angel explains that the gate was actually the entrance toHell . Rip was not allowed in because, though a man can be fooled, Rip would have been able to smell thebrimstone , and "eventhe Devil can't fool adog !"The angel also tells Hyder that there'll be a raccoon hunt in Heaven that night, "right after the square dance," and assures him that his wife, who will be coming shortly, will not have any trouble with the devil up the way.
Closing Narration
Preview for Next Week's Story
Trivia
* This episode resembles a tale in the
Mahabharata ."The Twilight Zone" links
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The Twilight Zone (1959 TV series)
* Episode list
* [http://www.cbs.com/classics/the_twilight_zone/video/video.php?cid=649562032&pid=1C83Z0a4Yv19oUM1Hzu7vclL7y0DcX4m&play=true&cc=2 Full video of the episode at CBS.com]References
* Zicree, Marc Scott. "The "Twilight Zone" Companion", Bantam Books, 1982. ISBN 0-553-01416-1
*DeVoe, Bill. (2008). "Trivia from The Twilight Zone". Albany, GA: Bear Manor Media. ISBN 978-1593931360
*Grams, Martin. (2008). "The Twilight Zone: Unlocking the Door to a Television Classic". Churchville, MD: OTR Publishing. ISBN 978-0970331090External links
*imdb title|id=0734646|title=The Hunt
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