The Uncle Devil Show (The Twilight Zone)

"**The Uncle Devil Show**"
"The Uncle Devil Show"
The Twilight Zone episode
	scene from The Uncle Devil Show
Episode no.	Season 1; Episode 10b
Directed by	David Steinberg
Written by
Original air date	November 29, 1985
Guest appearances
	Wendy Phillips: Mom ; Murphy Dunne: Uncle Devil ; : Joey ; Joel Polis: Dad
Episode chronology
← Previous; "The Shadow Man"	Next →; "Opening Day"
	List of episodes

"The Uncle Devil Show" is the second segment of the tenth episode from the first season (1985–86) of the television series The Twilight Zone. It is a single-scene skit in which a young boy performs magic learned from watching a macabre television program.

Plot[]

A young boy named Joey is given a video called Tim Ferrit and Friends that he has been asking for. Joey's parents both admit they know nothing about the nature of the video, while ironically commenting on how involvement and oversight are the key to good parenting. Joey watches the video, which is a Bozo The Clown/Mister Rogers-like children's show on which the host, Uncle Devil, advises children to eat more sweets and not to brush their teeth, and shows them how to perform black magic. Joey attempts to repeat the tricks Uncle Devil teaches, first trying to make flowers appear out of an urn. Instead, cockroaches emerge from the urn. Every trick Joey attempts makes the world around him stranger and stranger, while his parents remain oblivious. Uncle Devil teaches the "Big Wish." Joey wishes that his toy dinosaur was real, and outside a life-sized dinosaur attempts to enter the house. The TV show ends and the world seemingly returns to normal. Joey is called to dinner, and as he runs to the living room, a new episode of Tim Ferrit and Friends begins on the tape. This time, it is called "Tim Ferrit in Hell". Cockroaches begin to crawl out of the urn.

External links[]

"The Uncle Devil Show" at IMDb

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Season 1	"Shatterday" "A Little Peace and Quiet" "Wordplay" "Dreams for Sale" "Chameleon" "Healer" "Children's Zoo" "Kentucky Rye" "Little Boy Lost" "Wish Bank" "Nightcrawlers" "If She Dies" "Ye Gods" "Examination Day" "A Message from Charity" "Teacher's Aide" "Paladin of the Lost Hour" "Act Break" "The Burning Man" "Dealer's Choice" "Dead Woman's Shoes" "Wong's Lost and Found Emporium" "The Shadow Man" "The Uncle Devil Show" "Opening Day" "The Beacon" "One Life, Furnished in Early Poverty" "Her Pilgrim Soul" "I of Newton" "Night of the Meek" "But Can She Type?" "The Star" "Still Life" "The Little People of Killany Woods" "The Misfortune Cookie" "Monsters!" "A Small Talent for War" "A Matter of Minutes" "The Elevator" "To See the Invisible Man" "Tooth and Consequences" "Welcome to Winfield" "Quarantine" "Gramma" "Personal Demons" "Cold Reading" "The Leprechaun-Artist" "Dead Run" "Profile in Silver" "Button, Button" "Need to Know" "Red Snow" "Take My Life...Please!" "Devil's Alphabet" "The Library" "Shadow Play" "Grace Note" "A Day in Beaumont" "The Last Defender of Camelot"
Season 2	"The Once and Future King" "A Saucer of Loneliness" "What Are Friends For?" "Aqua Vita" "The Storyteller" "Nightsong" "The After Hours" "Lost and Found" "The World Next Door" "The Toys of Caliban" "The Convict's Piano" "The Road Less Traveled" "The Card" "The Junction" "Joy Ride" "Shelter Skelter" "Private Channel" "Time and Teresa Golowitz" "Voices in the Earth" "Song of the Younger World" "The Girl I Married"
Season 3	"The Curious Case of Edgar Witherspoon" "Extra Innings" "The Crossing" "The Hunters" "Dream Me a Life" "Memories" "The Hellgramite Method" "Our Selena Is Dying" "The Call" "The Trance" "Acts of Terror" "20/20 Vision" "There Was an Old Woman" "The Trunk" "Appointment on Route 17" "The Cold Equations" "Stranger in Possum Meadows" "Street of Shadows" "Something in the Walls" "A Game of Pool" "Room 2426" "The Mind of Simon Foster" "The Wall" "Cat and Mouse" "Rendezvous in a Dark Place" "Many, Many Monkeys" "Love Is Blind" "Crazy as a Soup Sandwich" "Special Service" "Father and Son Game"