Trivia / The Twilight Zone (1959) S3E5: "A Game of Pool"

• Playing Against Type: Comedian Jonathan Winters, who usually played bumbling blue-collar types, here plays a suave, sophisticated, slightly-creepy pool champion.
• What Could Have Been: There is actually an alternate ending written to this episode where Jesse loses but shockingly finds himself still alive. Fats predicts that Jesse will die "as all second-raters die: you'll be buried and forgotten without me touching you...If you'd have beaten me, you would have lived forever." Fats vanishes, and Jesse vows to keep practicing until he is good enough to face Fats once more. This ending was used in a remake of the episode for the 1980s series, without anyone informing George Clayton Johnson (the writer of the original story) about it.