| “Steel” | |||||||
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| Episode no. | Season 5 Episode 122 |
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| Written by | Richard Matheson (Based on his story, first published in the May 1956 edition of The Magazine of Fantasy and Science-Fiction.) |
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| Directed by | Don Weis | ||||||
| Guest stars | Lee Marvin : Steel Kelly Joe Mantell : Pole Chuck Hicks : Maynard Flash |
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| Original airdate | October 4 1963 | ||||||
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| List of Twilight Zone episodes | |||||||
"Steel" is an episode of the American television anthology series The Twilight Zone.
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Synopsis
In a future where any boxing involving human fighters has been criminalized, the sport is now dominated by fighting robots. Former boxer Steel Kelly manages a B2-model robot, "Battling Maxo," that breaks down right before a fight. In order to collect the money necessary for repairs, Steel enters the fight disguised as a robot. Steel is almost killed in the ring by the B-7 robot he is fighting against, but he manages to survive and collects half the prize money.
Trivia
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- Reportedly Richard Matheson's favorite Twilight Zone episode.
Themes
An update of the legend of John Henry. The stories of both John Henry and Steel Kelly tell of an exceptional human being who attempts—and fails—to prove man’s superiority to the machines that seek to replace him but succeed in showing man’s ability to rise to all challenges with “blind animal courage”. Similar themes are revisited in “The Brain Center at Whipple's”.
References
- Zicree, Marc Scott: The Twilight Zone Companion. Sillman-James Press, 1982 (second edition)
External links
- Steel at the Internet Movie Database
- TV.com episode page
- Steel Review on The Twilight Zone Project
