Big & Tall

"The Big Tall Wish" is an episode of the American television anthology series The Twilight Zone. more...

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Episode number: 27; Season: 1; Production code: 173-3630; Original air date: April 8, 1960; Writer: Rod Serling; Director: Ron Winston; Music: Jerry Goldsmith;

Cast

Bolie Jackson: Ivan Dixon; Henry: Steven Perry; Frances: Kim Hamilton; Joe Mizell: Walter Burke; Thomas: Henry Scott; Joey Consiglio: Charles Horvath; Announcer: Carl McIntire; Referee: Frankie Van;

Opening Narration

"In this corner of the universe, a prizefighter named Bolie Jackson, one hundred eighty-three pounds and an hour and a half away from a comeback at St. Nick's Arena. Mr. Bolie Jackson, who, by the standards of his profession is an aging, over-the-hill relic of what was, and who now sees a reflection of a man who has left too many years before too many screaming people. Mr. Bolie Jackson, who might do well to look for some gentle magic in the hard-surfaced glass that stares back at him."

Synopsis

Bolie Jackson is a washed-up boxer who accidentally breaks the knuckles of his hand right before his big comeback fight. He is knocked down and just about to be counted out when he suddenly, magically switches places with the other boxer. Bolie is now standing over his vanquished opponent who is now the one lying on the canvas being counted out.

Bolie celebrates his victory without even a trace of his broken hand. He doesn’t understand what happened. He remembers being knocked down, being unable to get up, knowing he was about to be counted out. He has no memory of getting back up to win the fight, nor can he figure out why his previously broken knuckles feel fine. However when he mentions being knocked down to his manager, his manager tells Bolie that he must be crazy, that he was never knocked down at all. Bolie can think of no explanation so he attributes his memories to being some sort of strange dream. He doesn’t remember how he achieved his great victory, but he is all too happy to believe in it when he is told how brilliantly he fought. He figures his knuckles must have only been bruised, not broken, after all.

However, there is one other person besides Bolie who does remember Bolie being knocked down and about to be counted out. That person is young Henry, the son of Bolie’s neighbor. And he has an explanation for what happened that reversed that fate. Specifically, Henry tells Bolie that he, Henry, has the power to make a wish and have it come true. And that he had used the biggest, tallest wish he could come up with for Bolie. Henry says that as Bolie lay there on the canvas, about to be counted out, Henry wished that it was the other fighter who had been beaten and that Bolie were the victor. He wished as hard as he possibly could and thus the wish came true.

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