The Whole Truth
- Episode aired Jan 20, 1961
- TV-PG
- 25m
A used car salesman buys a car that dooms him to tell only the truth.A used car salesman buys a car that dooms him to tell only the truth.A used car salesman buys a car that dooms him to tell only the truth.
Storyline
Did you know
- TriviaThis was the third of six The Twilight Zone (1959) episodes to be videotaped.
- GoofsHunnicut puts a cigar on the bar rail when going to talk to a pair, but during the opening narration in the same spot, it's missing.
- Quotes
[opening narration]
Narrator: This, as the banner already has proclaimed, is Mr. Harvey Hunnicut, an expert on commerce and con jobs, a brash, bright, and larceny-loaded wheeler and dealer who, when the good Lord passed out a conscience, must have gone for a beer and missed out. And these are a couple of other characters in our story: a little old man and a Model A car - but not just any old man and not just any Model A. There's something very special about the both of them. As a matter of fact, in just a few moments, they'll give Harvey Hunnicut something that he's never experienced before. Through the good offices of a little magic, they will unload on Mr. Hunnicut the absolute necessity to tell the truth. Exactly where they come from is conjecture, but as to where they're heading for, this we know, because all of them - and you - are on the threshold of the Twilight Zone.
- ConnectionsEdited into Twilight-Tober-Zone: The Whole Truth (2021)
Harvey Hunnicutt (Jack Carson) is the prototypical used car dealer / con man. He trades for a dilapidated old Ford Model A, only to discover he can no longer tell a lie.
This episode was one of 6 produced on videotape, with all it's jitters, excessive contrast, and limited sound quality. All the action appears on a used car lot at night, thus you won't mind the quality issues as much. This was one of Jack Carson's last great performances; he succumbed to cancer two years later. A young Arte Johnson (later of Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In) makes a brief appearance.
The finale demonstrates Serling's wishful thinking for a worried America, as it began the Camelot of the Kennedy era.
This episodes legacy? Look no further than Jim Carrey's LiarLiar.
- reddy-19
- Feb 11, 2007
Details
- Runtime25 minutes
- Color
- Aspect ratio
- 1.33 : 1