Mr. Dingle, the Strong
- Episode aired Mar 3, 1961
- TV-PG
- 25m
IMDb RATING
6.6/10
2.7K
YOUR RATING
A timid vacuum-cleaner salesman is given the strength of 300 men by some experimenting aliens.A timid vacuum-cleaner salesman is given the strength of 300 men by some experimenting aliens.A timid vacuum-cleaner salesman is given the strength of 300 men by some experimenting aliens.
Eddie Ryder
- Joseph J. Callahan
- (as Edward Ryder)
Gregory Irvin
- 2nd Venusian
- (as Greg Irwin)
Bob Duggan
- Photographer
- (uncredited)
Robert McCord
- Customer
- (uncredited)
Rod Serling
- Narrator
- (uncredited)
- …
Storyline
Did you know
- TriviaIn this episode and many others like Will the Real Martian Please Stand Up? (1961), a majority of the actors are smoking due to the demand of one of the Twilight Zone's sponsors, a cigarette company.
- GoofsNeither the television camera or the TV host's microphone are plugged in to anything.
- Quotes
Reporter: [sarcastically after Dingle's superstrength disappears] So long, Hercules.
- ConnectionsEdited into Twilight-Tober-Zone: Mr. Dingle, The Strong (2021)
Featured review
Casper Milquetoast, TZ Style
It's Don Rickles at his mouthiest and most obnoxious, pushing around poor stuttering little Burgess Meredith. That is, until a two headed genie from Mars gifts Meredith with super human strength. Now the bully Rickles is in for it, or is he. Trouble is Meredith can't seem to decide how to show off his newly found power.
It's an okay episode, distinguished, in my book, by the imaginatively exotic critters from Mars and then Venus. Also, Meredith gets to again show his amazing thespic range as the cringing vacuum cleaner salesman. The premise itself is not exactly an unusual one—a ridiculed man suddenly getting transformative powers. Likely Meredith's demonstration of that newly found strength was hampered by budget constraints—punching holes in walls, splitting tables—all fairly cheap to stage. Still we get the idea.
What lingers from this 1961 entry is the two-headed space critter, which, I think, has become something of an icon for the series. Anyway, it's all done with a humorous undercurrent, making the overall mood a little different from the usual. All in all, it's Casper Milquetoast done entertaining TZ style.
It's an okay episode, distinguished, in my book, by the imaginatively exotic critters from Mars and then Venus. Also, Meredith gets to again show his amazing thespic range as the cringing vacuum cleaner salesman. The premise itself is not exactly an unusual one—a ridiculed man suddenly getting transformative powers. Likely Meredith's demonstration of that newly found strength was hampered by budget constraints—punching holes in walls, splitting tables—all fairly cheap to stage. Still we get the idea.
What lingers from this 1961 entry is the two-headed space critter, which, I think, has become something of an icon for the series. Anyway, it's all done with a humorous undercurrent, making the overall mood a little different from the usual. All in all, it's Casper Milquetoast done entertaining TZ style.
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- dougdoepke
- Jan 8, 2017
Details
- Runtime25 minutes
- Color
- Aspect ratio
- 1.33 : 1
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