The Fever story
A man whose wife won them tickets to Las Vegas gets addicted to gambling, courtesy of a slot machine that calls his name. Directed by: Robert Florey. Story by: Rod Serling.
11 total · 1 choice · 6 major · 4 minor
| Theme | Level | Motivation |
|---|---|---|
| problem gambling | choice | Franklin obsessively gambled away all his money trying to winning a $10,000 jackpot. |
| coping with a grumpy old coot | major | Flora coped with Franklin being a real stick in the mud at the start of of vacation in Vegas. |
| descent into madness | major | Franklin gradually lost his mind so that by the end of things he was hallucinating about a slot machine coming to get him. |
| husband and wife | major | The story followed Franklin and Flora Gibbs on a three day and two night trip to Vegas. |
| ironic twist of fate | major | A man (Franklin) who was morally outraged by gambling became a problem gambler. |
| miserliness | major | Franklin admonished his wife for wasting a nickel on a slot machine. |
| obsession | major | Franklin obsessively gambled away all his money trying to winning a $10,000 jackpot. |
| coping with a drunken fool | minor | A drunken man was falling all over himself on Franklin in the casino. |
| gambling | minor | Franklin was gambling at a casino. |
| resisting a temptation | minor | Franklin briefly resisted the impulse to return to the casino floor to gamble away the handful of coins he had won. |