Mr. Garrity and the Graves story
In 1890, a strange traveling peddler brings a dog back from the dead and offers to do the same for those in the town cemetery, making the townsfolk of Happiness, Arizona uneasy. Directed by: Ted Post. Story by: Mike Korologos, Rod Serling.
10 total · 1 choice · 2 major · 7 minor
| Theme | Level | Motivation |
|---|---|---|
| con artistry | choice | Jared Garrity was a stereotypical confidence trickster who fooled a town into giving him money for not bringing back their dead. |
| remembrance | major | The residents of Happiness, Arizona, remembered their late loved ones. |
| resurrection of the dead | major | Jared Garrity inadvertently raised those dead and buried on Boot Hill to life. |
| brother and brother | minor | The barkeeper spoke about his no-good brother. |
| coping with the death of a spouse | minor | Mr. Gooberman shed alligator tears over his departed wife Zelda. |
| cowardice | minor | Sheriff Gilchrist's body language make clear that he's shot a notorious gunslinger in the back, rather than honorably confronting him. |
| domestic violence | minor | Mr. Gooberman's 247 pound wife Zelda had broken his arm so many times that he somehow developed a lisp. |
| husband and wife | minor | Mr. Gooberman had had his arm repeatedly broken by his late wife Zelda. |
| law enforcement | minor | The barkeeper spoke in glowing terms about Sheriff Gilchrist brought law and order to Happiness, Arizona. |
| murder | minor | It came to light that Sheriff Gilchrist had shot the gunslinger Peterson in the back. |