The Twilight Zone
The Fever
TV Flash files “The Fever” as hour 17 of 156 in the TV Flash guide — The Twilight Zone (1959–1964) on CBS, season 1, episode 17, aired 1960-01-29, 30 min.
From the desk
How this hour is filed
This leaf is S01E17: listed hour 17 of 156 in the The Twilight Zone guide, hour 17 of 36 in season 1. It aired 1960-01-29 (30 min). The listed hour before it is “The Hitch-Hiker” (S01E16). Next is “The Last Flight” (S01E18).
Catalog log
Broadcast listing — not a TV Flash recap.
A determined anti-gambler gives in to temptation during a trip to Las Vegas and gambles away his life's savings on a one-armed bandit that seems to bear him a grudge.
Viewer FAQ
Where does The Fever sit in the The Twilight Zone guide?
S01E17 is listed hour 17 of 156 — hour 17 of 36 in season 1, season 1 episode 17.
When did The Twilight Zone S01E17 air?
The Fever aired 1960-01-29 and is listed at 30 minutes.
Where should I start?
Start with the empty-town opener, then the broken-glasses hour. Isolation first, stolen moral second; those two teach the anthology’s real instrument better than any twist ranking.
In the series
Why this series still plays
Serling used fantasy as a smuggled sermon when sponsors would not let a straight drama talk. Watch for isolation as craft, the twist as a bill coming due, and half-hours built to sit in the blood overnight — not to snack in a dump.
October 1959, CBS: a man walks into an empty town and the country learns a new address. The Twilight Zone did not invent the anthology. It invented the anthology as a national flinch — half-hour moral weather, a host in a dark suit, and a closing turn that was supposed to sting after the sponsor smile. Rod Serling had already fought live-drama censors and lost enough rounds to change weapons. Fantasy was the loophole. Aliens, bargains, small towns that eat themselves: the vocabulary of a writer who wanted to talk…
Filed against
- Rod Serling as Host / Narrator
Rod Serling created and hosted The Twilight Zone — moral fables in a black suit, twist endings that taught America to fear its own reflection. Sponsor and censor battles are as legendary as the episodes. On TV Flash he is prestige…