In this episode of The Twilight Zone (which was originally aired on May 4th, 1962), a neurotic ventriloquist named Jerry (Cliff Robertson) has a bizarre relationship with his dummy. Not only does Jerry seem to hate his inanimate partner but the dummy doesn’t seem to be too fond of Jerry either.
You’ll probably already figured out The Dummy‘s twist but it’s still extremely well-done, featuring a great performance from Cliff Robertson and expressionistic direction from Abner Biberman.
Through the Shattered Lens 
I did not care for this episode much. I liked “ceaser and me”, the other dummy episode better. This dummy episode was not interesting or funny. A man, who already has good ventriloquist job, keeps drinking and feaking out cause he thinks dummy is alive. And this is all shown in the dumbest, most unconvincing way. In episode “a passage for trumpet”, an episode I really liked, a man starts out by risking his trumpet playing job by not laying off the “hooch”(a popular word used in twilight episodes, and back in those days). But in “trumpet”, the episode turns very good by the man “temporarily” dying and becoming a ghost, and most of that episode carries a nice amount of sentiment and good feeling and interest all through it. But in “the dummy”, all of those qualities are severely lacking. And the last scene is actually totally creepy. There are alot of good Twilight episodes, but not all of them are.
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