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Episode 8

It's a Good Life

It's a Good Life

1961
Drama, Fantasy
TV Episode
25m
On an isolated family farm, a young boy with vast mental powers, but lacking emotional development, holds his terrified family in thrall to his every juvenile wish.

Directed by:

James Sheldon
James-Sheldon
10 total credits
Credits include: The Fugitive, It's a Good Life, The Whole Truth, A Penny for Your Thoughts and I Sing the Body Electric

Writers:

Rod Serling
Rod-Serling
69 total credits
Credits include: Planet of the Apes, Twilight Zone: The Movie and The Twilight Zone
,
Jerome Bixby
Jerome-Bixby
10 total credits
Credits include: The Man from Earth, Fantastic Voyage, The Man from Earth: Holocene, It! The Terror from Beyond Space and Curse of the Faceless Man

Starring:

Cloris Leachman
Cloris-Leachman
104 total credits
Credits include: Bad Santa, The Iron Giant, Young Frankenstein, Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid and Beavis and Butt-Head Do America
,
Jeanne Bates
Jeanne-Bates
28 total credits
Credits include: Eraserhead, The Return of the Vampire, Death of a Salesman, Mom and The Mask of Diijon
,
John Larch
John-Larch
32 total credits
Credits include: Dirty Harry, The Amityville Horror, Play Misty for Me, Written on the Wind and 7 Men from Now
,
Don Keefer
Don-Keefer
22 total credits
Credits include: Sleeper, Riot in Cell Block 11, The Grissom Gang, Torpedo Run and Cash McCall
,
Max Showalter
Max-Showalter
25 total credits
Credits include: Niagara, Bus Stop, How to Murder Your Wife, Racing with the Moon and Indestructible Man
,
Rod Serling
Rod-Serling
69 total credits
Credits include: Planet of the Apes, Twilight Zone: The Movie and The Twilight Zone
,
Alice Frost
Alice-Frost
3 total credits
Credits include: The Sixteen-Millimeter Shrine, I'll Take Sweden, It's a Good Life and Enter Thomas Bowers
,
Bill Mumy
Bill-Mumy
28 total credits
Credits include: Papillon, Captain America, Babylon 5, Wild in the Streets and Lost in Space
,
Lenore Kingston
Lenore-Kingston
1 total credit
Credits include: It's a Good Life
,
Tom Hatcher
Tom-Hatcher
1 total credit
Credits include: It's a Good Life

Language:

English

It's a Good Life

1961
Drama, Fantasy
TV Episode
25m
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Average Percentile: 73.9%
25 Aug 2025
75
61st
Why didn't anyone have the gusto to just swing the kid from his ankle round and round and restrain him?

Cast & Info

Directed by:

James Sheldon
James-Sheldon
10 total credits
Credits include: The Fugitive, It's a Good Life, The Whole Truth, A Penny for Your Thoughts and I Sing the Body Electric

Writers:

Rod Serling
Rod-Serling
69 total credits
Credits include: Planet of the Apes, Twilight Zone: The Movie and The Twilight Zone
,
Jerome Bixby
Jerome-Bixby
10 total credits
Credits include: The Man from Earth, Fantastic Voyage, The Man from Earth: Holocene, It! The Terror from Beyond Space and Curse of the Faceless Man

Starring:

Cloris Leachman
Cloris-Leachman
104 total credits
Credits include: Bad Santa, The Iron Giant, Young Frankenstein, Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid and Beavis and Butt-Head Do America
,
Jeanne Bates
Jeanne-Bates
28 total credits
Credits include: Eraserhead, The Return of the Vampire, Death of a Salesman, Mom and The Mask of Diijon
,
John Larch
John-Larch
32 total credits
Credits include: Dirty Harry, The Amityville Horror, Play Misty for Me, Written on the Wind and 7 Men from Now
,
Don Keefer
Don-Keefer
22 total credits
Credits include: Sleeper, Riot in Cell Block 11, The Grissom Gang, Torpedo Run and Cash McCall
,
Max Showalter
Max-Showalter
25 total credits
Credits include: Niagara, Bus Stop, How to Murder Your Wife, Racing with the Moon and Indestructible Man
,
Rod Serling
Rod-Serling
69 total credits
Credits include: Planet of the Apes, Twilight Zone: The Movie and The Twilight Zone
,
Alice Frost
Alice-Frost
3 total credits
Credits include: The Sixteen-Millimeter Shrine, I'll Take Sweden, It's a Good Life and Enter Thomas Bowers
,
Bill Mumy
Bill-Mumy
28 total credits
Credits include: Papillon, Captain America, Babylon 5, Wild in the Streets and Lost in Space
,
Lenore Kingston
Lenore-Kingston
1 total credit
Credits include: It's a Good Life
,
Tom Hatcher
Tom-Hatcher
1 total credit
Credits include: It's a Good Life

Language:

English
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