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{{Infobox television episode
| series = [[The Twilight Zone (1959 TV series)|The Twilight Zone]]
| image=
| caption=
| season = 5
| episode = 32
| airdate = {{Start date|1964|05|08}}
| production =2637
| teleplay = [[Rod Serling]]
| story = Mike Korologos
| director = [[Ted Post]]
| guests = [[John Dehner]] [[J. Pat O'Malley]] [[Stanley Adams (actor)|Stanley Adams]] [[John Mitchum]] [[Percy Helton]] [[Norman Leavitt]] [[Edgar Dearing]] [[Kate Murtagh]] [[Patrick O'Moore]] John Cliff Robert McCord [[Cosmo Sardo]]
| music = [[Tommy Morgan]]
| season_article = The Twilight Zone (1959 TV series) (season 5)
| episode_list = List of The Twilight Zone (1959 TV series) episodes
| prev = [[The Encounter (Twilight Zone)|The Encounter]]
| next = [[The Brain Center at Whipple's]]
}}
"'''Mr. Garrity and the Graves'''"<ref>The script was published in ''As Timeless as Infinity: The Complete Twilight Zone Scripts of Rod Serling, Volume 6'', edited by Tony Albarella (Gauntlet Press, 2009). The original script (Script 152) is part of [https://web.archive.org/web/20070304085001/http://www.ithaca.edu/library/archives/serling/tz5.php The Rod Serling Archives] at Ithaca College.</ref> is an episode of the American anthology television series ''[[The Twilight Zone]]''.

==Opening narration==
{{cquote|Introducing Mr. Jared Garrity, a gentleman of commerce, who in the latter half of the nineteenth century plied his trade in the wild and wooly hinterlands of the [[American frontier|American West]]. And Mr. Garrity, if one can believe him, is a resurrecter of the dead - which, on the face of it, certainly sounds like the bull is off the nickel. But to the scoffers amongst you, and you ladies and gentlemen from [[Missouri]], don't laugh this one off entirely, at least until you've seen a sample of Mr. Garrity's wares, and an example of his services. The place is Happiness, [[Arizona]], the time around 1890. And you and I have just entered a saloon where the bar whiskey is brewed, bottled and delivered from the Twilight Zone.}}

==Plot==
In the year 1890, a traveling [[peddler]] named Jared Garrity arrives in the little recently renamed town of Happiness, Arizona, offering to bring the townsfolk's dead back from [[Boot Hill]]. Initially, they do not believe him, but, when he appears to [[resurrection|resurrect]] a dead dog struck by a traveler's horse-drawn wagon, they believe him.

After performing the resurrection ritual, Garrity, in seemingly casual conversation, reminds the people about the dead and departed, almost all of whom were murdered: who died having a score to settle with whom and so forth. The townsfolk grow uncomfortable at the thought of facing problems they thought buried with the dead. When one apparent resurrectee is seen approaching town, a man believes him to be his brother whom he himself had shot, so the man bribes Garrity to reverse the ritual and the figure vanishes. Ultimately, everyone in town similarly pays Garrity to ''not'' revive their "loved ones. "

Later that night, Garrity and his assistant Ace (who was both wagon driver ''and'' "resurrectee") ride away with the money, joking about how they cannot actually bring the dead back to life: they had simply performed a few [[smoke and mirrors]] tricks to con the townsfolk and used a dog that was alive the whole time, but simply knew how to play dead.

After they have left the town, the last scene reveals that the dead really are rising from the grave, with one commenting that the peddler underestimates his own ability. One revived person is looking forward to getting back into town to get caught up on his drinking. A revived criminal has unfinished business with the sheriff. A woman named Zelda Gooberman plans to break her husband's arm for what she sees in him. As Garrity continues to ride away from Happiness, Arizona, the final shot shows the deserted Boot Hill cemetery.

==Closing narration==
{{cquote|Exit Mr. Garrity, a would-be charlatan, a make-believe [[Confidence trick|con man]] and a sad misjudger of his own talents. Respectfully submitted from an empty cemetery on a dark hillside that is one of the slopes leading to the Twilight Zone.}}

==Cast==
* [[John Dehner]] as Jared Garrity
* [[J. Pat O'Malley]]: Mr. Gooberman
* [[Stanley Adams (actor)|Stanley Adams]] as Jensen
* [[John Mitchum]] as Ace
* [[Percy Helton]] as Lapham
* Norman Leavitt as Sheriff Gilchrist
* [[Edgar Dearing]] as First Resurrected Man
* [[Kate Murtagh]] as Zelda Gooberman
* Patrick O'Moore as Man
* John Cliff as Lightning Peterson
* Robert McCord as Townsman In Black Hat
* Cosmo Sardo as Resurrected Man

==Production==

The story was based on an 1873 incident in [[Alta, Utah]], in which a stranger arrived in the mining town and offered to raise the dead. Initially optimistic, residents reconsidered after reflecting on the potential complications to those who had inherited property, and those who had remarried after their spouses died. They collected $2,500 to persuade the stranger to leave town without following through on his offer.<ref>{{cite book|last1=American Guide Series|title=Utah: A Guide to the State|date=1941|publisher=US History Publishers|isbn=9781603540438|page=286|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=DBkIEWzSxFIC&pg=PA286|access-date=19 April 2018|author1-link=American Guide Series}}</ref> Sportswriter Mike Korologos read about the incident in the [[American Guide Series]], and wrote about it for a 1963 article in ''[[The Salt Lake Tribune]]''. The [[Alta Ski Area]] reprinted his article the following winter in their newsletter, where Serling read it while visiting the resort.<ref>{{cite book |last=Grams |first=Martin Jr. |title=The Twilight Zone: Unlocking the Door to a Television Classic |publisher=OTR Publishing |year=2008 |pages=703–704}} cited in {{cite encyclopedia |editor=Steven Jay Rubin |title=The Twilight Zone Encyclopedia |publisher=Chicago Review Press |year=2018 |page=179}}</ref>

==References and further reading==
{{reflist}}

*DeVoe, Bill. (2008). ''Trivia from The Twilight Zone''. Albany, GA: Bear Manor Media. {{ISBN|978-1-59393-136-0}}
*Grams, Martin. (2008). ''The Twilight Zone: Unlocking the Door to a Television Classic''. Churchville, MD: OTR Publishing. {{ISBN|978-0-9703310-9-0}}

==External links==
*[http://www.ithaca.edu/library/archives/serling/tz5.php The Rod Serling Archives] at Ithaca College, ''The Twilight Zone'', Season 5, Script 152, "Mr. Garrity and the Graves" {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070304085001/http://www.ithaca.edu/library/archives/serling/tz5.php|date=March 4, 2007}}
*{{IMDb episode|id=0734594|episode=Mr. Garrity and the Graves}}

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