“In Praise of Pip” was a 1963 episode of The Twilight Zone written by Rod Serling. It was about a man who learned his soldier son was injured during the Vietnam War. Recently, this episode was ranked the saddest episode in the entire series by Looper.
Jack Klugman, who is known for The Odd Couple and 12 Angry Men, played the main character in the episode. In an interview with Tony Albarella, Klugman spoke about his time working on the show.
“I didn’t like roles that were poorly written, and many scripts of that type were,” Klugman said. “Twilight Zone scripts were different. I loved them. I love anything that’s well-written, and of course, anything by Rod Serling was. The freedom that I had with Rod, I’m getting now, but back then, I only had Rod Serling and maybe Clifford Odets. People whose words I loved to let roll out of my mouth.”
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Klugman continued, “Rod Serling’s words are always wonderful to deliver. You don’t get that today; you don’t get the writers today who write with that kind of compassion, in a cryptic yet sharp way. He always wrote wonderful characters, fighters, combative little guys. Even the Twilight Zones he didn’t write, he approved. He was just so feisty that I couldn’t believe it when he died. I loved him.”
In the episode, “In Praise of Pip,” Klugman plays a father who feels overwhelmed with guilt for not being a better parent when he realizes that his son was injured in the war. He ends up visiting an amusement park where he thinks back on fond memories with his son. He then offers to exchange his life in exchange for his son and drops dead.
Months later, his son is shown alive and walking through the same amusement park with a cane, remembering the good times he had with his father and calling him his “best buddy.”
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In the closing narration of the episode, Serling says, “Very little comment here, save for this small aside: that the ties of flesh are deep and strong; that the capacity to love is a vital, rich, and all-consuming function of the human animal. And that you can find nobility and sacrifice and love wherever you may seek it out: down the block, in the heart or in the Twilight Zone.”
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