The Convict's Piano (The Twilight Zone)
O Hara thinks he s crazy, but watches as Frost disappears as he plays the music. Shaughnessy plays in the middle of Frost s song.Instead he dances with Shaughnessy s girl. Back in 1928, Frost, realizing what s happened, just smiles as he stares at the piano.. .
Joe Penny : Frost Norman Fell : Eddie O Hara Tom O Brien (actor) : Mickey Shaughnessy John Hancock : Dr. Suddenly, Frost is in a swanky club playing Someone to Watch Over Me when Shaughnessy himself comes over, upset over the piano playing.
The next day, out in the prison yard, he is harassed by the guy who cut him, but O Hara steps in. He threatens Frost but the guard comes and they run.
Shaughnessy demands to know where he is, and O Hara tells him he is right where he belongs and he wants to be the first to give him a state pen welcome. O Hara shows up and Frost tells him all about it and promises to get O Hara a chance to face Shaughnessy in 1928.
Frost gets up but doesn t disappear. Next, Frost goes to the doctor to get his stitches out and tells the doctor what happened to him.
He is interrupted by a bunch of roughnecks playing football. It turns out this is his club and he wants a new piano so he s sending this old one over to the prison for his friend Eddie O Hara.
He is taken to the infirmary and treated for a flesh wound. He stops playing and seems to shimmer back to the present in the prison.
They then talk about how O Hara was framed by Shaughnessy for killing a guy. Frost then pulls out the matchbox and realizes he is not nuts.
As he begins to play, he appears to travel to a bar in 1917 playing Over There . He goes back to the piano, but is intercepted by the jerk who knifed him.
Shaughnessy, who decides to show Frost a thing or two, takes over on the piano. He punches him out and knocks him into the piano, which crashes to the ground and shatters into pieces-trapping Shaughnessey in the present to serve out Frost s sentence.
The piano playing convict, by name of Frost, turns and attacks the one who fell on him. The guard then takes him to another life convict/prison trusty, by name of Eddie O Hara, and they converse about how Frost s ex-girlfriend was found murdered and he was convicted of it, although Frost claims he didn t do it.
However, when Shaughnessy quits playing, HE disappears back to the prison in the present. Puckett Cristen Kauffman : Ellen The Convict s Piano is the thirtieth episode (the sixth episode of the second season (1986-1987) of the television series The New Twilight Zone. Music is heard while a convict s hands appear to play the piano, but without an actual piano and with his eyes closed, in a prison yard.
Of course, the doctor thinks he s nuts. Then he asks where Frost went yesterday, while he was playing the piano. Frost goes back to the piano and plays music from 1917.
It was sent over after Shaughnessy just disappeared so that the prison population could enjoy the music but it sat gathering dust--until now. He talks to an army grunt, gets a beer and grabs a box of matches, before he stops playing and goes back to the present.
Frost starts playing with the piano and finds some very old sheet music in the seat, from the 1890s. It turns out they were both in love with the same girl.
He suddenly realizes that he has traveled back in time and is playing the music on a very new piano in a band uniform on a bandstand from around the 1890s. They also discuss how Frost can play the piano, so that he could play Ave Maria for the bishop who is coming to visit the prison. They find an old piano in the reception hall that belonged to a gangster named Shaughnessy, a friend of O Hara s.
