Steel (The Twilight Zone)

"Steel"
The Twilight Zone episode
Episode no.Season 5
Episode 2
Directed byDon Weis
Written byRichard Matheson
Based on"Steel"
by Richard Matheson
Featured musicVan Cleave
Production code2602
Original air dateOctober 4, 1963 (1963-10-04)
Guest appearances
Lee Marvin: Tim "Steel" Kelly
Joe Mantell: Pole
Chuck Hicks: Battling Maxo
Merritt Bohn
Frank London
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"Steel" is an episode of the American television anthology series The Twilight Zone. Set in the near future, its premise is that human professional boxing has been banned and replaced by android boxing. The story follows a once-famous human boxer who works as a manager for an antiquated android while struggling to come to grips with his career having been taken over by machines.

The episode is based on the short story of the same name by Richard Matheson first published in the May 1956 issue of The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction.