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I wonder if this is it:
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Well, by writing "Mr Sterling should know that and should know better." I got the impression that you (and frisky2006 now that I look at his contribution) thought he had written the episode, which is not true. However it <b>is</b> true he was the <i>executive producer</i> and I guess he could have rejected it if he didn't really agree with the denouement George Clayton Johnson had used at the end of the episode.
"A Game of Pool" was written By George Clayton Johnson.
[url]https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0734540/?ref_=fn_al_tt_2[/url]
The whole neighborhood being cut out is from The Outer Limits' episode "A Feasibility Study" (<url>https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0667805/?ref_=ttep_ep29</url>). But that happens in the beginning of the episode. You have somehow merged that with "The Monsters Are Due on Maple Street", which has people running around in a panic at the end.
That's assuming he actually didn't have the money. Maybe he was lying, in which case he gets to be done listening to Tennyson for good, gets to keep his money, and comes out ok.
d31d1- I mentioned this movie back on the original Twilight Zone message board (when it was still part of IMDb), but it just came up on my YouTube suggestions, and I just watched it again and it is [b]SO[/b] great and a perfect TZ movie. Its called "H.G. Wells' - The Man Who Could Work Miracles (1936)":
Link to movie on YouTube, but it cuts off before the very end: [url]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z1iHe42UCCo[/url]
Here is last 4 minutes of the movie: [url]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bh3xvqplJUk[/url]
Everyone who loves The Twilight Zone [i]has[/i] to see this movie (if you haven't see it yet)! In fact there is one episode of TZ that seems to take the general idea of this a little ways, but I can't seem to remember the name.
I hadn't realized that these were going to be hour-long episodes:
The Twilight Zone - "The Comedian" Episode | CBS All Access - [url]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=19GO8-Rrn0g[/url]
I like this little compendium of clips from original series that they did. And its in high-definition... cool:
[url]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UdbTO-o1Dh8[/url]
Well, this little teaser is in Black & White, so that's kind of interesting:
[url]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PeS26bBeMkU[/url]
This isn't an old movie but you might say it has the Twilight Zone Vibe:
[url]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qIF2Hoh__7g[/url]
yea that is a bummer -- 😠
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Actually, not trying to make fun of you or anything. But I just discovered that you can look up emoticons on the web, and when you see something, swipe it, Ctrl-C, and then paste in here (Ctrl-V). It seems to work. But notice these are not like the emoticons we had with the message boards at IMDB, which were specified with text like [[smile]] which the machinery for those message boards would interpret appropriately with a little graphically-produced emoticon. These emoticons (as displayed in this post) are actually glyphs that are stored in the character sets used on your computer, the same way regular characters are.
Hmmm, I originally worked on this post on my computer running Linux, and there the emoticons were just black & white glyphs. But now I am working on this using my regular MS Windows operating system, and here the emoticons are interpreted in these colorful little images. This is what I was thinking only happened in the IMDB message boards. So I guess that is not true. Although, if we're thinking about those emoticons they had that actually do animations, I'm pretty sure that THOSE are no longer available to us here.
Actually, the way it is now might be even better than before. Whatever emoticon you want to use, just go to [url]https://emojipedia.org/[/url] and type in the emotion you want to be represented by one of these emoticons. Then just swipe it, copy it and paste it into your post.
Wow, that is kind of weird. Last night I was reading about George Carlin (at this website I frequently read some commenter had mentioned how we miss people like George because of his insightful rants about America) on Wikipedia. I was reading all about his career, and then I read about his influences (comics that influenced him) and I got to this guy Mort Sahl who is someone I remember from the 60's but haven't heard about since then. I clicked on his Wikipedia page and started reading about him. And I noticed at one point this sentence: "Nachman states that the "mere idea of a stand-up comic talking about the real world was in itself revolutionary...[and] the comedians who followed him—Lenny Bruce, Woody Allen, Dick Gregory, Phyllis Diller, Shelley Berman, Jonathan Winters—were cast in a familiar nightclub mold."[3]:51" And I go, gee, Shelley Berman, isn't he that guy who was in that Twilight Zone, where he wishes everyone was gone but himself. I didn't know he was considered a comedian (well I sort of did I guess, but was surprised to see him listed with people like Lenny Bruce and Woody Allen). So I went to HIS Wikipedia page and I was surprised to find he was still living, as is Mort Sahl still living. This all happened yesterday evening. And now I find out he has just died from the Twilight Zone message board.
[url]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shelley_Berman[/url]
Worse than Edna Potter? : [url]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LY4md6N513s[/url]
Worse than Helen? : [url]https://youtu.be/qIJeW3bx6RU?t=91[/url]
Worse than Bernice Lydecker? : [url]https://youtu.be/QNO2s0gVLZg?t=63[/url]
Oh I would say "The Purple Testament", about this soldier in World War II [spoiler]who finds out he has developed the ability to predict (by seeing a certain light in their face) who is going to become a fatality in the near future [/spoiler], despite the crazy person who thinks this episode includes no supernatural element. :)
A close second would be "A Quality of Mercy", which stars "Dean Stockwell" as an overly enthusiastic Lieutenant [spoiler]who suddenly finds himself, the day of the dropping of an atomic bomb on Hiroshima and only 9 days before Japan surrenders, as a Lieutenant of the opposing forces he was at war with and was ready to slaughter without mercy a little while ago[/spoiler], notwithstanding this same unfathomable person thinking this is also an episode that includes no supernatural elements. :)
In "The New Exhibit", one of the wax figures is of a frenchman named Henri Désiré Landru. Also, Martin Senescu (Martin Balsam) states that these wax figures were created by someone named 'Henri Guillemant', which also sounds french to me. But I am unable to confirm if this was a real historical person the way Landru was.
In "Nightmare as a Child", little Markie sings "Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star". I just found out that the tune for this little children's lullaby was appropriated from a popular children's song in 18th century France: "Ah! vous dirai-je, maman"
I kind of agree with you. I saw Lynch's "Eraserhead" back around when it came out and loved it! But I never much cared for anything else he did (although I did kind of like "Dune" and I guess "Elephant Man" was good (and sort of seems like the closest to a Rod Serling type story) although I never had any desire to see it again), and I still don't quite get his popularity. But maybe its like you said. Another thing is, I heard that Stanley Kubrick seemed to be a fan of Lynch, so that is saying something I guess.
But yea, Serling had this moral force to his teleplays (I just watched his "The Strike" again) that was completely absent from Lynch's work.
Wow, you are in luck! There is a new copy of Time Element up on YouTube. I have never seen such a sharp looking copy before:
Rod Serling’s “The Time Element”:
[url]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KnYDzoyxHsI[/url]
I have continued to be obsessed with Rod Serlings "Patterns" lately, one reason being I sort of identify with the Andy Sloane character, who gets booted out because he is an old has-been. But anyway, something always bothered me about this Rod Serling fare (I mean it might well have been an hour-long Twilight Zone, except for the fact that there is nothing supernatural or science-fictiony about it -- but remember, the real motivation for TZ was that Serling wanted to make certain comments on society but without getting in trouble with the sponsors who then forced him to change things in the script). If you watch "Patterns", and if you haven't seen it, I really encourage you to do so, its about this really Machiavellian type boss at a big corporation that has to get rid of his aging vice president. And he brings in this new guy to replace the VP. But the old guy is someone who believes that you must think about the people who might be hurt by what the corporation does. And this new guy agrees with him. So it all comes down to this final scene between the new VP and the boss. But at the end of that confrontation, its kind of like the mean boss was maybe correct in his philosophy. But this really leaves kind of a bad taste in your mouth. So I wanted to get some other peoples' viewpoint on this TV drama called "Patterns" (I'd also like to know WHY Serling named it "Patterns"). Well, tonight I hit pay dirt. I found someone who viewed this TV show and decided that Serling had sold out (<a href="https://mgpiety.org/2014/04/16/rod-serlings-patterns/">Rod Serling’s “Patterns” by M.G. Piety</a>). Apparently, Rod Serling had originally written an ending to his TV drama "Patterns" where the new VP tells his boss off and then QUITS (this original teleplay was called "Pattern")! This would indeed make the ending more satisfying. And it is interesting that Rod Serling originally wrote it this way. But M.G. Piety believes that when Rod Serling originally tried to sell the script to CBS, they had rejected it because it made the executive of the company look so rotten. So she thinks that Rod changed the ending to what it is today. And it is strange because the ending is almost like something Ayn Rand would write. I remember once on YouTube some commenter wrote something like 'gee, this Rod Serling play almost had me believing I have been wrong about capitalism'. By the way, if you read these reviews of "Patterns" I have been reading, you will find that what Rod Serling said about it was this: If Patterns has a message, Serling explained, “it is simply that every human being has a minimum set of ethics from which he operates. This minimum set of ethics often injects itself into a man’s own journey upward against competition. When he refuses to compromise these ethics, his career must suffer; when he does compromise them, his conscience does the suffering”.
So what do you think? Did Rod sell out? And by selling out on his script for "Patterns", did it become another bit of motivation for him to decide to do a series like "The Twilight Zone"?
"For instance in "The Midnight Sun", Norma is painting and Rod Serling's voiceover says that that it is 12 midnight, not 12 noon. It's broiling hot because the Earth's orbit has shifted and the planet is moving closer to the sun. Well yes, the Earth would be getting hotter but it wouldn't be daylight for 24 hours at a stretch!"
Its true that even if the Earth had moved closer to the sun, at local time of 12 midnight it would still be nighttime. But remember, that was in Norma's fevered nightmare. Then she wakes up. Now, its still ok, because Rod Serling doesn't come into the picture and say now it is only darkness. It just happens to be at night at that point. 12 hours later, the Sun could shine on them again. But still they could be moving farther and farther from the Sun, still doomed as the story implies. So it is still possible to save this episode from the wrath of scientific inconsistency critics...
"Pretty far-fetched -- but even more so when Corry and Alicia go star-gazing and the stars are arranged exactly as they would be if they were on Earth. I mean come on!"
Yes, if they were on one of the asteroids that circle the Sun between Mars and Jupiter, then the stars would be arranged exactly the same in the sky *. Sorry, but TZ got this one right.
* well almost, since there would be a slightly more pronounced parallax as the asteroid swings around the sun, but we're talking light-minutes compared to light-years to the nearest stars