Path: ...!eternal-september.org!feeder3.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Dimensional Traveler Newsgroups: rec.arts.tv Subject: Re: What Did You Watch? 2024-03-17 (Sunday) Date: Mon, 18 Mar 2024 17:22:12 -0700 Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Lines: 74 Message-ID: References: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Injection-Date: Tue, 19 Mar 2024 00:22:10 -0000 (UTC) Injection-Info: dont-email.me; posting-host="bffa2bf4646bee520bfeda230dfdf3ba"; logging-data="484641"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX1+kGI6xPkJdatz+TSTBH1eJ" User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird Cancel-Lock: sha1:uTcS7NEdoBtDaPFoF54duZQ9pIQ= In-Reply-To: Content-Language: en-US Bytes: 4736 On 3/18/2024 10:07 AM, Arthur Lipscomb wrote: > On 3/18/2024 8:32 AM, Dimensional Traveler wrote: >> On 3/18/2024 6:07 AM, Ian J. Ball wrote: >>> >>> What did you watch? >>> >> The Twilight Zone S4E06 'Death Ship' - DVR >> Three astronauts discover the wreckage of a ship identical to their >> own on an unexplored planet.  With Jack Klugman.  (Comcast) >> An interplanetary expedition from Earth finds an exact duplicate of >> their ship and themselves crashed on the planet they were surveying. >> Should they stay or risk taking off and crashing? >> Trivia: The spaceship E-89, is the same miniature prop that was >> originally created as the saucer-shaped United Planets Cruiser C-57D >> for the 1956 MGM science fiction classic Forbidden Planet (1956). The >> external set of the ship and its staircase, and the crew uniforms, are >> also from the same film. "The Twilight Zone" was able to make >> extensive use of props and costumes created for "Forbidden Planet" >> (including Robby The Robot) thanks to the fact that it was regularly >> filmed at MGM Studios, which kept all these items in storage in its >> prop department for many years. > > I'm sure I watched this years before I ever got around to watching > "Forbidden Planet." > > >> This episode takes place in 1997. >> Of the three main actors, Jack Klugman (Captain Ross) was the only one >> who lived to see the actual 1997. >> The emblem the flight crew wears on their chest pockets is the same >> emblem the flight crew in the later episode, On Thursday We Leave for >> a Home, wears on their caps. >> Some of the score was taken from Jerry Goldsmith's music used in Back >> There (1961). >> According to "Richard Matheson: Collected Stories, Vol. 1", the author >> of both the source story and its television adaptation claimed that it >> "was my first attempt to write a 'standard' science fiction story, >> because at the time I was simply trying to sell as many stories as I >> could. I just got the idea that what if these guys went down to >> investigate a crash ship and went in and saw themselves dead. I had to >> extend the idea by having the captain present all sorts of >> possibilities as to why it was happening. I thought the last line was >> very good - 'The Flying Dutchman takes to the universe.' I don't know >> when the last line occurred to me, but that's what the whole concept >> was, basically. And they made a pretty nice Twilight Zone out of it, >> too. Again, writing this story in the early fifties, 1997 was, to me, >> the distant future." >> The only equipment each of them carries to check the crashed ship is a >> flashlight. If humans evolved to undergo interplanetary exploration it >> would make sense to have specialized equipment. >> >> >> The Twilight Zone S4E07 'Jess-Belle' - DVR >> A girl (Anne Francis) strikes a bargain with a witch to win a young >> man's heart.  With James Best, Jeanette Nolan. >> Appalachian beauty Jess-Belle can't bear to lose the object of her >> passion to the local rich girl, so she turns to the local witch for >> aid. The results bring unexpected and tragic consequences. >> Trivia: This haunting love story originally aired on Valentine's Day >> in 1963. >> This is the only TZ episode not to feature a closing narration. It >> instead featured a poem. >> > > Sounds like an episode of "Tales From the Darkside."  Did the witch swap > bodies with the girl? > No. It was basically a hillbilly ghost story. -- I've done good in this world. Now I'm tired and just want to be a cranky dirty old man.