Path: ...!weretis.net!feeder6.news.weretis.net!feeder8.news.weretis.net!eternal-september.org!feeder3.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Arthur Lipscomb Newsgroups: rec.arts.tv Subject: Re: What Did You Watch? 2024-03-21 (Thursday) Date: Fri, 22 Mar 2024 14:47:00 -0700 Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Lines: 43 Message-ID: References: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Injection-Date: Sat, 23 Mar 2024 02:38:23 -0000 (UTC) Injection-Info: dont-email.me; posting-host="a13a410c9a0b708ffd656ef586742a25"; logging-data="3498524"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX1/2tcUGLtorB/VBWlgoFmAoc52Lb1Jisj0=" User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird Cancel-Lock: sha1:ZvfLLUAy4EuYvU+h7P3HbvmzC20= Content-Language: en-US In-Reply-To: Bytes: 3609 On 3/22/2024 1:40 PM, Dimensional Traveler wrote: > On 3/22/2024 7:54 AM, Adam H. Kerman wrote: >> Dimensional Traveler wrote: >>> The Twilight Zone S4E12 'I Dream of Genie' - DVR >>> A man considers several possibilities when he is offered one wish by a >>> genie in a magic lamp.  With Jack Albertson.  (Comcast) >>> A wiseacre genie appears from a lamp to a meek man, George P. Hanley. >>> Hanley is so used to bad luck, he imagines how each of three possible >>> wishes could go very wrong - but the genie will grant him only one wish! >>> Trivia:  The title is from the first line of the 1854 ballad "Jeanie >>> with the Light Brown Hair" by Stephen Foster written about his wife, >>> Jane. >>> Bob Hastings (Sam) and Mark Miller (Roger Hackett) both later appeared >>> in I Dream of Jeannie (1965), another comedy featuring a genie that >>> derived its title from the 1854 song "Jeanie with the Light Brown Hair" >>> by Stephen Foster: Hastings played Homer Banks in The Used Car Salesman >>> (1968) and Miller played Wild Bill Barrows in Ride 'Em Astronaut (1969). >>> Despite her character celebrating a birthday in her 20s, Patricia Barry >>> was actually 40 when the show was broadcast. >>> This is Jack Albertson's second (and final) TZ appearance. The first was >>> The Shelter (1961). >>> Of the twelve credited actors for this episode, seven - Howard Morris, >>> Mark Miller, Joyce Jameson, James Millhollin, Robert Ball, Jack >>> Albertson, and Molly Dodd - made guest appearances on The Andy Griffith >>> Show (1960). >> >> IMDb trivia is fascinated with stuff like this. It's interesting up to >> a point. These were working actors at a point in their careers in which >> they were getting a lot of work. Various tv series were in production >> during this era. IMDb trivia likes to emphasize coincidence. It's just >> not. It's like at the height of the studio system in the 1930s and 1940s, >> seeing the same actors in one MGM movie to the next one, or noticing the >> same dancers or extras. They worked there. That's why they were in so >> many movies. >> >> Or today, watching tv shows produced in New York, noting all the stage >> actors appearing in them. > > Should I take that as a down vote for that specific type of trivia going > forward? > Your request to include less trivia in your summaries has been denied. :-)