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? 2024-03-21 (Thursday) Date: Fri, 22 Mar 2024 13:40:43 -0700 Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Lines: 44 Message-ID: References: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Injection-Date: Fri, 22 Mar 2024 20:40:41 -0000 (UTC) Injection-Info: dont-email.me; posting-host="870cc7f1e50d3666304f670657f220bc"; logging-data="3302705"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX19bAHmOepHlluk0O2UDxKY3" User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird Cancel-Lock: sha1:rKdBxAPl3M95U7f9vMnBNDi5guo= Content-Language: en-US In-Reply-To: Bytes: 3420 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? -- I've done good in this world. Now I'm tired and just want to be a cranky dirty old man.