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? 2024-03-30 (Saturday) Date: Sun, 31 Mar 2024 12:04:19 -0700 Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Lines: 246 Message-ID: References: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Injection-Date: Sun, 31 Mar 2024 19:04:18 +0200 (CEST) Injection-Info: dont-email.me; posting-host="8cd677d4ccad8a1917f2b6b198d53a91"; logging-data="2059714"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX1+Rf5aLfz+0Jpm3K2YuuG3W" User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird Cancel-Lock: sha1:OLJz9LItaypIOWh4uTVyNXq79UE= Content-Language: en-US In-Reply-To: Bytes: 13673 On 3/31/2024 11:40 AM, Arthur Lipscomb wrote: > On 3/31/2024 9:52 AM, Dimensional Traveler wrote: >> The Twilight Zone S5E13 'Ring-A-Ding Girl' - DVR >> Movie star Bunny Blake receives an opal ring from her hometown fan >> club which enables her to see images of her friends and family. >> (Comcast) >> Movie star Bunny Blake receives a ring from her hometown which is >> giving her warnings to come home while she flies cross country.   (IMDb) >> >> Trivia: >> The headline of Bud's newspaper, the Daily Bulletin Sports, reads >> "Jockey Banned from All U.S. Tracks." This newspaper was a prop >> created for the earlier episode The Last Night of a Jockey (1963). >> The house set was previously used in Living Doll (1963). >> >> Quotes: >> [opening narration] >> Narrator: Introduction to Bunny Blake. Occupation: film actress. >> Residence: Hollywood, California, or anywhere in the world that >> cameras happen to be grinding. Bunny Blake is a public figure; what >> she wears, eats, thinks, says is news. But underneath the glamour, the >> makeup, the publicity, the buildup, the costuming, is a >> flesh-and-blood person, a beautiful girl about to take a long and >> bizarre journey into The Twilight Zone. >> [closing narration] >> Narrator: We are all travelers. The trip starts in a place called >> birth, and ends in that lonely town called death. And that's the end >> of the journey, unless you happen to exist for a few hours, like Bunny >> Blake, in the misty regions of The Twilight Zone. >> >> ROTten Twist: Ohaal Oynxr vf npghnyyl ba n cynar gung penfurf va ure >> ubzr gbja va gur zvqqyr bs gur Sbhaqre'f Qnl Cvpavp.  Ure tubfg(?) >> gevrf gb xrrc crbcyr njnl sebz gur cvpavp orsber gur penfu. >> >> > > Wow, I have *no* memory of this episode and the twist definitely doesn't > help me remember. > > >> >> The Twilight Zone S5E14 'You Drive' - DVR >> Oliver Pope kills a bicyclist in a hit-and-run, but a business rival >> is identified as the driver.  (Comcast) >> After being involved with a hit-and-run accident that resulted in the >> death of a child, Oliver Pope is haunted by his car.  (IMDb) >> >> Trivia >> The title refers to an old Hertz Car Rental ad campaign which called >> their cars "U Drives". Bud Abbott and Lou Costello turned the U-Drive >> theme into a famous comedy sketch similar to their "Who's on first?" >> sketch. >> The house that was used as the exterior of the Pope's home still >> stands at 4183 Keystone Avenue in Culver City, CA. It is still very >> recognizable from the 1964 episode. >> When Pope goes into his garage to check on the car and the radio comes >> on, the instrumental that it is heard playing is the same one as in >> the " The Encounter ", on the radio that Neville Brand's character is >> listening to. >> > > I'm not sure if I remember this one.  It's vaguely familiar. > Does someone at least say, "Thanks for the ride lady." ;-) > Nope. > >> >> Quotes: >>      [opening narration] >>      Narrator: Portrait of a nervous man: Oliver Pope by name, office >> manager by profession. A man beset by life's problems: his job, his >> salary, the competition to get ahead. Obviously, Mr. Pope's mind is >> not on his driving... Oliver Pope, businessman-turned killer, on a >> rain-soaked street in the early evening of just another day during >> just another drive home from the office. The victim, a kid on a >> bicycle, lying injured, near death. But Mr. Pope hasn't time for the >> victim, his only concern is for himself. Oliver Pope, hit-and-run >> driver, just arrived at a crossroad in his life, and he's chosen the >> wrong turn. The hit occurred in the world he knows, but the run will >> lead him straight into - the Twilight Zone. >>      [closing narration] >>      Narrator: All persons attempting to conceal criminal acts >> involving their cars are hereby warned: check first to see that >> underneath that chrome there does not lie a conscience, especially if >> you're driving along a rain-soaked highway in the Twilight Zone. >> >> >> The Twilight Zone S5E15 'The Long Morrow' - DVR >> An astronaut returns from a 30-year mission to find that his >> girlfriend hasn't aged at all.  (Comcast) >> Before leaving on a decades-long solo mission, astronaut Douglas >> Stansfield meets a woman and falls in love.  (IMDb) >> > > I remember this one.  However the plot is a little too similar to the > old couple that could only afford to purchase one young body. > You probably remember it for Mariette Hartley. :D I suspect both the earlier body swap episode and this are based on 'The Magi's Gift' so not surprising they would feel similar. > >> Trivia >> Actress Mariette Hartley was a teenager when she first met Serling. "I >> was head of the drama club at Staples High School in Westport, >> Connecticut," recalled Hartley. "Around the mid-1950s, I saw the >> 'Playhouse 90' episode 'Requiem for a Heavyweight,' written by a man >> called Rod Serling. I was very courageous and gutsy in those days and >> called him to see if he would speak to our class. He actually answered >> the phone and said, 'I'd be delighted.' I can still see him sitting in >> the teacher's desk, with his pipe, at the front of the classroom >> talking to us. He was so handsome I thought my heart would jump out of >> my skin! We asked questions and I remember his charm and capacity to >> include all of us in the discussion." Years later, after she began >> working in Hollywood, Hartley met Serling again. "His limousine pulled >> up as I was walking out the studio," she said. "He remembered coming >> to my class. I told him I was looking for work and within a couple of >> months he gave me the wonderful gift of working in 'The Long Morrow' >> episode.' >> According to co-writers of Night Gallery (1969), Rod Serling based the >> script on the classic story, The Gift of the Magi, about a couple's >> self-sacrifice to satisfy their partner's longing. >> >> Quotes: >>      Narrator: [Opening Narration] It may be said with a degree of >> assurance that not everything that meets the eye is as it appears. >> Case in point: the scene you're watching. This is not a hospital, not >> a morgue, not a mausoleum, not an undertaker's parlor of the future. >> What it is is the belly of a spaceship. It is en route to another >> planetary system an incredible distance from the Earth. This is the >> crux of our story, a flight into space. It is also the story of the >> things that might happen to human beings who take a step beyond, >> unable to anticipate everything that might await them out there. >>      [narration continues subsequent to character dialogue] >>      Narrator: Commander Douglas Stansfield, astronaut, a man about to >> embark on one of history's longest journeys - forty years out into >> endless space and hopefully back again. This is the beginning, the >> first step towards man's longest leap into the unknown. Science has >> solved the mechanical details, and now it's up to one human being to >> breathe life into blueprints and computers, to prove once and for all >> that man can live half a lifetime in the total void of outer space, >> forty years alone in the unknown. This is Earth. Ahead lies a >> planetary system. The vast region in between is the Twilight Zone. >>      [closing narration] >>      Narrator: Commander Douglas Stansfield, one of the forgotten >> pioneers of the space age. He's been pushed aside by the flow of >> progress and the passage of years - and the ferocious travesty of >> fate. Tonight's tale of the ionosphere and irony, delivered from - the >> Twilight Zone. >> >> >> The Twilight Zone S5E16 'The Self-Improvement of Salvadore Ross' - DVR >> Salvadore Ross trades physical characteristics with others to win the >> affection of Leah Maitland.  (Comcast) >> Salvadore Ross has a unique talent where he can trade physical >> characteristics with other people and will do anything to get the love >> of Leah Maitland. >> >> Switching to Trivia: >> Salvadore's apartment set was previously used in A Short Drink from a >> Certain Fountain (1963). >> Based upon a short story of the same name, written by Henry Slesar and >> first published in the May 1961 issue of The Magazine of Fantasy & >> Science Fiction by Mercury Press, Inc. >> >> Quotes >> Narrator: [opening narration] Confidential personnel file on Salvadore >> Ross. Personality: a volatile mixture of fury and frustration. >> Distinguishing physical characteristic: a badly-broken hand, which >> will require emergency treatment at the nearest hospital. Ambition: >> shows great determination toward self-improvement. Estimate of >> potential success: a sure bet for a listing in Who's Who - in The >> Twilight Zone. >>      [closing narration] >>      Narrator: The Salvadore Ross program for self-improvement. The >> all-in-one, surefire success course that lets you lick the bully, >> learn the language, dance the tango, and anything else you want to do ========== REMAINDER OF ARTICLE TRUNCATED ==========