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Subject: Re: What Did You Watch? 2024-03-09 (Saturday)
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On 3/10/2024 10:29 AM, Arthur Lipscomb wrote:
> On 3/10/2024 9:49 AM, Dimensional Traveler wrote:
>> The Twilight Zone S3E27 'Person or Persons Unknown' - DVR
>> David Gurney wakes up with a hangover, but that's the least of his 
>> problems.  (Comcast)
>> Paying homage to It's a Wonderful Life (1946), David Gurney wakes up 
>> to another ordinary day. Except today, nobody knows who he is 
>> including his own wife Wilma.  (IMDb)
>> Trivia: One of the first instances on television to show a couple 
>> sharing a single bed, sleeping next to each other. Around this time, 
>> TV shows could only portray couples sleeping in separate beds due to 
>> television's strict standards & practices. In season five's Stopover 
>> in a Quiet Town (1964), a very similar situation occurs. In both 
>> cases, the man is sleeping on top of the covers, is still fully 
>> dressed (even wearing his shoes), and they are hung over from a bout 
>> of heavy drinking.
>> The two phone numbers Richard Long calls are Klondike 5-2131 and 
>> Klondike 5-3472 and may be the first 555 numbers used in television 
>> history.
>>
> 
> I don't really remember this one.  But I think 80s Twilight Zone had one 
> or two episodes with a similar plot.
> 
>>
>> The Twilight Zone S3E28 'The Little People' - DVR
>> A space traveler finds an Earth-like civilization the size of ants. 
>> (Comcast)
>> On a desolate planet, two astronauts discover an entire society 
>> populated by incredibly small beings. One of the astronauts decides to 
>> rule the society as a god.
>> Trivia: The rocket launch depicted was in reality a test flight of a 
>> Mercury-Atlas booster. This was quite timely; this episode aired about 
>> a month after NASA's John Glenn became the first astronaut to attain 
>> Earth orbit upon such a rocket.
>> The weapons and giants' uniforms were reused from Forbidden Planet 
>> (1956).
>>
>>
> 
> One of the more memorable episodes.
> 
> 
>> The Twilight Zone S3E29 'Four O'Clock' - DVR
>> An obsessed Oliver Crangle (Theodore Bikel) tells an FBI agent that a 
>> drastic transformation will take place on all the evil people in the 
>> world.  (Comcast)
>> A very obsessed man wants to expose evil in the world, investigating 
>> people he sees as murderers, subversives, perverts and communists, 
>> then attempting to ruin their lives.  (IMDb)
>> Credit:  Parrot     ...     Parrot (uncredited)    with a link to 
>> https://www.imdb.com/name/nm10455435/ giving four credits in 'The 
>> Return of the Pink Panther (1975), Adam-12 (1972), Gilligan's Island 
>> (four episodes, 1964-1966) with this TZ episode as its first credit.
>>
>>
> 
> This wasn't a good one.
> 
>> The Twilight Zone S3E30 'Hocus Pocus & Frisby' - DVR
>> Mr. Frisby impresses quite a few people with his vivid imagination. 
>> (Comcast)
>> A rural gas station attendant given to telling tall tales about 
>> himself is kidnapped by aliens who believe him to be one of Earth's 
>> leading intellects.  (IMDb)
> 
> 
> I'm trying to remember the twist on this one, or was being captured by 
> aliens the twist?
> 
Frisby's "playing" the harmonica is deadly to the aliens and is key to 
his escape.

>> Trivia: Having been born on October 16, 1879, Clem Bevans (Pete) was 
>> the earliest-born actor to appear on the series. This was also his 
>> final credited role.
>> Another episode where the Twilight zone benefited from MGM's large 
>> amount of stock props. The domed device on the alien craft is the 
>> 'astrogator' from Forbidden Planet (1956). The cruiser C-57-D's steps 
>> are also used in the ship.
>> At 21:20 the console seen on the alien spacecraft is the same one used 
>> at times in The Man from U.N.C.L.E. (1964)'s headquarters as Mr. 
>> Waverly's overseas relay communicator console.
>>
>>
>> What Did You Watch?
>>
>>
> 
> 
> I watched:
> 
> 
> Elsbeth (CBS) New murder mystery about a quirky detective (I mean 
> lawyer) named Monk, I mean Mrs. Columbo, I mean Elsbeth, who notices 
> things other people don't notice and helps police solve crimes whether 
> they want the help or not.  First up she solves the murder of a young 
> actress by noticing she used two spaces instead of one when she typed 
> her suicide note, and noting only old people use two spaces.  Wait, a 
> minute, *I* use two spaces when I type!  And I'm *not* old!  I had *no* 
> idea when I watched but according to Wiki this is a spin off of "The 
> Good Wife" and "The Good Fight" two shows I never watched before.  Now 
> I'm wishing I didn't know it was a spin-off because I'm going to assume 
> there's a lot of background stuff going on that I'm missing.
> 
> 
> Ghosts - "Halloween 3: The Guest Who Wouldn't Leave" - The character of 
> "Flower" was written out this season.  I don't know if was a mutual 
> decision or what, but they have been talking about her nonstop all 
> season.  This episode had a lot of subplots but the main plot was 
> probably an attempt to contact flower via seance which can only be done 
> on Halloween.  In the other plot Pete's annoying widow Carol shows up 
> for a party and dies on the property so now her ghosts is there too. But 
> at first no one knows she's dead not even Carol who doesn't realize she 
> died and sense Sam can see dead people...wackiness ensues.
> 
> 
> Family Guy - "Cabin Pressure" - This new episode aired on Wednesday.  I 
> guess they changed their air date.  Anyway Peter takes his entire 
> neighborhood with him on vacation.  What cold go wrong?
> 
> 
> Rustin (Netflix) biopic about 60s civil rights leader Baynard Rustin. 
> Colman Domingo got an Oscar nomination so I had to watch.  It was OK. 
> Only one movie left to watch before the show and I will have watched 
> every major nominated movie/performance.
> 
> 
> 

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dirty old man.