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From: Dimensional Traveler <dtravel@sonic.net>
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Subject: Re: What Did You Watch? 2024-03-17 (Sunday)
Date: Mon, 18 Mar 2024 17:22:12 -0700
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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.


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