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From: Dimensional Traveler <dtravel@sonic.net>
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Subject: Re: What Did You Watch? 2024-03-21 (Thursday)
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On 3/22/2024 7:54 AM, Adam H. Kerman wrote:
> Dimensional Traveler <dtravel@sonic.net> 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?

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