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From: Arthur Lipscomb <arthur@alum.calberkeley.org>
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Subject: Re: What Did You Watch? 2024-03-21 (Thursday)
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On 3/22/2024 1:40 PM, Dimensional Traveler wrote:
> 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?
> 

Your request to include less trivia in your summaries has been denied.  :-)