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The Twilight Zone S4E15 'The Incredible World of Horace Ford' - DVR
A toy designer (Pat Hingle) visits his old neighborhood and finds it 
exactly as it was in his childhood.  (Comcast)
Toymaker Horace Ford is increasingly preoccupied with memories of his 
childhood, endangering his job and marriage - but a visit to his old 
neighborhood brings a haunting encounter, suggesting the time was not as 
idyllic as he remembers.  (IMDb)

Trivia: This was not an original screenplay for The Twilight Zone 
(1959). It's a remake of The Incredible World of Horace Ford (1955), 
which was a live TV version starring Art Carney and Jason Robards.
The blueprints of Harold's new robot toy are copies of the actual 
blueprints Bob Kinoshita made for the design of Robbie the Robot in 
Forbidden Planet.


The Twilight Zone S4E16 'On Thursday We Leave for Home' - DVR
The leader (James Whitmore) of a colony stranded on an asteroid resist 
rescue.  With James Broderick.  (Comcast)
The first human space colony is about to be rescued from the forsaken 
planet they've been on for three decades. But their leader's having a 
hard time accepting that change will happen when they get back to Earth. 
  (IMDb)

When the rescue ship from Earth arrives, several colonists ask about 
various places on Earth during a meeting between the ship's crew and the 
colonists. One of the questions is about the Finger Lake District of New 
York. This area had a special significance to script writer Rod Serling. 
It is located close to his home town of Binghamton, he and his family 
vacationed there frequently, and Serling named his company that produced 
"The Twilight Zone," Cayuga Productions, after one of the lakes. He 
later taught at Ithaca College for the last five years before his death.
The striking diorama backgrounds of the planet, the model and the 
large-scale prop of the rescue ship sent to bring the colonists home, 
and the uniforms of the rescue crew were all originally created for 
Forbidden Planet (1956). This was a recurring feature on "The Twilight 
Zone" which was frequently filmed at MGM Studios, and often prominently 
featured recycled props and set pieces from "Forbidden Planet". The 
previous episode, "The Incredible World of Horace Ford" featured copies 
of the original blueprints of designs for Robby the Robot, created by 
MGM production designer Robert Kinoshita.
The cave that the colonists use as their meeting hall was originally the 
underground lair of the Morlocks in The Time Machine (1960).
This episode takes place in 2021.
Sound effects inside the ship are the same as the ones on the bridge of 
the Enterprise from the original Star Trek (1966) series.
The colonists are told Los Angeles is now the biggest city in the world 
in 2021; in real life it was the 23rd largest.
The emblem the flight crew have on their caps is the same emblems the 
flight crew wore on their chest pockets in the earlier episode, Death Ship.
The crew of the Pilgrim I arrived on V9-Gamma in August 1991.
Colonel Sloane tells the V9-Gamma survivors that the Los Angeles Dodgers 
came in tenth in the 2020 World Series. This prediction proved 
inaccurate as the LA Dodgers won the 2020 World Series, having defeated 
the Tampa Bay Rays four games to two.
At the end, the camera was supposed to pull back in a wide-angle crane 
shot, showing the former colony with Benteen left there alone, 
emphasizing his isolation and the tragedy of his having been left 
behind. The night before the shot was to be executed, the director of 
photography mentioned this to director Buzz Kulik, and both men realized 
that the colony's shacks, which were metal sheds, did not have roofs 
(which was customarily done so that the interiors could be lit for 
filming). They had to tape canvas roofs to all of the shacks overnight 
so that the overhead shot would not reveal their true character.

This quote is from a scene that didn't appear in the broadcast I recorded!
     Col. Sloane: [Sloane shouts in the cavern] Captain? Benteen?
     [Long pause, no response]
     Col. Sloane: We know you can hear us. We know you're in here 
someplace. Come out. Please. Let us talk to you.
     [Long pause, no response]
     Col. Sloane: We're leaving now, Benteen. We have to take off in 
five minutes or we'll lose our orbital position. It'll be too late for us.
     [Long pause, no response]
     Col. Sloane: Benteen, it has to be now.
     Al: Captain, please.
     [Long pause, no response]
     Al: Please come out!
     Col. Sloane: Benteen, remember this: if we leave without you, 
there'll be no ships returning here. This is where you'll live from this 
moment on. And this is where you'll die.
     [Still no response]
     Col. Sloane: All right, Benteen. As you prefer. Come on, let's go, 
Baines.
     [Exits]
     Al: Good-bye... Captain Benteen.
     [Exits]

Personal comment.  Why did we think space ship crews would wear silver 
foil covered shoes?


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