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On 3/24/2024 1:35 PM, Dimensional Traveler wrote:
> The Twilight Zone S4E15 'The Incredible World of Horace Ford' - DVR
> A toy designer (Pat Hingle) 

Commissioner Gordon!

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)
> 

I don't remember this one.  My brain is going through the Twilight Zone 
memory Rolodex and coming up blank.

> 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)

I remembered this one just from the name.