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Apparently I missed the time travel bus to today that departed yesterday 
so you'll just have to settle for what I watched yesterday, not what I'm 
going to watch this evening.

The Twilight Zone S5E11 'A Short Drink from a Certain Fountain ' - DVR
When a man takes a youth serum, the potion goes beyond its intended 
effect and he regresses to infancy.  (Comcast)
An aging married man convinces his brother to inject him with a youth 
serum.  (IMDb)

Slaking your thirst for Trivia:
Until episodes became available on VHS and DVD, this was one of four 
"lost" episodes of The Twilight Zone (1959) that were not included with 
syndication packages during the 1960s through the 1980s. The other three 
were Miniature (1963), Sounds and Silences (1964), and The Encounter 
(1964). This episode, "Miniature," and "Sounds and Silences" were 
excluded from the package because of lawsuits that had been filed 
claiming those episodes were plagiarized. "The Encounter" had drawn 
complaints of anti-Japanese prejudice and epithets expressed by one of 
the characters. The episodes were finally re-released for broadcast 
television in a 1983 special hosted by Patrick O'Neal, the lead actor of 
"Fountain".
Tim Matheson filmed a deleted scene of Patrick O'Neal reduced to age 12.
During the opening monologue it's stated that Harmon Gordon's wife Flora 
is 40 years his junior. However, Patrick O'Neal was only eight years 
older than Ruta Lee in real life.
Initially, the Raymond Gordon character was to be a typical family 
physician. Disturbed by the character's willingness to experiment on a 
fellow human (Harmon, his brother), CBS asked that his occupation be 
changed to that of a research scientist. Serling complied.

Quotes:
Narrator: [Opening Narration] Picture of an aging man who leads his 
life, as Thoreau said, 'in quiet desperation.' Because Harmon Gordon is 
enslaved by a love affair with a wife forty years his junior. Because of 
this, he runs when he should walk. He surrenders when simple pride 
dictates a stand. He pines away for the lost morning of his life when he 
should be enjoying the evening. In short, Mr. Harmon Gordon seeks a 
fountain of youth, and who's to say he won't find it? This happens to be 
The Twilight Zone.
Narrator: [Closing Narration] It happens to be a fact: as one gets 
older, one does get wiser. If you don't believe it, ask Flora. Ask her 
any day of the ensuing weeks of her life, as she takes notes during the 
coming years and realizes that the worm has turned - youth has taken 
over. It's simply the way the calendar crumbles - in The Twilight Zone.
armon Gordon: [after receiving the experimental serum] Well, when can I 
expect some change?
Dr. Raymond Gordon: Within 6 hours. That's when the first physical 
change is noted. As for the mental change, none of the rats or guinea 
pigs have told me what the feeling was.



The Twilight Zone S5E12 'Ninety Years Without Slumbering' - DVR
A retired wtchmaker (Ed Wynn) fears that when his grandfather's clock 
stops ticking, his own life will end.  (Comcast)
An old man believes that his life will end the moment his grandfather 
clock stops ticking.  (IMDb)

Trivia to sleep by:
William Froug had Richard De Roy rewrite the George Clayton Johnson 
teleplay "Tick of Time" before it was aired as Ninety Years Without 
Slumbering (1963). Johnson was displeased with this and ultimately never 
reconciled with Froug, and never contributed to The Twilight Zone (1959) 
again.

Quotes:
Narrator: [Opening Narration] Each man measures his time; some with 
hope, some with joy, some with fear. But Sam Forstmann measures his 
allotted time with a grandfather's clock, a unique mechanism whose 
pendulum swings between life and death, a very special clock that keeps 
a special kind of time - in the Twilight Zone.
Narrator: [Closing Narration] Clocks are made by men, God creates time. 
No man can prolong his allotted hours, he can only live them to the 
fullest - in this world or in the Twilight Zone.



What Did You Watch?


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I've done good in this world. Now I'm tired and just want to be a cranky 
dirty old man.