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The Twilight Zone S5E13 'Ring-A-Ding Girl' - DVR
Movie star Bunny Blake receives an opal ring from her hometown fan club 
which enables her to see images of her friends and family.  (Comcast)
Movie star Bunny Blake receives a ring from her hometown which is giving 
her warnings to come home while she flies cross country.   (IMDb)

Trivia:
The headline of Bud's newspaper, the Daily Bulletin Sports, reads 
"Jockey Banned from All U.S. Tracks." This newspaper was a prop created 
for the earlier episode The Last Night of a Jockey (1963).
The house set was previously used in Living Doll (1963).

Quotes:
[opening narration]
Narrator: Introduction to Bunny Blake. Occupation: film actress. 
Residence: Hollywood, California, or anywhere in the world that cameras 
happen to be grinding. Bunny Blake is a public figure; what she wears, 
eats, thinks, says is news. But underneath the glamour, the makeup, the 
publicity, the buildup, the costuming, is a flesh-and-blood person, a 
beautiful girl about to take a long and bizarre journey into The 
Twilight Zone.
[closing narration]
Narrator: We are all travelers. The trip starts in a place called birth, 
and ends in that lonely town called death. And that's the end of the 
journey, unless you happen to exist for a few hours, like Bunny Blake, 
in the misty regions of The Twilight Zone.

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ubzr gbja va gur zvqqyr bs gur Sbhaqre'f Qnl Cvpavp.  Ure tubfg(?) gevrf 
gb xrrc crbcyr njnl sebz gur cvpavp orsber gur penfu.



The Twilight Zone S5E14 'You Drive' - DVR
Oliver Pope kills a bicyclist in a hit-and-run, but a business rival is 
identified as the driver.  (Comcast)
After being involved with a hit-and-run accident that resulted in the 
death of a child, Oliver Pope is haunted by his car.  (IMDb)

Trivia
The title refers to an old Hertz Car Rental ad campaign which called 
their cars "U Drives". Bud Abbott and Lou Costello turned the U-Drive 
theme into a famous comedy sketch similar to their "Who's on first?" sketch.
The house that was used as the exterior of the Pope's home still stands 
at 4183 Keystone Avenue in Culver City, CA. It is still very 
recognizable from the 1964 episode.
When Pope goes into his garage to check on the car and the radio comes 
on, the instrumental that it is heard playing is the same one as in the 
" The Encounter ", on the radio that Neville Brand's character is 
listening to.


Quotes:
     [opening narration]
     Narrator: Portrait of a nervous man: Oliver Pope by name, office 
manager by profession. A man beset by life's problems: his job, his 
salary, the competition to get ahead. Obviously, Mr. Pope's mind is not 
on his driving... Oliver Pope, businessman-turned killer, on a 
rain-soaked street in the early evening of just another day during just 
another drive home from the office. The victim, a kid on a bicycle, 
lying injured, near death. But Mr. Pope hasn't time for the victim, his 
only concern is for himself. Oliver Pope, hit-and-run driver, just 
arrived at a crossroad in his life, and he's chosen the wrong turn. The 
hit occurred in the world he knows, but the run will lead him straight 
into - the Twilight Zone.
     [closing narration]
     Narrator: All persons attempting to conceal criminal acts involving 
their cars are hereby warned: check first to see that underneath that 
chrome there does not lie a conscience, especially if you're driving 
along a rain-soaked highway in the Twilight Zone.


The Twilight Zone S5E15 'The Long Morrow' - DVR
An astronaut returns from a 30-year mission to find that his girlfriend 
hasn't aged at all.  (Comcast)
Before leaving on a decades-long solo mission, astronaut Douglas 
Stansfield meets a woman and falls in love.  (IMDb)

Trivia
Actress Mariette Hartley was a teenager when she first met Serling. "I 
was head of the drama club at Staples High School in Westport, 
Connecticut," recalled Hartley. "Around the mid-1950s, I saw the 
'Playhouse 90' episode 'Requiem for a Heavyweight,' written by a man 
called Rod Serling. I was very courageous and gutsy in those days and 
called him to see if he would speak to our class. He actually answered 
the phone and said, 'I'd be delighted.' I can still see him sitting in 
the teacher's desk, with his pipe, at the front of the classroom talking 
to us. He was so handsome I thought my heart would jump out of my skin! 
We asked questions and I remember his charm and capacity to include all 
of us in the discussion." Years later, after she began working in 
Hollywood, Hartley met Serling again. "His limousine pulled up as I was 
walking out the studio," she said. "He remembered coming to my class. I 
told him I was looking for work and within a couple of months he gave me 
the wonderful gift of working in 'The Long Morrow' episode.'
According to co-writers of Night Gallery (1969), Rod Serling based the 
script on the classic story, The Gift of the Magi, about a couple's 
self-sacrifice to satisfy their partner's longing.

Quotes:
     Narrator: [Opening Narration] It may be said with a degree of 
assurance that not everything that meets the eye is as it appears. Case 
in point: the scene you're watching. This is not a hospital, not a 
morgue, not a mausoleum, not an undertaker's parlor of the future. What 
it is is the belly of a spaceship. It is en route to another planetary 
system an incredible distance from the Earth. This is the crux of our 
story, a flight into space. It is also the story of the things that 
might happen to human beings who take a step beyond, unable to 
anticipate everything that might await them out there.
     [narration continues subsequent to character dialogue]
     Narrator: Commander Douglas Stansfield, astronaut, a man about to 
embark on one of history's longest journeys - forty years out into 
endless space and hopefully back again. This is the beginning, the first 
step towards man's longest leap into the unknown. Science has solved the 
mechanical details, and now it's up to one human being to breathe life 
into blueprints and computers, to prove once and for all that man can 
live half a lifetime in the total void of outer space, forty years alone 
in the unknown. This is Earth. Ahead lies a planetary system. The vast 
region in between is the Twilight Zone.
     [closing narration]
     Narrator: Commander Douglas Stansfield, one of the forgotten 
pioneers of the space age. He's been pushed aside by the flow of 
progress and the passage of years - and the ferocious travesty of fate. 
Tonight's tale of the ionosphere and irony, delivered from - the 
Twilight Zone.


The Twilight Zone S5E16 'The Self-Improvement of Salvadore Ross' - DVR
Salvadore Ross trades physical characteristics with others to win the 
affection of Leah Maitland.  (Comcast)
Salvadore Ross has a unique talent where he can trade physical 
characteristics with other people and will do anything to get the love 
of Leah Maitland.

Switching to Trivia:
Salvadore's apartment set was previously used in A Short Drink from a 
Certain Fountain (1963).
Based upon a short story of the same name, written by Henry Slesar and 
first published in the May 1961 issue of The Magazine of Fantasy & 
Science Fiction by Mercury Press, Inc.

Quotes
Narrator: [opening narration] Confidential personnel file on Salvadore 
Ross. Personality: a volatile mixture of fury and frustration. 
Distinguishing physical characteristic: a badly-broken hand, which will 
require emergency treatment at the nearest hospital. Ambition: shows 
great determination toward self-improvement. Estimate of potential 
success: a sure bet for a listing in Who's Who - in The Twilight Zone.
     [closing narration]
     Narrator: The Salvadore Ross program for self-improvement. The 
all-in-one, surefire success course that lets you lick the bully, learn 
the language, dance the tango, and anything else you want to do - or 
think you want to do. Money-back guarantee. Offer limited to - The 
Twilight Zone.


The Twilight Zone S5E17 'Number 12 Looks Just Like You' - DVR
An ugly duckling can be stunning in a world of beautiful people.  (Comcast)
In a future society, everyone must undergo an operation at age 19 to 
become beautiful and conform to society. One young woman desperately 
wants to hold onto her own identity.  (IMDb)

Beautiful Trivia
All the characters are named after conventionally beautiful film stars 
of the day: Lana for Lana Turner, Marilyn for Marilyn Monroe, Grace for 
Grace Kelly, Rex for Rex Harrison, Eva for Eva Marie Saint, Valerie for 
Valerie Allen.
Three separate characters - Uncle Rick, Dr. Rex, and Dr. Sigmund Friend 
- were identical in appearance, but were distinctly different as 
portrayed by Richard Long. Uncle Rick was kindly and down-to-earth; Dr. 
Rex was eerily good-natured, with some peculiar mannerisms; and "Sigmund 
Friend" was a Freud-like, ominous and shadowy character with a thick 
German accent.
This episode is reported to be the inspiration for "Uglies", a 21st 
Century series of young adult science fiction novels by Scott Westerfeld.
This episode takes place in 2000.  ("For want of a better estimate call 
it the year 2000.")
This episode is based on Charles Beaumont's short story, "The Beautiful 
People", which first appeared in the September 1952 issue of the science 
fiction magazine "If".
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