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On 3/31/2024 9:52 AM, Dimensional Traveler wrote:
> 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.
> 
> ROTten Twist: Ohaal Oynxr vf npghnyyl ba n cynar gung penfurf va ure 
> ubzr gbja va gur zvqqyr bs gur Sbhaqre'f Qnl Cvpavp.  Ure tubfg(?) gevrf 
> gb xrrc crbcyr njnl sebz gur cvpavp orsber gur penfu.
> 
> 

Wow, I have *no* memory of this episode and the twist definitely doesn't 
help me remember.


> 
> 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.
> 

I'm not sure if I remember this one.  It's vaguely familiar.
Does someone at least say, "Thanks for the ride lady." ;-)


> 
> 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)
> 

I remember this one.  However the plot is a little too similar to the 
old couple that could only afford to purchase one young body.


> 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)
> 
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