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On 3/31/2024 11:40 AM, Arthur Lipscomb wrote:
> 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." ;-)
> 
Nope.

> 
>>
>> 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.
> 
You probably remember it for Mariette Hartley.  :D  I suspect both the 
earlier body swap episode and this are based on 'The Magi's Gift' so not 
surprising they would feel similar.

> 
>> 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 
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