Froug’s episode was to be called “Many, Many Monkeys,” and was meant to be an allusion to the Three Wise Monkeys maxim that finds its origins in 8th-century China. Of the three…
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The Twilight Zone’s Eye Of The Beholder Had Maxine Stuart Crying Very Real Tears – SlashFilm
This division of labor meant that Stuart had Miss Tyler’s most emotional scenes all to herself. Still under the bandages, she vents to her nurses and doctors about how people have always…
The Forgotten ’60s Sitcom That Kicked The Twilight Zone Off TV – SlashFilm
Apart from the fact that it replaced Serling’s anthology, “Fair Exchange” was quite an anomaly at the time. It was one of the first full-hour television sitcoms that experimented with its structure,…
A Sue-Happy Scriptwriter Buried This Twilight Zone Episode For Over Two Decades – SlashFilm
As explained in “The Twilight Zone Companion,” the supposedly plagiarized script was called “The Thirteenth Mannequin,” and it did cover some of the same general themes: “The script concerned an old man…
The Twilight Zone’s Rod Serling Wrote A Frank Sinatra Heist Film About Robbing The Queen Mary – /Film
“The Twilight Zone” creator Rod Serling had just completed his fifth and final season of the series in 1964 when he signed on to adapt Jack Finney’s bestseller “Assault on a Queen.”…
The Twilight Zone Unknowingly Cast An Actor Who Was Really Living The Episode’s Story – /Film
The chapter in question is called “The Trade-Ins,” and it explores the idea of mortality through the perspective of an elderly couple who are still deeply in love. Thanks to a new…
The Twilight Zone’s Rod Serling Played A Reclusive Writer In This Forgotten Sitcom – /Film
According to Tucker’s research, “Ichabod and Me” seemed promising from the start due to the involvement of “Leave it to Beaver” co-creators Bob Mosher and Joe Connelly, who made this show together…
Rod Serling Played The Mayor Of The Twilight Zone On The Jack Benny Program – /Film
Serling’s episode aired on January 15, 1963, and, as was the show’s custom, he also played himself. In the fictionalized universe of the series, Benny hires Serling to help his struggling writers…
A Young Robert Redford Almost Ruined An Otherwise Great Twilight Zone Episode – /Film
“I thought if you had somebody who had those kind of blazing eyes and that candor and that kind of American Beauty about him, he’d be great for this cop as I…
Bill Mumy Led One Of The Twilight Zone’s Darkest Episodes Years Before Lost In Space – /Film
Mumy spoke about his time working on the episode in “The Twilight Zone Companion” by Marc Scott Zicree, where he confessed that it wasn’t until he was older that he could truly…