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the jeopardy room.
posted by PeterBluesSTAFFMOD on March 23, 2017 at 5:08 PM
its really strange how this episode has a completely "straight story" not similar at all to the rest of the series. you can hear the star of the episode martin landau talk about that, among other things, like how tired serling was by this point in the series after dealing with the network, on the dvd box extra material. even on the radio drama version it stands out as an episode without a usual main star and a whole other cast than the rest of the episodes.
please don't change your hair, don't want no changes on madeleine, walk through the land sights, like the wind throw your wavy brown hair around, hypnotize my mind, the other women can set their hair on fire for all i care, but don't want changes on madeleine.
Reply by DullStupidClod
on March 24, 2017 at 12:49 AM
"The Silence" as well was mostly a "straight story."
I think this was an okay episode that could have been so much more satisfying with a less lazy ending.
Reply by PeterBlues
on March 24, 2017 at 2:14 AM
wow, good eye, i never thought of that.
Reply by Zürich Gnome
on June 7, 2017 at 6:22 PM
There were other "straight" stories as well, such as "The Obsolete Man," "Time Enough at Last," "Where is Everybody," "The Lonely," "Third from the Sun," "I Shot an Arrow into the Air," "Nightmare as a Child," "Nervous Man in a Four Dollar Room," "Nick of Time," "The Rip Van Winkle Caper," "Two," "The Shelter," "The Grave," "One More Pallbearer," "The Trade-Ins," "On Thursday We Leave for Home," "Steel," "The Old Man in the Cave" and "The Long Morrow."
Some of these were set in the scientifically possible future, but none is fantasy or, strictly speaking, science fiction.