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Friday, July 03, 2009

Am watching THE TWILIGHT ZONE marathon on Sci-Fi Channel

Made rather bittersweet in the knowledge that this is the last time they do this as the Sci-Fi Channel. But anyhoo...

They just ran the classic episode "A Game of Pool", which originally aired on October 13, 1961. It's one of my all-time favorite episodes of The Twilight Zone, for a lot of reasons but especially 'cuz I thought the interaction between Jack Klugman and Jonathan Winters was brilliant!

So I'm wondering if I'm at all crazy for thinking this...

...that wouldn't it be more awesomely cool than we possibly deserve, if somehow there could be a sequel to this episode made, again starring Klugman and Winters as Jesse Cardiff and Fats Brown?

It could be called "Another Game of Pool"!

Okay, that will probably never happen outside of the wonderful delirium of my dreams. But still, one can practically see it happening.

What an amazing show this was. I even liked the later incarnations quite a bit, but Rod Serling's original series was, I'd dare say, the most influential and revolutionary television show in the history of the medium.

I hope Syfy Channel keeps showing it :-)

5 comments:

Calvin said...

I'm glad that I'm not the only one who has thought this too.

You should write the sequel episode Chris and shoot it! I bet you can get Klugman and Winters to do it :)

Chris Knight said...

There would be very few things that I could do professionally that would be as fulfilling as a chance to direct a Twilight Zone story with Jonathan Winters and Jack Klugman.

And for good measure, Bill Mumy as well.

jessicaash@aol.com said...

Syfy...

Forest J. Ackerman is spinning in his grave...

bmovies said...

This brings back a memory of when I was still living in Brooklyn. I didnt have cable tv and there was very little to watch on the free local broadcast channels. All the good stuff was on cable. Months would go by in between something good to watch. Om holidays (christmas, thanksgiving, new years), they usually ran a matathon on classic tv shows. The honeymooners, Star Trek, Twilight Zone, etc. I would tape these marathons so that in later months I would have something good to watch. I would tape The Twilight Zone marathon on New Years eve and months later, when I was starved for something good to watch, I would pop in the VCR my tape of Twilight Zone episodes.

bmovies said...

PS: That was around the late 1980s-early 1990s