brunobaby

We've been watching the Twilight Zone Marathon and I swear, they're showing ones I've never seen before. There's one now with Robert Duval and a museum, and there was one with Jack Klugman as an astronaut: Hour-long episodes. I'm wondering if they've been shown on previous marathons during the few hours that I've slept, or if they're "lost" episodes that Serling was keeping in a vault somewhere.

During my old favorites, I've been enjoying the depth of the restored black and white photography and the sets and props. The one where Ellie Mae is running through this totalitarian hospital in a little gown, I was saying, "look at that great Mid-Century Modern lamp."

It's amazing how many of the actors are smoking, even in hospital settings. The doctors and nurses are lighting up. The sponsor must have been a tobacco company. Serling himself has a smoke going in half the intro's. He was a really intense guy, which is probably why he only lived to be about as old as I am now. But what a legacy he left during those years.

We'll probably be watching this for most of the day and evening, the way we've done since there has been a Twilight Zone Marathon. It's good to have some kind of continuity to prepare you for the unknown looming in front of you for the next 364 days.

Oooh, Barbara Barrie's wearing really cool glasses.