I found a website that lets you watch a lot of tv episodes and some movies for free (http://www.hulu.com). They have a lot of Alfred Hitchcock episodes, both the half-hour ones and the hour ones. Of course, one of the first ones I watched was "The Older Sister" - the half-hour one about Lizzie Borden.
I'd seen it before (and have a copy somewhere ...). But seeing it again I found myself paying more attention to the detail.
The writer of the script was very knowledgeable on the Borden case. The woman reporter looked like she had convincing clothing on. The woman who played Lizzie, who I thought before was a disappointment, was actually a good choice. She was on the masculine side, even her voice. There were a couple photos on the wall that looked like a couple Borden photos we've seen - from a distance. But when they came in a little closer, they were not the same persons in them. But like one looked like one of Lizzie from the side as an adult. And one looked like Sarah Borden sitting, with Baby Lizzie standing next to her. I would think that was planned that way.
All right! A fellow "Monk" fan! That is about the only current-day tv show I watch. The other night, I discovered the Monk episodes on hulu.com. I watched 4 episodes one right after another. Then last nite, a new one was added.
There are Monk mystery novels. I've read one so far, and it was just like the series - but not a storyline they did already. I enjoyed it immensely.
That show could go on forever. Monk's character is irresistable. He's so phobic and nerdy, but at least the phobic part is because he misses his dead wife, which you gotta feel for him.
I think my favorite episode was when his nurse/assistant, Sharona, was on there and they had to attend a married couple's therapy weekend and had to pretend that they were married, when they were often at each other's throats.
Be careful you don't wait too long, DJ. Some episodes on there expire. They give you the option to buy them, and they do give you a warning on there when it's about to expire. It looks like with these Alfred Hitchcock episodes, you can pay to download an individual one or purchase an entire season. But until they expire, you can watch to no end.
One of the lawyers here, Peter Wolk, writes for "Monk," and is leaving for a week or two for a "summit," as they call it, with the story guys.
Carmen Matthews, the severe-looking actress who played "The Older Sister," was famous for appearing in flop Broadway musicals, such as DEAR WORLD.
Since I just happen to have the book here with me at work, let me drop in a whimsical and facetious quote from Ethan Mordden's OPEN A NEW WINDOW, a book on the musicals of the 60s:
"Flop collectors...thrilled to the announcement of the signing of Carmen Matthews in a featured role, for Matthews had never been in a musical that lasted more than three weeks. Even in high school, her shows were fiascos; at her third-grade Easter pageant, some parents demanded their money back, though admission had been free."
Oh boy oh boy oh boy oh boy oh boy! You work with a "Monk" writer??!!! That is so cool! That's the best show I've seen in a long time. Excellent concept - fantastic characters! I can even forgive the hastily-put-together ending where suddenly Monk figures it out. It wouldn't work in any other show. But you gotta love Monk! If you get an opportunity tell him he has a FAN here. He probably furnishes the legal angles to the staff, huh? Still, that show is da bomb!
Oh, that was funny about that actress who played Lizzie in 'The Older Sister'! Well, I think I know now why I've never seen her before, or since.
And the funny thing is, as I continued to read my book, the name Polly Rowles popped up. Why do I mention it? Well, she played the butch lady reporter in the episode!
My "rainy day" came about 24 hours after I dropped the line. I knew I'd seen it way, way back some time when Lizzie pulled the hatchet from behind the fireplace. Also, that bit with the newspaper over the hatchet returned from the fog banks of my memory.
Thanks, Bob, for the scoop on the players. I'm always interested in such resumes. The only one who was familiar was the reporter. She must have had quite the career guest-starring on '60s TV shows.
Thanks for the link, Sherry! I am so glad that I finally got to watch The Older Sister. Isn't it based on some play called Good-bye Miss Lizzie Borden, or something like that? If not, it did seem very similar to a play I read about Lizzie many, many years ago. It ends with Lizzie hacking at a tabletop with the hatchet.
“Sometimes when we are generous in small, barely detectable ways it can change someone else's life forever.”-Margaret Cho comedienne
Wow, Susan! You'd never seen 'The Older Sister' before? I'm so glad posting that link helped you. I don't know what it was based on. The credits at the end tell you who wrote the teleplay and what it was based on.
Gosh, Bob, what are you reading? "Really Masculine Females of Stage and Screen"? Yeah, that reporter in 'The Older Sister' was pushy and overbearing. I thought her outfit was very appropriate for having a job that had mostly men in its ranks. The tie was a good touch.
Every nite I've been watching a couple of the half-hour Alfreds'. They're so good. I watched 4 of them last nite. It's interesting to see how an entire story is introduced, played out and has a great ending all within 28 minutes.
There's one with Joseph Cotton I had to watch. I saw it as a real little kid on a re-run. I think that's my favorite.
I think Bette Davis did one, and I don't think I've ever seen it before.
No new Monk added as of yesterday. Darn - I was hoping to catch last Friday's, which I missed. I hope they put up some new "Night Gallery"s soon too. I thought I saw The Twilight Zone on their list.
Augusta,
I agree wholeheartedly-- I could watch those "Alfred Hitchcock Presents" episodes all the livelong day.
Perhaps it was a "Lizzie enthusiast" who wrote one of the most famous episodes, starring Barbara Bel Geddes, in which she murders her husband with a leg o' lamb (there's your mutton), then cooks it up and serves it to the investigating officers, so they consume the murder weapon.
One that creeped me out as a kid concerned the little white girl with the black doll that comes alive and plays with her, and they switch places at the end. Of course, that "works" on several levels.
"Night Gallery" used to give me nightmares, too. Probably the most famous one now was directed by a very young Steven Spielberg, with Joan Crawford as the blind woman whose sight is restored for a brief period-- during the middle of a blackout.
Have too many favorite "Twilight Zone" episodes to choose one.
So good to know about this website!!!
Oh, I remember that Alfred Hitchcock one about the leg of lamb! It's one of my favorites. When our daughter was in high school, she had to read that short story. She had seen that episode before, and she really enjoyed reading the story.
YES - Joan Crawford getting her eyesight during a blackout! That was part of the Night Gallery movie that came out just before the series. That was a GREAT episode!
They had another episode on that Night Gallery movie with Roddy McDowell who wanted his father or uncle's inheritance and moved him by the window, where he caught pneumonia and died. And this painting in the house kept changing, little by little ...
I can't remember the third one. Maybe it was about a concentration camp ex-SS guard.
I agree, DJ, that there are too many fantastic episodes of The Twilight Zone to choose a favorite. The one with Lois Nettleton painting during a time when the sun was getting closer to the earth, making it hotter and hotter each day is a favorite, as well as Burgess Meredith in 'Time Enough at Last'. Russell Johnson (the 'Gilligan's Island' Professor) going back in time to try to prevent Lincoln's assassination. Warren Oates and two soldiers on detail in the Custer battlefield area.
Rod Serling was a real short man. He said that he did quite a few shows about the army. He was a paratrooper. He died kind of early in his life from a bad heart. He kept smoking! His doctor told him NO MORE. So he used to tell his wife he was going out for a walk, and he had cigarettes hidden outside in certain places. Many of the Twilight Zone episodes were written by him. He left some legacy.
The other nite, I caught on Hitch's credits that Evan Hunter wrote an episode. It's called "Number 22" and is good.
"One Step Beyond" was real good, too. I only remember it from re-runs, but I wish Hulu would put those on.
Boy, Serling used to puff away during those intros. He must have multipacked it when hammering out a script, no doubt on a portable, with a cup of coffee nearby: the truly glamorous days of writers.
I like all the episodes you mention. Usually, they are wry, with O'Henry-esque turns. His "Night Gallery" was creepier. I recall one with someone who dies is or killed, and her shadow appears on the wall.
One of the creepiest "Zones" had the young woman traveling cross-country by car to visit her mother, except the daughter has really died, and she's being pursued by a hitchhiker (Death), who winds up in the car with her!
Then, of course, there's the one with Gladys Cooper as the shut-in who's about to be evicted, and tricked by Robert Redford (also Death).
Very Bergman-esque.
I love that line from the film "Diner": "I've been to Atlantic City hundreds of times, and I've never seen Death on the beach."
I'm surprised Serling never did a take on Miss Lizzie. I'm pretty sure he attended Cornell, and lived most of his adult life in New York. Definitely an East Coaster.
I also wish Bette Davis had played Lizzie during Davis' heyday. BD was from Lowell, Mass., and always identified herself as a Yankee. Surely, she must have been familiar--
Yes, Sherry, I've never seen it until you posted that link. I guess I need to go back and sit through the credits to get my answer if The Older Sister was based on a play or not.
The Alfred Hitchcock leg of lamb story is great, its always been one of my faves. Though they probably didn't have frozen meat for sale in Lizzie's day, but, that would have been a creative retelling of the Borden murders. Andrew and Abby bludgeoned to death with a frozen leg of mutton that is then cooked, unwittingly, by Bridget for dinner that evening thus destroying the murder weapon.
“Sometimes when we are generous in small, barely detectable ways it can change someone else's life forever.”-Margaret Cho comedienne
Polly Rowles, Nellie the reporter, was the oroginal Vera Charles in the play AUNTIE MAME, and she was also the Hanes Underwear Inspector for years in TV spots ("They don't say Hanes until I say they say Hanes!").
I have mentioned that Hitchock's closing remarks for "The Older Sister" refer to the original ending of the play (the chopping of the table) rather than to what we actaully see, which is Lizzie sitting thoughfully with her cat on the murder sofa. Hitch must've filmed his tag before the censors got to the writers and had them soften the ending!
Speaking of butch women, I am writing a book review of a Mary Martin bio, and if she WASN'T mostly a lesbian, she sure hung out with a lot of unacknowledged ones. For example, the two godmothers for her second child were Jean Arthur and Judith Anderson.
Bob,
I knew I had seen "The Pol" repeatedly! I'd forgotten those Haines ads! Thanks for the illumination!
Didn't know she was Vera to Roz Russell's Auntie Mame. My Father was living in NYC when the play opened, and he went and stood for a performance. Must have been pretty good, 'cause he talked about it years later!
Yeah, I've run into the chat about Mary Martin-- she must have been something onstage, 'cause she wasn't all that attractive and her voice wasn't all that great, either. It's hard for me to envision her playing Maria von Trapp when she's up in 40.
Have you ever read Noel Coward's "Diaries"? He worked closely with Mary several times, and apparently she, and moreso her husband, Richard Halladay (sp?), were excruciating to work with-- if I remember correctly, they and another couple were involved in a car accident in San Francisco, that Mary was pinned in the front and survived, while all the time Richard was dead in the backseat.
The book I'm reviewing is pretty up front about the hot/cold/hot relationship between Martin and her horrible but protective husband, and Coward. I'll put Coward's diaries on my list of things to read this summer, now that the BMI Musical Theatre Workshop is over until September!
I had an "Oh my GOD!" moment when I read Rowles' obituary and found that she had been the Hanes spokewoman. It was as though she''d been hidden in plain sight all those years. She seems to have had a lively and interesting career.
Halliday died in a hospital years before, and wasn't in that bad crash, in which a male friend was killed and Janet Gaynor was severely injured.
Thank you for posting this!! I'd never seen The Older Sister, and the site looks like it has lots more interesting things.
I think I remember seeing Polly Rowles in a couple Perry Mason episodes - she certainly played some interesting roles. Was she in the movie version of Auntie Mame? It's been a long time since I saw it.
Really, I don't know - I am away so much myself.... L.A. Borden
Bob,
Thanks for clearing up the Halliday matter!
As for "The Poll," it's amazing how TV-- especially pre-cable-- made even commercial stars cultural icons. I knew I'd seen her over and over when I watched "The Older Sister."
Back to the car crash-- wow! Janet Gaynor! You know, there were rumors about her, too. Wasn't she married (in convenience) to MGM costume designer Gilbert Adrian?
You'll (and anyone who loves 20th century theatre/cinema/entertainment/British royals and nobility) love "The Diaries"! I've read them several times, and keep them on my night table. I had to read "Private Lives," "Blithe Spirit," and "Hay Fever," on their heels. "Private Lives" has to be one of the best modern British plays. No wonder it's revived so often. There's a good film version of "Blithe Spirit" with Rex Harrison, in color from the early '40s.
DJ - That 'Night Gallery' episode with the shadows on the wall is on that Hulu site. They only have 4 or 5 Night Gallery episodes. I'm waiting for some new ones.
Well, crap, Tina-Kate! That's awful you can't get the Hulu shows in Canada.
Mary Martin was real famous for her on-stage role of "Peter Pan". You probably know her son is Larry Hagman.
I've always thought Jamie Lee Curtis was gay.
Oh, yeah, DJ. That T Zone of the woman driving cross country scared me so bad when I was little. That was Inger Stevens as the driver.
He was on several TV shows while I was in England. He had an exhibition of his artwork in London. I hadn't seen him for a LONG time & was quite shocked to see him completely bald & so much older.
He's still as charming as ever, tho!
“I am innocent. I leave it to my counsel to speak for me.”
—Lizzie A. Borden, June 20, 1893
On the Hulu site there are some full-length movies on there, too. There was a real good one with Ellen Burstyn on addiction. Last nite I found the Sylvester Stallone movie where everyone is trapped in a NYC tunnel. It might be called "Daylight". I wanted to see that at the movies but didn't get around to it. I wonder if they change the movies on there from time to time.
Wow - Tony Curtis??!! Maybe he had chemo treatments. I wouldn't have known who it was if you hadn't said so, Tina-Kate. I wonder how old he is.
Thanks, Augusta! I really want to cruise on Hulu, especially "Alfred Hitchcock Presents" and "Night Gallery." Does Hulu have the one with the fisherman who catches the mermaid in his nets and goes to some hoodoo person for a magic potion to make her all human-- and, at the end, she has a full body and the head of a frog or a fish or some such? Yikes!
Do you ever watch "Ghostly Encounters" on the Bio Channel on Sunday nights? Supposedly real. Some sound like urban legends. There was a truly frightening one about a haunted basement in Toronto.
I had a good time watching all the episodes offered on Hulu.com of "Kitchen Nightmares". (I'm addicted to 'Hell's Kitchen' and 'Top Chef' these days.) That chef, Gordon Ramsay, said on one of the shows that he was 40. He looks older than that to me.
I also saw a few episodes of "The Tick". I guess that was a series (short-lived, maybe) a few years back and I never watched. I thought it was funny. This guy goes around in a blue outfit with antennas calling himself 'The Tick', a superhero, and he has a couple 'super-hero' friends.
DJ - I was surprised the other day to see something about Janet Gaynor being gay. It might have been an ad for Turner Classic Movies' tribute to gay actors. I think I did hear she was married to Adrian. He was the designer who created shoulder pads for Joan Crawford, because she had such big shoulders. I'd like to see a picture of him. I've always heard of him but don't have a clew as to what he looks like.
Adrian also designed the costumes for "The Wizard of Oz."
Yes, he really turned Joan Crawford into a clothes horse. Before her oldest daughter trashed her, she was considered the epitome of the glamorous '30s star. Actually, she started at MGM in the mid 20s, after having won Charleston contests, and no less than F. Scott Fitzgerald called her the epitome of the flapper girl.
Adrian left MGM about the time Garbo and Norma Shearer did, and Crawford left shortly thereafter.
Well, if Janet Gaynor was gay, she was extremely discreet about it. As was Agnes Moorehead, of "Bewitched" fame. It's long been rumored that she and Debbie Reynolds had a thing, but Debbie's not talking, although she does say "Aggie" was a good friend.
Thank you, Tina-Kate, for posting the picture of Adrian! He looks a little feminine. Spiffy dresser!
DJ - I didn't know he did the wardrobe for 'The Wizard of Oz'!
Agnes Moorehead - yeah, I remember hearing something about her. Marjorie Main. Now that wasn't surprising.
I don't get the Bio Channel, DJ. I used to watch TAPS/'Ghost Hunters" on Sci-Fi loyally. But then after so many shows, they all got to seeming alike. I don't think they spend enough time at the places they go. And why are they running electricity when they're trying to get in touch with 'the other side'? It's my understanding that that really gets in the way of anything coming thru. Flashlights are OKAY, but ideally candles, tho that isn't always very practical. Mirrors are usually good to use. And glass.
I would think they would get some good results with those going thru puberty. But it's a dangerous game all the way around, and it could mess a kid up. But they are less likely to be fake, and they're full of a ton of energy.
Actually, it says in the Bible that we aren't supposed to be trying to communicate with the dead. It says we're supposed to know, by faith, that there is an afterlife. It also says we're not to dabble in horoscopes, too.
Ouija boards are one of the worst things you can do. It's not a game, and it's not harmless. There's been a lot of cases where something bad has come thru, masquerading as something good at first.
Ennyway, I thought I found a good site, like Hulu.com, at AOL's web site that shows tv episodes. They have the Alfred Hitchcock episodes on there that were done in the 1980's, and some were re-makes of original Alfreds. The volume on Hulu's Hitchcock half-hour shows isn't real good on my laptop, but it was great on that AOL site. But it turned out I was watching their free trial, and after like 5 shows you have to pay, which I didn't because Hulu is fine for me. And there's probably other sites out there, too.
Yes, Augusta-- I've heard Sylvia Browne say over and over not to use Ouija boards-- you may summon up a disgruntled, or even malevolent, spirit that will tell you that you're going to die soon (or some such awful thing), just to be spiteful. After all, the board works on the principle that you're summoning an available spirit to communicate from The Great Beyond.
I agree with you about all those "Ghost Hunters" type programs-- they never do anything in-depth. It's always "on to the next big thing." Along the lines of what you're saying-- why not bring along a small group of kindergarteners? The haints seem to be more readily visible to very young children.
Yes, The Bible does warn us off necromancy. I don't actively summon spirits (who have crossed over but can visit) and certainly not ghosts (those souls who haven't crossed, who are stuck here). However, I think it's only natural for us to receive messages from spirits, especially those who were close to us.
My maternal grandmother told me a little Methodist Sunday School catechism she learned (this would have been around 1910, or a few years before): "I believe in God above / I believe in Jesus' love / I believe in spirits, too / Come to teach me what to do."
I think most American (and Western) churches have strayed away from having to contend with spirits and ghosts, because it's one more thing theologians and clerics can't explain very well, unless they reach out to New Age writings. It's so much easier to say, "There're no such things as ghosts." Case closed.
This, from a church wherein I heard "Father, Son, and Holy Ghost" for years, until the prayer book was done over, and the Biblical translation was modernized.
My point! I'm not going to a seance or use a Ouiji board, but if I feel the strong presence of, or sense the message from, a familiar spirit, I'm gonna listen! And, if I should see a ghost and not pass out or expire myself, I'm going to pray that they go to the Other Side.
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If you have the Sci-Fi channel-- they run a "Twilight Zone" marathon every July Fourth. There're too damned many ads, but the network does include some hour-long episodes, plus scenes of Rod Serling teasing "next week's episode."
Here's to Anne Francis and her gold thimble!
And "Aggie" Moorehead and her space invaders (Serling should have never appeared in the opening of that, with her, as he throws the whole thing out of whack-- interesting she pulls out *her hatchet*!)
And Robert Redford playing Death!
And William Shatner with that gremlin on the jet's wing! Although I like the one where he and his new bride stop at the cafe with the "message from the future" dispensers on the tables better.
A man ... wants to give his wife ... the interest in a little homestead where her sister lives. How wicked to have found fault with it. How petty to have found fault with it. (Hosea Knowlton in his closing argument.)
The subject of spiritualism ties in well with this forum, as it was hitting a great peak of popularity during the Victorian era. British writer E. F. Benson spoofs it in his "Lucia" novels, which are light and delightful, in which the protagonist's central pastime-- aside from social climbing-- is
"Ouijing."
Now we know that Lincoln and Mary Todd held seances in the White House, that FDR consulted with Jeanne Dixon, and that the Reagans didn't make a move without consulting their astrologer.
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In a recent conversation with a friend who had just read a new book on the Civil War by a Harvard historian, we were discussing concepts of the Afterlife, how for a long time the notion of obtaining a heavenly berth was to unite with the Deity and the Heavenly Hosts.
Following the enormous losses of life during the Civil War (and other major wars, abroad), the concept of the Afterlife in America (and other Western countries) began to shift more toward a reunion with our lost loved ones.
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Yes I do think in stressful and uncertain times- like these now- people do tend to resurrect *Spiritualism.* Hence the modern preoccupation with seance, psychics and hauntings.
I dunno, Kat. I rather think that people are always interested in it.
DJ - I didn't know Sylvia Browne said that about Ouija boards. Well, good for her - tho I don't believe in her much. Worse than what she said could happen is possession. There are cases where people have been possessed by a demonic spirit, first drawing them in by acting like a good spirit.
If a loved one contacts you - or any of the things you said you would let happen, uh, happen - that's a different ball game than trying to play Medium.
Well, adolescents are at the age when there's so much hormonal energy going on that it isn't rare to learn of many in that age category having psychic experiences and, channeled right, can connect. They have a lot of psychic potential - the majority - sometimes too powerfully. I think they should really be with an adult who knows how to interpret things, if they try anything, so they don't freak out and quit - if one is doing this for actual study. I'm not suggesting teenagers fool with this - they shouldn't. But if people are looking for proof of things and results, and they're gonna do it anyway, why not use the best people for it?
It has been proven to me beyond any doubt that telepathy does exist. I would think anyone with a brain could do it, but I think for some it comes easier than with others. "Sending" is a little work, but "receiving" can be done when the receiver isn't even thinking about it and doesn't even know it's going to happen - flash! - a color picture pops into your head for no reason, that you know of. The people doing it, tho, need to be somehow like on the same level. Like just anybody won't get anything from just anybody. Some people have stronger 'signals' than others.
The problem with 'the great beyond' and finding evidence of it, largely usually boils down to this: you usually never know if it's YOU causing the event, or if it's a spirit.
But when a spirit comes to you, and you're not even thinking about it, and it's something weird that you'd never in a hundred years even think to do, I'd say then it's probably a spirit.
To date, there's just one guy in the medium field that I believe in. That's George Anderson. I don't know how he can work over the radio, tho. The in-person readings he gives make sense, but over a radio?? That raises some doubt in me.
Constantine - I'm sorry, but I don't even want to go to the website on Ouija boards. Can you condense what it says, please?
DJ - I love all the Twilight Zones you mentioned! Except I never did like that Agnes Moorehead one. I know, I know. It's very highly reviewed, but the 'no talking' thru the whole episode I dislike. I should give it another chance, tho. I think you're right - Rod Serling introducing that one is a bit off. I'll bet Hitchcock would have done a silent intro to it.
Augusta,
*Spoiler Alert* (as if everyone hasn't seen it): The reason I don't like Serling intro-ing that episode with Aggie (we were so very close!) Moorehead is that he's right outside her window, the same height as she, and she turns out to be some giantess on another planet, 'cause the invading spaceship turns out to be American, and the astronauts are the size of small dolls.
That didn't hit me in the face till I'd seen it about five times. Otherwise, I love the flip-flop, that we're rooting for this evil space giantess who kills our astronauts, and we don't know it! We perceive her as the victim, until the end. I'm kinda glad it doesn't have any dialogue-- aliens should talk alien, or else communicate via telepathy.
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Speaking of aliens, did anyone see that freaky film taken by that guy in Denver? I saw it on "Larry King Live" a week ago. It's of an alleged alien peeking in his window, then it's inside, peeking around a door-- better than "The Twilight Zone"!!!
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Augusta, have you seen "Trilogy of Terror" with Karen Black? The segment with the African warrior doll is as good as a "Twilight Zone" episode, and it shares some features with that Aggie Moorehead installment.
Kat @ Sat Jun 07, 2008 4:01 am wrote:Yes I do think in stressful and uncertain times- like these now- people do tend to resurrect *Spiritualism.* Hence the modern preoccupation with seance, psychics and hauntings.
Sherry,
I'm thinking also along the lines of Gambling. Notice the upsurge in that- like all the poker on TV. I think turning towards the gambling craze- or Spiritualism- is like a resurgence, and is cyclical, like the economy.
Used to be hard to catch a show on hauntings, for instance. I even wrote a letter, about 10 years ago to the network to see if they would show a repeat of a haunting show I'd seen a while ago- no answer.
It's been a long time since Unsolved Mysteries and Robert Stack. Now these shows are everywhere, as are magazines on the paranormal. It's more mainstream. Psychic Detectives, John Edward, James Van Praagh, Lisa Williams, America's Psychic Challenge, Most Haunted, Ghost Whisperer- these are all relatively new.
DJ - I don't remember Rod Serling introducing the A.Moorehead episode like that. Interesting. I'll have to see that again.
Well, I'm glad you shared what the episode was really about. Now I can watch it with a different eye. You didn't spoil it for me - it gives me more reason to watch it again - to the end.
YES! The Karen Black Trilogy of Terror, the third segment about that African doll, was sooooo good! It has been a favorite of mine ever since I first saw it aired on tv, like in the 1970's. I taped the movie years ago, and I'll usually just watch that last episode. It's up there in like my top 5 shows of all time.
How about the Twilight Zone with Liam Sullivan keeping quiet for a year? That hour-long one with Martin Balsam keeping those wax figures of murderers in his basement caused me many a sleepless hour. (Or was that a Hitchcock show?) They were showing "One Step Beyond" episodes here a while back. I shoulda taped 'em.
That's true, Kat. There are a LOT of shows now on the paranormal. That's true, they used to be few and far between. Oh, yeah. Gambling. Since they legalized it in Detroit, everyone is flocking to the casinos - even people who never gambled before.
I think the networks are over-saturating the market with lawyer shows. If I wanna see a show on that, I'd much rather go to TruTV and see a true crime show.
I think it's getting that way with the paranormal shows, too. The real ones I much prefer to the fictional shows out there.
Augusta, there was a really addictive show on the Bio Channel a few years back, called "Dead Famous." I know you don't get that channel, but the show may pop up somewhere else.
In each episode, a "sensitive" and a "skeptic" would visit places that were familiar to a dead celebrity, and the "sensitive" and, often, other psychics, would attempt contact.
The best ones concerned Jim Morrison and James Dean. (The Marilyn Monroe episode came in third.) Others were ho-hummy, because the show couldn't obtain access to the celebrities' old residences. However, they got inside Morrison's apartment-- there was even a dent in the wall outside where he had a mishap with his car.
They also went to the exact spot where Dean wiped out. The same with Jayne Mansfield, where her car was totaled.
I loved the concept for this program, and it's a shame that it didn't succeed beyond two seasons.
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I've been looking for the return of "Madmen" on AMC. Anyone know?
I thought it was going to be this past May.
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Serling liked to play on that large/small theme with aliens. There was another episode with a couple that's been out partying, and they wake up hungover in an unfamiliar bed. Turns out they were kidnapped by aliens, and they're in a gigantic alien girl's dollhouse.
Also, the astronauts who crash, and one becomes power mad as the giant, godlike figure to a community of itty-bitty personages. Turns out there're also real giants on the crash-land planet.
Serling certainly enjoyed playing on the theme of how you may be large in one dimension, but tiny in another.
Is it any wonder the writers' union struck over Internet profits? These may become as big/bigger than syndication residuals.
Don't forget the July Fourth "Twilight Zone" marathon on SciFi. I believe the Family Channel is running a Harry Potter marathon, too, although, to me, the books are 1000X better than the movies.
Heard awhile back that J.K. Rowling is working on a detective novel. Sincerely hope so.
Anyway, thanks Harry.
...). But seeing it again I found myself paying more attention to the detail. 
Well, I think I know now why I've never seen her before, or since.
The hulu video library can only be streamed from the US.
