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Summary: Just OK
Review: In "A World of Difference", Howard Duff plays Arthur Curtis, A man who is living his normal life, and then someone says, "Cut!" and he finds out he's an actor on a set, and Arthur Curtis is the character he plays in the movie! It's the best of the lot, so get it to see this episode. In "Back There", Russel Johnson is Peter Corrigan
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Summary: Reality is never what it seems in "The Twilight Zone"
Review: The four episodes on Volume 22 of "The Twilight Zone" DVD series deal with the unreality of reality. "A Word of Difference," written by Richard Matheson, stars Howard Duff as Arthur Curtis, a businessman who is surprised to learn that his office is really a sound stage and that everybody thinks he is an actor named Jerry Raigan, an alcoholic movie star trying to salvage his career. This is one of the best "Zone" episodes to deal with the Kafkaesque question of whether you really are who you think you are. In Rod Serling's "Back There," Peter Corrigan (Russell "The Professor" Johnson) was discussing time travel at his club in Washington, D.C., when suddenly he finds himself sent back to April 14, 1865: the date of Lincoln's assassination. Having argued that it is possible to change time, Corrigan frantically tries to prevent the assassination, but most of the people he encounters dismiss him as a drunk or a lunatic. Joseph Wiseman stars as Paul Radin in Serling's "One More Pallbearer," who invites three people to a bomb shelter: the teacher who flunked him, the colonel who court-martialed him, and the preacher who made public his affair with a woman who committed suicide. Radin uses sound effects and such to convince the three a nuclear war is about to start. They can stay in the bomb shelter and be safe, but only if they apologize to him. Maggie McNamara plays movie star Bunny Blake, better known as the "Ring a Ding Girl" in this episode written by Earl Hamner, Jr. About to leave for a shoot in Rome, Bunny receives a gift from her home town fan club, a ring with a gem in which she can see the faces of people she knew back in Howardville. Convinced she is needed there, she returns home and astounds everybody by insisting that they cancel the Founder's Day picnic. Most of the Twilight Zone twists in these episodes are pretty predictable, so while individual tastes may vary, none of these would be considered classics.
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Summary: Reality is never what it seems in "The Twilight Zone"
Review: The four episodes on Volume 22 of "The Twilight Zone" DVD series deal with the unreality of reality. "A Word of Difference," written by Richard Matheson, stars Howard Duff as Arthur Curtis, a businessman who is surprised to learn that his office is really a sound stage and that everybody thinks he is an actor named Jerry Raigan, an alcoholic movie star trying to salvage his career. This is one of the best "Zone" episodes to deal with the Kafkaesque question of whether you really are who you think you are. In Rod Serling's "Back There," Peter Corrigan (Russell "The Professor" Johnson) was discussing time travel at his club in Washington, D.C., when suddenly he finds himself sent back to April 14, 1865: the date of Lincoln's assassination. Having argued that it is possible to change time, Corrigan frantically tries to prevent the assassination, but most of the people he encounters dismiss him as a drunk or a lunatic. Joseph Wiseman stars as Paul Radin in Serling's "One More Pallbearer," who invites three people to a bomb shelter: the teacher who flunked him, the colonel who court-martialed him, and the preacher who made public his affair with a woman who committed suicide. Radin uses sound effects and such to convince the three a nuclear war is about to start. They can stay in the bomb shelter and be safe, but only if they apologize to him. Maggie McNamara plays movie star Bunny Blake, better known as the "Ring a Ding Girl" in this episode written by Earl Hamner, Jr. About to leave for a shoot in Rome, Bunny receives a gift from her home town fan club, a ring with a gem in which she can see the faces of people she knew back in Howardville. Convinced she is needed there, she returns home and astounds everybody by insisting that they cancel the Founder's Day picnic. Most of the Twilight Zone twists in these episodes are pretty predictable, so while individual tastes may vary, none of these would be considered classics.
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