Post by marianne48 on Sept 24, 2020 1:46:10 GMT
Several episodes referred to their burned-out main characters as 35 or 36, implying that this was middle age and it was all downhill from there. Although by today's standards this doesn't seem like such an advanced age, it's sad to remember that for Serling, who died at 50, his life was more than half over by 36.
A sad irony about Charles Beaumont, who wrote several great episodes for the show: One of his episodes, "Long Live Walter Jameson," centered on a man who never seemed to age and was much older than he seemed. Beaumont, at the height of his career, began to suffer from memory loss and physical ailments. He passed away at the age of 38 from Alzheimer's disease.
One of the best things about TZ was watching episodes as a kid and just thinking they were weird for weirdness' sake, then re-watching them years, even decades later and seeing them with a better understanding of what they were really about.
A sad irony about Charles Beaumont, who wrote several great episodes for the show: One of his episodes, "Long Live Walter Jameson," centered on a man who never seemed to age and was much older than he seemed. Beaumont, at the height of his career, began to suffer from memory loss and physical ailments. He passed away at the age of 38 from Alzheimer's disease.
One of the best things about TZ was watching episodes as a kid and just thinking they were weird for weirdness' sake, then re-watching them years, even decades later and seeing them with a better understanding of what they were really about.