Post by mszanadu on Sept 15, 2017 21:01:59 GMT
. Also with all honesty
I would have never picked up
on some of these crossovers
that you mentioned here either
. I usually watch some
of the ones you mentioned here
around 100 times and still
would have never made
that connection until now
. Thanks so much Salzmank for some of
your movie recommendations of the ones
I have not seen here and for your reply
. As I noted on the other thread, I wonder if "Number 12..." were partly based on Huxley's Brave New World--but of course that hadn't been filmed at that point. (It still hasn't received a feature-film, big-budget adaptation as far as I know.) I believe that Scott Westerfield's Uglies series (of which I've read the first book) borrows (a euphemism for "steals"
) its entire premise from this episode (Mr. Westerfield's protestations to the contrary notwithstanding). It seems to me that "Black Leather Jackets" (5:18) was based on Brando's The Wild One (with aliens added, of course).
Also, not exactly what you're looking for, but a few connections between episodes: "Walking Distance" (1:5), "A Stop at Willoughby" (1:30), and "Of Late I Think of Cliffordville" (4:14) all have the same general theme--a man wishes to return to his hometown and experience his boyhood. Of all these, ironically, the first, "Walking Distance," seems to be the most mature, recognizing both the good and bad of nostalgia.
Also connected: "Where is Everybody?" (1:1), "Third from the Sun" (1:14), and "I Shot an Arrow into the Air" (1:15) (and Serling's script for Planet of the Apes)--same general set-up, same general twist ending--and "King Nine Will Not Return," "The Arrival" (3:2), and "The Odyssey of Flight 33"--same general aviation theme, probably suggested by Rod's pilot brother Robert.
P.S. In researching that last tidbit, I found an interesting piece of information I never knew. On an airplane-centered forum (I didn't know those existed either!), posters were discussing The Twilight Zone, and someone wrote, "'The Arrival' was rather good at first too. It's not every day that you see a DC-3 land with nobody on board. I guess something similar really did happen with a DC-3, in 1957 in Missouri. Only in that case it was a cornfield rather than at an airport, and there was no eerie mystery." Does anyone know anything about this real-life incident? I'd never heard of it.
P.P.S. Robert J. Serling, Rod's brother, penned a number of aviation-related books, one of which was The President's Plane is Missing--later turned into that well-known telefilm of the same name. How's that for connections?
I'm just putting credit where it's properly due here Salzmank
. I always enjoy your very quality
and well researched posts here as well
. So again thanks so much for taking
your time and efforts with all of this too
. I very much appreciate it
and also thanks for the
airplane centered forum link here as well
. As for this particular thread here
it was actually just out of sheer curiosity
from my original subject post observation
of the " Mr. Chips film / Changing Guard TZ ep. comparison "
. Also for me it was a by chance self discovery on this as well
.