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Thanks and picture given. Welcome back, ourt lovers to Midnight Viewing the

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Night Gallery podcast, where we discuss
Night Gallery Ron Sertling's follow up to the

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Twilight Zone. I'm following alone and
with me here in the gallery are the

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Culture Cast Chris Statue. I can't
wait to talk about Breakfast at Tiffany's Owne's

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Mickey Rooney and the projection was Mike
White. Have you seen my collection?

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I've got Hitler got a one of
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yes, minn. Now tonight we're
talking about two episodes from season three.

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They are rare objects. Inspector in
tap Shoes, our artists and artistans take

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a rather pardonable pride in network that
you see hanging here. An example is

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this item here. It's called Rare
Objects and represents that potpourri of collector's items

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that some men are prone to acquire. But there are collectors' items and collector's

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items alver. Do you know?
An excursion into the very strange Tonight's offering

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in the night Gallery. Rare Objects
is from season three, episode three.

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It aired on October the twenty second, nineteen seventy two. This was written

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by Ron Serling and directed by Jean
Zoarc, starring Mickey Rooney, Raymond Massey,

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Fay Spain, David Fresco, Victor
Senjung. He was hop Sing on

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Bonanza, but they've reduced him to
a virtually non speaking servant role here.

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Also Regis Kordick. He was Doctor
Peel in Primal Scream, Night Stalker season

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two Guys, and he's in two
of episodes of Colombo, And he's in

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two of my favorite episodes of the
Monkeys, Christmas episode and fairy Tale.

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This one's about a gangster on the
Lamb seeking asylum with a man with a

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pensiont for collecting interesting people or not
so interesting? What do you think it

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is? So goofy, and the
reveal is so oh my god. You

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know when they start going down the
list of people, and the first one

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that they start with is, hey, look they come out swinging. They

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don't have Hitler immediately, but they
have anastasias, so you know where this

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is going. And then it's Judge
Crater and stuff like this story is it

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is a blackout sketch once again played
for a thirty minute episode, and it

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could have been. This is almost
in a lot of ways, the essentially

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a different version of what was the
one with the not Kevin Spacey, Bobby

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Darren and the old man from Willy
Wonka Boy, Yeah, Jack Albert Simley,

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is that not this? But just
oh, here's another iteration. Instead

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of him being turned into dog food, he's just kept in a cage somewhere.

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It's it's that and that. And
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was a blackout sketch, and I
think that this is a blackout sketch.

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I do think the I've Got a
Hit thing is pretty funny, but it

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was bizarre through and through. But
hey, Mickey Rooney sure knows how to

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disgustingly eat a plate topasta just like
a real fucking just ugh. Who ever

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thought that Mickey Rooney could play a
tough guy? I just don't understand that

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at all. Wait, wait a
second, it's the same people who asked,

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could this man play Japanese? Oh
man, oh man. I just

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the whole time, I was just
like, he's a gangster. He's supposed

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to be a gangster. That's what
he always wanted to be my whole life.

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I wrote it in my notes,
I love tough guy Rooney. He's

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four foot nothing with a marble bar
between him and a six foot guy who

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looks like he could tear him apart. Later on where with him and his

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gangster mall and I thought she could
tear him apart? Yeah, yeah,

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ye gry Ooh okay, write that
pasta off your face. First, it

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was rough. This was a rough
one. I mean, I love Raymond

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Massey, but I think I was
better off with Raymond Massey the last time

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he was on the show. He
was more appropriate than that one. Speaking

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of the last one, it's the
same set. He's in the same house.

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Wow. I was about to ask
because it looked like and I was

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like, man, it's too bad
they didn't show the top of the Mantle

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and his head was there, Like
that'd be a little weird. What's the

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continuity of that one? That would
have been great, Actually, that would

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have been fantastic. Yeah, nobody
needs to see Mickey Rooney's mouth close up

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with sloppy Fetcini. Oh my god, also Fetuccini in a red sauce chick

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his papers. Oh wait a second, you're saying this not a thing.

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It shouldn't be no joke by the
way. Okay, his name's Collodny and

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he's played by a tiny irishman,
but he's clearly Italian. He's eating pasta

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in an Italian restaurant. His right
hand man is name Tony. He's clearly

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supposed to be Capone or somebody like
Capone. But why wouldn't they just lean

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into the Irish of him, Like
there aren't any Irish gangsters. I'll name

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some Dean O'Banion bugs Moran Onnye Madden, come on, man, Buddy McLean,

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Mickey mean Machine Murphy. He was
a Boston Weddy Bulger. Well,

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yeah, there you go, there's
a Boston boys. How about Sean Irish

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carbon McKenna. That to me was
a mess in the episode. Either just

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make him straight Italian or make him
Irish. I don't know why this interim

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Collodney. It feels like the stuff
that certainly used to complain about when he

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was writing for like Playhouse whatever.
Oh they made me change the character's ethnicity

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so that wouldn't offend anybody. But
that's what he's doing here. Okay,

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was this the fifties. I'm guessing
it's the nineteen fifties. Oh until there

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was a wah wah guitar in synth
playing, so then I assumed we're in

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the seventies. But then Mickey Rooney
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now I guess it's the thirties.
But then Hitler so forty six. Afterwards,

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I don't know. This was the
weirdest time episode of all time and

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I have no idea whatever we were
in. I was disappointed that at the

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end it wasn't like and then there's
an alien. There's just an alien in

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the cell's That's what I wanted.
I wanted it to fully just embrace the

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dumb, because this is like the
reveal in this episode is a really like

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just again some dumb sounds derrogatory,
but it is very not well thought out

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it makes very little sense, like
it is a gag. It is a

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visual gag that once you start thinking
about it logistically, it makes no sense.

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But it's not being played purely as
a visual gag, like this is

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the climax of the episode. This
is how the episode ends. We are

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led to believe the episode wraps up
with him being placed in a cell the

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end, like it's I laughed,
I thought it was funny, but I'm

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not gonna sit here and defend it
as quality, like I can appreciate for

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something for how absolutely just ridiculous it
is, which I think this episode is

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is firmly in that camp. I
think I could have enjoyed this one if

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it were a blackout skit, but
it just takes so long to get there,

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and Raymond Massey just chewing it up
everybody. Rooney and Massy are both

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chewing up the scenery, but it
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he's going with his soliloquy. And
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Rod, where it's just like,
oh cool, I get to write for

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this guy, and I'm just going
to write overwrite it so much. Rod

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Sterling overwrites something I know Evan for
Fenn Rod for some reason, the signs

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that we need to know how he's
keeping these people here, that there's a

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wonder drug involved that makes them docile
and also gives them longevity. So he's

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going to be yeah forever. Okay
if we didn't need it, because you

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mentioned the episode dead Weight with Bobby
Darren and Jack Albertson, and while we

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were watching that episode, I think
we all theorized that it was going to

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go to some weird supernatural place,
like all of the potential lame avenues that

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that episode could have gone in,
this one did. Yes, he's gone

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to hold him and keep him prisoner
forever, and there's gonna be some so

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bad and then oh, let me
say this. I mentioned I would start

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doing this hooray for Day for Night. It looks so good, looks so

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fantastic in this episode. Congratulations yet
again night galloray for a glorious Day for

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Night. The other thing I want
to say is they feature it a lot.

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Mickey Vernie's trembling lower lip. All
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it was some studio handler not beating
him on the day that he was able

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to do that, where they instructed
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It just it was such a rode
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now, I will do the lower
lip thing that they taught me or they

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beat into me when I was a
child. I know that's terrible, but

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kept thinking about it. The question
that I have is what does one do

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with a Hitler? Yeah, what
does one do with an Amelia Earhart or

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a Judge Creator? What? You
just have them in a cell and they

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just sit there like it's again like
the stakes of the episode. All of

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a sudden, Yeah, like you
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and then there's a door that opens
and Hitler's there, And it's very similar

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to that Star Trek episode, well
many Star Trek episodes, but especially that

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one with Saul Rubinstein where he is
kidnaps data and has them there. He

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wants these unique items. Oh he's
the collector from Marvel. Yeah exactly,

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So rold Emondson sure, yeah,
why not? I love Norwegian polar Explorers.

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Let's get this guy in here,
right, Judge Crater, Great,

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they are just a couple of years
away from Hafa. That's the one that

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we don't have here. But yeah, again, like the logistics and everything

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aside, like the twist is just
okay, and his explanation is just very

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strange. And for all the posturing
that he does essentially before we find out

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what the reveal is, for that
to be the reveal, it's like and

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that's what all the posturing was for
Hitler in a cage like okay. Also,

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it's Amelia Earhart and Anastasia and blah
blah blah blah blah and Kalodney and

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Hitler. Colodney and Hitler are of
this. It's the way that they ate

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Pasta. Just make it about al
Capone. This is what happened al Capone.

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Everybody thank you for Haffa again like
or hafa Like, that's what I

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equated this too, but they hadn't
gotten there yet. And again, this

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dude was just some schmuck criminal.
He wasn't anything like right, Oh,

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but I think you undersell yourself,
sir. I think you are much more

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than just that. Yeah, I
would say Bobby Darren was worth more of

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a rare object worth keeping because he
killed kids. And then it said it

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was okay. Most gangsters aren't okay
with that. He was a real scumbag.

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Gangster. This guy's just you know, this guy's a loser obviously,

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like guys want to kill him,
like his own people want to kill him.

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I don't understand. You're not good
job, sir. You're going into

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hiding because you're a bad gangster.
It's just the conceit of the episode is

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bizarre. And then yeah, it
feels like it's a joke because it's Mickey

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Rooney. Oh you know, when
he paints the waiter, he pulls out

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this huge wad of cash. I
am one hundred percent convinced that that's actually

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was just Mickey Roney's wad of cash. He's renowned first walking with a wad

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big enough to choke a horse.
Wow, I forgot that Rooney played a

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gangster once before. At least he
was a Blue Chips packerd and scud Do

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the classic Auto premature film, a
movie I have never gotten through. Oh

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boy, Yeah it's tough, and
yeah I think he does acid with Jackie

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Gleason and jail. See that makes
me want to watch it. And I'm

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gonna get fucking twenty minutes into it
again and I'm just gonna go, what

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am I doing? Don't do it? It's not worth it. It's not

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worth it. Maybe there's a clip
on YouTube. At least Mickey Rooney wasn't

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doing yellow face. At least there's
that. Thank Heavens for small favors,

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charcoal, and occasionally promaldehyde case in
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in Tap Shoes, having to do
with the nearly lost art of tap dancing,

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I said, terms of Curran pursued
taking on an intriguing dimension when the

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dancer happens to be a ghost,
as is so often the case, and

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the sort of thing that you viewed
in the night gallery. Specter in Tap

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Shoes. This is season three,
episode four. It aired on October ninth,

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nineteen seventy two. Happy Halloween,
Everybody, written by Gene Kearney,

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Remember Him. This is from a
story by Jack Laird and directed by Jean

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Swark. My god, it does
roll off the tongue. This one stars

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Sandra D her second appearance, Dane
Clark, Christopher Connelly, and Russell Florsen.

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Sandra D's sister, a tap dance
instructor, has committed suicide, but

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is she really gone what do you
think, Mike? This is another one

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where I'm kind of hoping you guys
can explain this one to me, because

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I was just having a real hard
time. She went off on a trip,

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came home, and her sister had
hung herself, but she could still

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hear her tapping as she was going
up the stairs. And then she found

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that she was dead and had been
dead for some time. And then no

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one believes her, but that she
keeps hearing these things, and her sister's

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possessions keeps showing up where they should
not be able to be suddenly available to

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her. And a real estate guy
shows up and says, listen, you're

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going crazy in here. J Why
don't you sell me this place? And

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she says no, and she continues
to go nuts. Neighborhood kids shows up,

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says, where's your sister? Were
you going to start dancing again or

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something? And then he leaves and
she goes further and further insane. Her

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psychiatrist thinks that she's actually developing a
split personality of some sort, that she's

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taking on all of her sister's traits, and that seems that that's the way

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it's going. The sister's ghost is
now speaking to her, urging her to

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follow her on her path to suicide. And it turns out all of the

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sounds in the house were all recordings
from the real estate guy in an effort

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to drive her insane in an ultimate
Scooby Doo like ending, and it doesn't

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work. But then, oh,
thank you for adding that part. But

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then she wouldn't have known where certain
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So maybe the ghost of the sister
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That makes sense? Now? Thank
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I didn't have the same issues you
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had a different issue, like this, why have this goddamn idiotic ending.

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It's like, that's all I could
think was Scooby Doo, like the Scooby

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Doo ending. But then they did
the other thing that they always do with

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these things, where it's like it
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also a supernatural thing, and it's
like, oh, fuck you, Like

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that's my response. It's like you're
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you don't feel comfortable with just one
or the others, so you have to

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make sure you do both because you're
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Is what it feels like for it
to have just been supernatural. What's

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the problem with it being supernatural?
It's not Gallery. Ghosts are okay on

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Night Gallery. Last time I checked. We're pulling the rug out from under

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ya. Oh it's the twist,
Yeah it was. That was some Alfred

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Hitchcock presents bullshit. That's not Night
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We don't want that here. We
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when Sandra d has her sister's tuxedo
on she's approaching the noose, we

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get a shot of a silhouette standing
in front of the window and there's darkness

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behind that. I actually felt dread
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This is an episode I had not
seen previous. I should point out

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it's hard to make me feel dread
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never mind a twenty five minute episode
of a television series sandwiched in between

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commercials. So to have this and
it was just an old man at the

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end is so insulting, because now
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going through her house dressed all in
black like hiding audio equipment, and then

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did he hire someone to impersonate her
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And then was he like hiding in
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the objects I enter into sight?
Like none of it makes sense, which

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is a drag because I felt the
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shadowed figure was and simultaneously wanting to
know nothing less. I don't want to

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be like an Academy member who just
throws an award every time they feel an

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emotion. But goddamn it, this
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Plus, Sandra D's performance is so
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She avoids all of the bundle of
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is going insane. I believed everything
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subtle, and it got worse and
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transformation from herself to her sister over
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had given us a lame ending with
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satisfying than it was. All in
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Good God, and then Sandra D
just murders him too. That was

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the good part of the episode.
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rarely on this show if we had
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to bring the plot to conclusion,
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and outside interference. She just pulls
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It's like, it's surprising. It's
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than anything else. Like it's tonally, it's kind of strange for Night Gallery.

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The house she was living in,
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New England Street on the Universal backlot. It's where Metlock lived. Oh,

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very nice. Fun fact, it
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I agree that sander D definitely brought
it, and I, other than

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seeing her on an earlier episode of
Night Gallery, I'm pretty unfamiliar with her

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work. So I did download Gidget
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I did too. Nice. Yeah, I'm gonna I'm gonna have to

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go on a Sandra D. Now. It's a corner of my brain that

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is unfulfilled at this point. All
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our next episode, and we'll be
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We offer you the sour fruit of
a scientist failure, for there are apparently

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some things that can't be accomplished,
and they're in life. The tale end

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hangs the picture. In this the
Night Gallery, we offer you paintings like

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this with a graphic illustration and one
of the most persistent and eternally recurring nightmares

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shared all too commonly by all of
us, that fear of being helplessly trapped

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in some inescapable circumstances, and with
it the hope that we can discover an

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exit. The title of his painting
is the other way Out, and imposes

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the question is this trip desirable?
Because this is the Night Gallery, their

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taste, of course, must have
necessity run towards the slightly odd, or

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at the very least, the bizarre. That's what we deal with here,

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as a bizarre, the expected unexpected, if you will, as in the

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case of this painting here it's called
Fright Night, featuring that beloved star of

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stage and screen. The name eludes
me, but there is you'll note of

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familiarity about it. Actually, this
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appears in strange houses, because that's
what this painting depicts, a very strange

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house, and you're welcome to share
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Night Gallery. That's right. On
the next Midnight Viewing, we'll be taking

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a look at season three episodes five
and six. You can come up now,

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missus Milligan, smile please, and
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Group and the theme song was composed
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you working on in where can people
find it? Mike White? I'm always

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working on new episodes. I've been
doing a lot of coverage of some film

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festivals lately, so go on over
to Weirdingwaymedia dot com where you can download

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every episode of The Projection Booth,
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as well as some of the other
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The Shabby Detective, which is all
about the detective name Colombo. So hopefully

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find some enjoyment in that. And
how about you, Chris same. You

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can find everything I work on at
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which is a weekly movie podcast that
I do every week. And as for

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me, you can also find me
at Weirdingwaymedia. At media dot com you

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can hear my shows Noisejunkies it's a
music podcast, or Dark Destinations. It's

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half hour radio drama I write and
produce. Thank you once again for joining

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us here at midnight viewing. The
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