Re: What Did You Watch? 2024-03-21 (Thursday)

On 3/22/2024 7:54 AM, Adam H. Kerman wrote:

Dimensional Traveler <dtravel@sonic.net> wrote:

The Twilight Zone S4E12 'I Dream of Genie' - DVR
A man considers several possibilities when he is offered one wish by a
genie in a magic lamp.  With Jack Albertson.  (Comcast)
A wiseacre genie appears from a lamp to a meek man, George P. Hanley.
Hanley is so used to bad luck, he imagines how each of three possible
wishes could go very wrong - but the genie will grant him only one wish!
Trivia:  The title is from the first line of the 1854 ballad "Jeanie
with the Light Brown Hair" by Stephen Foster written about his wife, Jane.
Bob Hastings (Sam) and Mark Miller (Roger Hackett) both later appeared
in I Dream of Jeannie (1965), another comedy featuring a genie that
derived its title from the 1854 song "Jeanie with the Light Brown Hair"
by Stephen Foster: Hastings played Homer Banks in The Used Car Salesman
(1968) and Miller played Wild Bill Barrows in Ride 'Em Astronaut (1969).
Despite her character celebrating a birthday in her 20s, Patricia Barry
was actually 40 when the show was broadcast.
This is Jack Albertson's second (and final) TZ appearance. The first was
The Shelter (1961).
Of the twelve credited actors for this episode, seven - Howard Morris,
Mark Miller, Joyce Jameson, James Millhollin, Robert Ball, Jack
Albertson, and Molly Dodd - made guest appearances on The Andy Griffith
Show (1960).

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IMDb trivia is fascinated with stuff like this. It's interesting up to
a point. These were working actors at a point in their careers in which
they were getting a lot of work. Various tv series were in production
during this era. IMDb trivia likes to emphasize coincidence. It's just
not. It's like at the height of the studio system in the 1930s and 1940s,
seeing the same actors in one MGM movie to the next one, or noticing the
same dancers or extras. They worked there. That's why they were in so
many movies.
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Or today, watching tv shows produced in New York, noting all the stage
actors appearing in them.

 Should I take that as a down vote for that specific type of trivia going forward?