What Did You Watch? 2024-03-28 (Thursday)

Apparently I missed the time travel bus to today that departed yesterday so you'll just have to settle for what I watched yesterday, not what I'm going to watch this evening.
The Twilight Zone S5E11 'A Short Drink from a Certain Fountain ' - DVR
When a man takes a youth serum, the potion goes beyond its intended effect and he regresses to infancy.  (Comcast)
An aging married man convinces his brother to inject him with a youth serum.  (IMDb)
Slaking your thirst for Trivia:
Until episodes became available on VHS and DVD, this was one of four "lost" episodes of The Twilight Zone (1959) that were not included with syndication packages during the 1960s through the 1980s. The other three were Miniature (1963), Sounds and Silences (1964), and The Encounter (1964). This episode, "Miniature," and "Sounds and Silences" were excluded from the package because of lawsuits that had been filed claiming those episodes were plagiarized. "The Encounter" had drawn complaints of anti-Japanese prejudice and epithets expressed by one of the characters. The episodes were finally re-released for broadcast television in a 1983 special hosted by Patrick O'Neal, the lead actor of "Fountain".
Tim Matheson filmed a deleted scene of Patrick O'Neal reduced to age 12.
During the opening monologue it's stated that Harmon Gordon's wife Flora is 40 years his junior. However, Patrick O'Neal was only eight years older than Ruta Lee in real life.
Initially, the Raymond Gordon character was to be a typical family physician. Disturbed by the character's willingness to experiment on a fellow human (Harmon, his brother), CBS asked that his occupation be changed to that of a research scientist. Serling complied.
Quotes:
Narrator: [Opening Narration] Picture of an aging man who leads his life, as Thoreau said, 'in quiet desperation.' Because Harmon Gordon is enslaved by a love affair with a wife forty years his junior. Because of this, he runs when he should walk. He surrenders when simple pride dictates a stand. He pines away for the lost morning of his life when he should be enjoying the evening. In short, Mr. Harmon Gordon seeks a fountain of youth, and who's to say he won't find it? This happens to be The Twilight Zone.
Narrator: [Closing Narration] It happens to be a fact: as one gets older, one does get wiser. If you don't believe it, ask Flora. Ask her any day of the ensuing weeks of her life, as she takes notes during the coming years and realizes that the worm has turned - youth has taken over. It's simply the way the calendar crumbles - in The Twilight Zone.
armon Gordon: [after receiving the experimental serum] Well, when can I expect some change?
Dr. Raymond Gordon: Within 6 hours. That's when the first physical change is noted. As for the mental change, none of the rats or guinea pigs have told me what the feeling was.
The Twilight Zone S5E12 'Ninety Years Without Slumbering' - DVR
A retired wtchmaker (Ed Wynn) fears that when his grandfather's clock stops ticking, his own life will end.  (Comcast)
An old man believes that his life will end the moment his grandfather clock stops ticking.  (IMDb)
Trivia to sleep by:
William Froug had Richard De Roy rewrite the George Clayton Johnson teleplay "Tick of Time" before it was aired as Ninety Years Without Slumbering (1963). Johnson was displeased with this and ultimately never reconciled with Froug, and never contributed to The Twilight Zone (1959) again.
Quotes:
Narrator: [Opening Narration] Each man measures his time; some with hope, some with joy, some with fear. But Sam Forstmann measures his allotted time with a grandfather's clock, a unique mechanism whose pendulum swings between life and death, a very special clock that keeps a special kind of time - in the Twilight Zone.
Narrator: [Closing Narration] Clocks are made by men, God creates time. No man can prolong his allotted hours, he can only live them to the fullest - in this world or in the Twilight Zone.
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I've done good in this world. Now I'm tired and just want to be a cranky dirty old man.