one for the angels

[sergebroom]

Remember that today marks the beginning of the SciFi Channel's traditional Twilight Zone marathon of the New Year. I am quite happy to see that today's schedule includes one of the show's sweetest episodes, One for the Angels.

Lewis J. Bookman, age sixtyish. Occupation: Pitchman. Formerly a fixture of the summer, formerly a rather minor component to a hot July. But throughout his life, a man beloved by the children, and therefore a most important man. Couldn't happen, you say? Probably not in most places, but it did happen in the Twilight Zone.

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[miltonthales.livejournal.com]

The episode my mother and I still remember is the one in which the wife kills her husband by blunt instrument. The instrument is a frozen leg of lamb.

She then serves the cooked lamb to the detectives, thus destroying the murder weapon.

[serge-lj.livejournal.com]

I've heard of that one. That was on Alfred Hitchcock Presents, right? I watched the show a lot when I was young, along with Naked City.

[pedanther]

Yes, that was on Alfred Hitchcock Presents. (And it was written by Roald Dahl, if you know who that is.)

[serge-lj.livejournal.com]

I've never read anything by him, but I know who he is. (Was?) By the way, do you remember that 1980s TV anthology series that adapted some of his stories? To say that they were unusual is an understatement. And this is the guy who wrote the script for one of my favorite Bond film, You Only Live Twice, if I remember correctly.

[pedanther]

Roald Dahl's Tales of the Unexpected: my brother gave me the first season box set for Christmas last month. (The gift tag said something like "The contents of this present are unexpected, by definition" -- which was kind of self-defeating, because as soon as I read it I said to myself "In that case, I expect it's Tales of the Unexpected.")

[serge-lj.livejournal.com]

I wasn't expecting the Sapanish Inquisition!