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The Twilight Zone Podcast

Ninety Years Without Slumbering

The Twilight Zone Podcast

Tom Elliot

Tv Reviews, After Shows, Tv & Film

4.8601 Ratings

🗓️ 10 November 2023

⏱️ 56 minutes

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Summary

Tonight Tom Elliot watches the clock with an old friend from The Twilight Zone, Ed Wynn, who returns to the show in the episode Ninety Years Without Slumbering.

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Transcript

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0:00.0

You unlock this door with the key of imagination.

0:10.0

Beyond it is another dimension, a dimension of sound, a dimension of sight, a dimension of mind.

0:18.0

You're moving into a land of both shadow and substance

0:21.6

of things and ideas you've just crossed over into the twilight zone.

0:26.6

The Twilight Zone comes around,

0:58.1

it is a time of transition.

1:01.0

Many of the directors who have helped to shape the show have moved on at this point,

1:06.7

and new ones come in.

1:09.0

And the same can also be said of writers,

1:11.6

and also the great Buck Houghton,

1:14.6

who produced the show for many years,

1:17.6

had moved on at this point,

1:19.6

and that producer's post became a revolving door.

1:23.6

Now Mark Zickery and the Twilight's own companion writes,

1:28.6

including 90 Years Without Slumbering,

1:31.5

six episodes produced by William Frug,

1:34.8

fully won fourth as output,

1:37.0

were written by newcomers to the series.

1:40.1

As the results demonstrate,

1:42.5

most of them just did not understand the form.

1:47.1

In previous seasons, virtually all the better episodes had running through them a sense of cosmic justice,

1:55.8

of people getting their just-deserts often with a full helping of irony.

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