Hello, dear friends, and welcome to the Buster Keaton Radiocast, a radio show in which I,

your host, Thomas Seymour Elliott-Steen, reviews each and every film by the maister himself,

Buster Keaton, what a joy. But, faithful listener, this episode of the Buster Keaton radio cast is a little

different than usual, yes. Instead of reviewing one of his recent films at the picture palace,

like The General or Sherlock Jr., I have recently came into possession of a time helmet. A time helmet.

What's that I hear you cry at your radio apparatus? Well, dear friend, the time helmet will allow me to go into the future to a year of my choosing, where I will be able to review one of Mr. Keaton's fine silent films

in the world of tomorrow. I have set the timer to the year 2018, and the device will place

me into the body of a person of that era, so that I might attend the picture house to view

their cinematograph machine. I only hope I will find myself in the

person of a strapping and handsome fellow of fine breeding. So wish me well dear

friends as I activate the device and let us hope my journey back is a safe one and I

don't end up in some half-like locality. To the future! ...to the future! You're traveling through another dimension.

A dimension not only of sight and sound, but of mind.

A journey into a wondrous land whose boundaries are that of imagination.

Your next stop, the Twilight Zone.

As a television viewer in the 1990s or 2000s, it's likely that at some point one of your favourite shows will have broken format.

And I don't mean just done something a little different than usual, but actually introduce some device or perform the show in a completely

different way than they usually do. Some might call them gimmick episodes and it's as fairer

description as any. Although not limited to the 90s and 2000s, it did become quite a common thing at that time

to do these episodes that really broke the format.

Some format breakers are quite subtle, like in the early seasons of the new Doctor Who series,

they would sometimes feature an episode where the doctor himself

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