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The Twilight Zone Podcast

The Incredible World of Horace Ford

The Twilight Zone Podcast

Tom Elliot

Tv Reviews, After Shows, Tv & Film

4.8601 Ratings

🗓️ 30 May 2021

⏱️ 49 minutes

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Summary






For one night only, celebrated writer Reginald Rose pens a Twilight Zone episode. With a career on a similar trajectory to Rod Serling‘s, how does his Twilight Zone effort compare?
Tom Elliot finds out when he enters The Incredible World of Horace Ford.
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Transcript

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0:00.0

You unlock this door with the key of imagination.

0:07.0

Beyond it is another dimension.

0:10.0

A dimension of sound, a dimension of sight, a dimension of mind.

0:14.0

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. Picture, if you will, a young Rod Sailing, circa 1959, two months before his new show,

1:01.6

The Twilight Zone, was about to air. Several episodes were already filmed ready to make

1:09.0

television history, one of which was an episode that was going to

1:14.2

become one of the most celebrated pieces of television he would ever make.

1:20.1

That episode was walking distance, but about this time a CBS executive came to Serling with an idea that he thought would be perfect for the Twilight Zone.

1:35.6

Sailing agreed that the story presented to him would be a good fit,

1:40.7

but it was a story whose themes were just a little too similar to walking distance.

1:48.2

So maybe this just wasn't the time to meet this other character in his incredible world.

1:55.6

When I was a kid, I always had a capital. Listen, Leonard, do you remember Ken Maynard in the movies?

2:00.2

All the other kids on the block were Tom Mix, except me. I was Ken Maynard in the movies. All the other kids on the block were

2:01.4

Tom Mix, except me. I was Ken Maynard. Me and my horse tarzan. We used to gallop out of the theater

2:07.5

and shoot up the whole neighborhood. It's hard to imagine what the Twilight Zone might have in store

2:16.1

for this sweet man. a man who not only

2:19.0

remembers the excitement of childhood things, but revels in them. And don't we all wish we could

2:26.0

carry that with us? So how could this be a bad thing? Well, let's find out when we visit the

2:34.1

incredible world of Horace Ford.

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