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The Twilight Zone Podcast

The Prime Mover

The Twilight Zone Podcast

Tom Elliot

Tv Reviews, After Shows, Tv & Film

4.8601 Ratings

🗓️ 16 August 2016

⏱️ 38 minutes

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Summary

Tom Elliot takes a look at the story of two men, one of whom has an amazing gift from The Twilight Zone in The Prime Mover.

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0:00.0

You're traveling through another dimension, a dimension not only of sight and sound, but of mind,

0:15.0

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

0:19.0

That's the signpost up ahead, Your next stop, the Twilight Zone.

0:50.1

In his book, Unlocking the Door to a Television Classic, Martin Graham's Jr. documents an excerpt from a letter that Charles Beaumont wrote to Rod Sailing.

0:55.7

And Beaumont wrote, Here is a spec script I wrote some time ago, for my own show,

0:59.8

now gone the way of all good and decent projects.

1:01.7

Del says he likes it.

1:07.2

Book, as usual, has more reservations than the combined Indian population of America.

1:13.0

Though, if no one listens with the third and fourth ears, one seems to hear not an altogether unenthusiastic note in his tone.

1:18.2

I of course love it dearly and believe it could make a wonderfully entertaining and possibly

1:24.0

moving show.

1:26.0

If your reaction is favourable, we'll do it on the twilight zone at the

1:31.4

core of the story that we're going to be looking at tonight there is a friendship between two men and

1:39.4

sometimes in a friendship or a partnership or, they work not because the two people involved

1:46.6

are similar in their personalities, but because they're so different.

1:53.1

Each person balances out the more extreme character traits of the other.

1:59.7

And in tonight's episode of the Twilight Zone, we meet one such pair of friends, Jimbo and Ace.

2:07.3

Ace is the hot-headed gambler, always looking for a faster way up the status ladder.

2:13.6

And Jimbo, a simple, calm, mild-mannered man who seems to be happy to just go with the flow of life.

2:22.3

But a freak occurrence when a car rolls off the road outside the diner that the two of them run,

2:28.3

puts Jimbo in a position where he has to reveal something about himself that even his best friend Ace never knew.

2:38.4

He can move things with the power of his mind.

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