![]() ![]() Next up we look at Mickey Rooney's season 5 episode, "The Last Night of a Jockey." Rooney plays Grady, a jockey who wishes he were big after being suspended for fixing races and doping.Įach of these episodes was written for their respective leads by Rod Serling himself. First up is Robert Cummings' season 2 premiere, "King Nine Will Not Return." Cummings portrays a US Air Force pilot who was unable to pilot what ended up being a fateful flight that took the lives of his entire crew. Since we've already covered that episode, this month we look at two other single-actor episodes. When executed well - such as Agnes Moorehead's "The Invaders," the episode can become legendary. It takes a gifted actor to be able to pull off a single-actor episode. They also examine the relationship between the mind, the subconscious, and the external world, as well as the idea that our dreams may hold hidden meanings and truths about our lives.Ĭonnect with Entering the Fifth Dimension: Facebook community Follow us on Twitter Contribute Listener Feedback The episode explores the theme of fate and the idea that our dreams can reveal hidden truths about the future.īoth episodes are known for their psychological horror and explore the idea of being trapped in a nightmare or a dream that is indistinguishable from reality. Once released from the hospital, she realizes that the dream is a premonition of death, and it saves her by keeping her from boarding a doomed aircraft. "Twenty-Two" tells the story of Liz Powell, who has a recurring dream in which she is in a hospital and follows a nurse to room 22, which is the morgue. However, the dream becomes a reality, blurring the line between dream and reality, while the episode explores the power of the mind and the subconscious. ![]() He seeks help from a psychiatrist who helps him confront his fear. And this episode is Beaumont's warning to all of us."Perchance to Dream" follows the story of Edward Hall, who suffers from a recurring nightmare. This is "man's weakness, and the devil's strength". Because he portrayed himself as a victim and because all men are reluctant to believe that they have come face to face with evil, the German people gave him the power he needed to manufacture his New World Order. Hitler made an appeal from behind a prison cell in the form of a book which portrayed him as a helpless victim struggling for justice (Mein Kampf or My Struggle). For this reason Ellington is able to look the devil in the eye and not recognize him.Īnd it is for this very reason that Germany was able to look a prisoner named Adolph Hitler in the eye and not recognize him as the hate-filled, evil man he was. For this reason Ellington gives no thought to the Staff of Truth being the man's only barrier to freedom. However, the prisoner eventually wins the battle for Ellington's trust by painting himself as a helpless victim of madmen, and also because Ellington (like all men) are reluctant to believe that they have come face to face with evil. Ellington is reluctant to believe the stories told to him by either the prisoner or the religious order that imprisoned him, as both are strangers in the strongest sense of the word. Here goes:Ī strange man makes an appeal to David Ellington from a prison cell. I've decided to make myself useful and throw my hat into our little thematic discussion. Great camera angles, as Crown said, and John Carradine is just fantastic. Like most of my other 10s, it has background music that I enjoy a lot and that seems to fit the episode very well. A very human mistake that just so happened to be utterly disastrous. Then life threw him a detail at the last minute that undermined everything, and due to a combination of fear and inflexibility, he couldn't adjust to it. By this time, you can hardly blame him for having his mind made up to let him go. Put together an incredible story to start with, plus an entirely sympathetic act by the prisoner, plus Brother Jerome's seeming like the textbook religious fanatic, and Ellington certainly had more than enough reason to let the prisoner go. I'm sure I would have made the same mistake myself. He may not have made an idiotic decision back then, but he wasn't as smart as he should have been. Now in Ellington's case, at least he could have seen that the prisoner should have been able to pull up the Staff of Truth by himself. One could say that she should have known something was going on when he couldn't kick the door down, but he could have been tied up or something for all she knew. Ellington was the idiot for expecting her to believe him, which she had no reason to do as far as I can see. I disagree, I don't think she was an idiot at all. " What an idiot she was.īetter late than never. Here's another one that could use a sequel, "Housekeeper goes on lifelong search.
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