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Posted on 12/31/2015 5:44:01 PM PST by keat
I'm watching the TZ marathon on SyFy. The current episode, "A Most Unusual Camera" is from 1960 and looks like it was shot on videotape. Did they do that back then? Looks like a cheesy soap opera.
Thanks + have a wonderful 2016 ! ! !
I don't think I ever heard that one before. Rolling On Into The Floor Laughing My Socks Off?
I totally agree. Burgess Meredith is one of the finest actors of all time.
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I love that episode...it’s so sad, without being maudlin.
Good night, pleasant dreams !
What made “Twenty Two” so spooky was that actress who was both tall & Central Asian looking with those uptilted eyes, especially when she locks the airliner door & then gazes upward only moments before the aircraft explodes on takeoff.
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>>Five weeks into season two, the show's budget was showing a deficit. The total number of new episodes was projected at twenty-nine, more than half of which, sixteen, had, by November 1960, already been filmed. CBS suggested that in order to trim the production's $65,000 per episode budget, six episodes should be produced in the cheaper videotape format, eventually transferred to 16-millimeter film ["kinescoped"] for syndicated rebroadcasts. The studios of the network's Television City, normally used for the production of live drama, would serve as the venue. There would be fewer camera movements and no exteriors, making the episodes seem more akin to soap operas (and Playhouse 90), with the videotaped image effectively narrowing and flattening perspective. Even with those artistic sacrifices, the eventual savings amounted to only $30,000, far less than the cost of a single episode. The experiment was thus deemed a failure and never attempted again.
Even though the six shows were taped in a row, through November and into mid-December, their broadcast dates were out of order and varied widely, with this, the third one, shown on January 20, 1961 as episode 14. The first, “The Lateness of the Hour” was seen on December 2, 1960 as episode 8; the second, “Static” appeared on March 10, 1961 as episode 20; the fourth was the Christmas entry “Night of the Meek” shown as the 11th episode on December 23, 1960; the fifth, “Twenty Two” was seen on February 10, 1961 as episode 17; and the last one, “Long Distance Call” was transmitted on March 3, 1961 as episode 22.
"Room for one more, honey..."
Ugh, now days some so called seasons last half a dozen episodes with mostly commercials. Commercials last so long, I forget what I'm watching. That or they aren't written well enough to keep my attention. Hundreds of channels but nothing worth watching. Our cable company has been switching around the channels and deleting the ones we watch, like TVLand (old shows) and Velocity (cars). Of course, they say our bill will be higher this month as if they didn't already raise it 3 months ago.
The actress, Arlene Martel, died this past August. She was 78.
No info on the ethnic background which gave her those exotic features.
August 2014.
She was at least part Vulcan.
She shared something in common with Jonathon Harris (Dr Smith from Lost In Space) who was also in that TZ episode. Both started out very poor in the Bronx NY.
“Martel was born in New York City. She spent her early years growing up in a slum in the Bronx, but had a very lively imagination. At age 8, her mother’s millionaire boss saw her family’s poor living conditions as well as noticed her own personal potential, and decided to become her personal benefactor, and had her family taken out of the slums and her sent to a private boarding school in Connecticut, where her acting and writing skills were discovered and encouraged to grow.
At age 12, she went to back to New York to audition at the famed High School for Performing Arts, without her mother’s knowledge or consent. She passed the audition, soon excelling at the school, and being awarded the school’s top drama award at the time of her graduation. One of her teachers is the now renowned director Sidney Lumet. Her professional acting career began early when she played “Esther” in a Broadway production of Uncle Willie, which starred Norman Fell.
Martel moved west to Hollywood, where she began an active career on television, starting with a guest appearance on Behind Closed Doors. She had also appeared on such television shows as The Twilight Zone, The Untouchables, Route 66, Perry Mason, The Man from U.N.C.L.E., I Dream of Jeannie, Here Come the Brides, Mannix, McCloud, The Rookies and Battlestar Galactica.
She has also appeared in the films The Glass Cage, Chatterbox and Angels from Hell, as well as the television movies Indict and Convict and Eleanor, First Lady of the World, as well as several Columbo television movies, and the television soap The Young and the Restless.
Her most famous roles, besides playing Tiger on Hogan’s Heroes, was playing Consuelo in the The Outer Limits episode, Demon with a Glass Hand, considered by many as one of the best episode of the series; T’Pring, the female Vulcan who was suppose to marry Spock in the Star Trek Amok Time episode; and “Malvina” an evil witch who appeared in two-part “How Not to Lose Your Head to Henry VIII” episode on Bewitched.
She also played the Russian female commandant in charge of the road crew that appears at the start of the 1978 horror film, Zoltan, Hound of Dracula, receiving top billing while appearing in only the first five minutes of the film. Her last onscreen role was in the film, What Do Women Want in 1996.
Martel died of a heart attack on August 12, 2014 in Los Angeles, California.”
http://hh.wikia.com/wiki/Arlene_Martel
Wow. What a beauty she was.
Lesseenow....where was I in August 2014? And today it’s 2016 already!!?
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Lois Nettleton played the part of the feverish girl. Bare feet, wearing just a slip - and sweaty. My God, that woman was HOT! (no pun intended).
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