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"The Twilight Zone" Static (1961)
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10 March 1961
(Season 2, Episode 20)
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An old radio is taking bitter bachelor Ed Lindsay back to a happier time before what he considers worthless tripe on television when he starts picking up radio programs from the 1930's and 1940's. | add synopsis
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(Episode Complete credited cast) | Dean Jagger | ... | Ed Lindsay |
 | Carmen Mathews | ... | Vinnie Broun |
| Robert Emhardt | ... | Professor Ackerman |
 | Arch Johnson | ... | Roscoe Bragg (as Arch W. Johnson) |
| Alice Pearce | ... | Mrs. Nielsen |
| Clegg Hoyt | ... | Shopkeeper |
 | Stephen Talbot | ... | The Boy |
| Lillian O'Malley | ... | Miss Meredith |
| Pat O'Malley | ... | Mr. Llewellyn |
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25 min
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1.33 : 1 more
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Mono (Westrex Recording System)
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This is more a story about loneliness and what we humans do to each other. It's a story of what if and why didn't I? Time often takes away the spark and this happens here. The old radio is at the center of all this. Dean Jagger's character is fed up with the modern world and its shallowness, but he also has lost the potential joy he once had. There is a wonderful scene where he lies back and listens to some old comedy from the thirties on the magical radio. He laughs in a touching, natural way. He has regained some of his youth. The problem is that we don't get to live back there; or do we? My question is: Is what happens at the end in his imagination, or has he actually been transported? We'll never know. Is it a happy ending? I don't know.