Twilight Zone: Season 2, Episode 20 Static
(10 Mar. 1961)
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Twilight Zone: Season 2, Episode 20 Static
(10 Mar. 1961)
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Ed Lindsay
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| Carmen Mathews | ... |
Vinnie
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Robert Emhardt | ... |
Professor Ackerman
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| Arch Johnson | ... |
Roscoe Bragg
(as Arch W. Johnson)
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Alice Pearce | ... |
Mrs. Nielson
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Clegg Hoyt | ... |
Shopkeeper
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| Stephen Talbot | ... |
The Boy
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Lillian O'Malley | ... |
Miss Meredith
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Pat O'Malley | ... |
Mr. Llewellyn
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Ed Lindsay has been living in the same boarding house for over 20 years and he has become an embittered old man. He doesn't like how the world has changed around him and his crotchety behavior has made him certainly the most disliked man there. When he turns on his old radio however, he gets music from the 1940's on a station that, it turns out, has been off the air for 15 years. There's a reason he hears the music however, a reason a fellow boarder reminds him of. Written by garykmcd
'Static' is one of my favorite 'Twilight Zone' episodes because it's tantalizing, because it waltzes graciously with the sense that the body ages inexorably but the heart lives outside the bounds of time.
Dean Jagger's line that "radio has to be believed to be seen" is itself a minor gem. Perhaps Rod Serling devoted his television offerings to trying to put into "seen to be believed" video images what in earlier times of radio he'd "believed to be seen."
The IMDb site software informed me that the foregoing two paragraph review could not by itself be made to appear on the IMDb site, because it did not consist of the minimum number of ten lines of text. Be that as it may, I hope that if you happen to see 'Static,' you'll now appreciate that radio alone does not generate it.