Night of the Meek/But Can She Type?/The Star is interesting because it was supposed to be Night of the Meek/Nackles/The Star. Nackles? What on the earth is Nackles? Nackles was a New Twilight Zone instalment ready to shoot until CBS expressed nervousness (and rightfully so) about elements of the Nackles script.
Ed Asner's character in Nackles was creating an anti-Santa Clause to scare minority kids, and in a comeuppance, it turns out the anti-Santa Clause is black! Oh dear. What surprised me was the surprise the New Twilight Zone folk had towards CBS's decision to pull the plug from Nackles. However if the Nackles script had a Nazi Santa Clause as comeuppance then maybe this would have been greenlighted.
Ed Asner's character in Nackles was creating an anti-Santa Clause to scare minority kids, and in a comeuppance, it turns out the anti-Santa Clause is black! Oh dear. What surprised me was the surprise the New Twilight Zone folk had towards CBS's decision to pull the plug from Nackles. However if the Nackles script had a Nazi Santa Clause as comeuppance then maybe this would have been greenlighted.