![]() On Billy Bayle’s fifth birthday, his spooky grandmother gives him a toy telephone then rudely steals the birthday boy’s spotlight by dying. As well as being a sympathetic figure, Lowery is also a textbook example of someone suffering from receptive aphasia, and as such Wordplay is not only a chilling, worthy Zone tale, but also a clever, real-world referend. By the story’s end, Lowery is re-learning the language, with the help of his son’s ABC books. Fleeing home, he discovers his son is ill, and rushes him to the hospital, still bewildered. The problem gets gradually worse until everything Lowery hears is gibberish. Robert Klein is Bill Lowery, Wordplay’s protagonist, who wakes up one morning to discover that his friends, family, and workmates are beginning to drop unfamiliar words into their conversations his neighbour refers to his dog as an ‘encyclopedia’, and a colleague asks him where he should take his date for ‘dinosaur’. As statements of intent go, the first few episodes of the 1980s reboot are bold Wordplay is directed by Wes Craven, and he would helm quite a few from that first season, along with other horror standouts like Tommy Lee Wallace and William Friedkin. The opening credits of the 1980s Twilight Zone reboot immediately throw you back to the time TV started going through the night in the UK, and Wordplay - the first part of the new incarnation’s second episode - would have been one of the earliest things seen in that late night slot. ![]() A journey into a wondrous land of imagination. “You are travelling through another dimension, a dimension not only of sight and sound but of mind. We at STARBURST submit, for your approval, this homage to one of our favourite TV shows, and there’s no better way to start than with Mr Serling’s famous introduction… Since then, thanks to syndication and home video, the show has become woven into the fabric of pop culture all over the world, its original 156 episodes (92 of which were written by Serling over the series’ initial five-years), constantly being shown somewhere in the world to this day, sixty-plus years after the debut transmission on October 2nd, 1959. ![]() The end result was THE TWILIGHT ZONE, inarguably the most innovative and imaginative television show of its time, which garnered more than 18 million viewers during its first run. Now imagine Rod Serling, an accomplished and innovative writer of films, plays, and television announcing that he would devote his time to creating, developing, writing, executive producing, and introducing a weekly series of horror and science fiction stories with a clever twist or moral at the end of each episode. A wasteland of monochrome situation comedies, westerns, and cop shows. Imagine if you will, television in its infancy.
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