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Join Ben as he enters into a realm of shadow and substance.
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And then there’s the movie that’s NOT a Twilight Zone episode, but might as well be. ONE of them gave Ben a lump in his throat. TWO of them are some of the best Twilight Zone episodes ever. These episodes were chosen because of their Christmas connections and because Ben found the Rod Serling movie, A CAROL FOR ANOTHER CHRISTMAS, watched it, enjoyed it, and wanted to talk about it! But he ALSO watched the other three classic Christmas episodes.
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We continue our series about THE TWILIGHT ZONE (which only has two episodes, but that’s actually not too shabby) by covering three Christmas themed episodes of the show (“The Night of the Meek”, “Five Characters in Search of an Exit”, and “The Changing of the Guard”), plus A CAROL FOR ANOTHER CHRISTMAS ( Rod Serling’s riff on A CHRISTMAS CAROL that the team learned about in our Christmas carol episode last week). Not Sure These Are Words Of Wisdom, But.Some Memories of Germany, Bus Tour To Heidelberg.Some Memories of Germany, Castles, Part 8.Politically I'm interested in economic populism/progressivism, with emphasis on income distribution and health care. Jokes and joking are also a big part of my life, and in some quarters, I'm known for my one liners. To me, not all songs have to have some deep, serious meaning to them, but are just for fun. Music is a big part of my life, and I have a number of favorite songs that fit my mood at any given time that is, happy and upbeat, serious, inspirational, melancholy. Serling far too early, at the age of only 50, but his stories, and the stories of others adapted for the Twilight Zone, taught many a great lesson, so he won his victory for humanity.Ībout Me Name: Randy Location: Cleveland, Ohio, United States Rod Serling was the creator of "The Twilight Zone" television series and he also wrote some of the stories for the show, including the story covered here. He decides to accept retirement and this completes, "the changing of the guard." They then tell the professor they must go, and as the students fade off intoĮternity, the professor realizes that he was not a failure, and that heĭid accomplish something. Others stand and tell similar stories, with one student speaking who died way back in World War One, but each recounts how the professor Another stands and tells how he was exposed to radiation and died, as he tried to find a cure for cancer, but that he always remembered a poem the professor had taught him. He says how the professor taught him about courage. One student approaches and shows the old professor the Congressional Medal of Honor he had been awarded posthumously for his heroic service on Iwo Jima in World War Two. The thing he can't understand is, all of these students had died at some point after they left school.
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There he finds the desks full of students from his many years of teaching. As he prepares to take his life, he hears the school bell ringing, which prompts him to go into his classroom to find out why. Until you've won some victory for humanity." The professor tells himself he's ashamed to die, because he's failed. The professor reads the inscription of a quote from Mann, "Be ashamed to die
Mann, a prominent American supporter and reformer of education of the mid 1800s, had espoused public education to help potentially elevate all children, not just the privileged few of families with the money to pay for it.
The professor decides to end his life that evening, and he takes a pistol and goes to the statue of Horace Mann in front of the school. Meaningless phrases they memorized for the moment, but then forgot. He thinks back on all of his years, he feels he hasn't reallyĪccomplished anything that he gave young people a lot of empty, His life had been devoted to teaching literature, and as The Guard," starred English actor Donald Pleasence, a favorite actor of mine,Īs an old professor at an all boys school who is forced into retirement by the schoolĪdministration after five decades of teaching. SeveralĮpisodes stand out in my mind from those old shows, but one in Back in the late 1950s and early 1960s, "The Twilight Zone" was a popular television show.
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