We look at another episode of original "The Twilight Zone" this time an episode from the frist season, the season finale called "A World of His Own" that first aired on July 1, 1960.
It's about a man named Gregory West who is a playwright. He's having some safe 1960's TV time with a woman, his wife sees him and the woman through the window. She comes in the house and the mistress is worried this it seems. (I'd be worried too) It cuts back to the wife coming in the room and not seeing anybody. (did she escape out the window?)
That's not his wife/ Copyright CBS
Victoria, his wife, searches around to see the signs of a mistress in the office. (Not sure how that works) She eventually says that she saw Gregory with another woman. He tricked him into saying that were was another woman in the room. He has an explanation for this ,a perfectly logical one. The other woman's name is Mary, and his explanation is that sometimes characters come to life. (makes sense?) He tries to explain that one of his characters walked in right into the room one time, and she does the right response of thinking he's losing it.
Where's the other woman? Is she in the couch?/Copyright CBS
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He explains that if he describes his characters well enough into his tape recorder; they come alive. The best idea is to show her. He takes a piece tape from the paper in the dictation machine says that if he throws the paper into the fire, they disappear. So he shows her by doing it. (Could have done this in the first place)
I'm a witch!/ Copyright CBS
Mary shows up as he walks into the house. (This episode got weird) Mrs. West thinks that this is a plot. (I guess he didn't do a good job proving) He decides to show her the disappearing thing to prove it. Mary says don't bring her back, because she can't bare it anymore. He throws the paper into the fire and Mary goes away. Victoria is confused. She quietly takes the key from his pocket and she leaves. She going to have him put away.
Spoiler zone here (you can skip a head after the last red word if you don't want to get spoiled)
He does the thing and makes an elephant block her way. He says he'll remove it if she stays. He opens the safe he had, and shows her that he created her as well. He says for the first time she exhorted her own free will. He asks her if she would like him to put it back or burn it. She grabs it and throws into the fire and she starts to feel funny and figures out it was the truth. He rushes back to see to remake his wife, but stops and decides to bring Mary back, and make her his wife. (What a twist) Rod Sterling shows up into the episode to tell you it's fictional but this time apparently, he's apart of the episode and Gregory pulls out his envelope and throws into the fire and Rod Sterling goes away.
If this was them wondering if the show wasn't going to get a 2nd season , this would have been a big way to go out. It was Sterling's first appearance on screen in the show, yeah he didn't do that thing of showing up in the first season, he just did voice over. What a fun twist.
This episode is interesting, I like the double twists it brought. I like the tension of expectation of what could happen next. The audience saw the woman and it's fun wondering what happened to her, and we wonder if his explanation makes any sense or not. It's both dramatic and funny at the same time. Love the acting of Kennan Wynn as Gregory , Phyllis Kirk as Victoria and Mary LeRoche as uh Mary. It'a fun episode, and I think it's a good tier episode of the show.
The idea of writing come to life is always what good writing is about, so the idea of it coming to life literally is amazing. It's different change of pace of some other episodes, pretty atmospheric.
That's it for now, tune in next time, when we create someone to write these blog posts.
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