On 3/19/2024 5:51 AM, Dimensional Traveler wrote:
The Twilight Zone S4E10 'No Time Like the Past' - DVR
A man (Dana Andrews) travels backward in time and tries to change events surrounding Hiroshima, Hitler and the Lusitania. (Comcast)
A scientist attempts to use a time machine to prevent tragedies, both in world history and in his own past. (IMDb)
Trivia! (You've just been waiting this, haven't you.)
The small town set is the same as that used in A Stop at Willoughby (1960). Originally intended to open with Paul Driscoll and his mentor Harvey
having a political discussion, but was judged too boring before the
final cut.
Dana Andrews and Robert F. Simon, who play the time traveler and his assistant, played a detective and his chief/boss in Where the Sidewalk
Ends (1950).
Plot Hole: Driscoll wants to assassinate Hitler, yet the time he picks
to do so is when Hitler is at the height of his power and fully
protected by soldiers and the Gestapo. It would have been much easier to
go back to a time when Hitler was not yet a public figure, let alone
dictator of Germany.
I remember this one. But that plot doesn't require an hour. Did he
give up and try to live a life in the past in the second half?
What Did You Watch?
I watched:
Quiet on the Set: The Dark Side of Kids TV (Investigation Discovery) - I finished episodes 2 and 3. Wow! The stuff that went down was jaw
dropping. While the first episode mostly dealt with Don Schneider and allegations of a toxic work environment that constantly sexualized the
children on the show. The remainder of the series focused on the
*multiple* pedophiles that worked there!
There was one story about a guy who, I won't get into all the details,
but he had a list and baggies of souvenirs. And the story gets worse
from there.
Another of the stories they told was bringing everyone in for a meeting
but making the parents wait in another room where some lawyer type guys
told the kids about the abusers who were on set without the parents
hearing about it. Of course these were children who weren't fully
grasping what was happening, but the now adult child actor said looking
back at it was a bit suspect how they did that.
A good chunk of the show focused on one of the male actors. I never
heard of him before but he really popular at the time. According to the interviews from him, his father, and others, his father quickly caught
on that one of the guys was up to no good and actively keeping the man
away from his son. But the guy worked there and had a right to work
access. So the guy started to tell the boy how his father was stealing
his money and being a bad manager. The guy also started to whisper into
the ear of the estranged mother about how the father was a bad manager
and stealing the boys money. Eventually it worked and with mom's
backing the boy fired his father as manager. The interview has the
father saying he told the mother to watch out for this guy and under no circumstances allow the guy to be unsupervised with the son. Cut to the
now adult son saying, well my mom didn't drive...and he offered to drive
me around...then cut to a story of multiple assaults. Eventually the
boy starts to hide at his girlfriend's house and stops answering the
guy's calls on his cell. The creep then starts to call the boy at the
boy's girlfriend's house to the point where the girl's mother (keep in
mind these are children) quickly catches on that something is very wrong
a grown to be calling a child at her house like this. Eventually things
come out, police are called, and the guy is arrested. But that's not
the end of it! At the trial the boy went to court to see on the
abuser's side of the courtroom packed with famous people. On the boy's
side just his parents. Guy gets convicted sentenced to six years. I
had to rewind back to make sure I heard that right, six years. Then
once he got out got a job working on a different children's show on the
Disney Channel. The show would often put up a title card with the other
side's version of the story which was typically we had no idea.
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