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MaggieL · 03-04-2003, 09:01 AM

I was never much of a Twilight Zone fan, but I could have sworn I saw this one on the orginal Outer Limits in the 1960's.

That would resonate with the "Picturephone" theme, very big back then. The Franklin Institute here in town (which was a science meuseum back then instead of the for-profit theme park it has become today) had one one in operation in the Bell Telephone exhibit, frequently placed demo calls to the Bell exhibit at the Museum of Science and Industry in Chicago.

But webserach reveals a (new) Twilight Zone episode:

<blockquote>EXAMINATION DAY
Writer: Henry Slesar

Teleplay: Philip DeGuere
Director: Paul Lynch
Cast: Christopher Allport, David Mendenhall, Elizabeth Normant, Jeffrey Alan Chandler, Ed Krieger, Myrna White

Little Dickie Jordan's parent are afraid he won't pass the government intelligence test.</blockquote>

Examination Day
Originally broadcast: November 1, 1985
made for TV
episode of The New Twilight Zone

Based on:

* "Examination Day" (February, 1958) by Henry Slesar
o Published in Playboy magazine
o Collected in The Playboy Book of Science Fiction and Fantasy (1966)
o Collected in From the "S" File (1971) edited by Editors of Playboy, Editors of Playboy
o Collected in School and Society Through Science Fiction (1974) edited by Joseph D. Olander, Martin H. Greenberg, Patricia S. Warrick
o Collected in Inside Information (1977) edited by Abbe Mowshowitz
o Collected in 100 Great Science Fiction Short Short Stories (1978) edited by Isaac Asimov, Martin H. Greenberg, Joseph D. Olander
o Collected in Realms of Darkness (1985) edited by Mary Danby
o Collected in Isaac Asimov's Wonderful Worlds of Science Fiction #5: Tin Stars (1986) edited by Isaac Asimov, Martin H. Greenberg, Charles G. Waugh
o Collected in New Stories from the Twilight Zone (1991) edited by Martin H. Greenberg
o Collected in 100 Hair-Raising Little Horror Stories (1993) edited by Al Sarrantonio, Martin H. Greenberg

PDF of the original story: http://education.uncc.edu/ssagallag/...tion%20Day.pdf

03-04-2003, 09:01 AM	#3
MaggieL in the Hour of Scampering Join Date: Jan 2001 Location: Jeffersonville PA (15 mi NW of Philadelphia) Posts: 4,060	I was never much of a Twilight Zone fan, but I could have sworn I saw this one on the orginal Outer Limits in the 1960's. That would resonate with the "Picturephone" theme, very big back then. The Franklin Institute here in town (which was a science meuseum back then instead of the for-profit theme park it has become today) had one one in operation in the Bell Telephone exhibit, frequently placed demo calls to the Bell exhibit at the Museum of Science and Industry in Chicago. But webserach reveals a (new) Twilight Zone episode: <blockquote>EXAMINATION DAY Writer: Henry Slesar Teleplay: Philip DeGuere Director: Paul Lynch Cast: Christopher Allport, David Mendenhall, Elizabeth Normant, Jeffrey Alan Chandler, Ed Krieger, Myrna White Little Dickie Jordan's parent are afraid he won't pass the government intelligence test.</blockquote> Examination Day Originally broadcast: November 1, 1985 made for TV episode of The New Twilight Zone Based on: * "Examination Day" (February, 1958) by Henry Slesar o Published in Playboy magazine o Collected in The Playboy Book of Science Fiction and Fantasy (1966) o Collected in From the "S" File (1971) edited by Editors of Playboy, Editors of Playboy o Collected in School and Society Through Science Fiction (1974) edited by Joseph D. Olander, Martin H. Greenberg, Patricia S. Warrick o Collected in Inside Information (1977) edited by Abbe Mowshowitz o Collected in 100 Great Science Fiction Short Short Stories (1978) edited by Isaac Asimov, Martin H. Greenberg, Joseph D. Olander o Collected in Realms of Darkness (1985) edited by Mary Danby o Collected in Isaac Asimov's Wonderful Worlds of Science Fiction #5: Tin Stars (1986) edited by Isaac Asimov, Martin H. Greenberg, Charles G. Waugh o Collected in New Stories from the Twilight Zone (1991) edited by Martin H. Greenberg o Collected in 100 Hair-Raising Little Horror Stories (1993) edited by Al Sarrantonio, Martin H. Greenberg PDF of the original story: http://education.uncc.edu/ssagallag/...tion%20Day.pdf __________________ "Neither can his Mind be thought to be in Tune,whose words do jarre; nor his reason In frame, whose sentence is preposterous..."