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distilled f reactions to clients on on since indication or you had you know the
crews are set
marvelous phenomenon television that lands of mortality forget me
to almost everything
and occurs we go from generation to generation the grammar school kid is not
a
who first
view television
is now in college
and a brand new group is coming up
but we get considerable fan mail and including
oddly enough
flew several manuscripts per week
uh... offering to be done and twilight zone
or you pleased with what to did with the show by and large
i think it failed in
terms of its consistency that was
very good some weeks quite
bad other weeks but this i think it's pretty much the track record of
most television but richards desperate overexposure
and the brevity of time allotted to us to
produce something that is qualitative
but overall i would say that it was a
a creative seriously we did much more creating and we did imitating
i think we tried things failed frequently succeeded other times but i
think the mark of the show probably was that uh... i think the
quite receivable
attempted quality
and one on the show
and of course in those days we do get awfully skilled constantly skilled
performers
who would work for
five thousand
per show which may seem hai
but which then the next year was dwarfed by guys getting fifteen twenty
and i think our highest budget and retain and they show a seventy thousand
week
contrast that tonight gallery which is only twice as long
but which is coming out approximate quote of a million dollars a week that's
what's happened the spiraling costs of television
you well i'll tell you i'm not saying the uh... in the those shows are a watch
two published fiction for adaptation uh... was this one purple reader
frequently
first of all of having to do the marine week isn't back-breaking job the best
and no man
beast a balmy who was perhaps as i said earlier
cuts through the least adapt
to the science fiction writers
uh... no man could hope to create
ingenious and novel plot and of course that the beauty of the poor
science-fiction joan wasn't so much woodman untouched
they've been reproduced and in printed
form over and over again
you can buy you know anyone of four thousand anthology from here
and read all the best of sturgeon and i'm around all the rest of it
but have never been done on camera
so we have no one was the gold market
of unused material
that we could be operate from puts me most pleased with the which took a stick
out in the line i'll be enough to best shots at the two best shows we did when
i wrote when i didn't right
uh... one was an original what *** matheson called uh...
invaders
with uh...
i'd miss moran
which was in a sense true science fiction with a very old and reached
twist
and the other was an adaptation of mine a very free loose adaptation
of the lucille fletcher's i think it was a single fletcher
short story called time enough at last
bank teller
at the end of the end of the world breaks his glasses just was able to read
all these over one of the week
which was sheer
purer beautiful and
and in terms of production values
when i_b_m_ occasion imagine was gorgeous and use nanjing aback wrapped
with existing
sent sorority there too but i don't movie
riddick
matheson on the other has suffered what is really one of the clinical problems
of doing science fiction and t_v_
this desperately required
eight-inch
middleman to walk across the floor of a rooms and suddenly we are made aware of
the fact
that this woman who we thought was normal is actually an extraterrestrial
giant
and the two men who are the invaders are actually really
young american astronaut
so or we could use because we couldn't afford up because we couldn't afford
uh...
montage affects
we're a little wind up rubber man and nothing more precisely like the wind up
rubber bands
and i thought it totally distribution
pointed out to me
you know the desperate built-in problems to doing proper science fiction on
television
what would you do differently today if you are going to do it
produced a
mother for lights on
i would never tried to shoot it in three days
which is one of the hangups we had
i would get at least two days rehearsal for a cast
we had to begin with that was cut to one then we rehearsed on the set with no
rehearsal
uh... that was the first thing i would never tried beat my head against a wall
trying to come in it
what was an arbitrary budget at the time
week simply couldn't do it properly what we wound up doing was uh...
uh... very exuberant type of show very ambitious scoped show one week
now i have to suffer for with one shot drama for four weeks to pay off what we
already
and this i think lead
uh... discrediting thing to the
go to the consistency of the quality of the show
in terms of story material jim i don't think we would deviate very much what we
already done
either way it's an exceptionally good stuff
and in the few years that have passed since twilight zone was on
there is a period another whole new generation of body of marvelous science
fiction and fantasy that we could get again ron
what do you think that's why it's not had any impact upon later
all science-fiction total for partly enough
and usually you'll find a very successful in general and televisions
immediately apron
or carlos lists those corrections
but somebody should make a film to help
thank you
did the twilight zone of any influence on later television
coverage of science fiction i think not jim
in point of fact in criminology
uh... one step beyond priests either despite one season
uh...
outer limits followed us i think to a seasoned later
uh... there was one brief
altogether imitated show which was a some replacement produced by david
suskind
the name of which are going to mean which wasn't and altogether failure
uh... and then came star trek but none of those shows remotely imitative
they stood on their own feed or fell whichever the case may be
star trek eight we discussed it earlier privately i thought was again a very
inconsistent show
which at times sparkled with true ingenuity and pure science fiction
approaches and other times more carnival-like and very much more the
creature television than the creature of the legitimate literary form
uh...
there was one preview show that was sort of the granddaddy of all the television
science fiction
and this was done in the old dupont network
uh...
gosh i wish i could think of the neighborhood i'd love this desperate
knowledge in mind i come out with
and there's still a lot of marvelous adaptations
and some very good wins the adaptive alderman do you recall that that should
stop that was downsized them and while that's right
as very urgent so it does that matter
something about tomorrow was in the title
tales of tomorrow's i wasn't able to show produced by uh...
uh... by the uh... more deepens
on the old apartment with which i think waiters became a_b_c_ but that truly was
the grandaddy but in terms of your question know very little imitation
i think what it did do was to supply by virtue of its own moderate success
a kind of an entree
to the darkness that surrounds epl
go girl
what do you think
where does uh...
what to do some of these particular shows that were on other than your if
you think that for science fiction or did for themselves from central speech
by virtue of its own
relatively moderate success in all of them that we've mentioned with moderate
success is
including the invader
uh...
i think simply
uh... continued approvals point which has to be proven to not with officialdom
science fiction can stand on its own
uh... particularly on an anthology for commitment this of course is the
beautiful i thought contribution twilight zone
what i think we're seeing now by virtue of the new to our feature
the very often they are not dealing in science fiction video called
and in fantasy
and of course now that we dispense with the shooting pilots the to our feature
film serves it its debt
rather than television
features on the basis of the reaction of the feature
to decide whether they want to make it work
a series often salter that they hit the the art i happened to our picture phones
to our little stepped aside it's fiction much more of them then do
feature films for instance
that i've wondered whether there's a reason for this weather by its very
nature science fiction
tends to get an audience for something which is untested
cannot can answer that pedestal
atlast united nations it doesn't look
what is that the future of science fiction
is until
i have a
for lease on with you over to my i think hopefully we're going to see a great
deal more science fiction
i think at the moment is being stalled applied by the current desperate
economics of our place out there
that there'd better
terribly tourists and all new areas of storytelling on it because it costs of
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