11/13/2023 0 Comments A penny for your thoughts productions![]() ![]() ![]() The show had earlier used in him in a much more serious role in In this pre- Bewitched role, York is honing his light comedy skills andĭoing it well. Poole that it is difficult to imagine another actor in the role at this point. 20, 1992) was so perfectly cast in the role of Hector B. Johnson agreed to buy the story back but only under the condition that he be allowed to submit a new story which he could adapt into a teleplay for the show. Johnson's story, "A Penny for Your Thoughts," was read by Houghton and approved for production.Ĭomedy, the casting was very important. Buck Houghton approached Johnson to ask the writer to buy back his story. Johnson's story would not see print until the October, 1981 issue of Rod Serling's The Twilight Zone Magazine. When passed in front of corporate sponsors, a food company, they deemed the story too grisly, fearing their target audience losing their appetite. Even more miraculous is that the hand he lost has grown a new body, a deadly doppelganger intent on destroying him. "Sea Change" concerned a sailor who loses his hand in a boating accident only to have his hand miraculously grow back. Johnson sold a short story titled "Sea Change" to producer Buck Houghton. The story actually begins with another story. Johnson would use his story "A Penny for Your Thoughts" as an Own teleplays if he wanted to start building a serious body of work. With Charles Beaumont and Richard Matheson, the show's two leading writersīesides Serling, and was heavily encouraged by Beaumont in particular to start producing his George Clayton Johnson harbored aspirations for producing his own teleplays. By the time production was rolling on the second season, Johnson had sold two stories to The Twilight Zone, "All of Us Areĭying" (filmed as "The Four of Us Are Dying") and "Execution." Rod Serling wrote the adaptations and both stories aired during the first season. ![]()
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