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Doug Krentzlin is a professional freelance writer, guest lecturer and actor living in Silver Spring, Maryland, with his cats, Buffy and Angel. Doug covers the classics of television, including comedies, dramas, mysteries, thrillers, horror, sci-fi, fantasy, animation and literary adaptations. He has also had articles published in the New York Post and Movie Maker Magazine. Doug can be reached here.

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TV's 25 Best Xmas Episodes - #2 - The Twilight Zone: 'The Night of the Meek'

Wednesday, December 23rd, 2009

From the 1950s through the mid-70s, the great comic actor Art Carney was on a well-deserved roll. His best known role was playing Ed Norton as a...
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TV's 25 Best Xmas Episodes - #8 - Tales from the Crypt: 'And All Through the House'

Thursday, December 17th, 2009

OK, boils and ghouls, just one more foray into murder and mayhem before we hunker down to (slightly) more traditional fare for the rest of our holiday...
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TV's 25 Best Xmas Episodes - #10 - Alfred Hitchcock Presents: 'Back for Christmas'

Tuesday, December 15th, 2009

John Collier’s 1939 short story Back for Christmas has been adapted many times for both radio and television. The story’s protagonist has...
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TV's 25 Best Xmas Episodes - #15 - The 20th Century Fox Hour: 'The Miracle on 34th Street'

When the popularity of television starting spreading like wildfire in the late 1940s, the movie studios considered it an enemy to be conquered at all...
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The Outer Limits: 'Don't Open Till Doomsday'

With the collapse of the studio system, the death of the censorship code and the advent of color television, Hollywood went through a lot of odd...
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The Outer Limits: 'Controlled Experiment'

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Unlike other anthology shows, such as Alfred Hitchcock Presents and The Twilight Zone, The Outer Limits almost never did comedies. The one exception...
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TV's 25 Scariest Episodes - #1 - One Step Beyond: 'The Clown'

“There is nothing funny about a clown at midnight” -- Lon Chaney, Sr. Good ol’ Lon knew exactly what he was talking...
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TV's 25 Scariest Episodes - #2 - The Outer Limits: 'The Zanti Misfits'

Although it occasionally delved into social and political commentary à la Rod Serling’s The Twilight Zone, Joseph Stefano’s seminal...
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TV's 25 Scariest Episodes - #3 - The Twilight Zone: 'It's a Good Life'

Don’t let the title of The Twilight Zone episode It’s a Good Life (originally broadcast on Nov. 3, 1961) fool you. This has no resemblance...
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TV's 25 Scariest Episodes - #4 - The Alfred Hitchcock Hour: 'An Unlocked Window'

Alfred Hitchcock directed several episodes of his two anthology television shows Alfred Hitchcock Presents and The Alfred Hitchcock Hour, but,...
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