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Danse MacabreProbably his best-remembered role came in "Printer's Devil," where he plays a newspaper owner who is really Satan . . . complete with a jutting, crooked cigar that was somehow diabolical. **In 1972 CBS discovered another "prestige program"-The Waltons, created by Earl Hamner, Jr., who wrote a good many Twilight Zones . . . including, coincidentally, "The Bewitchin' Pool," the last original Twilight Zone episode to be telecast on the network. Placed against brutal competition-NBC's The Flip Wilson Show and ABC's own version of The Church of What's Happening Now, The Mod Squad-CBS stuck with Hamner's creation in spite of the low ratings because of the prestige factor. The Waltons went on to outlive its competition and at this writing has run seven seasons. During that first season, The Twilight Zone presented "Perchance to Dream," the late Charles Beaumont's first contribution to the series, and "Third from the Sun," by Richard Matheson. The gimmick of the latter-that the group of protagonists is fleeing not from Earth but to it-is one that has been utterly beaten to death by now (most notably by that deep-space turkey Battlestar Galactica), but most viewers can remember the snap of that ending to this day ...» |
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