"The Time Element'. This ep is available for viewing at Youtube. Also, the production values of TTE are ultra-excellent make it far superior to any actual episode of the TZ itself. Much of that had to do with MGM studios. The studio was old and rotting by 1959-64 when TV was made there. In some eps of TZ like "Stopover in a Quiet Town' you see how very rotted the MGM studios were getting. James Aubrey CBS president (not the actor from the original 'Lord of the Flies" film) made the fatal decision to dump TZ from the schedule of CBS in early 1964. Later, after he left CBS he would ironically save MGM from total bankruptcy in about 1969. By then MGM looked like a real honest to goodness dinosaur of a studio its heyday having been in the 20's and 30's Aubrey thus got MGM to continue into the modern era.They then in that year made TV shows like 'Medical Center' and 'The Courtship of Eddie's Father'. A few years later films like 'Westworld ' and "Soylent Green".
PS TZ actual pilot ('Where is Everybody') was made at Universal Studios not MGM's. It also had better production values than the MGM regularly produced eps. See my postings for more on that pilot.
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Vastaus käyttäjältä Benton12
16 marraskuu 2024 klo 6:29AM
Another point about the Time Element. Desi Arnaz appeared after the story ended. He suggested that maybe Pete Jensen- rather than having gone back in time -- may never have existed. He suggested that the Doctor had been to the bar earlier, saw Jensen's photo on the wall and had a dream about it.
Now. If Arnaz's explanation was correct ask yourself this. Why ( to begin with) was the doctor suddenly sitting in his office in the chair near the couch on a day he had no patients? Why was he down there?
Also. Who were all those people in the dream? Who was the sailor and his beautiful wife in the doctor's actual everyday existence?
On the other hand. Supporting the dream idea was the fact that half the Jenson dream took place in a bar. Was it possible the doctor actually lived in the same building as his office?