Word: mannequins
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...escorted viewers on the weirdest-and most fascinating-excursion since the days of The Twilight Zone. The first episode, an adaptation of John Collier's short story, Special Delivery, successfully elaborated on a typical Collier theme-a young man (Dennis Waterman) falls in love with a department-store mannequin (Carol Lynley) and dies in its/her arms...
JOURNEY TO THE UNKNOWN (ABC, 9:30-10:30 p.m.). "Eve," John Collier's eerie story, is all about a young department store window dresser who falls in love with a mannequin. First in a series of suspense thrillers. Premiere...
...exploits its advantage with television's first series about a transvestite, The Ugliest Girl in Town. The story deals with a young Hollywood talent agent (Peter Kastner) who is mad for an English starlet. He works his way to London as a bewigged model and becomes the hottest mannequin since Twiggy. Kastner admits that at first he feared the show "might be offensive and in bad taste." After screening the pilot, he became convinced that it is merely "silly...
Nowhere is this more evident than in the dialogue. Not atypical is an exchange from "The Girl Killers" between two workers in a mannequin factory, who are themselves embarrassed by the lines...
...could mistake the murderers, young Myra Hindley and Ian Brady, for Bonnie and Clyde; as rendered by Author Williams, they are closer to Jekyll and Hyde, complete with Victorian-melodrama makeup. Ian, 25, is the main figure, but wind him as he will, Williams cannot bring his manic mannequin to life...