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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...stories of the "fifth dimension, between science and superstition," are plotted as carefully as his more ambitious 90-minute specials and are written, acted, directed with consistent competence. Whether the hero is an Air Force officer suffering hallucinations after more than 400 hours of isolation, or a tired old pitchman bargaining with "Mr. Death," tales from the Twilight Zone are proof that a little talent and imagination can atone for a lot of television...
...Issue. By age-old tradition the Bembas had been required to offer their chiefs small amounts of grain to be made into a kind of beer for use in tribal ceremonies honoring the spirits of the chief's ancestors. This custom was an essential part of the tribe's pagan religion, and when the two Catholic Bembas urged defiance of it-following their consciences and the guidance of their white priests-their purpose was to combat paganism...
...Challenge (NBC, Sat. 8:30-9:00 p.m., E.D.T.) is "not a science-fiction series and not a documentary," says its producer, and he is only too right. Challenge is a mixture of some of the trappings of modern engineering and the tedious cliches of old-fashioned melodrama. Theoretically, the show deals with a Government scientist (George Nader) studying the limits of human endurance in dangerous situations. Actually, it presents such high-flown nonsense as a story of top-rank researchers sitting out a nuclear war in an atomic submarine and suddenly tumbling to some old problems such...
Early Flop. Patty's polish, poise and professional stagecraft are the product of three brief years of TV and movies. "Patty," says her overawed mother, "was always adept at dressing up and pretending," but she never thought about acting until she was all of six years old. Her older brother Raymond (then 13) was appearing in occasional television shows, and Patty badgered Ray's agent into giving her an audition. The inflections she learned on the Manhattan streets where she grew up held her back for a few months. But before long she was doing TV commercials...
...dimensions of a handicapped child's difficulties. With consistent skill, none of the youngsters ever seemed to slip out of the isolating "zone of silence," but none of them fitted the difficult script with more professional precision than a blue-eyed, bang-trimmed ten-year-old named Patty Duke...