| The Twilight Zone of other Television Programs | | | | recent movie The Forgotten, you can see how |
| You unlock this door with the key of imagination. | | | | aliens can put the mind whammy on parents, |
| That's what Rod Serling would say. It appears to | | | | making them completely forget their kids for |
| me that the Twilight Zone may have affected | | | | purposes of evil alien experiments on parental |
| more than the 30 minutes it controlled every | | | | mindsets. Surely the explanation cannot be as |
| week those many years ago. So with the keys | | | | simple as the writers were just too lazy to keep |
| of your imagination lets journey farther into the | | | | up with the fact that the Cunninghams had |
| Outer Limits of television and discover that the | | | | another son beside Richie. Perhaps the strange |
| weird and the bizarre were not just limited to the | | | | powers of the Fonz were not simply from his |
| great classic sci-fi hits like the Twilight Zone and | | | | cool as we were told. Maybe the Fonz himself |
| the Outer Limits. Nor is the unexplained always | | | | was an alien with the power of mind control over |
| presented on Ripley's Believe it or Not. | | | | other humans, including the power to snap his |
| The Mysterious changing Andy Taylor | | | | fingers to bring herds of screaming girls to his |
| What happened to Andy Griffith from the black | | | | side. Now that I think of it, no wonder people |
| and white days of the Andy Griffith Show to the | | | | think Elvis is still alive. Maybe he too was from |
| days of color? It is common knowledge the black | | | | another world. Could it be Elvis and the Fonz were |
| and white episodes with Barney were more funny | | | | part of a rival gang from Ork preparing for the |
| and entertaining, but why did Andy suddenly | | | | arrival Mork from Ork? |
| change from a loveable country bumpkin, who | | | | More Unexplained Phenomenon |
| was always wise but never serious, to a almost | | | | There are many more strange and bizarre |
| bitter man that seemed to even lose his country | | | | unexplainable phenomenon on television. |
| accent? | | | | |
| Is the original answer for this something that | | | | 1. Where did all the deputies go after the first |
| belongs in the Twilight Zone? Did the writers of | | | | episode of the Dukes of Hazzard? Clearly there |
| the show have an intriguing plot to reveal that | | | | were more than Enos and Rosco in the pilot |
| just never came to be? What could make a man | | | | episode. |
| change so drastically from the changing of black | | | | 2. On the last episode of Lois and Clark: The New |
| and white to color? Is there a scientific | | | | Adventures of Superman, a baby arrives just for |
| explanation? Could the answer be as bizarre as a | | | | the closing moments of the show, just because |
| UFO kidnapping? Was Andy Taylor replaced with | | | | the Kents want a child. No explanation is ever |
| a clone? Were we watching two different | | | | given. Is it then just coincidence that Dean Cain |
| dimensions of time and space? | | | | would soon host the new Ripley's Believe It or |
| I have some more reasonable explanations, but | | | | Not? |
| you be the judge. Perhaps Andy had attempted | | | | 3. How can Metropolis be in Kansas as it is only a |
| to quit smoking which made him grumpy in real | | | | couple of hours away from Smallville on the |
| life. Perhaps he was trying to impress the equally | | | | popular WB hit Smallville? On one episode Clark |
| grumpy Miss Crump or should we say Miss | | | | climbed a water tower with a friend and they |
| Grump. Why, oh why, didn't he marry the lady | | | | could actually see Metropolis without X-ray vision. |
| druggist? Perhaps none of this would have | | | | In the past it has always been accepted that |
| happened. | | | | Metropolis represented New York City. |
| The changed Andy happened about the time | | | | 4. After 9 years of episodes, can anyone truly |
| Barney Fife left town. Did the antics of Don | | | | say that any of the bizarre happenings on the |
| Knotts keep Andy in a good ol' home town | | | | X-files were ever explained. What mind control did |
| mood? Or did the emergence of the Jughead hat | | | | they use to force us to watch year after year |
| wearing Goober affect Andy in a way that can't | | | | with no answers? I beg of you Chris Carter make |
| be explained. After all, just before the show | | | | a movie or something that can explain all of this |
| turned color, Andy threatened the life of Goober, | | | | unexplained phenomenon. |
| after he put a car together right inside the court | | | | 5. On The Greatest American Hero, a 1980's tv |
| house. | | | | show about a teacher who gains Superman like |
| So what do you think? Was it aliens, a lack of | | | | powers by wearing a super suit from aliens, there |
| nicotine, Goober, Gomer, Miss Crump, or no | | | | was one strange occurrence. The Greatest |
| Barney? You be the judge, I just present the | | | | American Hero's main character Ralph Hinkley |
| facts as I know them. | | | | inexplicably becomes Ralph Hanley. What |
| The Disappearing Son on Happy Days | | | | happened? Well even though Ralph got his super |
| What about Chuck on Happy Days? How could a | | | | suit from aliens this was no alien conspiracy. After |
| mother and father completely forget they ever | | | | the attempted assassination of President Ronald |
| had a son? But if you watched the recent Happy | | | | Reagan by John Hinkley, they decided to rename |
| Days reunion if then there was no reasonable | | | | the main character to avoid any association with |
| explanation given as to why Chuck just | | | | the John Hinkley. |
| disappeared. In the final episode of Happy Days, | | | | I'm sure there are many more unexplained |
| Mr. C even relates to the audience how he was | | | | events on television throughout the years, but |
| happy to have raised two children, not three as | | | | was it all by television writers, or did Rod Serling's |
| we know really happened. Is this another case of | | | | Twilight Zone infect the rest of TV history as |
| alien abduction? There is precedence for this | | | | well? |
| strange phenomenon. If you have seen the | | | | |