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Well, I guess I'll throw in a few comments on the first Twilight Zone,
also... One interesting point I noticed -- Harlan Ellison is listed in
the ending credits as a "technical advisor" or some such job title, yet
he did NOT do the teleplay for his story "Shatterday" (anybody know
why?).

(By the way, the character in "Shatterday" is certainly an idiot! I'd
be delighted to be duplicated -- I could go to work only half the time,
letting my alter ego go every other day; I could get a lot of stuff done
that requires an extra helper that my wife can't or won't do; I could be
in two places at once, practically! Also, I bet two *really identical*
persons would be able to communicate telepathically, so I could 
actually experience all this stuff my alter ego does... anyway...)

As for "A Little Peace and Quiet", the all the supporting characters
were such wretches that one welcomed the pending nuclear attack as a way
of exterminating them. The main technical failure here, though, was an
old one, for which there is no excuse after all the publicity, news
programs, etc., on nuclear war -- they showed the Soviet missle coming
down in full take-off configuration instead of just a warhead, the way
it would really be. That is, they showed a multi-stage missle, fins and
all, with exhaust flames coming out of the end, heading down toward the
target, when they should have showed an ablative warhead with a shock
wave around it. Very annoying, and such technical blunders spoil shows
for anyone who knows enough to be interested in the first place.

Will