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Evidence for why the Twilight Zone did not get renewed
There are two episodes from the final season included on Volume 42 of "The Twilight Zone" collection, which pretty much prove why the show was cancelled after its fifth season. In "The Bard," written by Rod Serling, Jack Weston plays Julius Moomer, a hack writer who stumbles upon a magic spell that brings forth William Shakespeare (John Williams) to be his ghost writer. There are a lot of in-jokes about television in this episode, but the most memorable part is that of "method actor" Rocky Rhodes, played by Burt Reynolds, who does a dead on impersonation of Marlon Brando. In another Serling episode, "The Fear," a State Trooper (Mark Richman) investigates strange lights in the sky out by the cabin of Charlotte Scott (Hazel Court). This is an extreme lame episode and provides evidence that Serling was scrapping the bottom of the barrel big time. Finally, we have "The Bewitchin' Pool," the final Zone wirten by Earl Hamner, Jr., in which a pair of children, Sport (Mary Badham) and Jeb (Tim Stafford) follow a strange pool into a swimming hole and emerge in a strange place where an old woman named Aunt T (Georgia Simmons), looks over the children of unworthy parents. Hamner is obviously trying to make some sort of point about preserving the family, but it gets lost in this sugary little tale. Only "The Bard" is worthy watching on this particular volume.

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Uneven But Fun
The Bard*** 1/2 First of all I'd never heard of this ep outside of this dvd. I generally do NOT like the comedy Zones for when I watch the Zone I prefer serious Sci-Fi but all has been saved here with a tremendous performance of "Shakespeare". He is quite funny and ironic. The star of this ep is almost as endearing and about the first 5 min. of this ep you will hate it ... but let Serling do his magic and you too will see the magic of the Bard. The ending is silly though and adds little to the script ... I thought a nice touch would have been had he conjured up Serling himself! ... and the producers would have acted as though they'd never heard of him!

The Fear*** : This ep started out smashingly put alas was ruined by a terrible ending. An obvious 5 season ep. The two leads, in fact the only two people seen in this ep are actually very good actors, so good in fact they acount for all of the three stars because the story wasn't much either.

The Bewitchin Pool**** : I bought this dvd for this ep and was a bit let down (I thought this would be a 5 ringer). I marvel at why the beginning of the ep they actually show you the end! Aunt T is great the kids are good too, I watched this one several times in my youth and have since loved it. A surprisingly endearing ep which has a few too many overdubs with the voice work but in the end spins a story that I imagine is a dream of many, the simple life.