S4YA S310 – The Midnight Sun – Twilight Zone

Chris Osborne, from the Play Comics Podcast, joins me just as summer is heating up to discuss the uncomfortable “The Midnight Sun”!

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SHOW NOTES – The Midnight Sun

Originally aired: October 20th, 1961

Starring:

Lois Nettleton – Norma

Betty Garde (2 episodes – Flight 33) – Mrs. Bronson

Tom Reese – The Intruder

Directed by: Anton Leader (2 episodes – Long Live Walter Jameson)

Teleplay by: Rod Serling

You, Me, and IMDB Synopses:

* You: The weather has gone horribly.

* Me: As Earth hurtles from its orbit straight toward the sun, a young woman struggles to cool down.

IMDB: When the Earth falls out of orbit, two women try to cope with increasingly oppressive heat in a nearly abandoned city

Discussion:

What are your initial thoughts?

Science!

It’s always sunny in New York

It’s always nighttime in New York

What would you have done if you knew the earth was going to end

Sympathy for the man

The Boy Who Predicted Earthquakes

How effective the episode is in making you FEEL uncomfortably hot

Using Wax instead of paint with a heater behind it

Stray Observations

The Radio announcer dialogue

The gun she has

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What do you rate the episode?

I give it 9/10 melted paintings

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