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