Of Boris Karloff's Thriller, a whopping six episodes of Alfred Hitchcock His additional genre credits include an episode A longtime smoker, York developed emphysema and died from the disease inġ992 in Grand Rapids, Michigan. Injury which he first sustained while filming They Came to Cordura inġ959. Until the mid 1980's when he was permanently laid up with a degenerative spine York had been featured on film and television since the late 1940's and worked up Stephens opposite Elizabeth Montgomery's Samantha on Bewitched (1964-69), Show got it right the second time around. This prior role didn't seem suited for someone with York's skill set. The downbeat war episode 'The Purple Testament,' where York played a rugged infantry The show had earlier used in him in a much more serious role in In this pre- Bewitched role, York is honing his light comedy skills andĭoing it well.

Poole that it is difficult to imagine another actor in the role at this point. 20, 1992) was so perfectly cast in the role of Hector B. Johnson agreed to buy the story back but only under the condition that he be allowed to submit a new story which he could adapt into a teleplay for the show. Johnson's story, 'A Penny for Your Thoughts,' was read by Houghton and approved for production.Ĭomedy, the casting was very important. Buck Houghton approached Johnson to ask the writer to buy back his story. Johnson's story would not see print until the October, 1981 issue of Rod Serling's The Twilight Zone Magazine. When passed in front of corporate sponsors, a food company, they deemed the story too grisly, fearing their target audience losing their appetite. Even more miraculous is that the hand he lost has grown a new body, a deadly doppelganger intent on destroying him. 'Sea Change' concerned a sailor who loses his hand in a boating accident only to have his hand miraculously grow back. Johnson sold a short story titled 'Sea Change' to producer Buck Houghton. The story actually begins with another story. Johnson would use his story 'A Penny for Your Thoughts' as an Own teleplays if he wanted to start building a serious body of work. With Charles Beaumont and Richard Matheson, the show's two leading writersīesides Serling, and was heavily encouraged by Beaumont in particular to start producing his George Clayton Johnson harbored aspirations for producing his own teleplays. By the time production was rolling on the second season, Johnson had sold two stories to The Twilight Zone, 'All of Us Areĭying' (filmed as 'The Four of Us Are Dying') and 'Execution.' Rod Serling wrote the adaptations and both stories aired during the first season.

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