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Keeper Of The Purple Twilight
"Keeper of the Purple Twilight" is an episode of the original ''The Outer Limits'' television show. It first aired on 5 December 1964, during the second season. ‘Pilots of the purple twilight, dropping down with costly bales’ is a line in Alfred Tennyson’s poem Locksley Hall (written 1835). Opening narration :''There is no limit to the extension of the curious mind. It reaches to the end of the imagination, then beyond into the mysteries of dreams, hoping always to convert even the dreams into reality, for the greater well-being of all mankind…'' Plot Scientist Eric Plummer comes under the sinister influence of a creature from outer space, capable of materializing in human form, but lacking human emotions. As a prelude for the invasion of Earth by his kind, an extraterrestrial being, Ikar, studies the human race. The one thing he cannot comprehend is emotion. Meanwhile, obsessed scientist Plummer is nearing a nervous breakdown, trying to complete a magnetic disintegr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Outer Limits (1963 TV Series)
''The Outer Limits'' is an American television series that was broadcast on American Broadcasting Company, ABC from September 16, 1963, to January 16, 1965, at 7:30 PM Eastern Time on Mondays. It is often compared to ''The Twilight Zone (1959 TV series), The Twilight Zone'', but features a greater emphasis on science fiction (rather than stories of fantasy or the supernatural). It is an anthology series, anthology of self-contained episodes, sometimes with plot twists at their ends. In 1997, the episode "The Zanti Misfits" was ranked #98 on TV Guide's 100 Greatest Episodes of All Time. It was The Outer Limits (1995 TV series), revived in 1995, until its cancellation in 2002. In April 2019, a new Revival (television), revival was stated to be in development at a premium cable network. Overview Introduction Each show began with either a cold open or a preview clip, followed by a narration over visuals of an oscilloscope. Using an Orwellian theme of taking over your televi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Group Mind (science Fiction)
A hive mind, group mind, group ego, mind coalescence, or gestalt intelligence in science fiction is a plot device in which multiple minds, or consciousnesses, are linked into a single collective consciousness or intelligence. Overview This term may be used interchangeably with hive mind. "Hive mind" tends to describe a group mind in which the linked individuals have no identity or free will and are possessed or mind-controlled as extensions of the hive mind. It is frequently associated with the concept of an entity that spreads among individuals and suppresses or subsumes their consciousness in the process of integrating them into its own collective consciousness. The concept of the group or hive mind is an intelligent version of real-life superorganisms such as a beehive or an ant colony. The first alien hive society was depicted in H. G. Wells's '' The First Men in the Moon'' (1901) while the use of human hive minds in literature goes back at least as far as David H. Keller ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fred Stromsoe
Fred Stromsoe (June 15, 1930 – September 30, 1994) was an American actor and stuntman. He was known for playing the recurring role of Officer Woods in the American police procedural television series ''Adam-12''. Life and career Stromsoe was born in Denver, Colorado. He began his career in 1949, appearing in the film ''Homicide'', starring Robert Douglas, Helen Westcott and Robert Alda. Stromsoe stunt doubled for actors Martin Milner, Tab Hunter, Glenn Corbett, David Janssen, Efrem Zimbalist Jr., Barry Newman, John Agar and Edd Byrnes. Stromsoe appeared in numerous television programs including ''Gunsmoke'', ''77 Sunset Strip'', ''Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea'', ''Sugarfoot'', ''The Man from U.N.C.L.E.'', ''I Spy'', ''Route 66'', ''The Time Tunnel'', ''The Wild Wild West'' and '' The Fugitive''. He also appeared in numerous films including ''The Horn Blows at Midnight'', '' G.I. Blues'', ''No Time for Sergeants'', ''The Good Guys and the Bad Guys'' , ''The Sea Chase'', ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fred Krone
Fred Krone (June 19, 1930 – January 12, 2010), also known as Krunch, was an American actor and stuntman who worked predominantly in Westerns. Career Krone was born in Kentucky. He began working in the 1950s performing stunts and as an actor. He worked in the early days of Steve McQueen's career and doubled for McQueen in 1960/61 on the TV series '' Wanted: Dead or Alive'', among others. Krone had appearances on '' The Range Rider'', '' Yancy Derringer'' (S1E02 "Gallatin Street"), ''The Rifleman'', '' The Texan'', ''The Life and Legend of Wyatt Earp'', and many more. He made a brief appearance on '' Perry Mason'' in 1966 as jewel thief and murder victim Nils Dorow in "The Case of the Tsarina's Tiara." He worked well into the 1970s and appeared on several episodes of ''Mannix''. Death Krone died on January 12, 2010, in Santa Paula, California after a long battle with cancer Cancer is a group of diseases involving Cell growth#Disorders, abnormal cell growth with th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Edward Platt
Edward Cuthbert Platt (February 14, 1916 – March 19, 1974) was an American actor widely known for his portrayal of the Chief in the 1965–1970 NBC/ CBS television series ''Get Smart''. With his deep voice and mature appearance, he played an eclectic mix of characters over the span of his career. Early life and military service Platt was born in Staten Island, New York. He spent a part of his childhood in Kentucky and upstate New York, where he attended the Northwood School, a private school in Lake Placid, and was a member of the ski jump team. He also studied at the Juilliard School. He attended Princeton University, but left after his freshman year. He served in the United States Army during World War II. Before becoming an actor, he sang for two years with the Paul Whiteman Orchestra. Acting career An operatically trained bass-baritone with a powerful voice, he debuted on Broadway in the Rodgers and Hammerstein musical ''Allegro''. José Ferrer, who perfor ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Curt Conway
Curt Conway (May 4, 1915 – April 10, 1974) was an American actor. He was sometimes billed as Curtis Conway or Kurt Conway. Born in Boston, Massachusetts, Conway appeared in a number of Broadway plays, had small parts in films. such as '' Hud'' (1963), and appeared on TV from 1960 until his death. A member of the Group Theatre, and later the Actors Studio, Conway went on to found his own acting school, the Theatre Studio, in 1952. Located at 353 West 48th Street in Manhattan, its faculty included, at one time or another, Nora Dunfee, Robert Alvin, and fellow Actors Studio members Lonny Chapman and David Pressman. The Actors Studio also supplied some of the school's participating directors, namely Martin Ritt, Alan Schneider, and Joseph Anthony; also participating were Horton Foote and Everett Chambers. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gail Kobe
Gail Kobe (born Gabriella Kieliszewski; March 19, 1932 – August 1, 2013) was an American actress and television producer. Early years Kobe was born Gabriella Kieliszewski in Hamtramck, Michigan (within Detroit), the younger child of Benjamin and Theresa Kieliszewski, who later Americanized their surname. She had one sibling, an older sister, Beatrice (later Mrs. Walter Adamski), who predeceased her. Kobe graduated from UCLA earning a fine arts degree in theatre and dance.According to the 1940 United States census records, her name is listed as "Gabriella Kobe" and her age is eight years old, indicating 1932 year of birth; it is unclear when her parents, listed as Benjamin and Theresa Kobe, changed the original surname (Kieliszewski).Source Information: Ancestry.com. California, Divorce Index, 1966–1984 atabase on-line Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2007. Original data: State of California. California Divorce Index, 1966–1984. Microfiche. Center for Health Stat ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Warren Stevens
Warren Albert Stevens (November 2, 1919 – March 27, 2012) was an American stage, screen, and television actor. Early life and career Stevens was born in Clarks Summit, Pennsylvania and graduated from Clarks Summit High School."Susan Huntington Engaged to Marry" '' The Scranton Tribune'', Scranton, Pennsylvania, volume 340, number 65, September 14, 1942, page 6. He attended the Naval Academy Preparatory School and entered the |
Test Drive
A test drive is the driving of a motor vehicle to assess its drivability or roadworthiness, and general operating state. A person who tests vehicles for a living, either for an automobile company, automotive media for review purposes, or a motorsports team, is called a test driver. The first test drives of a new production vehicle are made by mainstream automobile magazines and other third parties (not customers) for initial evaluation. Once vehicles are for sale, test drives are also usually allowed by vehicle traders (dealerships) or manufacturers to enable prospective customers to determine the suitability of the vehicle to their driving style. Test drives can also be taken before vehicle repairs to assist in diagnosis or after repair works to ensure that the vehicle has been fully restored. One of the disadvantages of buying a vehicle over the Internet is that you may not be able to test drive it prior to purchase. Other uses In a broader sense, "test drive" can be used ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Milton Krims
Milton Krims (1904 – July 11, 1988) was an American screenwriter, journalist, short-story writer, and novelist. Early in his career, Krims was a journalist with magazines in addition to writing novels and short stories. He became involved with films when Paramount bought the rights to one of his novels in the early 1930s and he went to that studio to work as a screenwriter. Krims's first film scenario was for ''The Life of Stephen Foster''. He went to work for Warner Bros. in the mid-1930s. While he was at Warner Bros., his contract allowed him to take leave to write for ''Collier's'' magazine, and in that way he reported on the Spanish Civil War, the conference at Munich, and the Battle of Britain. Krims was a member of the Army Air Forces during World War II. After writing and consulting on Perry Mason, Krims' first project as a TV producer was ''Hotel de Paree'' in 1959. He returned to working for magazines in the 1970s, when he was film editor for ''Holiday'' and ''The Sa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Locksley Hall
"Locksley Hall" is a poem written by Alfred Tennyson in 1835 and published in his 1842 collection of ''Poems''. It narrates the emotions of a rejected suitor upon coming to his childhood home, an apparently fictional Locksley Hall, though in fact Tennyson was a guest of the Arundel family in their stately home named Loxley Hall, in Staffordshire, where he spent much of his time writing whilst on his visits. According to Tennyson, the poem represents "young life, its good side, its deficiencies, and its yearnings". Tennyson's son Hallam recalled that his father said the poem was inspired by Sir William Jones's prose translation of the Arabic Mu'allaqat. Poetic form "Locksley Hall" is a dramatic monologue written as a set of 97 rhyming couplets. Each line follows a modified version of trochaic octameter in which the last unstressed syllable has been eliminated; moreover, there is generally a caesura, whether explicit or implicit, after the first four trochees in the line. Ea ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alfred Tennyson
Alfred Tennyson, 1st Baron Tennyson (; 6 August 1809 – 6 October 1892) was an English poet. He was the Poet Laureate during much of Queen Victoria's reign. In 1829, Tennyson was awarded the Chancellor's Gold Medal at Cambridge for one of his first pieces, "Timbuktu". He published his first solo collection of poems, '' Poems, Chiefly Lyrical'', in 1830. " Claribel" and " Mariana", which remain some of Tennyson's most celebrated poems, were included in this volume. Although described by some critics as overly sentimental, his poems ultimately proved popular and brought Tennyson to the attention of well-known writers of the day, including Samuel Taylor Coleridge. Tennyson's early poetry, with its medievalism and powerful visual imagery, was a major influence on the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood. Tennyson also focused on short lyrics, such as " Break, Break, Break", " The Charge of the Light Brigade", " Tears, Idle Tears", and " Crossing the Bar". Much of his verse was based on ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
