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Midnight Episode

posted 16 years ago by kapnkirk
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This was one of the last episodes and it didn't have John Newland in it. He didn't direct it either. It looked like an episode of an English show that they threw on. It was about a poor writer who goes out in the fog one night and meets an attractive woman on a bridge. He falls for her and they soon start mugging people. It ends with him waking up and it was (of course) all a dream (don't you hate when they do that?). It ends with him leaving his apartment and going to the bridge and who do you think he meets?

Isn't there some question if there were 96 or 97 episodes? I don't know if this episode should count because I'm guessing it was fictional.

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[–] eljefe320 15 years ago

I don't know how this got lumped in as an episode of OSB. It is from an early 50s show called Stars Over Hollywood. And the air date that is listed all over the internet is false. I check the TV listings for that date and ABC aired a news special that night, pre-empting the show. So that is not now, nor has it ever been an episode of this series.

[–] AaronCapenBanner 9 years ago

Not the same show without John Newland, therefore this episode sticks out badly; a shame it was included on the recent DVD set, and that another episode couldn't have somehow been chosen instead!

[–] telegonus (728) 2 years ago

The only thing about the Midnight episode that I like is that it feels like it was made for another series (it was), and that it doesn't have the usual Harry Lubin music cues (not in itself a virtue, just odd). Nor does it feature familiar players (though many OSB eps didn't). None of these factors improve the quality of this pallid entry, however they do, or rather, on first viewing, did, keep me watching. I did miss John Newland's urbane presence and beautiful diction.