Wednesday, August 29, 2012

Night Gallery - 3x07 - You Can Come Up Now, Mrs. Millikan/Smile, Please

    An inventor with a long history of failures uses his absent-minded wife as a test subject for his efforts to bring people back from the dead.
    Nowhere near as campy as that Vincent Price episode from awhile back, but still pretty lighthearted.  Most of the story is taken up with performances that reach into silliness.  An investor berating the inventor for his non-working presentations, and the inventor's wife forgetting everything she hears.
    The ending is obvious as soon as we hear that she's dying.  Because of the obviousness of this, I suppose it satisfies, by meeting our expectations.  But it's pretty dull.
    There's a second story, called Smile, Please, which has a photographer being brought to a vampire's tomb to take a picture.  I think the script for this could fit on a page, probably half a page.  Not even a good joke.

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