This one follows the paths that Rod Serling intended. While his original series was hit and miss, this takes us on a journey to the land of irony. Here we have a man who is an empath and a hypochondriac, creating diseases because his mind is convinced that he is sick. After reading a sci fi book, he begins to die from a kind of space sickness. All normal cures are of no avail, but there is something that can be done. Like with Serling, we are taken from a potential happy ending and thrust back into an enormous letdown. One of the better of the newer series.
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"How do you cure a fictional disease?"
classicsoncall28 March 2023
Warning: Spoilers
It's stated that a person can turn their dreams into reality. What if the same could be true for nightmares? Harry Radditch (Jeffrey Combs) is a true hypochondriac, likely to imagine having the symptoms of exotic diseases he's read about. However, when he reads a book titled 'Mission to Zebulon', he exhibits the signs of an imaginary virus from a story of a space mission. Soon, Dr. Leslie Coburn (Sydney Tamiia Poitier), well versed in Harry's fictitious maladies, begins to develop the same symptoms as her patient. With no cure offered in the original book, Dr. Coburn has to improvise, and theorizes that a cure for the blotchy protrusions on her body and those of other victims might just be fictional as well. Taking a cue from a newspaper headline, the doctor creates a serum from salt water and purple food coloring, and 'cures' Harry and herself, along with a few other patients who also developed symptoms. With no thought of unintended consequences, Dr. Coburn disregarded the complete newspaper account of a crashing meteor, which had the potential of turning Earth's climate into an Ice Age. This was one Twilight Zone story that turned a happy outcome into cold comfort in more ways than one.
Imagine that!
planktonrules15 February 2022
Sydney Tamiia Poitier (the daughter of Sidney Poitier) plays a doctor who is dealing with a patient with a VERY active imagination. Harry (Jeffrey Combs) is a hypochondriac who is very familiar to the clinic, as he apparently has been there many times. But this time is different. He claims he has an illness...and there really is something going on and it all seems to be manifesting itself because his imagination is THAT powerful. And how do you treat such an imagined but now real illness? With a placebo. But that might not be the best answer.
This is an odd show, well acted, but odd. I only wish they'd provided some key to explain how Harry's imagination has become as strong and powerful as it is...but an interesting episode nonetheless.
This is an odd show, well acted, but odd. I only wish they'd provided some key to explain how Harry's imagination has become as strong and powerful as it is...but an interesting episode nonetheless.
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