My favorite scene with Jonathan Winters ever!

Jonathan Winters passed away earlier today. He was truly one of the greatest entertainers of the Twentieth Century and beyond. He was not only a comedy legend, but he possessed some serious drama skill as well. I'm thinking especially of the episode "A Game of Pool" - one of my favorite episodes incidentally - from The Twilight Zone. I guess he's up there now with Jack Klugman in a pool hall in Heaven.

But it was laughter which was Winters' true forte. And of all the work that he did, this is the one bit that always, always most comes to mind when I hear the words "Jonathan Winters"...

Here is Jonathan Winters destroying a brand-new gas station with his bare hands in the 1963 comedy classic It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World!

Rest in peace, Mr. Winters. Say hello to Mrs. Fickert for us...

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Am watching THE TWILIGHT ZONE marathon on Sci-Fi Channel

Made rather bittersweet in the knowledge that this is the last time they do this as the Sci-Fi Channel. But anyhoo...

They just ran the classic episode "A Game of Pool", which originally aired on October 13, 1961. It's one of my all-time favorite episodes of The Twilight Zone, for a lot of reasons but especially 'cuz I thought the interaction between Jack Klugman and Jonathan Winters was brilliant!

So I'm wondering if I'm at all crazy for thinking this...

...that wouldn't it be more awesomely cool than we possibly deserve, if somehow there could be a sequel to this episode made, again starring Klugman and Winters as Jesse Cardiff and Fats Brown?

It could be called "Another Game of Pool"!

Okay, that will probably never happen outside of the wonderful delirium of my dreams. But still, one can practically see it happening.

What an amazing show this was. I even liked the later incarnations quite a bit, but Rod Serling's original series was, I'd dare say, the most influential and revolutionary television show in the history of the medium.

I hope Syfy Channel keeps showing it :-)

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