You unlock this door with
key of imagination. That's what Rod Serling would say. It appears to me that
Twilight Zone may have affected more than
30 minutes it controlled every week those many years ago. So with
keys of your imagination lets journey farther into
Outer Limits of television and discover that
weird and
bizarre were not just limited to
great classic sci-fi hits like
Twilight Zone and
Outer Limits. Nor is
unexplained always presented on Ripley's Believe it or Not. The Mysterious changing Andy Taylor What happened to Andy Griffith from
black and white days of
Andy Griffith Show to
days of color? It is common knowledge
black and white episodes with Barney were more funny and entertaining, but why did Andy suddenly change from a loveable country bumpkin, who was always wise but never serious, to a almost bitter man that seemed to even lose his country accent?
Is
original answer for this something that belongs in
Twilight Zone? Did
writers of
show have an intriguing plot to reveal that just never came to be? What could make a man change so drastically from
changing of black and white to color? Is there a scientific explanation? Could
answer be as bizarre as a UFO kidnapping? Was Andy Taylor replaced with a clone? Were we watching two different dimensions of time and space?
I have some more reasonable explanations, but you be
judge. Perhaps Andy had attempted to quit smoking which made him grumpy in real life. Perhaps he was trying to impress
equally grumpy Miss Crump or should we say Miss Grump. Why, oh why, didn't he marry
lady druggist? Perhaps none of this would have happened.
The changed Andy happened about
time Barney Fife left town. Did
antics of Don Knotts keep Andy in a good ol' home town mood? Or did
emergence of
Jughead hat wearing Goober affect Andy in a way that can't be explained. After all, just before
show turned color, Andy threatened
life of Goober, after he put a car together right inside
court house.
So what do you think? Was it aliens, a lack of nicotine, Goober, Gomer, Miss Crump, or no Barney? You be
judge, I just present
facts as I know them.
The Disappearing Son on Happy Days What about Chuck on Happy Days? How could a mother and father completely forget they ever had a son? But if you watched
recent Happy Days reunion if then there was no reasonable explanation given as to why Chuck just disappeared. In
final episode of Happy Days, Mr. C even relates to
audience how he was happy to have raised two children, not three as we know really happened. Is this another case of alien abduction? There is precedence for this strange phenomenon. If you have seen
recent movie The Forgotten, you can see how aliens can put
mind whammy on parents, making them completely forget their kids for purposes of evil alien experiments on parental mindsets. Surely
explanation cannot be as simple as
writers were just too lazy to keep up with
fact that
Cunninghams had another son beside Richie. Perhaps
strange powers of
Fonz were not simply from his cool as we were told. Maybe
Fonz himself was an alien with
power of mind control over other humans, including
power to snap his fingers to bring herds of screaming girls to his side. Now that I think of it, no wonder people think Elvis is still alive. Maybe he too was from another world. Could it be Elvis and
Fonz were part of a rival gang from Ork preparing for
arrival Mork from Ork?