2x12 "Damn It Feels Good to Be a Doppelgänger"

This year’s Hallowe’en episode isn’t about monsters, or ghosts, or demonic dolls. It’s about doppelgängers, which should clue you in to the fact that we’re covering the Twilight Zone classic “Mirror Image” this week, plus the related 80’s TZ episode “Shatterday.” Along the way host Craig challenges Jimmy Stewart to a fight, invites listeners to a Vera Miles-related self-pity party, and goes a bit (or a lot) overboard with the Bruce Willis jokes. So… it’s a different kind of horror, basically.

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Opening Music: “Neither Here nor There (Doppelgänger-we’en variant)” by Twin Loops

“Ghostbusters” performed by Ray Parker Jr. (from the Ghostbusters soundtrack, copyright 1984 by Arista Records)

“Pitkin County Turn Around” performed by Steve Martin (from the album The Steve Martin Brothers, copyright 1981 by Warner Bros. Records)

“Angel Eyes” performed by Frank Sinatra (from the album Frank Sinatra Sings for Only the Lonely, copyright 1958 by Capitol Records)

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Vera Miles, Where Are You?

As previously reported, I sent an 8x10 to Vera Miles to hopefully obtain her autograph. It's been eight months, and I still haven't received it back. *Sigh* It's starting to look like my 8x10 (a promo shot of Miles from season one's "Mirror Image") is gone forever.

At least I had the foresight to scan it, just in case... but damn.

TZ Promo: "Mirror Image" (2/26/1960)

She's an ordinary girl, waiting impatiently for a bus on a rainy night. Sounds normal enough... but it's not. Something's askew. Something indefinable, something suspicious, something.... frightening.

Vera Miles (Janet Leigh's concerned sister in Hitchcock's Psycho) is brilliant as Milicent Barnes, who is at the center of what amounts to nothing short of an existential nightmare, in Serling's "Mirror Image." Martin Milner, probably best known from TV's Adam 12, co-stars. The direction by John Brahm is simple yet well-staged The bus terminal feels confined, uncomfortable, which heightens the mood considerably.

"Mirror Image" is one my top 40 favorite episodes of all time, so I'm quite excited about watching it tonight on its 50th anniversary.

Some years back I acquired a really nice glossy 8x10 of Vera Miles, a publicity still from this episode. It's not currently in my possession, but not because I lost it.... it was mailed to Ms. Miles two weeks ago, with a letter requesting that she autograph it. If and when I get it back (fingers crossed), you can bet I'll be posting a special entry spotlighting it.

On the subjects of autographed 8x10s, I received something utterly spectacular in the mail today. I'll elaborate in a day or two....

Next week: They're your neighbors, your friends. Or are they? What if someone close to you isn't who they claim to be? What if they aren't even from this world...? Who can you trust? Watch your back... and stay tuned.