{"id":26290,"date":"2020-09-19T12:01:00","date_gmt":"2020-09-19T18:01:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.greatdetectives.net\/detectives\/?p=26290"},"modified":"2020-09-18T20:55:36","modified_gmt":"2020-09-19T02:55:36","slug":"audio-drama-review-the-twilight-zone-radio-dramas-volume-8","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.greatdetectives.net\/detectives\/audio-drama-review-the-twilight-zone-radio-dramas-volume-8\/","title":{"rendered":"Audio Drama Review: The Twilight Zone Radio Dramas, Volume 8"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe style=\"width:120px;height:240px;\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"0\" src=\"\/\/ws-na.amazon-adsystem.com\/widgets\/q?ServiceVersion=20070822&amp;OneJS=1&amp;Operation=GetAdHtml&amp;MarketPlace=US&amp;source=ss&amp;ref=as_ss_li_til&amp;ad_type=product_link&amp;tracking_id=adamsblog03-20&amp;language=en_US&amp;marketplace=amazon&amp;region=US&amp;placement=B00E9GK0OW&amp;asins=B00E9GK0OW&amp;linkId=a22c499f5c9f1eff4c07a90e3cfa2ab3&amp;show_border=true&amp;link_opens_in_new_window=true\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n\n\n<p>The eighth volume of Twilight Zone radio dramas features six more stories adapted from the classic TV series.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;The Long Morrow&#8221; is about an astronaut who is chosen for a long-term deep-space mission because he has no attachments to anyone on Earth. Right before he&#8217;s scheduled to leave, he goes on a date, meets a woman, and falls deeply in love with her. He&#8217;s to go into a stasis capsule and not age during the whole voyage. There&#8217;s a lot I like about this story. The romance and character stuff is engaging, but they also explore some interesting sci-fi concepts that a lot of the &#8220;going into stasis until you arrive on a new planet&#8221; stories kind of ignore. It&#8217;s an all-around solid listen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;The 7th is Made of Phantoms&#8221; is about an Army National Guard Unit in the 1960s that&#8217;s on maneuvers and finds itself interacting with the Battle of Little Big Horn. This is one of those stories that I just don&#8217;t get the point, the moral, or the lesson. There&#8217;s no explanation or hint of one, so it&#8217;s a very unsatisfying story.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;Mirror Image&#8221; is a really unsettling tale where a woman with an apparently poor memory at a bus station comes to believe she has a doppelganger who is trying to take her place.  There&#8217;s little atmosphere or real explanation of what&#8217;s going on, but it really builds tension and atmosphere to make it a worthwhile listen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;A Thing About Machines:&#8221; A man who lives alone seems to be constantly at war with his machines and for his machines, the feeling appears to be mutual. This one doesn&#8217;t work for me because the machines only go so far, and since we&#8217;re not dealing with like a computer or artificial intelligence, it&#8217;s just a bit silly.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;The Last Night of  Jockey&#8221;-A disgraced jockey gets one wish and wants to make himself a big man. This is an interesting story and it works as a morality tale. It&#8217;s an interesting theme that the Twilight Zone examines where a protagonist thinks they need just one break in order to escape their failed lives, they get a break, and ultimately they prove that fundamentally their own character flaws led to their downfall.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;The Fever&#8221;-A tightwad (Stacy Keach) is afraid his long-suffering wife will get hooked into out-of-control gambling when they win a free trip to Vegas. So, of course, it happens to the husband instead. This has been a pretty common plot, though this has a supernatural twist. The success of the production ultimately comes down to Keach&#8217;s performance.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The stories in this set are fine, but I&#8217;d only say &#8220;The Long Morrow&#8221; and &#8220;Mirror Image&#8221; are very strong pieces. 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