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Originally Posted by SleazyDream
6. Talk about Jerry Garcia and the producer of the original Twilight Zone series.
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#6 part two: the Twilight Zone producer...
This was my first "break" story and has nothing to do with Jerry Garcia hah...
I was just in my twenties and snagging jobs working as a grip, gaffer or gofer on movie sets around Montreal. At one makeshift production office set up in a basement in old Montreal (I always seem to veer back to the Old City....) for what turned out to be a really bad movie (or so they said; I never saw it).
But I saw this name listed as producer, Buck Houghton... and it jangled a bell... so I did some research (pre-Google, Wikipedia or IMDB, remember) and realized I'd seen his name at the beginning of nary every episode of Rod Serling's Twilight Zone series while I was growing up (and probably as early as the week before).
So I contacted and snared an interview with the venerable old movie vet and managed to sell it to Starlog magazine. Still have a photocopy of that check, and copies of that issue somewhere...
For those geeks in the know, it was in the special summer issue that featured the veggie-gremlin from Gremlins II on the cover...
That's about it! Oh, and Starlog only took it after Twilight Zone magazine turned it down - wtf?!?
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