Enjoyable comedy about a playwright (Wynn) who dictates characters' descriptions on tape and watches them come to life as he created them. When advisable, he snips out the portion of tape and throws it in the fire, and the characters disappear at once.
An amusing piece of whimsy with Wynn doing a fine job, assisted by his wife, Phyllis Kirk, and the girl friend, Mary LaRoche, whom he creates from time to time to relieve his boredom in his wife's absence.
The props included a live elephant who was guilty of conduct unbecoming a television set just before his scene was shot.
The writer, Matheson, first made the story a nightmarish experience in which characters come to life and disobey all commands but he was asked to lighten it up and was pleased with the results.
This was Rod Serling's first appearance during the series, at the end of the first season, and the writer has integrated him into the story. We see Serling seated on the edge of the writer's desk, explaining that this is all nonsense, of course. Wynn looks on disapprovingly, then produces a tape labeled "Rod Serling" and tosses it in the fire. "Well, that's the way it goes," says Serling, philosophically, before disappearing.
An amusing piece of whimsy with Wynn doing a fine job, assisted by his wife, Phyllis Kirk, and the girl friend, Mary LaRoche, whom he creates from time to time to relieve his boredom in his wife's absence.
The props included a live elephant who was guilty of conduct unbecoming a television set just before his scene was shot.
The writer, Matheson, first made the story a nightmarish experience in which characters come to life and disobey all commands but he was asked to lighten it up and was pleased with the results.
This was Rod Serling's first appearance during the series, at the end of the first season, and the writer has integrated him into the story. We see Serling seated on the edge of the writer's desk, explaining that this is all nonsense, of course. Wynn looks on disapprovingly, then produces a tape labeled "Rod Serling" and tosses it in the fire. "Well, that's the way it goes," says Serling, philosophically, before disappearing.