A World of Difference, directed by Ted Post (Magnum Force) poses that age old question 'What is real?'. Is it possible that what we perceive to be reality is in fact a figment of the imagination?
36-year-old businessman Arthur Curtis (Howard Duff) finds himself faced with such a conundrum when he enters his office to do a day's work only to discover that he is on a film set, surrounded by people who tell him that he is an actor called Gerry Reagan, and that Arthur Curtis is simply the name of his character. Arthur insists that his name isn't Gerry, but to no avail: everyone thinks that the actor, who has something of a drink problem, is having a nervous breakdown.
Arthur rushes out of the studio where he bumps into Gerry's harridan of an ex-wife (Eileen Ryan), who thinks that his personality crisis is an act to get out of paying alimony. After trying to convince everyone that he is not an actor, and failing to find his family at home, Arthur eventually returns to the film set, where he disappears, back into the fictional world of his character.
With its thought provoking premise—who hasn't experienced that strange Matrix feeling that all is not as it seems?—sharp direction by Post, and a very believable central performance from Duff, this proves to be a highly enjoyable episode.
36-year-old businessman Arthur Curtis (Howard Duff) finds himself faced with such a conundrum when he enters his office to do a day's work only to discover that he is on a film set, surrounded by people who tell him that he is an actor called Gerry Reagan, and that Arthur Curtis is simply the name of his character. Arthur insists that his name isn't Gerry, but to no avail: everyone thinks that the actor, who has something of a drink problem, is having a nervous breakdown.
Arthur rushes out of the studio where he bumps into Gerry's harridan of an ex-wife (Eileen Ryan), who thinks that his personality crisis is an act to get out of paying alimony. After trying to convince everyone that he is not an actor, and failing to find his family at home, Arthur eventually returns to the film set, where he disappears, back into the fictional world of his character.
With its thought provoking premise—who hasn't experienced that strange Matrix feeling that all is not as it seems?—sharp direction by Post, and a very believable central performance from Duff, this proves to be a highly enjoyable episode.