{"id":7708,"date":"2019-07-17T21:10:57","date_gmt":"2019-07-18T01:10:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/orionscoldfire.com\/?p=7708"},"modified":"2019-07-19T18:16:37","modified_gmt":"2019-07-19T22:16:37","slug":"the-twilight-zone-complete-series-review-season-4-episode-18-the-bard","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/orionscoldfire.com\/index.php\/2019\/07\/17\/the-twilight-zone-complete-series-review-season-4-episode-18-the-bard\/","title":{"rendered":"The Twilight Zone \u2013 Complete Series Review \u2013 Season 4 Episode 18 \u2013 The Bard"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Julius Moomer is a struggling tv writer.\u00a0 He\u2019s awful.\u00a0 After he\u2019s been rejected for the millionth time he begs his agent for just one more chance.\u00a0 He goes to a bookstore and a book on black magic flies off the shelf and lands at his feet.\u00a0 He takes the book home and tries to conjure up William Shakespeare to help him write his script.\u00a0 After several failures he succeeds and Shakespeare agrees to write a couple of scripts for Julius.<\/p>\n<p>When Moomer brings the script to his agent he actually likes it.\u00a0 He sells it to a tv show and a committee of producers, directors and the sponsor rewrite it so that Rocky Rhodes (Burt Reynolds doing his best Marlon Brando impression) could play the romantic lead.\u00a0 But when Will hears what they\u2019ve done to his plot he gets upset.\u00a0 When Rhodes accuses Shakespeare of being a Tennessee Williams hater Will decks him with one punch.\u00a0 Then Shakespeare quits and goes home.<\/p>\n<p>Now Moomer is in trouble.\u00a0 His first play is a hit but how will he do the next one?\u00a0 The tv station wants an epic on American History.\u00a0 Of course, he goes back to his book and the next day he shows up at his agent\u2019s office with his writing consultants; Robert E. 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