("Your idea of changing the millionaire into the multi-millionaire and making an hour show of it.") Yet what kills any satirical intent stone dead in this comedy is the "waaah waaah" incidental music by Fred Steiner.
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Sadly, there's also a lack of classic episodes at the top, with pretty much every episode outside of the top five just mediocre.Ī satire on television writing that lampoons corporate sponsorship and possibly even alludes to Rod's own lack of inspiration with the series at this stage. The bottom three entries here are below-par in quality, and the two after that are dull in the hour format, but none of the season four entries are exactly "stinkers" in the way the worst of previous two seasons were. Perhaps the only real humour in the episode is Morris's dog, who always seems a little too excited to see him. There's also the concept of everyone in an office adoring a female colleague because of her looks, and Morris imaging the genie granting her love to him, situations which can't help but feel a little awkward in 2017. While Howard Morris is fine in the lead role, the events that unfold - including the lead character's epiphany that he's happier as himself - are all things that have been done to death at this stage in the series, and feel utterly tired and lifeless. Here the genie only grants one wish, meaning most of it is dream sequences of "wishes that could be".
Sadly, the "comedy" is more aimed at the Rod Serling model of humour in the series, even down to the fact that Rod had already given us a genie story with season two's The Man In The Bottle. This was his only script for the Twilight Zone, a comedy based around a genie in a magic lamp.
was a much-awarded writer who had great involvement with the Writer's Guild of America and would also act as a Professor of writing at the University of Southern California's School of Cinema and Television.
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