[Harp-L] Hocus-Pocus and Frisby

[John Frazer <harmonicajohns@xxxxxxx>]

Andy Divine was perfect in that episode.

Thanks for the mention, Winslow.

"The Twilight Zone:
Hocus-Pocus and Frisby
Science Fiction
1962
Andy Devine, Milton Selzer, Howard McNear  ...moreAndy Devine stars as Mr.
Frisby, the biggest liar in three counties. Despite his constant gas-bagging
about his alleged past acts of heroism, no one believes Frisby's tall tales
-- no one, that is, except a team of space aliens, who accept Frisby's lies
at face value. On the verge of being whisked off to another planet as a zoo
specimen, Frisby stumbles upon a method of overpowering his extraterrestial
captors (a method, incidentally, that would be expanded upon in the 1997
sci-fi movie spoof Mars Attacks!) Scripted by Rod Serling from a story by
Frederic Louis Fox (in which Frisby became an outer-space TV personality),
... Read more Andy Devine stars as Mr. Frisby, the biggest liar in three
counties. Despite his constant gas-bagging about his alleged past acts of
heroism, no one believes Frisby's tall tales -- no one, that is, except a
team of space aliens, who accept Frisby's lies at face value. On the verge
of being whisked off to another planet as a zoo specimen, Frisby stumbles
upon a method of overpowering his extraterrestial captors (a method,
incidentally, that would be expanded upon in the 1997 sci-fi movie spoof
Mars Attacks!) Scripted by Rod Serling from a story by Frederic Louis Fox
(in which Frisby became an outer-space TV personality), the fitfully funny
Twilight Zone installment "Hocus-Pocus and Frisby" first aired April 13,
1962. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide "

"Watch out! He has some kind of an instrument that lets out a death sound!"

Harmonica John Frazer

619-263-6826



On 9/17/05 11:02 AM, "harp-l-request@xxxxxxxxxx" <harp-l-request@xxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

> Compare Harmonica John's signature tagline about the death noise
> experienced by aliens in an old Twilight Zone episode (which emitted
> from the harmonica of the town's teller of tall tales). Could it
> be . . . ?
> 
> Winslow