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    Peter Falk as Ramos Clemente, gazing into the mirror that will display his downfall

    &#;The Mirror&#;

    Season Three, Episode 71

    Original Air Date: October 20,

    Cast:

    Ramos Clemente: Peter Falk

    General DeCruz: Will Kuluva

    Cristo: Antony Carbone

    Tabal: Arthur Batanides

    Garcia: Rodolfo Hoyos

    D&#;Allesandro: Richard Karlan

    Father Tomas: Vladimir Sokoloff

    Crew:

    Writer: Rod Serling (original teleplay)

    Director: Don Medford

    Producer: Buck Houghton

    Production Manager: Ralph W. Nelson

    Director of Photography: George T. Clemens

    Art Direction: George W. Davis and Phil Barber

    Set Decoration: H. Web Arrowsmith

    Assistant Director: E. Darrell Hallenbeck
    Editor: Bill Mosher

    Story Consultant: Richard McDonagh

    Sound: Franklin Milton and Bill Edmondson

    Music: Stock

    And Now, Mr. Serling:

    &#;We&#;ve had some performances of great depth on The Twilight Zone and next week is no exception. A distinguished and

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    Rod Serling’s Nuclear Nightmare: Carol for Another Christmas


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    Carol for Another Christmas

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    Preserved by UCLA — new 35mm preservation print!

    Broadcast on ABC-TV the same year Dr. Strangelove was released to theaters, Carol for Another Christmas () reunites stars Sterling Hayden and Peter Sellers in Rod Serling’s impassioned plea to prevent nuclear war through international cooperation. Sponsored by the Xerox Corporation, the original teleplay was produced as one in a series of TV movies intended to build public support for the critical work of the United Nations. The only television film directed (and produced) by Academy Award winner Joseph L. Mankiewicz (All About Eve), Serling’s mid-century reworking of the Dickens classic feat

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    The Twilight Zone Creator Rod Serling Wrote A Classic 60s Political Thriller

    was a sterling year for Hollywood Cold War thrillers. The world was coming off of the Cuban Missile Crisis, so fear of nuclear war was even higher than usual. Stanley Kubrick's "Doctor Strangelove" and Sidney Lumet's "Fail Safe" both centered around nuclear armageddon born of communication breakdowns. "Seven Days in May" is the third leg in this triptych. 

    While Serling was a master of satire, "Seven Days in May" fryst vatten closer to the straight-laced "Fail Safe" than the farcical "Strangelove." Directed bygd John Frankenheimer (coming off of "The Manchurian Candidate," about a brainwashed Korean War veteran), the bio is a conspiracy picture full of suspense and intrigue.

    The set-up: President Jordan Lyman (Fredric March) has negotiated a nuclear disarmament treaty with the USSR. Most of the American public fryst vatten opposed, including Joint Chiefs of personal Chairman General James Mattoon Scott (Burt Lancaster). Scott'