Austin Popper
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When I was about four or five, there was a Twilight Zone episode that creeped me out. It featured a weird old lady living on the bayou or some such place, and for some reason she had this jar with all sorts of stuff in it, in some kind of liquid I think. There was much concern over the jar, a big gallon size pickle jar or something of the sort. It was involved in some kind of curse, or zombie type thing. I imagined all sorts of things in there, including eyeballs. We saw this on a small black and white TV so it was mostly all implied that the jar contained stuff I didn't want to know about. I'm surprised it was on while I was in the room. That's about all I remember.
In later years, I brought up the episode in casual conversation and learned I was far from the only little kid to be freaked out by the jar. I'm pretty sure I saw the episode, or most of it, on reruns after I was grown up, and it seems like it was pretty subtle (for the Twilight Zone) and not really scary. Just weird.
Now I'll warm up the googlizer and see what I can find!
Later--
Well it looks like it was an Alfred Hitchcock show based on a short story by Ray Bradbury. That's a potent combination for atmospheric drama. I'll have to watch it again. In the daytime. Grandma loved to watch Hitchcock, so it was surely on the TV because she wanted to watch it. It aired in '64, so I was a bit older than I remembered being. Alfred did some amazing things. Pretty much all of it that I saw scared the hell out of me when I was a kid.
In later years, I brought up the episode in casual conversation and learned I was far from the only little kid to be freaked out by the jar. I'm pretty sure I saw the episode, or most of it, on reruns after I was grown up, and it seems like it was pretty subtle (for the Twilight Zone) and not really scary. Just weird.
Now I'll warm up the googlizer and see what I can find!
Later--
Well it looks like it was an Alfred Hitchcock show based on a short story by Ray Bradbury. That's a potent combination for atmospheric drama. I'll have to watch it again. In the daytime. Grandma loved to watch Hitchcock, so it was surely on the TV because she wanted to watch it. It aired in '64, so I was a bit older than I remembered being. Alfred did some amazing things. Pretty much all of it that I saw scared the hell out of me when I was a kid.
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