That’s the reason why I read so many books. He can only predict something “if I more or less know what it is. He says the predictions just come to him. Peterson (Ellen Weston, who delivers a fine, empathetic performance) asks Herbie some gentle questions in his makeup chair before his next show about how he does what he does. A university professor is sent to study Herbie, having been given a grant to learn about ESP from him.ĭr.
The next morning’s paper shows that the earthquake prediction came true as well.Ī year later, we learn that Herbie has made 106 correct predictions (and, yes, Wellman got him his job back delivering his commentaries on tv). Then a news bulletin confirms the prediction of the girl being found alive. the next morning.Īfter the show’s conclusion, Wellman orders the tape of the broadcast wiped (yes, kids, we used to use videotape to record things in the old days) (also, wiped meant erased). Herbie’s grandfather (William Hansen) says that “the boy has a special talent” and it turns out he is right as on the program, Herbie predicts that a missing girl will be found in fifteen minutes and that an earthquake will hit Los Angeles at 6:00 a.m. Good work by him and by the casting director. Michael Constantine is sort of playing against his usual type, that of a less-than-self-aware funny guy ( Room 222 contemporary to this, then much later in My Big Fat Greek Wedding) and so his rages are tempered by an inner softie that we know to be there.
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When Station Manager Wellman gets wind of this (and one wonders why he didn’t know beforehand), he is outraged that the kid is going on live tv and says that this will be Herbie’s last appearance on his station. Herbie’s talents have led him to the attention of a New York television station who puts him on the air to deliver commentaries, which start with the mundane and end with some predictions of the future. The second season (and thank goodness for all us Night Gallery fans that it was renewed, and put on a weekly schedule, rather than the every-four-weeks schedule of the first season) begins with the story of a ten-(eleven later in the segment) year-old boy, Herbie Bittman (I wonder if Eugene Levy had this character’s name in the back of his head when he created stand-up comic Bobby Bittman later in the decade on SCTV) who can predict the future. Teleplay by Rod Serling, story by Margaret St.
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