No problem...thanks for the "heads up" on that program.

Actually (though this really should be for another thread) I think the RMT was ahead of its time on some issues. It was unfettered by political correctness of later decades.

(Case in point: "The Twilight Zone" ran another episode: "The howling man", about some monks who'd imprisoned Satan and how a guest they took in overnight accidentally let him out. If you'll go to that page and scroll all the way to the bottom you'll see a cane-looking object (they called it "The staff of truth") locking the door. You'll also see the actor John Carradine, but I digress... The staff was what held Satan in.

I read in a very good book on every TWZ episode that the director or someone had originally written for there to be a cross on the door, but that it was replaced by the "staff of truth" because someone was afraid other religions might be offended. And this was in the year [i:b704734432]1960[/i:b704734432].

Fast forward 21 years to the RMT's "The Raft", which aired in 1981. I counted no less than [i:b704734432]four[/i:b704734432] scripture references quoted in that episode, three by E.G. himself, including one directly mentioning Jesus' admonition to Peter "What doth it profit a man to gain the world but lose his soul?"

If, in fact, I had a dollar for every time I've heard a biblical reference on the RMT, I believe I'd honestly have a couple hundred dollars in my pocket.)

With that in mind, it was fascinating some of the subjects the RMT (with E.G. at the helm) tackled:

- Islamic terrorism ("The terrorist")
- Presidential candidates fathering out-of-wedlock children ("Guilty secret")
- Homosexuality and licentious living ("Picture of Dorian Gray")
- Abortion ("The phantom lullaby", "Wave of terror", even though the latter had some not-so-good elements as well)
- Child abuse (The aforementioned "Star sapphire")
- Celebrity misadventures (not a strong enough term) of the day ("The primrose path" appeared to be based on the Patty Hearst kidnapping/conversion)

The writers seemed to look at these and other subjects through a totally different lens than so many of today's scriptwriters do...and they ended up looking at some issues more objectively. IMO, that's part of what made this so memorable.