There was another Twilight Zone episode called "Static" about an elderly man
in a rooming house who drags his old console radio out of the basement. He
hears all sorts of vintage programs on it...until anyone else comes into the
room...then it turns to static, and they all, of course, think the guy is
crazy.

Anyone have the experience of a technophobe who ruins their radio reception?
I've got a cousin who has no interest in shortwave or am dxing. I can be
listening to a distant signal, and when this guy walks into the room, the
signal fades to noise. He assumes I've seen sitting there listening to
noise, and he thinks I'm crazy!

Jay
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Yep, and it's a horrible movie. It's certainly not the best use of
Dennis Quaid's talents.


A better one, not a movie, but an old tv show back in the 70's was an
episode
of "Darkroom", which was a show in the style of "The Twilight Zone".

You could even say it was "The Twilight Zone" if it wasn't for the
different
name and that it wasn't.

Anyway, the best I can remember it, in one episode, a man starts getting
radio
signals from the past (from the world war 2 era). on an old radio.
Either his
father or grandfather had died on a ship that went down during world war
2. (I
forget if it was his father or grandfather).

He tries to transmit a signal into the past to save the ship in order to
save
his (father or grandfather) so that his ( father or grandfather) would be
alive
never having died in world war 2.

At the end, he finally succeeds in getting the message to the ship that's
in
the past. When he wakes up, tthe ship never went down during world war 2,
and
his (father or grandfather) is alive.

But then he finds out that America is now controlled by German Nazis and
has
been ever since World War 2.

And I think his (father or grandfather) says something to him like "It
would be
better off being dead than to live under Nazi rule like this".

And that was the end of that story.

His sucessful radio signal into the past changed history in a bad way.

Luckily, none of that ever happened in real life.