Billy Mumy tonight

His interviews on the Archive of American Television site are a delight, because he worked on so many things and retained memories of it all. He also seems to be a very nice guy in a laid-back liberal hippie sort of way.

The only person he had a bad thing to say about was Hitchcock, who apparently terrorized little boys on the set the way he did icy blondes.

I’m watching it now. I didn’t realize Cloris Leachman was his mom in the Twilight Zone classic.

There's a sequel to the episode in one of the later Twilight Zone incarnations ('80s? '90s?). Billy plays Anthony again and Cloris plays his mother. Billy's real-life daughter plays his onscreen daughter.

Robert Sterling was hot.

Billy was also on Deep Space Nine, tonight.

9 little details you never noticed in the Twilight Zone episode 'It's a Good Life':

Loved him on "Babylon 5."

[quote] Robert Sterling was hot.

How did Robert Sterling get in on this gig? He wasn't on the Twilight Zone episode with Mumy. He was on the one with Burgess Meredith who played the devil working as a newspaper printer.

Or were you talking about Rod Serling the TZ creator?

I fucking HATED the sequel episode done back in the '80s/'90s with Mumy and his daughter. The ending was a complete letdown and a missed opportunity to bring a satisfying conclusion to this story.

Who could hate this adorable little face?

Luke Skywalker and Will Robinson posing with the newest Will Robinson:

I didn't know about the remakes or sequel to It's A Good Life. Thank you!

I remember him also in the movie Bless the Beasts and Children.

Billy is so cool

R8, Robert Sterling was in the Hitchcock episode "The House Guest" that OP says was shown on TV right after the Twilight Zone episode, both featuring Billy Mumy.

As everyone knows, Sterling played ghost George Kirby in the TV series "Topper" during the '50s (his wife on the show, Marion Kirby, was played by Anne Jeffreys, who later appeared as Amanda on "General Hospital"). Perhaps not everyone knows that he was once married to Ann Sothern (who starred as Susie in the '50s TV series "Private Secretary"). And maybe no one but me knows that Billy's parents in "The House Guest" were played by Macdonald Carey and Peggy McKay, who were mainstays in the TV soap "Days Of Our Lives" as Dr. Tom Horton and Caroline Brady, respectively.

I knew that, r15!

Hi, Tish @ R16! I never heard of you, so I've just checked Wikipedia and found that you were once married to the great-grandson of L. Frank Baum! I guess your husband wasn't as interesting as his ancestor must have been or your marriage wouldn't have lasted only 5 years.

Thanks, R13. I didn't know Bless the Beasts and the Children was a movie...I only remember it as a song by Karen Carpenter!

R18 - I saw it as a kid and was intensely moved by it, but I wonder how effective I'd find it decades later as an adult since the movie was really aimed at younger people. (It's about a group of misfit & bullied boys who defy authority, attempt do something positive & thereby assert themselves.)

He's good friends with Weird Al and introduced him to the woman he married.

[quote]I saw it as a kid and was intensely moved by it, but I wonder how effective I'd find it decades later as an adult since the movie was really aimed at younger people. (It's about a group of misfit & bullied boys who defy authority, attempt do something positive & thereby assert themselves.)

It's on Amazon Prime (or it was last year when I rewatched it). Dated and of its time but a good story and well acted by all the kids.

Good Lord, I just woke up and Tony Randall just woke up on the Hitchcock Hour, His wife is missing but he's in bed with Jayne Mansfield!

Hitchcock threatened to nail Billy's foot to the floor to keep him on his mark.