You unlock this door with the key of imagination. That's what
Rod Serling would say. It appears to me that the Twilight Zone
may have affected more than the 30 minutes it controlled every
week those many years ago. So with the keys of your imagination
lets journey farther into the Outer Limits of television and
discover that the weird and the bizarre were not just limited to
the great classic sci-fi hits like the Twilight Zone and the
Outer Limits. Nor is the unexplained always presented on
Ripley's Believe it or Not.

The Mysterious changing Andy Taylor What happened to Andy
Griffith from the black and white days of the Andy Griffith Show
to the days of color? It is common knowledge the black and white
episodes with Barney were more funny and entertaining, but why
did Andy suddenly change from a loveable country bumpkin, who
was always wise but never serious, to a almost bitter man that
seemed to even lose his country accent?

Is the original answer for this something that belongs in the
Twilight Zone? Did the writers of the show have an intriguing
plot to reveal that just never came to be? What could make a man
change so drastically from the changing of black and white to
color? Is there a scientific explanation? Could the answer be as
bizarre as a UFO kidnapping? Was Andy Taylor replaced with a
clone? Were we watching two different dimensions of time and
space?

I have some more reasonable explanations, but you be the judge.
Perhaps Andy had attempted to quit smoking which made him grumpy
in real life. Perhaps he was trying to impress the equally
grumpy Miss Crump or should we say Miss Grump. Why, oh why,
didn't he marry the lady druggist? Perhaps none of this would
have happened.

The changed Andy happened about the time Barney Fife left town.
Did the antics of Don Knotts keep Andy in a good ol' home town
mood? Or did the emergence of the Jughead hat wearing Goober
affect Andy in a way that can't be explained. After all, just
before the show turned color, Andy threatened the life of
Goober, after he put a car together right inside the court house.

So what do you think? Was it aliens, a lack of nicotine, Goober,
Gomer, Miss Crump, or no Barney? You be the judge, I just
present the facts as I know them.

The Disappearing Son on Happy Days What about Chuck on Happy
Days? How could a mother and father completely forget they ever
had a son? But if you watched the recent Happy Days reunion if
then there was no reasonable explanation given as to why Chuck
just disappeared. In the final episode of Happy Days, Mr. C even
relates to the audience how he was happy to have raised two
children, not three as we know really happened. Is this another
case of alien abduction? There is precedence for this strange
phenomenon. If you have seen the recent movie The Forgotten, you
can see how aliens can put the mind whammy on parents, making
them completely forget their kids for purposes of evil alien
experiments on parental mindsets. Surely the explanation cannot
be as simple as the writers were just too lazy to keep up with
the fact that the Cunninghams had another son beside Richie.
Perhaps the strange powers of the Fonz were not simply from his
cool as we were told. Maybe the Fonz himself was an alien with
the power of mind control over other humans, including the power
to snap his fingers to bring herds of screaming girls to his
side. Now that I think of it, no wonder people think Elvis is
still alive. Maybe he too was from another world. Could it be
Elvis and the Fonz were part of a rival gang from Ork preparing
for the arrival Mork from Ork?

More Unexplained Phenomenon There are many more strange and
bizarre unexplainable phenomenon on television.

1.Where did all the deputies go after the first episode of the
Dukes of Hazzard? Clearly there were more than Enos and Rosco in
the pilot episode.

2. On the last episode of Lois and Clark: The New Adventures of
Superman, a baby arrives just for the closing moments of the
show, just because the Kents want a child. No explanation is
ever given. Is it then just coincidence that Dean Cain would
soon host the new Ripley's Believe It or Not?

3. How can Metropolis be in Kansas as it is only a couple of
hours away from Smallville on the popular WB hit Smallville? On
one episode Clark climbed a water tower with a friend and they
could actually see Metropolis without X-ray vision. In the past
it has always been accepted that Metropolis represented New York
City.

4. After 9 years of episodes, can anyone truly say that any of
the bizarre happenings on the X-files were ever explained. What
mind control did they use to force us to watch year after year
with no answers? I beg of you Chris Carter make a movie or
something that can explain all of this unexplained phenomenon.

5. On The Greatest American Hero, a 1980's tv show about a
teacher who gains Superman like powers by wearing a super suit
from aliens, there was one strange occurrence. The Greatest
American Hero's main character Ralph Hinkley inexplicably
becomes Ralph Hanley. What happened? Well even though Ralph got
his super suit from aliens this was no alien conspiracy. After
the attempted assassination of President Ronald Reagan by John
Hinkley, they decided to rename the main character to avoid any
association with the John Hinkley.

I'm sure there are many more unexplained events on television
throughout the years, but was it all by television writers, or
did Rod Serling's Twilight Zone infect the rest of TV history as
well?

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