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A Nice Place To VisitA Nice Place to Visit is an episode of the television series The Twilight Zone. Details Episode number:28 Season:Season: 1 Production code: 173-3632 Original air date: April 15, 1960 Writer: Charles Beaumont Director: John Brahm Music:stock Stock Rocky Valentine: Larry Blyden Mr. Pip: Sebastian Cabot Synopsis At the start of the episode, the main protagonist Rocky Valentine, played by Larry Blyden, is shot and killed by a police officer. He later recovers to find himself seemingly unharmed from the altercation. He is now in the company of a pleasant individual named "Pip", who is empowered to grant Rocky whatever he desires. So Rocky immediately assumes he has died and gone to Heaven. Later, growing weary of always having his whims satisfied and winning at whatever he attempts, he finally begs Pip to send him to the "other place" (referring to Hell.) At the conclusion, he is informed by Pip that this is the other place. Trivia - "A Nice Place to Visit" was also singled out for its brazen sexual innuendo. Program Practices requested that Larry Blyden not refer to a girl as "a broad...really stacked," even though the crudity was essential to establishing the unsavory qualities of Blyden's character. Nor could the protagonist refer to a party as "a ball," since that word had more than one meaning. In another "Nice Place" sequence, a voluptuous young lady tends to Blyden's every need, then says "is there anything else I can do for you?" CBS's comment: "Please be certain that the girl's third speech be delivered in a sweet manner, as described."
Themes "Be careful what you wish for" seems appropriate, a theme also explored or suggested in The Man in the Bottle, The Trouble With Templeton, The Last Night of a Jockey, Escape Clause, The Mind and the Matter, Time Enough at Last and I Dream of Genie. External links Episode summary References - Zicree, Marc Scott: The Twilight Zone Companion. Sillman-James Press, 1982 (second edition)
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