The Twilight Zone Recap: The Bard
Julius Moomer (Jack Weston, also in the excellent The Monsters are Due on Maple Street from Season 1) is in a bind. He is a writer, but he can't write. Sure, he can grind out zombie stories with the best of them, but they aren't very good. So he uses some black magic to conjure up William Shakespeare to help him out, and what do you know? It works.
A bit strange, really, as it's tough to imagine Shakespeare translating well to any 20th century medium, even after being edited by Moomer. But it's fiction. In the end, of course, it doesn't work out because Moomer wants all the glory for himself and Shakespeare doesn't think that is right. It's not that he does, mind you, he just doesn't like what Moomer is doing to his works of art. So he leaves.
Keep your eyes open for small roles from Burt Reynolds, John McGiver (Sounds and Silences from Season 5) and Howard McNear (Floyd the Barber, also in Hocus-Pocus and Frisby from Season 3).
