{"id":706,"date":"2011-02-17T19:14:05","date_gmt":"2011-02-18T00:14:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/"},"modified":"2011-02-24T22:58:56","modified_gmt":"2011-02-25T03:58:56","slug":"fear-of-floating","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/television\/fear-of-floating\/","title":{"rendered":"Fear of Floating"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We like to think that we have control of our lives, but so much of life happens by accident. I ended up writing for the syndicated TV series <em>Tales From the Darkside<\/em> not because of any conscious plan, but due to a series of coincidences.<\/p>\n<p>Tom Allen, the Story Editor for the show, liked the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/comic-books\/\">comic-book stories<\/a> I was writing at the time for such DC Comics titles as <em>House of Mystery<\/em> and <em>House of Secrets<\/em>. He&#8217;d been talking with other members of the staff about contacting me to see whether I would consider trying to write the same sort of twist-ending tales for them. <\/p>\n<p>Allen happened to work at the<em> Village Voice<\/em>, which was across the street from the SF bookshop Forbidden Planet, which sold copies of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/editing\/last-wave\/\"><em>Last Wave<\/em><\/a> magazine, which I published and edited. Browsing through the store on his lunch hour, Tom saw a copy of <em>Last Wave<\/em>, realized that he now had a way to contact me, and so wrote me a letter suggesting a meeting. Without this string of coincidences, the opportunity would never have arisen.<\/p>\n<p>We met over Chinese food at the offices of the Village Voice, and I agreed to try to think up some stories for him. This partnership resulted in treatments for three episodes of the show. The first, &#8220;Fear of Floating,&#8221; starring Howard Sherman (pictured) from <em>Day of the Dead<\/em> and Yeardley Smith, the voice of Bart Simpson, aired on May 25, 1986.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We like to think that we have control of our lives, but so much of life happens by accident. I ended up writing for the syndicated TV series Tales From the Darkside not because of any conscious plan, but due to a series of coincidences. Tom Allen, the Story Editor for the show, liked the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":709,"parent":32,"menu_order":2,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-706","page","type-page","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/706","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=706"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/706\/revisions"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/32"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/709"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=706"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}