A Nice Place to Visit

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Template:Infobox TTW season one {{TTW episode details |episodetitle=A Nice Place to Visit |episodenumber=28 |season=1 |productioncode=173-3632 |originalday=April 15 |originalyear=1960 |writer=Charles Beaumont |director=John Brahm |producer= |music=Stock }}

1 Cast
2 Synopsis
3 Trivia
4 Themes
5 External links
6 References
7 Twilight Zone links

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Cast

Rocky Valentine: Larry Blyden
Mr. Pip: Sebastian Cabot

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Synopsis

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At the start of the episode, the 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). Pip tells him that "this is the other place!" Valentine tries vainly to leave while Pip laughs uproariously.

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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.” —an excerpt from Hal Erikson’s article “Censorship: Another Dimension Behind the Twilight Zone”, published in the October 1985 edition of The Twilight Zone Magazine.
Rod Serling himself was offered the role of Rocky Valentine, but declined.
This episode inspired the song 'Hell Hotel', an unreleased track recorded by a then-unsigned They Might Be Giants for their 1985 demo tape.

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