The Twonky

Opening sequences as writer-director-producer Arch Oboler sets the weird tone for his Sci-Fi spoof, Hans Conreid the dizzy professor and Janet Warren his wife, from The Twonky, 1953.

Professor West (Hans Conreid) is making a point of ignoring the TV his wife has bought to amuse him while she's out of town, but failing, then taking a minute to realize the service guy (Ed Max) has arrived with a solution, in maverick producer Arch Oboler's SciFi comedy The Twonky, 1953.

Dipsomaniac Coach Trout (Billy Lynn) is helping panicked professor West (Hans Conreid) figure out what to do about the TV set that's taking over his life, receiving a revelation just as he passes out, in The Twonky, 1953, from low-rent writer-director-producer Arch Oboler.