Patients in Death Valley behave like they are stand-up comics up in the Catskills. There is lots of talk talk talk in this episode but not much that I personally found particularly enlightening or different than other fantasies of this type. Wayne returns to Peter for repeated crazy talks, after visiting other areas in his peculiar setting. Peter has put on some weight since we last saw him alive and is also mighty angry in his row boat, tossing Wayne overboard with the lady mannequins in the water. Then he meets Peter in Loch Ness, a key reason we are discussing this show since it ties in with our previous Peter-centric stories. Then he joins a country estate with Marian Mercer playing a role similar to Audrey Hepburn’s in Spielberg’s subsequent (released later that decade) movie ALWAYS. In Death Valley or some place like it, he meets patients who died. Usually our perceptions of death and life after death are colored by what others in our family and community tell us, which is why Wayne is the perfect character for this kind of TV-recreated ”heaven.” Like Victor, he is always focused on what others have to say. However these decades were still full of uncertainty in life so everybody was still questioning ”am I making the right decisions?” In the ME decade, people became less critical of themselves and what ”sins” they were committing that the religious authorities of old used to burn them at the stake for. What I find interesting about these period pieces is how they showcase where many average Americans’ state of mind were in regards to such unanswered subject matter. Much of this story is patterned after other heavenly comedies of the 1970s and ’80s, which combined a little New Age rhetoric to old fashion religion, while still paying homage to old-time Hollywood fantasies of the HERE COMES MR. I have lost count, but it must be an interesting number.) Eligius have also been patients struggling to survive in ER themselves. ![]() (TopBilled needs to make an inventory of how many characters employed by St. Under surgery, he goes through his out of body experience to see what life after death is like… His life seems to be controlled by…somebody. It is interesting that he gets accidentally shot right after his little speech about catching fireflies and saying he loves having control over their lives once he catches them. Wayne Fiscus (Howie Mandel) chasing fireflies…or fairies…or Tinker Bell since he is like Peter Pan in his juvenile personality. Story by Tom Fontana, John Masius & John Tinker ![]() Season 5, Episode 9 - After Life Broadcast on November 26, 1986
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