Talk:The Girl, the Gold Watch & Everything

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This article was nominated for merging with John D. MacDonald on 6/22/2022. The result of the discussion (permanent link) was merge under WP:SILENCE.

Maybe it was, maybe it wasn't

"It is possible that the given name of MacDonald's protagonist (Kirby Winter) was inspired by the surname of one of Smith's lead characters in Topper (George Kerby)." Conjecture has little to no place in Wikipedia articles unless it's backed up by a citation. What, no citation? 66.26.95.207 (talk) 03:14, 6 March 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Other Adaptations

Several items were removed from the section on adaptations, as follows below. If they do not belong in the section on adaptations—arguably they do—then perhaps a related section ("purported adaptations"; "adaptations without acknowledgment to John D. MacDonald"; etc.) is needed.

Here is the original section on adaptations:

The central plot device of The Girl, the Gold Watch & Everything—the watch that stopped time—was used in an episode of The Twilight Zone, "A Kind of a Stopwatch" (18 October 1963).^[1] Neither the book nor its author, John D. MacDonald, were acknowledged in connection with this episode.

The television episode was later adapted as "A Kind of Stopwatch" (without the middle "a"), an episode of The Twilight Zone Radio Dramas series, featuring Lou Diamond Phillips in the lead role.^[2]

The novel was adapted directly as a TV movie starring Robert Hays and Pam Dawber, The Girl, the Gold Watch, and Everything (1980). The title song was released as a 45-rpm record by Richie Havens on the Elektra label. The novel was adapted directly as a TV movie starring Robert Hays and Pam Dawber, The Girl, the Gold Watch, and Everything (1980). The title song was released as a 45-rpm record by Richie Havens on the Elektra label.

The TV movie was successful enough to inspire a sequel based on the original characters, The Girl, The Gold Watch, and Dynamite (1981).

The significant plot element was adapted—again without credit to John D. MacDonald or his novel—by Rob Hedden and Andy Hedden for the movie, Clockstoppers (2002), which also appeared as a paperback novelization.^[3]

Rob Hedden also wrote and directed an episode of Friday the 13th: The Series titled "13 O'Clock," in which a cursed pocketwatch allowed a thief one frozen hour of time in return for committing a murder.

^ "A Kind of Stopwatch" is the title on the original script (Script 124), two versions of which were published in As Timeless as Infinity: The Complete Twilight Zone Scripts of Rod Serling, Volume 3, edited by Tony Albarella (Gauntlet Press, 2007). The original scripts (both versions) are part of The Rod Serling Archives at Ithaca College.
^ The Twilight Zone Radio Dramas: "A Kind of Stopwatch"
^ Hedden, Rob, Andy Hedden, J. David Stem, and David N. Weiss. Clockstoppers. Simon Spotlight Entertainment, 2002. ISBN 0-743-44222-9

PlaysInPeoria (talk) 03:09, 5 April 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Merger Proposal

After shortening the plot summary and removing unsourced material, there's not a whole lot left. Propose merger into John D. MacDonald. Just Another Cringy Username (talk) 21:00, 22 June 2022 (UTC)[reply]

[1] "A Kind of Stopwatch" is the title on the original script (Script 124), two versions of which were published in As Timeless as Infinity: The Complete Twilight Zone Scripts of Rod Serling, Volume 3, edited by Tony Albarella (Gauntlet Press, 2007). The original scripts (both versions) are part of The Rod Serling Archives at Ithaca College.

[2] The Twilight Zone Radio Dramas: "A Kind of Stopwatch"

[3] Hedden, Rob, Andy Hedden, J. David Stem, and David N. Weiss. Clockstoppers. Simon Spotlight Entertainment, 2002. ISBN 0-743-44222-9

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