Michael Saenz suggests: "And then, of course, there is any anthology show, which brings diverse narrations together under some rough rubric--an institutionalized unreliable narrator, whose unreliability serves a central commodity: the novelty of each new week. Perhaps individual episodes of such shows are too discontinuous to talk about a single narrator--though there was always Alfred Hitchcock or Dick Powell striving to offer tongue-in-cheek (unreliable?) continuity. (Talk of the anthology raises the example of a show whose individual episodes displayed heroically perverse unreliable narrators--THE TWILIGHT ZONE.)" Hitchcock's show is an interesting case in point. He only directed some twenty episodes himself, but his framing commentaries could bring different implications to the night's story. Quite often, the episode might end with the triumph of a killer or other criminal (sometimes quite a likable one), but in the closing comments, Hitchcock would assure us that the person had been eventually caught or otherwise punished for his or her crime. Now this, of course, satisfied the sensibility of network censors, but it was delivered so drily and tongue-in- cheek that "reliability" was not even a question for most viewers. Don Larsson, Mankato State U (MN) ---- To signoff SCREEN-L, e-mail [log in to unmask] and put SIGNOFF SCREEN-L in the message. Problems? Contact [log in to unmask]