Editing Static (The Twilight Zone) (section)

==Production==
As ''The Twilight Zone''{{'}}s second season began, the production was informed by [[CBS]] that at about $65,000 per episode, the show was exceeding its budget. By November 1960, 16 episodes, more than half of the projected 29, were already filmed, and five of those had been broadcast. It was decided that six consecutive episodes (production code #173-3662 through #173-3667) would be videotaped at [[CBS Television City]] in the manner of a live drama and then transferred to [[16 mm film|16-millimeter film]] for future syndicated TV transmissions. Eventual savings amounted to only about $30,000 for all six entries, which was judged to be insufficient to offset the loss of the depth of visual perspective that only film could offer. The shows wound up looking little better than set-bound soap operas and as a result the experiment was deemed a failure and never tried again.<ref name=Zicree>{{cite web|title=''The Twilight Zone Companion'' Silman-James Press; 2 edition (December 1992)|url=http://www.silmanjamespress.com/shop/pc/Twilight-Zone-Companion-2nd-Edition-64p3448.htm|first=Marc Scott|last=Zicree|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160323181911/http://www.silmanjamespress.com/shop/pc/Twilight-Zone-Companion-2nd-Edition-64p3448.htm|archive-date=March 23, 2016|url-status=dead}} {{ISBN|978-1879505094}}</ref>

A "modern day" adaptation of this story (set at the present time in [[England]] and with the 1930s radio switched out for a television of a type contemporary with the time of the original episode) was written as a short story of the same name by [[Robert Shearman]]. It was first published by [[Comma Press]] in Shearman’s 2007 anthology ''Tiny Deaths'', and won a [[World Fantasy Award]]. The story itself was then adapted into a short film, which took the action back to the [[United States]], but kept the present day setting. The themes of loss and longing for a simpler [[nostalgia|romanticised past]] are prevalent in all three versions.