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1* SugarWiki/AwesomeMusic: Both of Music/JohnWilliams' {{Instrumental Theme Tune}}s.
2* DiagnosedByTheAudience: Ralph Harrow from "A Cause of Anger" seems to be an early example of a character with HollywoodAutism and/or UsefulNotes/AspergerSyndrome. He's a TeenGenius who can rattle off trivia on just about any subject, but he has NoSocialSkills... and he flies into [[HairTriggerTemper unpredictable rages]] with little or no provocation.
3* SugarWiki/HeReallyCanAct:
4** Creator/MiltonBerle gives a worthy dramatic performance in "That He Should Weep for Her".
5** So does Creator/LarryStorch as one of the {{Villain Protagonist}}s of "The Jack Is High", although the role also allows him to use his comedic skills in a few scenes.
6* JerkassWoobie: Sherman Tyler from "A Cruel and Unusual Night". He killed a clerk while robbing a liquor store, was almost executed, then escaped to take {{revenge}} against the judge who sentenced him by putting him through a similar ordeal. He's also [[ItsAllAboutMe relentlessly self-centered]], and he orders his ExtremeDoormat wife around despite her obvious discomfort with his actions. On the other hand, the shooting was accidental, he actually [[MyGodWhatHaveIDone feels sorry for the man he killed]], and even the judge admits that Sherman's death row ordeal (he was put in the GasChamber, released at the last possible second, then faced the prospect of ''having to be executed again'' until his death sentence was finally commuted) was pretty horrible. And it turns out that he can't bring himself to kill the judge anyway.
7** Sherman's victim, Judge Howard Stimming, might also qualify. The end of the episode, where he sentences a man to death despite hearing Sherman's story and barely surviving his own kidnapping, is pretty unsettling.
8* RetroactiveRecognition:
9** Creator/JamesCaan and Creator/BruceDern in "The Hunt".
10** Creator/RobertDuvall in "Portrait of an Unknown Man".
11** Creator/LeonardNimoy in "Kill No More".

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