re; the Live-Action TV reff, to the Twilight Zone episode [which appears in the Movie as well] : - this story is in fact, exactly / originally the short story "It's a Good Life" [good in italics, btw], by Jerome Bixby ... which was collected in the Science Fiction Hall of Fame [vol.1] ... the movie adds a happy ending, while the original text just carries queasily on in hellish limbo...

- Uncle Sumer -