Another Kind Of Distance: A Time Travel, Twin Peaks, Film, Doom Patrol And Nostalgia Podcast

For our Halloween 2023 episode, we take you on a tour of Peyton Place—the 1956 novel by Grace Metalious, 1957 Fox movie starring Lana Turner, and the mid-late-60s TV series starring Dorothy Malone and Mia Farrow (among many others) that reinvented television. We discuss the strange journey of Metalious's scabrous and scathing vision from satire to soap opera, in the course of which the story of shack-dweller Selena Cross's violation by her stepfather becomes the story of lower-middle-class Betty Anderson's resentful ambition, while ostensible protagonist Allison MacKenzie goes from being a bit of a jerk to being a nightmare of willfulness. But which versions of the story influenced David Lynch the most? We give our surmises.    Time Codes: 0h 00m 45s:    Peyton Place by Grace Metalious 0h 42 m 52s:   PEYTON PLACE (1957) [dir. Mark Robson] 1h 02m 26s:    PEYTON PLACE – TV SERIES (1964 to 1969) +++ * Listen to our guest episode on The Criterion Project – a discussion of Late Spring * Marvel at our meticulo