I learned something new.


Some people say that you learn something new every day, and I try to learn things every day.

Today, May 21, 2021, I was reading a list of credits for Robert Duvall at iMDB.

https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000380/?ref_=fn_al_nm_1

And I found 2 roles in The Outer limits (1963-65). One was as Louis Mace in "The Chameleon", 27 April 1964. I thought that I remembered that a main character in "The Chameleon" was named Miles Spain, which I thought was sort of a meaningful name referring to a legendary character, so I looked up the cast list for "The Cameleon" and couldn't find any character named Miles Spain.

So I looked up a list of The Outer limits episodes and found another episode, "The Invisibles", 3 February 1964, with a description indicating that it was the one I remembered. And I looked up the cast list of "The Invisibles" and there wasn't any "Miles Spain" charater listed.

Instead the main character was Luis D. Spain (Don Gordon).

So sometime, decades ago, I got the false idea that the main character of "The Invisibles" was named Miles Spain as some sort of reference to the legendary ancestor of Irish Royal families Mil Espaine.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M%C3%ADl_Esp%C3%A1ine

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