SYFY TZ Marathon - A World of Difference

 This performance from Duff in the Twilight Zone episode, "A World of Difference", is just so fucking realistic. He's so convincing as "Arthur Curtis" terrified of this "facade" called a drunken actor "married to a harpy" named Gerald Raigan, trying to find his way back to "his family, career, and life" (that is a shooting script in production). His face, full of perplexity, anxiety, confusion, and sheer terror, and a mind that can't accept (or perhaps refuses to) this "real life"; Duff's work is truly exceptional. This wasn't just some campy B-show to the actors like Duff and Conte ("Perchance to Dream")...the talent in the 60s took to the science fiction of this era very seriously. And because of that, Duff enriches an episode like "A World of Difference", his Arthur Curtis (he simply won't listen to his agent, ex-wife (looking for the next check), movie director (called "The Private World of Arthur Curtis"), or crew) trying to prove that he's on the level, not some crackpot. And they all look at him as if he's gone off the deep end. Perhaps he does but he's dedicated to "getting back" before the sets are removed and production is truly "cancelled".