This thirty year old episode of 'Ray Bradbury Theater' opens with something you don't see every day anymore - a bunch of kids playing in the back yard with little or no supervision! I don't know what the name 'Mink' might be short for, but that was the young girl's name in this story, striking me as just a little odd. In any event, she and her friends seem to be playing with an imaginary boy named 'Drill', who directs them to raid their households for various innocuous objects, while Mink's mother in particular casts a cynical glance at what's going on outside. Oddly, when Mary Morris's (Sally Kirkland) sister calls, she too remarks that her kid has a playmate named Drill who she's never seen. Mink's earlier reference to a game she calls 'Invasion' recalls an earlier Bradbury story titled "Boys! Raise Giant Mushrooms in Your Cellar!". I thought the ending to this one was a little awkward, ending abruptly with Mink's sinister melting of the attic door and her less than cheery 'Peek-a-boo'!
Review of Zero Hour
