On Friday's episode of CBS's "Medium," psychic Allison Dubois (Patricia Arquette) has some nightmares that will look familiar to fans of director George A. Romero's "Night of the Living Dead." For the episode, Arquette is inserted into scenes from the classic horror film, cast in the role of Barbara, originally played by Judith O'Dea.
"This one was so much fun to do," said "Medium" co-executive producer Craig Sweeny, who grew up in Point Breeze and is a 1992 graduate of Pittsburgh Allderdice High School. He wrote this week's "Medium" episode (9 p.m. Friday, KDKA-TV) with Robert Doherty. The story came about at the end of last season when the pair met with "Medium" creator Glenn Gordon Caron, who tossed out an idea he had back in his days writing for "Moonlighting": Insert the actors from his show in a movie that's in the public domain.
"He had no more notion of what the episode would be than that," Sweeny said. Doherty began looking into what films that might qualify and "Night of the Living Dead" stood out.
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