***SPOILERS*** Much like the "Tales from the Darkside" episode 'The Devil's Advocate" this "Night Gallery" episode has to do with a big time DJ, disk jockey, getting his comeuppance for all the nasty things he did in his life that he felt that he had gotten away with.
J,J Wilson, Arte Johnson, who was #1 in the ratings in the Big Apple NYC is now driven out of town by his creditors to this out of the way town population 100 in the middle of the Nevada Desert to do his new radio music show aptly called "The Sounds of Insomnia". Forced by his boss, guess who he is, to play depressing funeral and hard rock satanic like music J.J starts to flip out and go mental. Even in J.J trying to play normal rock & roll & pop music all that comes out from the disks he's spinning is the same old and depressing songs about suffering and death!
It now becomes obvious to J.J that his agent Sidney who got him the job is getting even with him for driving his emotionally challenged wife Emily to kill herself whom he was having a secret affair with. This soon becomes certain to us in the audience when J.J in an act of desperation calls his good friend Burt telling him to tell Sidney if he ever gets in touch with him that the two were out fishing when J,J in fact was having his affair with Emily.
***SPOILERS*** It takes a while for J.J to realize the truth of the situation that he now finds himself in but before the morning sunrise he becomes history. Just like the other more or less like himself, rotten to the core, disk jockeys who's portraits like his own are hanging on the wall of the radio studio, station KAPH, along with his! Yes J.J Wilson did make the radio "Hall of Fame", or better yet "Hall of Flames", but not exactly the kind of "Fame" that he was expecting to get.
J,J Wilson, Arte Johnson, who was #1 in the ratings in the Big Apple NYC is now driven out of town by his creditors to this out of the way town population 100 in the middle of the Nevada Desert to do his new radio music show aptly called "The Sounds of Insomnia". Forced by his boss, guess who he is, to play depressing funeral and hard rock satanic like music J.J starts to flip out and go mental. Even in J.J trying to play normal rock & roll & pop music all that comes out from the disks he's spinning is the same old and depressing songs about suffering and death!
It now becomes obvious to J.J that his agent Sidney who got him the job is getting even with him for driving his emotionally challenged wife Emily to kill herself whom he was having a secret affair with. This soon becomes certain to us in the audience when J.J in an act of desperation calls his good friend Burt telling him to tell Sidney if he ever gets in touch with him that the two were out fishing when J,J in fact was having his affair with Emily.
***SPOILERS*** It takes a while for J.J to realize the truth of the situation that he now finds himself in but before the morning sunrise he becomes history. Just like the other more or less like himself, rotten to the core, disk jockeys who's portraits like his own are hanging on the wall of the radio studio, station KAPH, along with his! Yes J.J Wilson did make the radio "Hall of Fame", or better yet "Hall of Flames", but not exactly the kind of "Fame" that he was expecting to get.