Richard Matheson

the incredible shrinking man [inc.SPOILERS]:

i) this film took an unexpected turn already explained by the film's title -- he just never stops shrinking! he ends up leaning right into the bit!! get used to it, he has!!!
ii) when his death is incorrectly announced by the media the very serious newsman explains that he was known to all (lol) "civilised' men and women as "the incredible shrinking man" when i feel simply knowing him as "the shrinking man" would do the needful work and not sound a bit over-amped every time you happen to mention him -- aren't you meant to be "civilised' (lol)?

anyway it's great, especially the realisation that the set designer's job was almost entirely making a new slightly bigger chair every two days of filming

incredible shrinking man on euphonium...

(they played Bonzo Dog's Intro and Outro on Late Junction and that contained the above line)

It really is one of the best '50s sci-fi fillums. Anyone familiar with Gastr Del Sol's 'Our Exquisite Replica of Eternity' will, like me, perk all the way up when the theme music swells over the opening credits.

I was on a somewhat unintentional Matheson film binge late last year, watching House of Usher, Pit and the Pendulum, The Legend of Hell House, The Night Stalker, episodes of Circle of Fear, and OG ST's 'The Enemy Within' over the course of a couple months. Dude was solid.