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Twilight Zone

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jyates

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Watched a few hours of Twilight Zone marathon on the SciFi channel yesterday.
I always get a kick out of seeing those character actors and those who were
just starting out.

Looks like William Shatner has had the same acting style since he got his start also 🙂

Does anyone own a boxed set of all the episodes?

If I'm remembering right there were 149 episodes in the original series?

What's your favorite episode?
 
Oh man, so many good ones. And it's so hard to remember them all.

Titles escape me, but I'm a fan of the episode where they're investigating the empty plane that landed itself. Good episode there.

I'm also fond of the episode featuring Martin Landau. The Shatner ep was a classic as well.

The episode about the old guy who exaggerates and tells Tall Tales was funny.

And the one where the guy keeps falling asleep on the train between his home and his work, and then waking up in some 1860s era town.

The episode set in the future, where the librarian is determined to be "obsolete" and gets to decide the method of his own "deletion".

I think the best that I can remember right now is Eye of the Beholder, or whatever it was called, with the girl who went through surgery to fix her face. Very philosophical. On that thread, so was Number 6 Looks Just Like You.


Dammit, now I'm going to have to go back and watch 'em all again.
 
I found a website that lists the titles and the basic story line and the main characters
that was pretty helpful. I never paid attention to the titles that much.

You notice how they deal with space travel so much and also time travel?

War and nuclear war is covered quite a bit also.

I'll post the url to the website when I find it again 🙂
 
Originally posted by: yukichigai
Oh man, so many good ones. And it's so hard to remember them all.

Titles escape me, but I'm a fan of the episode where they're investigating the empty plane that landed itself. Good episode there.

I'm also fond of the episode featuring Martin Landau. The Shatner ep was a classic as well.

The episode about the old guy who exaggerates and tells Tall Tales was funny.

And the one where the guy keeps falling asleep on the train between his home and his work, and then waking up in some 1860s era town.

The episode set in the future, where the librarian is determined to be "obsolete" and gets to decide the method of his own "deletion".

I think the best that I can remember right now is Eye of the Beholder, or whatever it was called, with the girl who went through surgery to fix her face. Very philosophical. On that thread, so was Number 6 Looks Just Like You.


Dammit, now I'm going to have to go back and watch 'em all again.
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The plastic surgery one is great. I love the Twilight Zone, but everytime I've tried to watch it on Sci-Fi, it's a clunker episode, which shows the problem with anthology shows -- there's always a wide variation in quality.
 
There were sooo many good ones it's hard to narrow them down to only a few. I used to love staying up late during the summer and watching the reruns into the wee hours when I was a kid.
 
Originally posted by: jyates
I found a website that lists the titles and the basic story line and the main characters
that was pretty helpful. I never paid attention to the titles that much.
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It was probably TV Tome
 
My memory is very vague, since i was a kid at the time

The one where the lady had little aliens in her barn, she lets them stay for a while..but then when more and more start showing up she freaks out and starts stomping them and bashing them with a broom
and then it turns out that the little aliens were actually earthlings who were exploring some other planet
 
Originally posted by: jntdesign
My memory is very vague, since i was a kid at the time

The one where the lady had little aliens in her barn, she lets them stay for a while..but then when more and more start showing up she freaks out and starts stomping them and bashing them with a broom
and then it turns out that the little aliens were actually earthlings who were exploring some other planet
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And that lady is Agnes Moorhead which was Samatha's mother in "Bewtiched".

Elizabeth Montgomery (Samatha) and Charles Bronson were the only 2 people
in an Episode "Then there were 2" about a man and a woman who are enemies
who run into each other in a deserted town after a battle or perhaps the war. They
mistrust each other for a while then they figure out they better get along since they
are the only ones left.....kinda like Adam and Eve of the future.

Elizabeth's hair is black in the episode and it took me a minute to figure out who
she was 🙂
 
Originally posted by: jntdesign
My memory is very vague, since i was a kid at the time

The one where the lady had little aliens in her barn, she lets them stay for a while..but then when more and more start showing up she freaks out and starts stomping them and bashing them with a broom
and then it turns out that the little aliens were actually earthlings who were exploring some other planet
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I love twists like that. The only show to come anywhere close to that kind of twist now adays is Law & Order. Sigh... I wish there were more SciFi shows.

Oo, just remembered an episode that was a great one: the episode where the cops pull over a greyhound bus because an alien teleported onto it, and they have to figure out who the alien is. I loved that ending.
 
I love the one where the guy wakes up to find everything is screwed up... Oh, wait, that's every episode.
 
Originally posted by: yukichigai
Oh man, so many good ones. And it's so hard to remember them all.

Titles escape me, but I'm a fan of the episode where they're investigating the empty plane that landed itself. Good episode there.

I'm also fond of the episode featuring Martin Landau. The Shatner ep was a classic as well.

The episode about the old guy who exaggerates and tells Tall Tales was funny.

And the one where the guy keeps falling asleep on the train between his home and his work, and then waking up in some 1860s era town.

The episode set in the future, where the librarian is determined to be "obsolete" and gets to decide the method of his own "deletion".

I think the best that I can remember right now is Eye of the Beholder, or whatever it was called, with the girl who went through surgery to fix her face. Very philosophical. On that thread, so was Number 6 Looks Just Like You.


Dammit, now I'm going to have to go back and watch 'em all again.
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Shatner was in 2 episodes. 1) Nick of Time 2) Nitemare at 20,000 feet

The guy falling asleep on the train was called Willowby.

The librarian one you refer to was called The Obsolete Man. Great episode.

Eye of the Beholder is now going by its original title: The Private World of Darkness.
 
Originally posted by: jyates
I found a website that lists the titles and the basic story line and the main characters
that was pretty helpful. I never paid attention to the titles that much.

You notice how they deal with space travel so much and also time travel?

War and nuclear war is covered quite a bit also.

I'll post the url to the website when I find it again 🙂
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http://www.tvtome.com
 
"The Invaders"

It's the one where the old lady fights off alien robots. Or so you think 😉

I first saw this when I was real little and it really creeped me out.
 
the only epeisode that creeped me out was the one where the guys stays at a monastary and there is a room the the door whicc is locked and held closed with a cane.

the guy tells him that its the devil that being kept prisoner, the guy eventually releases the prisoner and right before his eyes the guy turns into the devil....


i dont know why but that trnasformation creeped me out when i was a kid...

i also liek the one about the manequin that forgets shes a manequin and the one with telli "kojack" savalis

and the talking doll.....'my name is talkign tina and i hate you!!'
 
Originally posted by: BooGiMaN
the only epeisode that creeped me out was the one where the guys stays at a monastary and there is a room the the door whicc is locked and held closed with a cane.

the guy tells him that its the devil that being kept prisoner, the guy eventually releases the prisoner and right before his eyes the guy turns into the devil....
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I wasn't sure if that was Twilight Zone or not. Great episode!

If you can, get some of the collections of the original short stories. Great stuff.
 
Have you noticed how some of the episodes are filmed in different way
and some of them look like they have more depth in them? Has a look
like some of the early live TV shows.

Edit......

I see what the diffenence is.....taken from TVtome......

"This is one of six episodes originally shot on videotape, then transferred to sixteen-millimeter film for broadcast. This was done as a cost-cutting measure."

This quote refers to the episode "22" which has that strange look about it......
 
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