Posted on 08/28/2015 8:41:10 PM PDT by ETL
That is actually an episode of The Outer Limits, which starred Robert Culp as the "monster."
It's difficult to find an episode that WASN'T pretty good.
Every New Years Eve Sci-fy channel runs the episodes, and I'm pleasantly surprised when there is one that I haven't seen.
I recently saw the one that had been supposedly "banned" from re-runs, the one with George Takei.
I liked it, and don't know why it would be banned.
Maybe the scars of WWII were too much for people to handle.
After all, it was only 15 years since the war ended.
I personally like "In Praise of Pip" with Jack Klugman.
That is a real powerhouse episode.
“To Serve Man” of course. Then I think “what did you do in the war, daddy” about vampires or werewolves who ate nazis, and the one where a math teacher bested the devil by saying “Get lost!”.
Btt
Here are brief descriptions of the episodes I mistakenly left out from the end of the final season...
Season 5
The Bewitchin’ Pool
Two unhappy children find a happy escape in a swimming pool.
The Fear
Two people in a remote cabin find signs of an extraterrestrial.
Come Wander with Me
A singer’s song becomes tragically real.
The Brain Center at Whipple’s
A factory CEO replaces human workers with machines.
Mr. Garrity and the Graves
Jared Garrity arrives in the Old West town of Happiness, Arizona, proclaiming he can revive the dead.
The Encounter
A World War II veteran and a Japanese-American gardener battle each other over a war that ended more than 20 years ago.
Stopover in a Quiet Town
Bob and Millie wake up to find they are in a strange town. Everything appears to be props - trees, animals even cars.
The Jeopardy Room
Trying to defect, Major Ivan Kuchenko is trapped inside a hotel room with Commissar Vassiloff, a hitman, and Boris, his assistant, in the room across the street. Vassiloff has planted a bomb in the room and Ivan must find it within three hours or be blown to bits.
Caesar and Me
A ventriloquist’s dummy goads him into committing burglaries.
Sounds and Silences
A man’s wish to listen to loud noise backfires.
I Am the Night - Color Me Black
On the day an unpopular idealist is to be executed for the killing of a racist bully, the townsfolk are shocked to see the skies have turned pitch black.
The Masks
A dying man demands his family wear masks that he’s given them at a Mardi Gras party.
What’s in the Box
A cheating husband sees his secret revealed and its horrible consequences on his just-repaired TV set.
Queen of the Nile
Columnist Jordan Herrick is startled to learn that a famous movie actress hasn’t aged in years. Intrigued, he investigates... and soon learns a terrifying secret.
An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge
A Confederate spy is spared death when the rope meant to hang him miraculously breaks. Or does it?
Spur of the Moment
After being chased on horseback by a terrifying, unidentified figure in black, Anne Henderson faces the biggest decision of her life.
From Agnes - With Love
A computer technician must deal with the queen of all femme fatales: a computer named Agnes who wreaks havoc on his love life.
Night Call
Mysterious phone calls haunt a disabled woman.
http://www.tv.com/shows/the-twilight-zone/episodes/
He was right, of course: getting nagged regularly gives one a sense of proportion about life's other ills. :-P
Yeah, “nagged” is the word I had in mind. Lol! (not!)
The Hitchhiker was also great and scary. There are so many classics. The Little People and To Serve Man are also favorites of mine.
Capt. Kirk reading fortunes in a seedy diner....
That was one of many many good ones. Don’t know if I would refer to the diner as “seedy”, though. It was just small town.
LOL! Number 1 nightmare episode!
1. “Will The Real Martian Please Stand Up?”
I remember the way the ending shocked me the first time I watched it. For that reason alone, it’s number one for me.
2. “The Monsters Are Due On Maple Street”
I love it when something starts going bizarrely wrong in a happy little setting like thie one.
3. “The Midnight Sun”
Honorable mentions:
“The Shelter”
“The Howling Man”
“Time Enough at Last”
“The Silence”
"Apparently benign alien emissaries show mankind how to end the misery
of war, plague and famine. The Kanamits, nine-foot tall aliens, arrive on
Earth with one lofty goal: To Serve Man. They end war, they end famine.
They make the military wonder: what's the catch?"
I don't remember seeing it before until a month ago....I would remembered it , I think because of Shatner so that may have been the first time for me.
TZ was much watched in the 1950s....guess no on has that kind of imagination any more.
You know I wonder if that other program, 'Outer Limits'?..."we have seized control of your TV set" is still out there???
Two
A Stop at Willoughby
50s, 60s, 70, 80s, 90s, 2000s...
guess no on has that kind of imagination any more.
Sure seems that way. Pity what has happened to American culture over the past decades.
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I guess the writers thought the script was dragging on a bit too long.
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