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1 posted on 03/02/2006 8:00:23 PM PST by Indy Pendance
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Night Gallery


2 posted on 03/02/2006 8:01:51 PM PST by darkwing104 (Let's get dangerous)
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Dang, close call. Both were terrific.

Rod Serling gives the edge to Twilight Zone, I guess, but Outer Limits had some awesome episodes.

Puts American Idol to shame.


3 posted on 03/02/2006 8:03:34 PM PST by Dog Gone
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A freeper, a post, and a cold winter night, only you can find the answer in "The Twilight Zone".


4 posted on 03/02/2006 8:04:03 PM PST by VastRWCon
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Both original series are far superior to the modern versions.


5 posted on 03/02/2006 8:04:27 PM PST by weegee ("Republicans believe every day is the Fourth of July, but Democrats believe every day is April 15.")
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Both are damned good. Too bad there aren't new shows like this anymore.


6 posted on 03/02/2006 8:04:35 PM PST by MinorityRepublican (everyone that doesn't like what America and President Bush has done for Iraq can all go to HELL)
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Twilight Zone.

Then Night Gallery.

*Then* the Outter Limits.

IMHO. :-D

8 posted on 03/02/2006 8:05:35 PM PST by Dominic Harr
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Well, I have always enjoyed both, but my favorite particular episodes come from the TwilightZone...My all time favorite episode of all time, in this type of TV program, was the episode entitled, 'To Serve Man'...

This is the episode where giant visitors from outer space visit earth, and bring along a book, that needs to be translated...the translation of the title of the book, is 'To Serve Man', and all the worlds leaders and people believe this is a statement made by the aliens, that the aliens believe themselves to be in service to help man...

People swarm to the aliens ships, hoping to visit the alien home planet...few return, and its supposed they love it so much...some of the translators are left behind, and continue on, in translating the text of the book...

One of the male translators is now in line, to board a ship to go to the aliens home planet...his female translator pal, runs to the airport, screaming something to the effect, of "Dont Board the Ship"...'To Serve Man', is a cookbook....

YIKES....loved that episode, as did my boys...


9 posted on 03/02/2006 8:06:34 PM PST by andysandmikesmom
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The Twilight Zone but I was partial to The Alfred Hitchcock show.


13 posted on 03/02/2006 8:07:40 PM PST by jazusamo (:Gregory was riled while Hume smiled:)
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One Step Beyond


15 posted on 03/02/2006 8:09:15 PM PST by drjimmy
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I used to hide under my bed when the Outer Limits first came on.

I'm still p*$$ed that my Dad used to watch it.


17 posted on 03/02/2006 8:09:40 PM PST by usmcobra (I always sing Karaoke the way it is meant to be sung, drunk, badly, and in Japanese)
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The Outer Limits Versus the Twilight Zone, which is better?

Which one better served man?


18 posted on 03/02/2006 8:11:00 PM PST by FreeReign
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The Outer Limits.

I am not a big fan of Rod and tend to think TZ is overrated. I find his writing style tedious and heavy-handed. People speak at each other in brief monologues, rather than speaking with each other. it's distracting. The best Zones are the ones he didn't write: usually Richard Matheson and others are penning the really great TZ episodes.

Rod isn't subtle, either. His original draft of 'Planet of the Apes' really sucks because he had ape society mirror our own almost exactly. It gets so clumsy and heavy after a while. The finished 'Planet of the Apes' handled it much better - the ape society was different than ours yet it reminded us of ours. Much more powerful and effective.

Also almost every Zone episode is a one trick pones that can be conveyed in about 30 seconds. It's a 30 second idea stretched into 30 minutes - UGH! To really see how bad it is, try watching some of the hour episodes - a 30 second idea stretched to 60 minutes. TZ is nowhere near as good as its reputation, and except for some memorable scenes or very good acting performances, replay value is very low.

The best Twilight Zones are up there with the best of tv in its era, and some in any era. That's only 10-15% of the episodes, though. Outer Limits had fewer episodes but about 75%+ are up there with the best tv in its era. Well crafted and well paced shows, with cool aliens. A much more satisfying series.
19 posted on 03/02/2006 8:12:53 PM PST by HitmanLV (Listen to my demos for Savage Nation contest: http://www.geocities.com/mr_vinnie_vegas/index.html)
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I always was of the opinion that The Outer Limits was a lukewarm Twilight Zone. The Zone dominated. Still does. Morality plays with a twist. Rod Serling was great at that. Any opinions to the contrary and you'll be wished into the corn field.


20 posted on 03/02/2006 8:13:17 PM PST by NCC-1701 (RADICAL ISLAM IS A CULT. IT MUST BE ELIMINATED FROM THE FACE OF THE EARTH.)
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Twilight Zone, without a doubt!


24 posted on 03/02/2006 8:14:31 PM PST by TheWriterTX (Proud Retrosexual Wife of 12 Years)
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Another great episode from the Twilight Zone, was the one where the store mannequin did not return from her few days of freedom, among the rest of us humans...

I never could go into a store after that, and look at a mannequin, and wonder if she was going to come to life, and step out for a few days of fun...


30 posted on 03/02/2006 8:21:04 PM PST by andysandmikesmom
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The Outer Limits was far scarier, far more subtle, far more intense. It was a great, great show.


35 posted on 03/02/2006 8:25:19 PM PST by Chunga (Mock The Left)
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Twilight Zone was usually clever and cool; Outer Limits was more often (to my sensibilities) stark and terrifying.

OL's "Architects of Fear" was the most frightening television episode I can remember from my youth. And this, even though I knew the "monster" was just a scientists who had under gone radical surgery and drug therapy to change his appearance. At the very end when he is dying, and the director still does not show the "monster's" form. Rather, he lets you only see the shadow of the hideous misshapen thing against a well-lighted tile floor as drops of blood fall. Finally, he lets you see its face and its scraggly finger as it tenderly touches its horror-stricken wife (who is completely unaware of what has happened to her husband) on her forehead, his final secret sign of fidelity and love. And then and only then does she know.

A masterpiece.

43 posted on 03/02/2006 8:34:26 PM PST by JCEccles
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Rod was a Lefty, but TZ was far superior to TOL I thought.


48 posted on 03/02/2006 8:41:18 PM PST by Mike Bates (Irish Alzheimer's victim: I only remember the grudges.)
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Have anyone seen here one of the best Outer Limits episode, "Dead Man's Switch"? The title may be wrong but basically what happens is that this took place when Aliens first came to earth so America decided to select 6 different people and put them in each bunker alone hundreds of feet deep and they have enough supply to last for only for a year.

They were able communicate to each other through the internet and one of them had to press a button so that nuclear, biological, chemical weapons would not be launched all over the world.

I won't spoil the rest for people who haven't seen it yet. :-)

49 posted on 03/02/2006 8:41:20 PM PST by MinorityRepublican (everyone that doesn't like what America and President Bush has done for Iraq can all go to HELL)
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I often argued that...years ago. I always came down on the side of Outer Limits..but it's been so long since I've seen any episodes that I don't remember any more. (I think OL was more outer space - futuristic - rather than psychological like TW..although there were sci fi episodes on there too.

Do you know if OL is shown on cable?


69 posted on 03/02/2006 9:06:10 PM PST by eleni121 ('Thou hast conquered, O Galilean!' (Julian the Apostate))
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