Posted on 07/03/2008 5:37:08 AM PDT by ETL
Here is a schedule from the Sci-Fi Channel's website
(times listed are in Eastern/ET):
http://www.scifi.com/schedulebot/index.php3
Wish they’d run a Mystery Science Theater 3000 marathon. I miss that show.
Also look for every TOS Star Trek, MacGyver, Hawaii Five-O and lots of other old stuff.
Which one had Billy Mummy as the little kid who controlled his parents via telepathy ?
"One of television's most rightly revered series, The Twilight Zone (CBS, 1959-64) stands as the role model for TV anthologies. Its trenchant sci-fi/fantasy parables explore humanity's hopes, despairs, prides and prejudices in metaphoric ways conventional drama cannot.
Creator Rod Serling wrote the majority of the scripts, and produced those of such now-legendary writers as Richard Matheson and Charles Beaumont. The series featured such soon-to-be-famous actors as Robert Redford, William Shatner, Burt Reynolds, Robert Duvall, Dennis Hopper, Carol Burnett, James Coburn, Charles Bronson, Lee Marvin, Peter Falk and Bill Mumy, as well as such established stars as silent-film giant Buster Keaton, Art Carney, Mickey Rooney, Ida Lupino and John Carradine.
An often worthy revival series ran on CBS from 1985-87, and in first-run syndication in 1988. Another recently ran on UPN, which reunited Bill Mumy and Cloris Leachman in a sequel to the classic TZ chiller 'It's a Good Life.' But it's the daring original series that shows every sign of lasting the ages as the literature that it is."
Here's an episode description guide:
http://www.scifi.com/twilightzone/episodes/
It’s A Good Life
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xfGWvexg90w
My two favorite were the alien man on the plane wings with William Shatner looking out the plane window and the one with the woman having a series of plastic surgeries and you never see the face of the characters in the end, but the surgeries were supposed to make her have an ape-like face like the rest of the characters whom you finally see at the end - a real twist.
He controlled the whole town.
From season 3:
It's a Good Life
Writer: Rod Serling, based on the short story 'It's a Good Life' by Jerome Bixby
Director: James Sheldon
A six-year-old boy holds a town in terror with his powers to change or destroy anyone or anything at will. CAST: Billy Mumy, Cloris Leachman, Alice Frost, Jeanne Bates, Casey Adams, John Larch, Tom Botcher, Don Keefer, Lenore Kingston."
http://www.scifi.com/twilightzone/episodes/season03/
Big deal. CSPAN does it every day.
My favorite is the one with Burgess Meredith and the books, it was called “Time Enough At Last.”
Willoughby!
“Twilight Zone”! Sounds like this election cycle.
Yeah, that was a great one! Poor guy.
From Season 1:
Time Enough at Last
Writer: Rod Serling
Director: John Brahm
Nearsighted, meek bank clerk Henry Bernis is the sole survivor of an H-bomb attack. At last he has the time to engulf himself in his passion for books. Or so he thinks.
CAST: Burgess Meredith, Vaughn Taylor, Jacqueline de Wit, Lela Bliss.
http://www.scifi.com/twilightzone/episodes/
Two of my favorites had Mr. Meredith. My favorite was when he played the part of a teacher or librarian (memory fading...), and was told he was obsolete according to the state. Loved the ending.
You're right. Thanks!
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.