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‘The Twilight Zone’ Turns 50: What’s Your Favorite Episode?
NY Times ^ | 10.02.09 | By Dave Itzkoff

Posted on 10/02/2009 4:06:07 PM PDT by Perdogg

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To: Red in Blue PA

>> I think that is “What you need”

THAT’S IT! Thank you!

http://www.veoh.com/browse/videos/category/entertainment/watch/v1151600927XGJx59#

(figures they’re all online now!)

FRegards


121 posted on 10/02/2009 4:52:38 PM PDT by Nervous Tick (Stop dissing drunken sailors! At least they spend their OWN money.)
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To: thesearethetimes...

Patty McCormick?


122 posted on 10/02/2009 4:52:56 PM PDT by FroggyTheGremlim
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To: HerrBlucher

You nailed it.

That episode haunted my childhood. I couldn’t sleep with the drapes open, even into my early teens.


123 posted on 10/02/2009 4:53:37 PM PDT by BibChr ("...behold, they have rejected the word of the LORD, so what wisdom is in them?" [Jer. 8:9])
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To: Perdogg

Did anyone ever produce a huge coffee table type book with all of the episodes included? I would think it would sell very well.


124 posted on 10/02/2009 4:54:23 PM PDT by acoulterfan
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To: knarf

Enjoyed it! Thanks.


125 posted on 10/02/2009 4:56:25 PM PDT by Tired of Taxes (Dad, I will always think of you.)
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To: YankeeReb; All

YankeeReb writes - “That was always the secret of the Twilight Zone the writing was just amazing.”

Oh my yes! Just reading over this thread brings one GREAT story after another, and some from so many other anthology format shows - The Outer Limits, The Alfred Hitchcock Show, and others. What happened to that kind of great literary television....

Tatt


126 posted on 10/02/2009 4:57:40 PM PDT by thesearethetimes... ("Courage, is fear that has said its prayers." DorothyBernard)
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To: All

Again, you can watch many classic episodes of the Twilight Zone free online at this CBS link below.

Note that on each of the 3 ‘seasons pages’ listed there are 2 pages of episodes. (click the little arrow for the 2nd page)

http://www.cbs.com/classics/the_twilight_zone/


127 posted on 10/02/2009 4:59:10 PM PDT by ETL (ALL (most?) of the Obama-commie connections at my FR Home page: http://www.freerepublic.com/~etl/)
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To: Perdogg
I don't know what the title of this episode was but it scared the crap out of me.

Takes place in a prison. One prisoner devises a plan to escape. There is another prisoner - an old man - who helps in the graveyard.

The prisoner who wants to escape convinces the old man to help him. What he will do is crawl into the coffin of another prisoner that died and will be buried in the prison graveyard. The old man is supposed to remove the dirt off the coffin and then the prisoner will get out of the coffin and then escape.

So that's what happens. But we see the prisoner in the coffin waiting to hear the shovel remove the dirt but he doesn't hear anything. He starts to panic then turns to the dead guy and the dead guy is the old man who is supposed to be digging the prisoner up.

128 posted on 10/02/2009 4:59:40 PM PDT by 3catsanadog (If healthcare reform is passed, 41 years old will be the new 65 YO.)
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To: elcid1970

So I’m not crazy...or we both are!


129 posted on 10/02/2009 4:59:52 PM PDT by Shethink13
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To: eCSMaster

Indeed, it doesn’t take much for a good story. Just some good writing and acting. I can’t imagine the same type of series on television today, sadly. We don’t have to watch the Twilight Zone; we’re living in it now.


130 posted on 10/02/2009 5:00:30 PM PDT by Tired of Taxes (Dad, I will always think of you.)
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To: Kenny500c

Think that one is “The Midnight Sun”


131 posted on 10/02/2009 5:01:52 PM PDT by Red in Blue PA (If guns cause crime, then all of mine are defective!)
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To: Conservative4Ever

That was called Little Girl Lost. The person who wrote it was inspired by his personal experience. His little girl was crying and when he went into her room he could not find her anywhere. Eventually he discovered that she had slipped down between the side of the bed and the wall and was stuck there. She was not on the floor so he could not see her by just looking under the bed.

That is my favorite episode also.

Remember how they let the dog in the house and it ran through the bed stand door and was with her.


132 posted on 10/02/2009 5:03:21 PM PDT by A knight without armor
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To: Nervous Tick

The DVD’s are about $1 (used) on Amazon!

http://www.amazon.com/Twilight-Zone-Vol-3/dp/B000046S2D/ref=sr_1_15?ie=UTF8&s=dvd&qid=1254528183&sr=8-15


133 posted on 10/02/2009 5:03:59 PM PDT by Red in Blue PA (If guns cause crime, then all of mine are defective!)
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To: acoulterfan
Did anyone ever produce a huge coffee table type book with all of the episodes included? I would think it would sell very well.

List of all Twilight Zone episodes:
(first one was 50 years ago today)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_The_Twilight_Zone_episodes

134 posted on 10/02/2009 5:04:21 PM PDT by ETL (ALL (most?) of the Obama-commie connections at my FR Home page: http://www.freerepublic.com/~etl/)
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To: acoulterfan

She thought she was a regular person looking for an item to purchase and was taken to the 13th floor so the next mannequin could go on vacation.<<<<<<

That’s one I remember well, too. Will have to go watch some of these again.


135 posted on 10/02/2009 5:04:54 PM PDT by Mjaye (If this is where we wanted to end up, we all did everything perfectly.)
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To: ETL

THANKS FOR THAT LINK!!!!!


136 posted on 10/02/2009 5:06:17 PM PDT by Red in Blue PA (If guns cause crime, then all of mine are defective!)
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To: Drango

BTT


137 posted on 10/02/2009 5:08:53 PM PDT by perez24 (Dirty deeds, done dirt cheap.)
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To: eCSMaster
The episodes were all low-budget: simple sets, few characters, sometimes only one or two actors, little or no special effects, black and white, ...

Think it was "The Last Pallbearer" where Joseph Wiseman, a pretty intense actor anyway, invites three people from his past who broke his chops, into his bunker. He's a rich man now and sets up a video showing the end of the world in order to convince them to stay, and be humiliated by him in turn. The dialogue, written by Serling, in that bare one-room setting had me riveted to the screen.

Not a TZ episode, but the only one that rattled my cage when I was an adult (40 years). It was "Seconds", with Rock Hudson. He gets tired of his wife/life and gets changed into a new person, courtesy of a shadowy outfit. Then he changes his mind and wants to go back home. The ending kept me awake for hours.

138 posted on 10/02/2009 5:11:17 PM PDT by Oatka ("A society of sheep must in time beget a government of wolves." –Bertrand de Jouvenel)
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To: Mjaye

Yes that was one of the few in which I couldn’t guess the ending. Beautiful Anne Francis played the mannequin. She was also in another episode in which she played an Appalachian witch.

She was even more gorgeous in “Forbidden Planet” where she got to wear a really short dress.


139 posted on 10/02/2009 5:16:04 PM PDT by yarddog
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To: Oatka

Good movie, Seconds.


140 posted on 10/02/2009 5:16:39 PM PDT by wally_bert (It's sheer elegance in its simplicity! - The Middleman)
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