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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
Hard to believe, but Friday marks the 50th anniversary of The Twilight Zone, the twisty-turny, highly influential science-fiction anthology series. (Or does it? No, wait, it does.)
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TOPICS: Chit/Chat; Music/Entertainment; TV/Movies
KEYWORDS: anniversary; scifi; twilightzone
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To: MamaDearest
Even tho the earwig was a Night Gallery, it has haunted me forever...along with "The Sin Eater"...shudder, shudder.
sw
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posted on
10/02/2009 6:34:27 PM PDT
by
spectre
(Spectre's wife)
To: Perdogg
One for our times
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Mirror_(The_Twilight_Zone)
Closing narration...
Ramos Clemente, a would-be god in dungarees, strangled by an illusion, that will-o'-the-wisp mirage that dangles from the sky in front of the eyes of all ambitious men, all tyrantsand any resemblance to tyrants living or dead is hardly coincidental, whether it be here or in the Twilight Zone.
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posted on
10/02/2009 6:41:20 PM PDT
by
tophat9000
(Obama plans to fix America like he fixed his dog)
To: Rome2000
I just read recently that Rod Serling wrote most of TZ script at night he was chronic insomanic he couldn’t sleep he has nightmare of being battle in WW2
So this like writing for TZ therapy for him
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posted on
10/02/2009 6:51:00 PM PDT
by
SevenofNine
("We are Freepers, all your media belong to us, resistence is futile")
To: Rome2000
STOP You Freepers you killing me ROFL
184
posted on
10/02/2009 6:51:36 PM PDT
by
SevenofNine
("We are Freepers, all your media belong to us, resistence is futile")
To: Red in Blue PA
Thanks!
But FREE is better than $1.
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posted on
10/02/2009 6:55:46 PM PDT
by
Nervous Tick
(Stop dissing drunken sailors! At least they spend their OWN money.)
To: Perdogg
186
posted on
10/02/2009 7:07:02 PM PDT
by
ETL
(ALL (most?) of the Obama-commie connections at my FR Home page: http://www.freerepublic.com/~etl/)
To: acoulterfan
There is, or was, a book titled “Twilight Zone Companion”. It talked about every episode. Had the cast along with their character name, the opening and closing monologue by Rod Serling, and some behind the scene info. Really interesting for TZ aficionados. I have a copy and pull it out every now and then.
Great series. Rod Serling hack a nack of turning the ending on its ear. It was never a normal ending. The writing was top shelf as well.
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posted on
10/02/2009 7:41:15 PM PDT
by
NCC-1701
(ON 1-19-09 GAS WAS, ON AVERAGE IN MEMPHIS, $1.43 A GALLON.)
To: Perdogg
The Shatner episode, the one where he sees the gremlin on the wing of the plane. Also, I like the one where something creepy happened that time.
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posted on
10/02/2009 8:17:12 PM PDT
by
SunkenCiv
(https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/__Since Jan 3, 2004__Profile updated Monday, January 12, 2009)
To: All
To: Drango
It inspired Soylent Green and others, too.
Or, we could say those stole from TZ.
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posted on
10/02/2009 9:27:52 PM PDT
by
lainie
(The US congress is full to the brim of absolutely disgusting thieves who deserve humiliating ouster.)
To: Migraine
Even when I was little I thought, “Why can’t he just read them through a pinhole in a card?” I don’t need glasses so I’ve never tried it out myself, but it’s supposed to work. If he was so smart he should have know that.
To: lainie; Perdogg; All
Little Known Fact:
The father of Charlotte Caffey of the Go-Go’s, Michael Caffey, was a well-known director of some 1970s TV shows, like “Mannix” and the “Rockford Files”, and many others. Charlotte grew up watching these shows as well as “The Twiligth Zone”.
Charlotte has said that late one night in 1979, she came back home drunk and turned on on the TV and the “Twilight Zone” was on. She took a pen & pad, and started writing all sorts of stuff to the beat of the music being played in that specific episode that she was watching, an episode that to this day she cannot recall which one it was.
When it was all said & done, Charlotte had penned what we now know to be one of the greatest hits of the 1980s, “WE GOT THE BEAT”. Charlotte says that had it not been for that TZ episode and her being drunk that night, that she might have not ever penned that tune.
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posted on
10/03/2009 6:53:12 AM PDT
by
SilvieWaldorfMD
(Airlines can take their $15-per-checked-bag surcharge and shove it!)
To: spectre; Shethink13; Rome2000; SevenofNine
Actually there was an episode of the Outer Limits which was called “The 100 days Of the Dragon”.
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posted on
10/03/2009 6:56:27 AM PDT
by
Perdogg
(Sarah Palin-Jim DeMint 2012 - Liz Cheney for Sec of State - Duncan Hunter SecDef)
To: SilvieWaldorfMD; fieldmarshaldj
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posted on
10/03/2009 6:57:24 AM PDT
by
Perdogg
(Sarah Palin-Jim DeMint 2012 - Liz Cheney for Sec of State - Duncan Hunter SecDef)
To: dr_lew
To: Perdogg
My favorite ep ? I dunno, but my least favorite ep is the one I’ve been living in recently.
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posted on
10/03/2009 8:50:02 AM PDT
by
fieldmarshaldj
(~"This is what happens when you find a stranger in the Alps !"~~)
To: Perdogg; SilvieWaldorfMD
Yeah, that’s real creepy, especially since that song really gets on my nerves.
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posted on
10/03/2009 8:51:08 AM PDT
by
fieldmarshaldj
(~"This is what happens when you find a stranger in the Alps !"~~)
To: acoulterfan
He died following heart bypass surgery at 50.
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posted on
10/03/2009 8:59:35 AM PDT
by
fieldmarshaldj
(~"This is what happens when you find a stranger in the Alps !"~~)
To: Rome2000
Remember Miss Nan ain’t a native to SF, but the daughter born and raised in a family of a corrupt political rodent machine, the D’Alesandros of Bawlamer.
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posted on
10/03/2009 9:12:09 AM PDT
by
fieldmarshaldj
(~"This is what happens when you find a stranger in the Alps !"~~)
To: Kenny500c
The one about the earth heating up but it was really someones feverish nightmare because the earth was going into an ice age?A good one. I saw it not too long a ago ( a year or so? ) The cause in each case was cosmic. The sun was flaring up, or else the earth was falling into the sun, and then conversely for the switcheroo ending. Each case was a complete doom for the earth.
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posted on
10/03/2009 10:41:16 AM PDT
by
dr_lew
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