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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Favorite Episode is about the devil being held by a mysterious group of bearded monks in a European castle and some lost hiker who gets duped into letting him go. The hiker, having realized what he had done, spends the rest of his life determined to recapture Oba-...I mean...Satan
Cliff Robertson whose wife was sick in a wagon. He went up over a hill, crossed a modern road and was given anti-biotics that saved his wifes life. He was almost run over by a truck as he had never seen one before.
I like the one with the old man and his coon dog “Rip.” - The dog drowns and the man dies trying to save him. They are in the afterlife and a devil tries to get him to enter what looks like heaven, but he won’t let the dog in, so the man declines.
Farther down the road he meets the real heaven gatekeeper who lets the dog in. And he welcomes the old man as well. His wife “Old Woman” will be along soon, St. Peter says.
I also like “Two” with Charles Bronson and Elizabeth Montgomery as the last survivors of an apocalyptic war. Untrusting at first, they eventually get together.
Toss-up.
..between the episode where the guy gets immortality (via a deal with the devil), attempts to kill himself in all sorts of ways (which all fail), in the process ends up killing someone (his wife?), and after he’s arrested, does everything he can to get convicted of murder, flippantly declaring, “Let’s give the electric chair a whirl”. The jury verdict is guilty, and the judge sentences him to LIFE IN PRISON.
and...
I’m fuzzy on this one. A guy meets up with another guy (somehow) who claims he’ll give the first guy “just what he needs”. The first thing he gives him is a pair of scissors. The guy who gets the scissors is sort of an asshole, and is making fun of the other (meek) guy for giving him scissors. But he gets on an elevator, his suit gets caught in the door, threatening to strangle him as the elevator rises. Then he remembers the scissors, and cuts himself free.
Next, the mild-mannered guy gives him a fountain pen. But it leaks! And a-hole is mad about that... until it leaks on top of his racing form and he bets on the horse it leaked next to and wins a bundle.
I was just thinking about this the other day, and I don’t recall clearly what the last gift was. I think a pair of shoes that cause a-hole to slip at an opportune time.
Now cut me some slack on this — unlike the rest of you hi-tech folks with every episode on DVD, *I’m* recollecting my favorites from memory, probably nearly 40 years ago!
The Hunt
from 1962
Old Man and his Dog...
The Howling Man
Lots of good ones listed above. I also remember “The Hitchhiker”.
That’s it! Thank you
I faced my own prejudices at an early age.
The other one, simular is the body change one where two older people can get new bodies ... I forget the twist, but they both decided to grow old together ... another 'thinker' for me.
I’m still waiting for Serling to walk in front of the camera after one of Obama’s press conferences and tell us that we’ve crossed over.....into the TZ. After all, totalitarianism was one of THE reoccurring themes of his show. That said, I’d have to say the Agnes Moorehead episode was one that creeped me out. The gremlin one was disturbing but maybe more because the guy in the suit looked like a perv in a really bad Halloween costume.
I love the holiday “marathons” where they go like 24 hours straight on TV.
Yep, agree.
Was that the one with the late great Inger Stevens?
That was a good one and one they don't show too often
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?
CAST: Richard Kiel, Hardie Albright, Robert Tafur, Lloyd Bochner, Lomax Study, Theodore Marcuse, Susan Cummings, Nelson Olmstead.
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Remake of “He Lives” coming soon...Cuba Gooding Jr. to play Obama and they are still doing auditions for the part of George Soros because Wilford Brimley is just too tired to do it.
I Shot an Arrow. Where Edward Binns and four other astronauts believed they’re lost and isolated on a desert planet. But after conflicts over water the survivor discovers they crashed in the desert wastes of the American southwest.
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