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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: YankeeReb
That was actually a segment of a French film used to keep the series under budget. It was the only Twilight Zone episode to win an Oscar!
61 posted on 10/02/2009 4:27:22 PM PDT by Rocko ("Too much of nothing can make a man a liar" -- Bob Dylan)
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To: buccaneer81

I remember that one, too. Great one!

Also:

(1) The one about the tie salesman who makes a deal with Death. Then he needs to make the biggest sale of his life to save the life of the child chosen in his place.

And, (2) the one about the neighborhood where the lights go out, and rumors spread about alien invaders. Only one neighbor’s lights are on, and the others suspect him and finally turn on him and each other. In the distance, we see at the end that the aliens are playing with the electricity - that’s all they have to do to conquer us - just sit back and watch people turn on each other.


62 posted on 10/02/2009 4:27:40 PM PDT by Tired of Taxes (Dad, I will always think of you.)
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To: Perdogg

There were some “Outer Limits” episodes that were also very good.

Was the one where the dept store mannequin goes on holiday from the 13th floor a Twilight Zone? 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.


63 posted on 10/02/2009 4:29:54 PM PDT by acoulterfan
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To: knarf

I can’t find the pictures, but to me the people in “The eye of the beholder,” except for the “normal-looking” ones all look like Henry Waxman.


64 posted on 10/02/2009 4:30:04 PM PDT by FroggyTheGremlim
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To: Perdogg
The knife weilding Talky Tina doll episode. "Hi. My name's Talky Tina . . . and I don't like you".


65 posted on 10/02/2009 4:30:40 PM PDT by caper gal 1 (Who is John Galt?)
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To: HerrBlucher; All
Terror at 26,000 feet.


Episode: "Nightmare at 20,000 Feet" with William Shatner


"Waxman on the (left) wing"
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FYI: You can watch many classic episodes of the Twilight Zone free online at this CBS link below. Unfortunately, they do not have this one with William Shatner available ('Nightmare at 20,000 Feet'), because it was from season 5 and they only have vids for the first 3.

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

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

66 posted on 10/02/2009 4:30:46 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

Yes, that was “The After Hours” from Season One.


67 posted on 10/02/2009 4:31:26 PM PDT by Rocko ("Too much of nothing can make a man a liar" -- Bob Dylan)
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To: HerrBlucher
Terror at 26,000 feet with William Shatner is my favorite as well, and I think that John Lithgow's performance in the 1980s version saved the movie from being nearly unwatchable.

‘The Twilight Zone’ Turns 50: What’s Your Favorite Episode?

Anyone catch the episode where a damn communist became President of the United States, and proceeded to destroy everything that is great about the Republic?


68 posted on 10/02/2009 4:31:28 PM PDT by Prole (Please pray for the families of Chris and Channon. May God always watch over them.)
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To: Perdogg

Another good one was the one where a young Robert Redford played “Mr. Death”. An old woman lived a paranoid existence because she was scared that “Mr. Death” would find her and she’d die. A young man (Redford) is attacked outside her basement hovel, and is pleading with her to help him. After trying to ignore him, she finaly helps him in. As she tends to his wounds, she tells him of her fear. Finally, he reveals that he is “Mr. Death”, and she’s scared. But finally, reluctantly, and after much convincing, she takes his hand...to find that dying wasn’t so bad after all. The story ends with them walking arm in arm out of the apartment, talking like old friends, with her corpse laying on her bed.


69 posted on 10/02/2009 4:31:33 PM PDT by hoagy62 (Obama: slowly sucking the positive attitude out of the US since 11-4-08)
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To: Perdogg

To Serve Man is one of my faves. But I recently saw “The Exhibit” which is great. They are still on the SciFy channel (I have my dvr set to record them).


70 posted on 10/02/2009 4:31:50 PM PDT by fightin bronco (Life's too short to drink cheap beer)
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To: Prole

I’m still waiting for Serling to step in and stop the story.


71 posted on 10/02/2009 4:32:45 PM PDT by Rocko ("Too much of nothing can make a man a liar" -- Bob Dylan)
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To: MamaDearest

That was Night gallery...classic!


72 posted on 10/02/2009 4:32:47 PM PDT by gr8eman (Everybody is a rocket scientist...until launch day!)
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To: Tired of Taxes
And, (2) the one about the neighborhood where the lights go out, and rumors spread about alien invaders

"The Monsters Are Due On Maple Street." They actually showed that episode to my seventh grade son's social studies class as a cautionary tale about prejudice.

73 posted on 10/02/2009 4:32:54 PM PDT by buccaneer81 (ECOMCON)
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To: HokieMom
That's the one I was going to mention.

The Invaders. Scared the heck out of me.

74 posted on 10/02/2009 4:33:21 PM PDT by McGruff (Go rogue baby, go rogue!)
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75 posted on 10/02/2009 4:33:43 PM PDT by Prole (Please pray for the families of Chris and Channon. May God always watch over them.)
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To: Nervous Tick
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!

Same here. I don't remember the titles of the shows. I see one I described has been mentioned by others as "Eye of the Beholder". What a great series.

76 posted on 10/02/2009 4:34:20 PM PDT by Tired of Taxes (Dad, I will always think of you.)
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To: acoulterfan

I liked that one too only it was his Son, not his wife who was sick.


77 posted on 10/02/2009 4:35:24 PM PDT by yarddog
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To: SevenofNine

Telly Savalas was a great actor! Yeah, he was in a lot of cheesy flicks and did a lot of really bad crap, but that is classic. Imagine Tom Cruise or Ben Affleck trying to pull that off.


78 posted on 10/02/2009 4:36:00 PM PDT by gr8eman (Everybody is a rocket scientist...until launch day!)
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To: HospiceNurse

>> I scared the cr@p out of him during that episode.

You’re baaad!

I used to watch Twilight Zone, and Outer Limits, with my older brother. That sort of thing never bothered me in the least, but he was a little squeamish about some of it. Since I was of purer character than you (you little devil), I didn’t scare the crap out of him — although I could have — but I did laugh at him. A lot.

Now the tables are turned. He’s fairly immune to that sort of thing, and now *I* prefer not to watch it! Go figure.


79 posted on 10/02/2009 4:36:30 PM PDT by Nervous Tick (Stop dissing drunken sailors! At least they spend their OWN money.)
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To: Perdogg
Does anybody remember an episode, I believe it was based on a true story, of a wheelchair-bound young woman living in Florida I think, who was stranded alone in her home during an evacuation for a tidal wave or hurricane. I believe her husband worked for the coast guard or something and didn't realize she hadn't gotten out. She tries to get out on her own in her wheelchair and falls down her front stairs and is lying on her front walkway. She's hidden from view by bushes and there's really nobody around to help her, so she quietly whispers to herself for help. Some man happened to be driving down the street and apparently he is unable to hear loud sounds, but is sensitive to quiet noises, heard her whispering for help, found her and took her to safety.

Does anybody remember this or am I just dreaming? Or maybe it wasn't Twilight Zone, but I'm pretty sure it was.

80 posted on 10/02/2009 4:36:36 PM PDT by Shethink13
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