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The 10 best ‘Twilight Zone’ episodes (SyFy Twilight Zone Marathon all day)
NY Post ^ | 12=31-2015 | Michael Starr

Posted on 01/01/2016 12:08:37 PM PST by Bender2

The 10 best "Twilight Zone" episodes

by Michael Starr

"A Game of Pool" (Originally aired Oct. 13, 1961)
"The Monsters Are Due on Maple Street” (Originally aired March 4, 1960)
"It's a Good Life" (Originally aired Nov. 3, 1961)
"Nightmare at 20,000 Feet" (Originally aired Oct. 11, 1963)
"The Fever" (Originally aired Jan. 29, 1960)
"Living Doll" (Originally aired Nov. 1, 1963)
"Twenty Two" (Originally aired Feb. 10, 1961)
"And When the Sky Was Opened" (Originally aired Dec. 11, 1959)
"Will the Real Martian Please Stand Up?" (Originally aired May 26, 1961)
"A Piano in the House" (Originally aired Feb. 16, 1962)

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To: Bender2; sickoflibs; NFHale; stephenjohnbanker; BillyBoy; GOPsterinMA; Perdogg; Clintonfatigued; ...

My favorite is probably “The Midnight Sun” and runner up “Person or Persons Unknown”

Some others I particularly enjoy

“I Shot an Arrow into the Air”
“A Stop at Willoughby”
“The Chaser”
“The Rip Van Winkle Caper”
“The Silence”
“Will the Real Martian Please Stand Up?”
“Five Characters in Search of an Exit”
“Dead Man’s Shoes”
“A Kind of a Stopwatch”
“The Self-Improvement of Salvadore Ross”
“Stopover in a Quiet Town”

“The Mirror” is playing out right now with King Jong-Un


121 posted on 01/02/2016 6:15:25 AM PST by Impy (They pull a knife, you pull a gun. That's the CHICAGO WAY, and that's how you beat the rats!)
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To: Bender2

It’s a cookbook!


122 posted on 01/02/2016 6:16:58 AM PST by Impy (They pull a knife, you pull a gun. That's the CHICAGO WAY, and that's how you beat the rats!)
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To: Impy; Aevery_Freeman; ShadowAce; Jack Hydrazine; Altariel; nuancey; Thorliveshere; ...

The Parallel is on right now.


123 posted on 01/02/2016 7:44:56 AM PST by Perdogg (Ted Cruz - 2016)
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To: Salamander

The strange thing is that I read without any glasses whatsoever. However, I couldn’t find find the bookshelves without my regular glasses. I need “reading glasses” to read things like my computer monitor, say, from a distance of two to three feet. I use my regular glasses to do everything else.


124 posted on 01/02/2016 8:41:47 AM PST by BlueLancer (Once is happenstance. Twice is circumstance. Three times is enemy action.)
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To: Bender2

Stanley Adams (under the Nom De Guerre Cyrano Jones) went from wearing flux capacitor helmets with sparklers to selling tribbles on Deep Space Station K7 where said tribbles ate all the quadrotriticale. Trelane then was a human looking Klingon (they don’t like to discuss it). And patty Dukes father was a d!chead administrator of said grain.

And Scotty gave them all to the Klingons. Where they’ll be no tribble at all.


125 posted on 01/02/2016 10:00:02 AM PST by Vaquero ( Don't pick a fight with an old guy. If he is too old to fight, he'll just kill you.)
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To: Perdogg

Thanks! Just watched it in the Pacific time zone.

I somehow either had never seen it, or incredibly, forgot.

Thanks again!


126 posted on 01/02/2016 11:00:06 AM PST by null and void (Not quite parallel, more like skew...)
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To: BlueLancer
“I need "reading glasses"...

Take something hard to see to read and go to Walgreens and/or Walmart and find the reading glasses that make that selection easy to read. I had to have reading glasses after cataract surgery so I have a prescription pair of reading glasses and bought two extra sets from Walgreens to be sure I would have reading glasses if one or two pair were damaged. I cannot read now without reading glasses - that is the result of having that surgery. My long distance sight is 20/20 so do not have to have them to drive but cannot read jack without reading glasses.

127 posted on 01/02/2016 12:51:13 PM PST by Marcella (CRUZ (Prepping can save your life today))
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To: dfwgator

Yes it is. Many people don’t realize that their local mega-mart or grocery store only has a 3-4 day supply of food and bottled water on hand—the miracle of “just-in-time” logistics. Interrupt the supply train—through a natural disaster or a “man-caused incident” and society starts to unravel in a hurry.

Think about a successful cyber attack on the power grid, or an EMP burst that wipes out the grid and most forms of communication and e-commerce. That “Twilight Zone” episode would pale in comparison to what would transpire in American cities.


128 posted on 01/02/2016 2:43:34 PM PST by ExNewsExSpook
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To: Impy; Bender2; sickoflibs; NFHale; stephenjohnbanker; GOPsterinMA; Perdogg; Clintonfatigued
I'm going to mix things up a bit and include episodes from the 80s and early 2000's Twilight Zone revival. Also, this may sound like blasphemy, but I enjoyed the remakes of "Nightmare at 20,000 Feet" and "It's a Good Life" in the 1983 Twilight Zone: The Movie segments better than the original B&W television episodes (of course, it might just be nostalgia talking... I saw the '83 movie as a kid before I saw the original 50s episodes)

Looking back on it, Burgress Meredith was indeed the perfect choice to replace Rod Serling as narrator of Twilight Zone: The Movie. He had appeared in four different episodes of the TV series, all of them very different story stories, and all of them great memorable episodes)

Anyhoo, in no particular order, some of my favorite Twilight Zone episodes:

"One for the Angels" (1959)

"Eye of the Beholder" (1960)

"Five Characters in Search of an Exit" (1961)

"The Obsolete Man" (1961)

"To Serve Man" (1962)

"An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge" (1964)

"A Matter of Minutes" (1986)

"To See the Invisible Man" (1986)

"Button, Button" (1986)

"The Hellgramite Method" (1988) (<-- it stars Timothy Bottoms, who later went on to play George W. Bush, and its about an obnoxious drunk who finds a way to quit drinking, so I like to call this one "How George W. Bush got sober" ;-))

"One Night at Mercy" (2002)

"Sunrise" (2003)

129 posted on 01/02/2016 3:10:37 PM PST by BillyBoy (Impeach Obama? Yes We Can!)
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To: Bender2

Hey Bender how come you never on TZ you should play one of robot in Invader or I sing the body electric I think you got emmy on that

Think about it you would slap Angela Cartwight to next Tuesday with sour attidude in that episode

I hate the aunt who try take Larry Tate kids away I would drop the dime on her calling false kidnap of his kids in I sing a body electric


130 posted on 01/02/2016 5:01:19 PM PST by SevenofNine (We are Freepers, all your media bases belong to us ,resistance is futile)
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To: SevenofNine
Re: Hey Bender how come you never on TZ

I was but it ended up... on the cutting room floor!

Look, listen to Bendy... have a beer and a cigar then STFU!

131 posted on 01/02/2016 5:29:49 PM PST by Bender2 ("I've got a twisted sense of humor, and everything amuses me." RAH Beyond this Horizon)
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To: Bender2

I am sorry the bonus extras of you in it don’t exist anymore

Well it not like finding good print of 1924 Epic Greed it is close


132 posted on 01/02/2016 5:46:05 PM PST by SevenofNine (We are Freepers, all your media bases belong to us ,resistance is futile)
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To: Bender2

I have a timer set for An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge, which I’ve only seen in Flim Class in college, and for the Zgeorge Takei episode, which I don’t think I’ve ever seen.Shatner, Nimoy and Doohan, sure nut not Takei.


133 posted on 01/02/2016 9:41:39 PM PST by Tanniker Smith (Rome didn't fall in a day, either.)
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To: sakic

“Some of the writers wrote under pseudonyms due to problems with McCarthy.”

Please elaborate. The first episode of Twilight Zone aired in 1959. Joseph McCarthy died in 1957 and moreover never targeted Hollywood.


134 posted on 01/04/2016 7:01:15 PM PST by Pelham (Muslim immigration...the enemy is inside the wire.)
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To: Pelham

McCarthy didn’t target Hollywood????!!!!!!!

Hard to have a discussion with you when you make a 100% false statement.


135 posted on 01/05/2016 3:14:35 AM PST by sakic
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To: sakic; wardaddy

“McCarthy didn’t target Hollywood????!!!!!!! Hard to have a discussion with you when you make a 100% false statement.”

Really? Well I find it easy to have a discussion with you, it’s like playing Whack-A-Mole.

The investigations into Hollywood were done by HUAC, the House Committee on Un-American Activities, not by the Senate. They were led by Martin Dies, and Joe McCarthy was nowhere to be seen.

McCarthy’s absence is easy to understand (maybe not by you) since Joe McCarthy was never in the House. His first election to office was to the Senate in 1946.

McCarthy didn’t make a name for himself as an anti-Communist warrior until 1950 with his Wheeling, W Va speech and that dealt entirely with the State Department, not Hollywood. All of his investigations dealt with State, the Army, or other branches of government.

McCarthy was never involved in investigating Hollywood, despite the babbling of ignoramuses who fantasize that McCarthy had something to do with the Blacklist. But please feel free to look for some evidence linking McCarthy to Hollywood, it will keep you busy until you tire of it and give up.

Good luck with your hunt. All that you will find are the rantings of Leftists who share your fact-free belief that McCarthy was involved in the Blacklist.


136 posted on 01/05/2016 8:32:21 AM PST by Pelham (Muslim immigration...the enemy is inside the wire.)
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To: Pelham

It’s great to be young but hard to be stupid

Apparently

Ever the earnest PC freeper that one


137 posted on 01/05/2016 9:39:22 AM PST by wardaddy (Save western civilization and save the world....lose it & it's a dark ages unknown to human history)
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To: wardaddy

Age and guile beat youth and a bad haircut. That one needs to study up before challenging the big dogs.


138 posted on 01/05/2016 10:27:39 AM PST by Pelham (Muslim immigration...the enemy is inside the wire.)
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