We were led to believe that cigarettes were almost good for us! LOL I bet 30 percent of the commercials were cigarette related.
Posted on 03/31/2019 2:19:57 PM PDT by EveningStar
In 1959 Rod Serling's TV series, "The Twilight Zone," made its debut on CBS. Though not a major success at the time, the show that served up horror and science fiction stories as winking tales of contemporary society has taken on legendary status, influencing films and TV ever since. David Pogue looks at how Serling crafted a TV classic with New York Times television critic James Poniewozik, and talks with the writer's daughter, Jodi Serling, about the influence that his hometown, Binghamton, N.Y., had on Serling's allegorical tales. Pogue also talks with Jordan Peele, the writer-comedian behind the Oscar-winning "Get Out" and "Us," who this week introduces a new iteration of "The Twilight Zone," debuting on CBS All Access.
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That old lady with Robert Redford, I wonder if she is the same one who played the bedridden old lady who gets the phone calls from her dead husband. THAT episode was by far the best Twilight Zone ever, that just scared the hell out of me. “Who is this? Who is this?” And her nurse thinks she’s going crazy until they find the telephone line was over her husbands grave! wow!
It wasn’t a success when it came out?
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When I was a young kid I watched it EVERY Friday evening. It sure was successful with me.
There’s an awful lot of episodes for something that wasn’t very successful.
“Is there *anyone* who doesn’t have a horror of earwigs after that Night Gallery episode”?
I remember that one.
Night Gallery, Outer Limits and Twilight Zone were great shows.
I also watched The Twilight Zone every Friday night. The episode that scared the hell out of me was the one where a woman was in the hospital to have plastic surgery. It was all focused on how the woman would look after the bandages were taken off...and when the bandages were taken off...YIKES!
A classic episode.
Isn’t this Jordan Peele the guy who said recently he would not cast any white people in leads in anything he was going to do?
I have CBS All Access and tried watching the promo for this new show, I thought it was terrible.
I think this is the second time they have tried to do this, the last time was basically taking the same Rod Serling stories and updating them, they even had a radio show narrated by Stacy Keach, Jr., and that was actually pretty good.
Personally I would rather watch the originals with Rod Serling, they people on those show were great actors and a lot of up and coming stars before they got big.
I will not be watching the reboot.
That one scared me, too.
Another person with epic TV show taste. :)
I think it was slow catching on, MASH was not a success when it came on either.
It sounds like the stories will mostly have a “social justice” flavor -
You’re probably right. When I was very young I used to read Horror. There was a new series of books I started. Read maybe the first 3 titles and lost the habit. Jump ahead 35 years, I spot the same series now into its thirty-somthing title. Amused, I buy it for the bedside table.
Wow. Horror today involves the ghosts of slaves, battered woman, the victims of capitalist pigs and on and on. Not one story was the random, imaginitive horror the series started out on.
I couldn’t finish the damn book. What I’d always liked about these stories was the authors honest effort to creep out the reader. There is nothing creepy about slaves. Slaves are sober and sad. They’re pathetic, NOT scary.
Great show and with anti-communist episodes.
Yeah, that’s the guy.
Giving this reboot a big MEH.
Yes I believe she was, that was a creepy, scary episode.
Wasn’t it a Twilight Zone where the guy took home the wax dummie killers from a closing museum? He lost his mind staring at them and they came to life (to him). Scared the bejeezuz out of me then....
We were led to believe that cigarettes were almost good for us! LOL I bet 30 percent of the commercials were cigarette related.
For some reason Serling made a terrible business decision as to The Twilight Zone. He owned something like 50% of the show and in the mid 1960’s he sold his share of the show back to CBS for something like $350,000. His wife said later the absolute worse decision he ever made. It literally cost the family Millions in future residuals and such.
A couple weeks ago I saw the stage version of Twilight Zone in London. After a faux Rod Serling video intro with cigarette in his hand, the various actors in the recreated episodes suddenly found cigarettes in their hands (by sleight of hand) to their surprise and couldn’t let them go. It got laughs even from the British crowd which were mostly confused by TZ.
Watched TZ and Outer Limits when they were first on and I was a kid. I’d never waste a minute watching the upcoming one.
Thanks.
Sometimes I’ll see one on MeTV.
Bergess Meredith was on the other night as the man who worked in the bank and got in trouble for reading while working. He survived the nuclear war and found the library and was so happy to be surrounded by thousands of books. Then he tripped and shattered his glasses. Without them he was as blind as a bat. Poor guy.....
Just looked it up. The episode was “Night Call” and it starred Gladys Cooper (who was also in the Robert Redford episode). It originally aired February 7, 1964.
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