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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The one with Robert Redford is one of my favorites, The Hunt is another.
That’s right.
Yes, it’s Gladys Cooper in both.
“Is there *anyone* who doesn’t have a horror of earwigs after that Night Gallery episode”?
As I said, I remember it but not all the details. As I remember, the doctor got the thing out but the bad news was that it had hatched it’s eggs deep inside. Then from a distance we heard the screams.
Is that close to how it went? That must have been 55 years ago. Lol
The Obsolete Man episode with Burgess Meredith and Fritz Weaver is becoming a reality right in front of our eyes.
Ever notice how the original movie POLTERGEIST lifted the TZ episode of the little girl lost in a different dimension in the couple’s home?
***The episode that scared the hell out of me was the one where a woman was in the hospital to have plastic surgery.***
There is a similar story on Night Gallery of a man so different he is sent to another planet.
“An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge” is one of my faves. And the 30 Fathom Grave one (with Simon Oakland) is a very creepy one as well.
Featuring a young Donna Douglas, until she found success at the Cement Pond in Beverly Hills.
“Chink-Chee....Hen-R-e-e-e-e.”
Saw it once fifty five or so years ago..still remember it.
I still won’t go into the local Indian Casinos, although I did drop .25 cents on one in Las Vegas just to say I did.
Burgess Meredith was on several TZ and Night Gallery episodes.
Being a prolific reader, I still tear up at the end of what happens to Mr Bemish. “It isn’t fair! It isn’t fair...”
Third time. They first revived the show in the mid 80s after the success of Twilight Zone: The Movie (although Twilight Zone: The Movie is quite different in tone and style from the 80s TV series). Then they tried again from 2002-2003 on UPN, with Forrest Whittaker as host. Now they're trying on See BS All Access with Jordan Peele.
All the previous revivals had new, original episodes with a handful of remakes of the original Serling episodes thrown in. They've actually made the episode "Dead Man's Shoes" 3 times (in 1959, in 1986, and in 2002. They're already announced one of the new episodes will be a remake of "Nightmare of 20,000 Feet" so now we're getting a third version of that. IMO it will be impossible to top the '83 version with John Lithgow. They'd also have to do something drastically different like change the ending since I assume most viewers will be familiar with that episode by now.
For the most part, however, about 80% of the episodes are new, original stories.
I will give it a look since Alex Kurtzman, who has utterly destroyed every franchise he's touched (from Spider-Man to Universal Monsters to Star Trek) thankfully seems to have nothing to do with one. But I refuse to pay for All Access and I think there's a good chance that Twilight Zone will follow the SJW trend (e.g. this episode shows how bad "homophobia" is and so on)
Bookmark.
gotcha
Seinfeld and Cheers were too.
I wonder how many would be hits were cut too early.
Wow! So it WAS her!! Awesome! She was a tremendous actress!
Spookiest Twilight Zone for me was where a U-boat kapitan is a passenger on the Queen of Glasgow and doesn’t know how he got there. Then a U-boat appears and opens fire and all the passengers are killed, then he finds himself in his U-boat preparing to attack. Kind of like Groundhog Day with the German doomed to repeat the cycle for eternity.
My favorite is “A Piano in the House” where a player piano casts a spell on anyone nearby and makes them reveal their true selves.
I could have written your post about “Roswell.”
The bitchy young woman at the start saying she didn’t get her grant because “somebody needed his wall” or something like that.
Other snide remarks about illegal immigration.
The whole story line about young twenty-somethings with unusual powers that were hatched from eggs connection to the 1947 Roswell crash made no sense.
I didn’t last a full episode either, and have not tried to watch another episode since.
Exactly like pot today!
Exactly.
And the babies were gonna tunnel through his brain, just like the momma did.
Yikes!
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