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When you hear those four notes, you start to look around.
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I remember watching it, but back then there wasn’t much choice.
It’s on METV now every night (morning) at 12:30 AM...
Best written show in history. Love Rod Serling.
One thing which always gets my attention in those 1950s and 1960s TV shows is how many people are smoking.
I have read that it is a device to give their hands something to do. Same for the drinks always in their hands in “Dallas”.
Saw the preview on CBS “Sunday Morning.” It sounds like the stories will mostly have a “social justice” flavor - about race, the poor, etc. I’m sure one will be about some powerful politician too. Trying to recreate a successful original series using today’s political climate buzzwords may please the elites but likely will not catch on with us unwashed “deplorables.”
I found a couple of British series called “Thriller” and “Tales of the Unexpected” on Amazon Prime, from the 1970s.
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.
Great show and with anti-communist episodes.
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....
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.
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?
Bookmark.
There was another Sci-fi type show in the 60s which I really liked.
It was “The Invaders”. I particularly liked to see the aliens bodies incinerate when they died. Basically a plain old flying saucer type show.
I have a converter box for my TV. Channel 5.3 is The Decades channel.
The first week of January, for about four or five days, they held a “Twilight Zone” marathon, from 9 AM to 9 PM every day. Mostly half-hour episodes, but also some of the less seen hour long episodes.
Also, last July 4th, Decades held a round the clock Twilight Zone marathon.
They also have something every weekend called The Weekend Binge. They air a different series every weekend starting at 1 PM on Saturday afternoon and ending 7 AM Monday morning. Round the clock.
Once they had a weekend binge of “Night Gallery” and another time “Thriller.” This weekend is “Hunter,” with Fred Dryer. Next weekend is “Mannix.”