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The 5 Scariest Episodes of The Twilight Zone
Art of Manliness ^ | 10-26-23 | Brett & Kate McKay

Posted on 10/31/2023 8:18:42 PM PDT by dynachrome

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To: jy8z

That was one of the greatest jobs of acting I’ve ever seen. She didn’t utter a word.


21 posted on 10/31/2023 9:27:30 PM PDT by Jamestown1630 ("A Republic, if you can keep it.")
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To: del griffith

I adore that one; one of the all time best episodes!


22 posted on 10/31/2023 9:37:51 PM PDT by nopardons
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To: dynachrome

A quick TZ story. My wife is younger than me, and grew up not watching B&W TV shows, or movies. She claimed the storylines of the ones she had tried to watch were ENTIRELY predictable. So, I pulled up an episode of TZ. We watched it to just before “the turn”, and I asked her “OK, what’s going on here, and what’s going to happen”. She gave me some predictable plot, and outcome. Then I unpaused it. She was more than a little shocked. Lesson learned. :D


23 posted on 10/31/2023 9:39:11 PM PDT by FrankRizzo890
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To: del griffith

I also want to get off at Willoughby.


24 posted on 10/31/2023 9:41:02 PM PDT by Fiji Hill
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To: dynachrome

The one about the guy who’s in search of a song and wanders into the woods, meeting a woman in black who sings predictions. The things she sings about keep happening and she finally sings a verse predicting his death. Which, of course, happens.

That one haunted me for awhile when I saw it at about 15 years old.


25 posted on 10/31/2023 9:41:47 PM PDT by Allegra (Stop the Zeepers from Censoring FReepers)
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To: dynachrome; All
For everyone who loves the TWILIGHT ZONE........

The episode listed in the article: THE DUMMY, was one of TWO versions that were on this show. The idea predates this show AND television! The movie THE GREAT GABO is the earliest movie or T.V. version of this kind of tale, was one of the very first "talkies", and starred Erich Von Stroheim as the ventriloquist. A much later/modern movie, MAGIC, starring Anthony Hopkins as the ventriloquist, is also well worth seeing.

26 posted on 10/31/2023 9:45:00 PM PDT by nopardons
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To: Allegra

That’s a really good one and IIRC, stars one of Bing Crosby’s sons.


27 posted on 10/31/2023 9:47:50 PM PDT by nopardons
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To: Fiji Hill

“I also want to get off at Willoughby.”

Count my wife and I too for Willoughby.


28 posted on 10/31/2023 9:51:25 PM PDT by willk (Local news media. Just as big an enemy to this country as national media)
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To: Fungi

Rod Sterling was a Jewish-American combat veteran who saw saw action and horrid things in the Philippines. Those experiences greatly affected him and his writing. Wonder what he would be writing if he were alive today.


29 posted on 10/31/2023 9:55:54 PM PDT by allendale
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To: dynachrome

I thought the only terrifying episode was the mannequins coming to life. Everything else was just hokey. Entertaining, yes. Watchable, yes. I really liked the Custer episode.


30 posted on 10/31/2023 10:03:45 PM PDT by Ciexyz (Prayers for America and Israel.)
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HOKEY?

The mannequins one was good, but all of the others were too; nothing "hokey" about them!

The one with the magical player piano was marvelous, the Adam & Eve one was too, I can wax lyrical about almost every single one of them.

The one with Art Carney playing Santa and then actually turning into him? FANTASTIC!

And NOT ENOUGH TIME, starring Burgess Meredith always makes me cry a bit at the end.

31 posted on 10/31/2023 10:12:18 PM PDT by nopardons
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To: Fiji Hill

Where a man can slow down to a walk and live his life full measure.


32 posted on 10/31/2023 11:56:33 PM PDT by del griffith
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To: del griffith
My favorite. When I retired, I told them I was getting off in Willoughby. But that I would survive.

And did you?

Regards,

33 posted on 11/01/2023 12:07:17 AM PDT by alexander_busek (Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.)
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To: allendale

Serling, not Sterling.


34 posted on 11/01/2023 12:13:34 AM PDT by fieldmarshaldj (America Owes Anita Bryant An Enormous Apology)
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To: dynachrome

Eye of the Beholder is one of my favorites.


35 posted on 11/01/2023 12:18:56 AM PDT by TheWriterTX (🇺🇸✝️🇮🇱)
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To: alexander_busek

So far, so good. Really enjoy living life full measure.


36 posted on 11/01/2023 12:22:50 AM PDT by del griffith
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To: dynachrome
The Invaders


37 posted on 11/01/2023 12:51:30 AM PDT by Fresh Wind (Faux News: "We distort, you deride")
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To: dynachrome

Not scary, but ‘Two’ is my favorite. Elizabeth Montgomery, delicious.


38 posted on 11/01/2023 12:58:24 AM PDT by waterhill
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To: dynachrome

Do you recall the one where they bricked themselves into an unescapable small space? I was so young when I watched it. So I don’t remember much except I found it scary.


39 posted on 11/01/2023 2:48:03 AM PDT by GOP Poet (Super cool you can change your tag line EVERYTIME you post!! :D. (Small things make me happy))
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To: GOP Poet

Astronauts landing on Earth...


40 posted on 11/01/2023 3:18:25 AM PDT by Does so ( 🇺🇦...................."Who is Ray Epps?" should be overstamped on every piece of currency.)
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