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Posted on 01/27/2005 7:54:32 PM PST by tomkow6
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Next stop: THE TWILIGHT ZONE."
Welcome to The BAR is OPEN! We've got Eye candy...Mind candy...and Chicken soup for the soul! "Submitted for your approval..." The Twilight Zone is generally considered to be the first real "adult" science-fantasy anthology series to appear on American television, introducing the late 1950s TV audience to an entertaining and at the same time thought-provoking collection of human condition stories wrapped within fantastic themes. Although the series is usually labeled a science fiction program its true sphere was fantasy, embracing elements of the supernatural, the psychological, and "the almost-but-not-quite; the unbelievable told in terms that can be believed" (Rod Serling).
The brain-child of one of the most successful young playwrights of his time (with such "Golden Age" TV successes as "Patterns" and "Requiem for a Heavyweight"), Rod Serling's The Twilight Zone began life as a story called "The Time Element" which Serling had submitted to CBS, where it was produced as part of the Westinghouse-Desilu Playhouse anthology. Although it was little more than a simple time-warp tale, starring William Bendix as a man who believes he goes back in time to the attack on Pearl Harbor, the TV presentation received an extraordinary amount of complementary mail and prompted CBS to commission a Twilight Zone pilot for a possible series. With his "Time Element" script already used, Serling prepared another story which would be the pilot episode for the series. "Where Is Everybody?" opened The Twilight Zone on 2 October 1959, and featured a riveting one-man performance by Earl Holliman as a psychologically stressed Air Force man who hallucinates that he is completely alone in a deserted but spookily "lived in" town while actually undergoing an isolation experiment. It was this hallucinatory human stress situation placed in a could-be science-fantasy landscape, complete with an O. Henry-type "snapper ending", that was to become the standard structure of The Twilight Zone. "Here's what The Twilight Zone is," explained Serling to TV Guide magazine in November 1959. "It's an anthology series, half hour in length, that delves into the odd, the bizarre, the unexpected. It probes into the dimension of imagination but with a concern for taste and for an adult audience too long considered to have IQs in negative figures."
Twilight Zone Trivia Quiz:
HOST NARRATORS PRODUCERS Rod Serling, Buck Houghton, William Froug, Herbert Hirschman PROGRAMMING HISTORY 134 Half-hour Episodes; 17 One-hour Episodes CBS
FYI: Did you know Rod Serling was a WWII vet? Read on.... Rodman Edward Serling was born in Syracuse, N.Y., on December 25, 1924, and grew up in Binghamton, the son of a wholesale meat dealer. By his own account, he had no early literary ambitions, though from an early age, he and his older brother, Robert, immersed themselves in movies and in such magazines as Astounding Stories and Weird Tales.
After the production of The Twilight Zone ended in January 1964, Serling remained active in television and movies, winning an Emmy for his Bob Hope Presents The Chrysler Theatre adapted script "It's Mental Work," and hosting and writing episodes of the 1970-73 anthology series Rod Serling's Night Gallery. There, his script "They're Tearing Down Tim Riley's Bar" earned an Emmy nomination as the year's Outstanding Single Program. Serling returned to Antioch College as a professor and lectured at college campuses across the country. Politically active, Serling spoke out against the Vietnam War in the late '60s and early '70s.
Although it is widely believed that I am a permanent resident of the TWILIGHT Zone, Have YOU ever been to the TWILIGHT ZONE????
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Read: Proverbs 6:6-11
Awake to righteousness, and do not sin; for some do not have the knowledge of God. —1 Corinthians 15:34
Bible In One Year: Exodus 1-4
Elephant seals spend most of their lives sleeping. Science News magazine reports, "Male elephant seals measure 16 feet from trunk-like nose to flipper, and they weigh about 3 tons. Occasionally, a seal will use a front flipper—incredibly tiny for such a massive creature—to scratch itself or flip sun-shielding sand on its body." Otherwise these huge animals are basically motionless.
The article goes on to state that because they don't eat while on land during the breeding season, they sleep most of the time. Besides scratching, dirt-flipping, or rolling over, these ponderous animals seldom move.
By contrast, the little ant seems tireless as it goes about its industrious work of storing up food for the colony. The writer of Proverbs commends the diligence of the ant, citing her active ways as a model for people who would live wisely.
There's a spiritual lesson here. Christians who pattern their service after the ant get things done for the Lord. But others, like the elephant seal, scarcely move. They seem to be barely alive spiritually, as if they are conserving their energy for some huge effort later on. But the time to get busy for Christ is now, even though our talents may seem insignificant.
Imitate the ant, not the elephant seal. —Dave Egner
Due to technical difficulties
(.....MoJo broke the server....)
several of my "regular" morning posts & graphics
will not be available until later on Friday morning.
Today's "Camp Run-A-Muk" truly entered the realm of
The Twilight Zone!
Enjoy!
Prayers going up.
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Today's FEEBLE
YOKE :
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Alright Tomkow rack Twlight zone rack ittt
Rack Eye of the Beholder
Talking Tina
Doing Time in Maple time
Where is everybody
PINO MORE????????
LOLLLLLL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Thanks Bro!
Oh Angel Boy--Just did a quick look-see before hitting the hay--you have truly outdone yourself! You deserve a gazillion woo-hoos!! I'll see you tomorrow...can hardly wait to view thread...
Thank you for tonight's thread Tom...We're all in the twilight zone now! *H*
Yeah I knew that ole Roddy was WW2 veteran rack himmm
Tell me alot about Hollywood back in da day CBS didn't at first want Twilight Zone until Desliu Studios threated take another network
Nice goin what expect from CBS they suck then with CBS evening news back in da day with 60 minutes they still sucks now in my opinion
Well least one thing too bad Twilight Zone is no longer Rod could get Dan Rather a gig
Since you're from Western NY, I just had to post that! ;)
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