Is anyone watching the "Twilight Zone" marathon?

[Kathy in Cambridge]

It's running all day tomorrow too! :bounce:

I missed "Kick the Can" earlier-one of my faves. I can't remember the name of the episode where William Shatner's character keeps seeing a monster on the wing of the plane.

What's your favorite episode?

[EstimatedProphet]

1. Yup

Watching it now. Roddy McDowell is about to be put in a zoo as a specimen of Earthman...

[chicagojoe]

2. Which channel? Tell me, tellme tellme!

[Kathy in Cambridge]

3. Sci-fi Channel

[chicagojoe]

11. Cool. Thank You ! Happy New Year From One Blue State

To Another!

[Butterflies]

4. Yes, channel 71 for me

My favorite is when the earth keeps getting closer to the sun and the two women in the NYC apartment building are sweating it out. I also like the one about the man on the train who wants to go to the 19th century town of "Willoughby" (I think that's the name of the town.)

[MisterP]

13. that's Cartoon Network here: SciFi is 61: what's 61 for you?

[Butterflies]

15. 61 is Oxygen for me

they seem to change Oxygen's number every couple of months around here

[proud2BlibKansan]

5. The one where the guy is in prison

and he pays the guy who works at the graveyard to help him escape by digging him up after he climbs into a coffin with a dead inmate.

So he sneaks into the coffin, it is buried and the guy lays there waiting and waiting and waiting. And then he turns and looks at the body in the coffin. It's the guy who is supposed to dig him up!

Gave me nightmares when I was a kid. Still does.

[liberalmuse]

7. That one is the creepiest...

but isn't it Hitchcock? My friend and I were drinking Cold Duck and Spumante and watching Kill Bill Vol. 2 tonight and mention of this particular episode came up.

My favorite TZ is 'Eye of the Beholder', where Ellie May is wrapped in bandages because she is so hideous and doctors in a hospital are trying to make her beautiful. I love this one so much because I remember watching a show with scary doctors and nurses as a child, and thought I had dreamt it, until a few years ago during another TZ marathon this episode came on and this was the show that scared me so much that I never forgot it. I just had no idea what it was until then. LOVE TZ!

[proud2BlibKansan]

17. It could be Hitchcock

All I remember is it was scary.

Is that one you are talking about the one where everyone is hideously ugly?

[Sporadicus]

6. 'Nightmare at 20,000 Feet'

is the title of your fav episode.

Submitted for your browsing approval:

http://tzone.the-croc.com/twilight1.html#fifth

[chicagojoe]

12. John Lithgow did an awesome job on this in the TZ Movie.

[EX-CONservative]

8. Tie

I love "To Serve Man" and "The Obsolete Man" equally.

The Obsolete Man has Burgess Meredith as a librarian sentenced to death for obsolescence. Fritz Wever plays the dictator.

[edbermac]

9. No I'm watching the Stooges shorts on AMC...

Though I had to switch when their movie Have Rocket Will Travel came on...these guys were in their 60's when they made this; kinda sad watching 3 seniors slap each other in the face and give two-finger eyepokes...

And my favorite TZ?

To Serve Man...

It's a cookbook...IT'S A COOKBOOK!!!!

[Sporadicus]

10. 'The Last Rites of Jeff Myrtlebank'

Time, the mid-twenties. Place, the Midwest - the southernmost section of the Midwest. We were just witnessing a funeral, a funeral that didn't come off exactly as planned, due to a slight fallout - from the Twilight Zone.

After Jeff Myrtlebank revives at his funeral, he assures everyone he is the same person as before. However, he has several new traits, such as being a hard worker, and a skilled fighter. When the townspeople try to run him out of town, he tells them if he is Jeff Myrtlebank, they have nothing to fear, but if he is a supernatural being, then they had better be nice to him. After the townspeople leave, Jeff tells his fianceé that he really is the same person, but then he lights a match without striking it.

Jeff and Comfort are still alive today, and their only son is a United States senator who's noted as an uncommonly shrewd politician - and some people believe he must have gotten his education in the Twilight Zone.

[jpgray]

14. I like the one with the reading glasses

:D

[pinniped]

16. I'm watching some of it. The episode that sent shivers down...

my spine was the 'live' mannequins in the dept. store episode. Every day or so a new mannequin gets to come alive and walk the store. My eyes were frozen in horror! No other episode has had that same effect on me.

One of my favorite episodes featured modern-day Army soldiers at the Battle of Little Big Horn.

I duno if they showed those ones yet.

TZ is out on DVD but I haven't picked up any yet. They used to sell by three episodes per disc but they've since went to seasons.

[Phentex]

18. We watched a couple of them....

a woman is forced to choose who she wants to look like..."in a time when plastic surgery is a reality"...

Oh, man, we are there! :wow:

[Kathy in Cambridge]

19. Yeah, that one was prescient

I always thought Rod Serling must've been a little psychic. Too bad he died so young.

[pinniped]

43. Another creepy one had some relatives of a deceased dude staying...

overnight in his mansion.

They all have to put on a scary mask thinking they would get the $$$$ and at the end the mask couldn't come off. I guess they were all greedy relatives.

More creepy than scary but still...:scared:

[pink-o]

20. Don't forget the one

Where Will Robinson (Billy Mumy) is a little kid who has the whole town in his power, and can mutate them into hideous creatures at his whims.

I read the story that was based on when I was a kid--even scarier than the ep itself.

Rod Serling was very angry at 50s America and its fear-mongering McCarthy-ism, the insistance that everyone conform and shut up (sound familiar?). So most of the TZ's he wrote are symbolic of man's inhumanity to man and man's knee-jerk reaction to fear.

I think he died of lung cancer. What a shame, since he would have been 80 on Christmas day. (I know this because my mother was born the same day, same year. Both of them scared me silly when I was little!)

[Kathy in Cambridge]

21. I forgot about the Bill Mumy epiode

that was great!

Rod Serling was so talented. I wonder if he got blacklisted in the 1950s? His views were controversial for the conformist '50s.

[cruadin]

23. Rod Serling was one of the best. I loved the anthology...

format of The Twilight Zone, probably because I was a big fan of the SciFi, short story genre.
I'm not sure if he was ever blacklisted for his non-conformist views, but there has been a long-time effort to get Rod Serling honored on a postage stamp; if you're interested:

http://www.rodserling.com/stamp.htm

[Phentex]

25. Hey, cool. Thanks!

[terrya]

35. "To Serve Man" scared the hell out of me when I was a kid.

It's sort of silly now. :-)

But I remember being frightened by it when I first saw it...8 or 9 years old.

T

[Mayberry Machiavelli]

36. "The Monsters are Due on Maple St." is an episode that is about this theme

with a bunch of people going paranoid about imagined monsters when their power and phone go screwy.

http://www.scifilm.org/tv/tz/twilightzone1-22.html

[yardwork]

42. That's my favorite too and I agree that the story is even scarier

I can't remember who wrote the short story but I think it was a well-known writer.

[gmoney]

22. Dreadfully long commercial breaks...

Maybe I'm just too used to watching stuff on DVD, but these breaks are long enough to forget what the set-up is!

Ooh, here's one with John Astin as a wagon train settler. The Peter Falk as Castro episode just ended...

Wonder if they pick the ones with the recognizable faces over better stories that don't have "star power"

[Kathy in Cambridge]

24. I think they are picking the 'star power' ones

I missed a couple last night that had the better story lines. oh well.

[gmoney]

27. Mine's been blacked out for 20 minutes!

Just interrupted long enough for an ad from the cable company telling me how reliable their internet service is. Doh! Guess that's at the cost of their cable service.

And they seriously want me to switch my PHONE service to the cable company?

[rasputin1952]

26. There are many I consider great, but my favorite is the one...

"The Gift"; is where an alien ship crash lands near a Mexican town and there is a search for the alien. The only one who considers the alien to be decent and humane, is a small boy. Eventually, the townspeople get to the alien and he tries to present them with the gift of a book. He is called a demon, the book torn away and ignited by a torch and the alien is shot and dies.

The local doctor picks up the book and all that is left is the front cover and first page...inside, the Title reads: The Cure to All Types of Human Cancer".

Serling had a great way of showing us how truly ignorant we can be, and how our predjudices rule our lives, often for the worse.

Another Great episode, is where the old lady refuses to open the door on her soon to be demolished apt. She has to keep out the Dreaded Specter of Death...:)

[hickman1937]

28. I'm switching back and forth

This is making me crazy, the Monty Python marathon is on BBC America, at the same time.

[rasputin1952]

30. The Santa episode is on, the one w/Art Carney...

it is truly a Classic!!!!!

[hickman1937]

32. Thanks. It only stings for a minute

when I switch, but I love this episode.

[Orsino]

29. "A Stop at Willoughby," Perhaps

Hard to pick a favorite, but this one epitomizes, for me, what the series was about, at its best.

"Time Enough at Last," too, is great. It's a twist ending piled atop another twist ending.

[xultar]

31. I'm watchin... I wish they had done a Godzilla marathon though.

:cry:

[Gothic Sponge]

33. I'm watching!

:hi:

[B Calm]

34. My favorite is the stop watch that stops time..

As a young boy growing up, this Twilight Zone show really sent my imagination into orbit..

[Skittles]

37. the three astronauts

THERE WERE THREE OF US!!!!!!!!!!

[Mayberry Machiavelli]

38. I don't have a SINGLE favorite, but the one w/ Agnes Moorehead as the old

lady dealing with the pesky alien invaders in her house, who turn out to be...
http://www.scifilm.org/tv/tz/twilightzone1-22.html

[Kathy in Cambridge]

39. Yes-that was a great one

it's fun to watch these and recognize all the TV Stars from "Bewitched" and other shows from the '60s and '70s.

[hickman1937]

40. I Sing the Body Electric.

This one makes me sad. Its on now.

[hickman1937]

41. Trivia: Rod Serling was terrified of going

in front of the cameras. He soaked shirts with sweat, and had an assistant off stage with extras. I read it in Uncle John's Bathroom reader.

[B Calm]

44. Many of the Twilight Zones were video remakes of the Old Time Radio

shows of Dimension X and X Minus One, bet ya didn't know that!

[roenyc]

45. YES!!!

I fell asleep so i taped some. its so cool to see ones you've never seen before.

you have to love the one where kirk is trying to kill the monster on the plane. man he is one lousy actor.