Twilight Zone

[unassuming]

Anyone else watching reruns of "The Twilight Zone" on Space CH at either 2pm or 7:30pm?

I love this show, lots unknown actors who would gain fame later.

-William Shatner in the Gremlins episode
-Russell Johnson of Gilligan's Island who tried to prevent Lincoln's assassination
-Robert Redford
etc...

 

[anon1]

I watch it whenever I come across it.
Last night saw an episode with Adam 12's Martin Milner.

 

[Terminator2000]

think they had it on space network at midnight but then they changed the scheduling to the next day at 2pm

 

[Smallcock]

Bought the entire CD box set years ago. But they've been in storage or lost for years now. Great show.

 

[shack]

I have every episode on DVD.

Robert Duvall
Claude Akins
Elizabeth Montgomery
Burgess Meredith
Richard Long
Inger Stevens
Lee Marvin
Cloris Leachman
Jack Klugman
Buster Keaton
Cliff Robertson
Telly Savalas
Ed Wynn
Billy Mumy
Mickey Rooney
Peter Falk
Art Carney
James Coburn
Roddy McDowell
Barry Morse
Dennis |Hopper
Wally Cox
Dick York
Martin Landau
George Takei
Dean Jagger
Theodore Bikel
Martin Balsam
Andy Devine
James Whitmore
Carol Burnett
Donald Pleasance
Keenan Wynne
Jack Weston
Jack Warden
Robert Cummings
Dennis Weaver
Buddy Ebsen

THE SHOW SUCKED

 

[Doc Holliday]

I own the entire series on blu-ray. I still watch some of my favorite episodes once in a while. Both of the episodes Shatner appeared in were great. Great series!

Rod Serling's Night Gallery is also a series i own and liked very much.

 

[Terminator2000]

Agreed, I love the old B&W episodes.

I also like the Outer Limits, Tales from the Darkside and Tales from the Crypt.
But for creepy oldies, the Twilight Zones were excellent.

cant remember tales from the crypt. all i remember is that half skeletal half corpse host that laughed and cackled.

all i remember from outer limits was a scientist that developed this antlike new species that burrowed underground in his giant aquarium in his barn after he stole them from a laboratory and lo and behold, they broke out and made a giant anthill a few miles from the barn in the end.

twilight zone is cool because it introduces the idea that there are other dimensions, other realities out there. why a television set can suddenly know whats going to happen in your future 2 hours from now. it plays with the idea that time travel is possible and the future is already determined and decided. it also plays with the idea that the past never goes away and you can suddenly find yourself 30 years back in time, in your childhood past at any minute. complete with your childhood friends running right by you. i think back then they faithfully believed time travel was possible and believed there were alternate dimensions out there. also, twilight toyed with the idea that the moment youre experiencing can just be a very livid dream and you can wake up into another reality any minute now and the moment and life youre living can all be just one big livid dream

 

[Mr. Piggy]

Been watching on my android box. Still on season 1 which originally aired in 1959.

 

[Nad Smith]

"Room for one more".........my favourite line from a tz episode...anyone else remember the story line?

 

[Nad Smith]

second favourite........"it's a cook book".....third ...."this is the other place"

 

[Insidious Von]

The Twilight Zone launched the career of Robert Duval - then he almost killed it by being waaay to real in To Kill a Mockingbird.

The Great Shat did two very influential episodes of TWZ. The Gremlins episode is more famous but Nick of Time became the basis for Groundhog Day.

Burgess Meredith was the central character in my two favorite TWZ episodes. Mr. Dingle The Strong with Don Rickles and The Obsolete Man.

The creepiest episode was Perchance to Dream with Richard Conte. The episode foreshadowed his actual death in real life. He reached his peak of fame in The Godfather sending Luca Brasi to sleep with the fishes, then he passed away from a heart attack. Just like in the episode.

...and how can I forget Two with tough guy Charles Bronson and a very hot Elizabeth Montgomery.

 

[shack]

"Room for one more".........my favourite line from a tz episode...anyone else remember the story line?

A bomb shelter?

 

[GPIDEAL]

Anyone else watching reruns of "The Twilight Zone" on Space CH at either 2pm or 7:30pm?

I love this show, lots unknown actors who would gain fame later.

-William Shatner in the Gremlins episode
-Russell Johnson of Gilligan's Island who tried to prevent Lincoln's assassination
-Robert Redford
etc...

Yeah, I've seen some of them too.

Love them.

 

[GPIDEAL]

The Twilight Zone launched the career of Robert Duval - then he almost killed it by being waaay to real in To Kill a Mockingbird.

The Great Shat did two very influential episodes of TWZ. The Gremlins episode is more famous but Nick of Time became the basis for Groundhog Day.

Burgess Meredith was the central character in my two favorite TWZ episodes. Mr. Dingle The Strong with Don Rickles and The Obsolete Man.

The creepiest episode was Perchance to Dream with Richard Conte. The episode foreshadowed his actual death in real life. He reached his peak of fame in The Godfather sending Luca Brasi to sleep with the fishes, then he passed away from a heart attack. Just like in the episode.

...and how can I forget Two with tough guy Charles Bronson and a very hot Elizabeth Montgomery.

I had to look up Richard Conte.

Sad that he died back in 1975.

 

[Keebler Elf]

I've been recording them for the past couple months. I'm almost up to 100 episodes to watch on my PVR (yikes!). They air 2 per day on whatever channel it is. I also have the DVD set somewhere but this is more convenient.

Some of the episodes are great, some are shit, most are mediocre. When you watch them consecutively you start to see certain themes (nuclear war, space travel, time travel, twists on social norms & morality, etc.).

I do enjoy seeing all the up-and-coming actors who go on to be famous. William Shatner has multiple appearances. The Gremlin episode is good but the episode in the diner with the fortune telling machine (Nick of Time) is even better.

My favourites are the ones where you never see the twist at the end coming.

 

[GPIDEAL]

Agreed, I love the old B&W episodes.

I also like the Outer Limits, Tales from the Darkside and Tales from the Crypt.
But for creepy oldies, the Twilight Zones were excellent.

Outer Limits include an episode with a young Leonard Nimoy, dealing with a robot.

 

[Terminator2000]

I've been recording them for the past couple months. I'm almost up to 100 episodes to watch on my PVR (yikes!). They air 2 per day on whatever channel it is. I also have the DVD set somewhere but this is more convenient.

Some of the episodes are great, some are shit, most are mediocre. When you watch them consecutively you start to see certain themes (nuclear war, space travel, time travel, twists on social norms & morality, etc.).

I do enjoy seeing all the up-and-coming actors who go on to be famous. William Shatner has multiple appearances. The Gremlin episode is good but the episode in the diner with the fortune telling machine (Nick of Time) is even better.

random fact. they did a ghost story where a guy survived a submarine sinking and the ghosts where calling him. it wasnt very good. mediocre like the other guy said.

My favourites are the ones where you never see the twist at the end coming.

i love how alot of episodes are creepy. like super creepy. where one guy went to an old neighborhood and it was his old childhood. (they did this in two episodes) they also visit old age versus youth as a theme in alot of episodes. and i love how the stories are very original and well thought.

they also introduced death as a well groomed very articulate, very professional character in one episode.

and they introduced the devil (twice i think) as a very articulate, very professional character also. (she was a beautiful woman in one episode and a chunky old man in another episode) i guess he can take many forms.

 

[Smallcock]

and they introduced the devil (twice i think) as a very articulate, very professional character also. (she was a beautiful woman in one episode and a chunky old man in another episode) i guess he can take many forms.

The Devil also appears as a meek innocent prisoner in The Howling Man episode.

 

[shack]

Burgess Meredith was the central character in my two favorite TWZ episodes. Mr. Dingle The Strong with Don Rickles and The Obsolete Man.

My favourite TZ episode was the one you did not mention, Time Enough At Last.

 

[Insidious Von]

i love how alot of episodes are creepy. like super creepy. where one guy went to an old neighborhood and it was his old childhood. (they did this in two episodes) they also visit old age versus youth as a theme in alot of episodes. and i love how the stories are very original and well thought.

That was the best episode of S1: Within Walking Distance. Gig Young made that episode work, phenomenal actor. He became the first TZ actor to win an Oscar for They Shoot Horses Don't They? Sadly like Richard Conte he died before his time and isn't as well known today.