The Twilight Zone .....

RaysinGyrl · 07-04-2000, 09:14 PM

They're showing a Twilight Zone marathon (cinemathon) today on the SciFi channel... I forgot how much I enjoyed these shows.

I never remember titles but my favorites are:

The Pool: the one where two kids go to the bottom of their pool and it takes them to like.. a country bayou full of kids and fun.

The Old Lady & the Aliens: this episode has no dialogue, just an old crotchety woman in a rickety house, hears aliens land on her roof, chases the tiny aliens about the house (barn), and the only dialogue you hear in the end is a transmission from the aliens back home... turns out she was the alien.

The car & the shadow of a person: classic episode.

Talking Tina: another classic.

So.. what are your favorite Twilight Zones?

Happy 4th of July!

poison ivy · 07-04-2000, 09:21 PM

I LOVED THIS SHOW as a kid!!! I love the Talking Tina and The Pool one!

Remember that one where the man and woman wake up and they're in this world where there are no other people. They find out they're in a doll house or something??

poison ivy · 07-04-2000, 09:23 PM

me again....i liked the one about the mean little boy. no one could say anything bad to him or he would 'wish' bad things to happen to them???

RaysinGyrl · 07-04-2000, 09:28 PM

Yah.. these shows were creapy.. and they are really well done for their time. It's neat to see all the now well known character actors pop up in these unassuming rolls.

I also liked the one where the lights go off on Maple Street, and everyone comes out of their house and one kid says he read something about this in one of his comic books and soon the mob starts turning on each member of the mob, destroying themselves within. Then they pan back and show two aliens with a remote control talking about this isn't just Maple Street, it's any street in America.. if you leave them to their own conclusions.. soon we will destroy ourselves and they're just waiting for it to happen.

eerie... but... insightful.

blackdove · 07-04-2000, 09:32 PM

THE MASKS!!!

that is just the creepiest thing ever.
this wretched family is hanging out with their grandpa on Mardi Gras and they all hate him and they're waiting for him to die so they can get his money.
he makes them all wear these masks that show their true faces, and says they have to keep them on til midnight.
then he dies, and when the other people try to take the masks off, their faces looks like the shapes of the masks!!!

it was scary.

i also like the MONSTERS ON MAPLE STREET one where everyone thinks everyone else is an alien and they just shoot each other.
and also the one where the aliens come and try to get people to colonize .... blah blah... anyway... there was something about "TO SERVE MAN"... you'd know if you saw it.
the wierd one with the dolls in the box, and the giant eyeball one kicked ass too.

poison ivy · 07-04-2000, 09:33 PM

Yes, they were well written. Some of them look really cheesy nowadays but still have an eeriness about them.

Great Topic!

jcldragon · 07-04-2000, 10:50 PM

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Originally posted by PoisonIvyTree
me again....i liked the one about the mean little boy. no one could say anything bad to him or he would 'wish' bad things to happen to them???

That was Billy Mumy as a kid. Last I saw him, he was Lennier on Babylon 5.

I've had the tape machine going all day in case there are any episodes that I don't already have.

Novinha · 07-05-2000, 01:41 AM

I love the old Twilight Zone episodes. I used to tape them when they had that marathon on sci-fi. I have almost 6 hours worth of episodes (without commercials

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My favorite one would have to be the one where beautiful is ugly and ugly is beautiful. There was a beautiful woman in surgery to try to become ugly so she could be accpted by that society. The surgery did not work, and when she saw her beautiful face she screamed. Then they took her away to live isolated from the "normal" ugly people.

I really liked this episode because it made me think about how strong we think about looks. Being beautiful is so important to society, yet, it is only on the surface. The real beauty is inside us. And taking our outter beauty so seriously, is just plain silly. As it ended silly in the show by taking her away because of her looks.

Proserpina · 07-05-2000, 01:45 AM

Well...episodes that I liked, there are many. Of course, the classics (Monsters on maple Street, Talky Tina, the one about the kid who wished everyone into the cornfield). They just showed one that was a cool twist on an urban legend--you know, the one where the girl goes into the graveyard on a dare to stick a knife in a grave, but pins her dress to it? But in this one, it was a man, and when they decided that he had pinned himself to the grave, this crazy chick comes along and says 'But how did the wind blow his coat over there? It was blowing the same direction as it is now, but my dress is blowing away from the grave.' Just thought that was a cute twist. (Wow, what a long and pointless description: too much caffeine.)

The one I couldn't stand was the one where the guy was left alone in the world after a nuclear war, and has all the books in thw world (which is his dream) anbd all the time to read them. But then his glasses break, and there's no one there to fix them... *shudder* Thats just about my worst nightmare.

**dead man's girly** · 07-05-2000, 01:49 AM

<font face="comic sans ms">Hehe..the "How to Serve Man" one is my favorite! "It's a cookbook!" Lol..

That really creeped me out when I was little and made me think about how people stop questioning things if it seems like they're benefitting...the whole "don't look a gift horse in the mouth" concept.

Sorry if that didn't make any sense. My brain's a bit fuzzy right now.

Mystyglass · 07-05-2000, 02:32 AM

In the lady and the aliens one, I do believe that the woman who played the old lady was Endora from Bewitched..cannot for the life of me remember her real name right now, but it'll come to me at an inconvenient time, I suppose.

One of my favorites is the Maple Street one, too. Rod Serling was such a brilliant, poignant writer. He had style and substance to nearly everything he penned...not to mention he had that voice that made me melt...I just found him very attractive.

Anyone see the movie version of the Twilight Zone? I'd say the best episode remake in that flick was the man on the wing of the plane with John Lithgow...and then the kid who could "wish" people away had some very creepy effects...the sister with no mouth??? *shudder* The kick the can was a little corny and the one with the late Vic Morrow was obviously cut short and ended too abruptly. (And for good reason, as it was another eerie case of an actor getting killed while shooting an action scene). I can't help thinking of that poor guy whenever I see that movie on cable now...

Cyn

blackdove · 07-05-2000, 09:17 AM

i saw the TZ movie! the best one was definatly the one with the kid who wished people away. that was scary

Baddie Bad Shoes · 07-05-2000, 11:02 AM

There is an episode, I can't remember the name, that really creeped me out as a kid. I had nightmares for weeks...

A guy is in a car accindent and he is paralized...all over. He can't move at all. and people come and rob him, and then the medics come, but they think he is dead. They take him to the mourge. They are having a busy weekend, and they leave him there, with all the dead bodies overnight. He concentrates really hard on moving, and he moves his index finger, then content that he can save himself come morning, he falls asleep. During the whole show you can hear his thoughts. He is awakend in the morning to the sounds of men there. They are preparing to do his autopsy. He is trying desperatly to move his finger, but he can't anymore...the last shot is a shot of the medic, leaning over him coming down with the knife to cut him open...and he is screaming, but he isn't making a sound...

It was a really disturbing episode...

RaysinGyrl · 07-05-2000, 11:04 AM

I agree they are disturbing.. but that's what makes them so fabulous. True science fiction.. how often do we get that anymore? Rod Serling was WAY ahead of his time.

perfect wing · 07-05-2000, 08:04 PM

I hate to be a dork- but it was called TALKY Tina, not Talking Tina. So, um, anyway... yeah that's a good one, and The Pool was too.

I liked the one where the guy could predict the future kind of and he saved himself from dying on the elevator because he had scissors, and he won the horse race because his pen leaked on the winning horse, etc. That one was awesome!