The 80's Twilight Zone: Season 1, Episode 49 Profile in Silver (Kennedy assassination Youtube)

[Omaha Steve]

Marta and I think of the 80's TZ in the same terms most people think of the original TZ series.

Our site for it is here: http://www.steveandmarta.com/ntz1.htm

I'm sorry I didn't know "Profile in Silver" was on Youtube in time for the 50th anniversary. Enjoy. I do have one autographed photo from this episode.

OS

Published on May 31, 2013

After preventing the assassination of President Kennedy, a historian from the future faces the consequences of his act.

[longship]

1. Bookmarked for later.

Thanks OS! I never watched the NTZ, but watched the original every week with my family. I was also a Science Fiction Theater fan in my youth. And Outer Limits was legendary. Good stuff. All.

Will view this when my download limit resets on my iPad service.

[longship]

2. One of the great "Outer Limits" episodes.

Demon with a Glass Hand. This is what one can do with limited production budget. Plus, there's the advantage of filming in an absolutely awesome venue, the Bradbury Building

Also used in Bladerunner, decades later.

Script by Harlan Ellison.

Here, it's one of the best TV of the era:

[Omaha Steve]

6. We have an in person autograph from that episode at the 2002 TZCon

http://www.steveandmarta.com/graveyards/tzcon2002.htm

Arlene Martel was very reserved, but even she smiled and said that there were many stories she could tell about her work on "Demon with a Glass Hand," when she saw the screenshot of her and Robert Culp, and that glass hand. She didn't tell, but she was nice just the same.

[hedda_foil]

3. Wow!

Thank you for that, Omaha Steve. I didn't realize the post-Serling TZ episodes were that superb.

[DreamGypsy]

4. Wow. That took me back in time...

...to 1964, when I was twelve, and devoured every episode of The Twilight Zone and The Outer Limits. (Or perhaps I was devoured by them - I still have occasional nightmares involving skulls in Gothic helmets coming alive and speaking in strange languages. Yuck.)

Four years later my high school debate partner Greg, who was a senior while I was a sophomore, informed me of the tachistoscopic images constantly broadcast on TV that were subliminally converting me into a willing slave of the military industrial complex, so I abandoned television completely and never returned. Consequently, I completely missed things like the 80's Twilight Zone. I started reading H.P. Lovecraft and Herbert Marcuse instead.

The science/speculative fiction on television had an interesting aspect...it required one to accept a premise, and to think, actually think, about the consequences of the premise. Since I don't watch television, I have no idea whether there is an equivalent genre now.

Thanks, Omaha Steve, for the current memories that never were.

Sincerely, Dream Gypsy, from

[Warren DeMontague]

5. Wow, whatever band re-did that theme song, is GREAT!!!!!!

[Omaha Steve]

8. That Greatful Dead contract is for sale on E-bay

Slick way to get all their autographs. But very high pricey !

http://www.ebay.com/itm/GRATEFUL-DEAD-HAND-SIGNED-CONTRACT-FOR-THE-TV-SHOW-TWILIGHT-ZONE-VERY-RARE-/251384059905?_trksid=p2054897.l4275

[newfie11]

7. That was great

Thanks for posting.

[Omaha Steve]

9. Tech info on this episode

This episode was shot the size of TV screens in the 80's. The picture was about 1/3 wider than is was tall. That is often refereed to as the academy format or 1.3. The episode as it appears on Youtube loses some of the top and the bottom of the picture. This makes the picture the 1.76 width of today's TV's, but you do lose over a third of the original picture this way. I would have preferred the black bars on the side of the picture.

Omaha Steve

[longship]

10. My download limit just reset and I had to watch this.

Thanks, OmahaSteve.

Indeed! That was a gem.
Another kick.