Twilight Zone marathon--have you seen your favorite episode?

[bliss_eternal]

:hi:

I LOVE Twilight Zone marathons! Just saw one of my favorite episodes, the kid with psychic, mind reading ability who is holding the entire town hostage. Oh and the episode with Robert Duvall as a shy, lonely man that falls in love with a miniature doll in a doll house.

Hoping to see more of the ones I love--have you seen your's yet? Which are your favorites?

[amitten]

1. I remember watching the one where the world melts from the

sun becoming way too hot or something. I remember that people fought over liquids, and that an oil painting started to melt. I also remember thinking, (I was only 12, don't know where I got it) "That's how the world's going to end."

That was before anyone started talking about global warming...when I found out that global warming was happening, I got freaked out.

[Left Is Write]

4. "The Midnight Sun"

That's a really good one.

[bliss_eternal]

5. It's a scary prospect, isn't it?

:scared:

[amitten]

7. Yeah, especially when it's 80 degrees in December. For weeks

at a time. When it's supposed to be about 60.

Well, I guess it's time to just get used to it.

[bliss_eternal]

11. Oh no--

that sounds awful. We have rain right now--so happy about that. Hasn't rained for New Years for at least a few years, so I'm enjoying it.

Sorry about the heat!

[EstimatedProphet]

2. One of mine is on right now

Agnes Moorhead is tormented by a UFO that turns out to be from the US Air Force

[Left Is Write]

3. I have too many "favorites" to list...

But I saw "Eye Of The Beholder" this morning, which certainly ranks right up there. "To Serve Man" is on again tonight at midnight eastern. I'm pretty sure "The 16 Millimeter Shrine" is on tonight too, and I'd put that in my top 5.

Yesterday, I caught "Probe 7 Over And Out", which I like. I wanted to watch "Death Ship" this morning, but got busy doing other things.

What I'd really like to see again is "22", but I didn't see it on the schedule.

Other favorites include "The Monsters Are Due On Maple Street", "Will The Real Martian Please Stand Up", "The Masks", "A Stop At Willoughby", "The After Hours", "Nick Of Time", and so many more!

I have the Twilight Zone collections 1 & 2 on DVD.

[NJ Democrats]

6. "To Serve man" was such a great episode.

That's my favorite.

[chaumont58]

18. I echo your thought

But, I'm old enough to remember it when it ran 'first-run.'

[xmas74]

33. The best eppie of all.

[bliss_eternal]

9. 22 was on this past week!

I was frustrated because I've never seen it all the way through and I missed it again. :(

A Thing About Machines and Nightmare for a Child are two of my favorites--saw those last night. There's so many others I'd like to see!

I should get the collections on DVD!

[Left Is Write]

12. I want to see Queen Of The Nile tonight too, but...

it's on at 2:46am my time and I don't have TiVO.

[bliss_eternal]

15. Bummer--

That's a cool one, looks like it's the last one for the night. :(

[Left Is Write]

20. I forgot to mention "The Last Flight."

A perennial favorite of mine since my early teens.

[u4ic]

25. Is Eye of the Beholder

the episode with the pig people?

I love that one! :bounce:

[Left Is Write]

27. It's the one with the woman in bandages...

having undergone a medical procedure to try to correct her hideous deformity.

[u4ic]

28. Yes, that's it!

All the medical staff are pig people. :hi:

[xmas74]

31. Twenty-Two is second to only

To Serve Man, IMO.

[swimboy]

8. I like the one with Ed Wynn making a sales pitch to Death

to save the little girl. My brother and I thought the Bewitchin' Pool was freaky and the Talking Tina Doll scared and scarred him to this day.

[bliss_eternal]

10. I LOVE Talking Tina--

my brother and I adored that one! I can see how it scared you, though. It's always creepy when children's toys have a personality and talk. LOL!

The Bewitchin' Pool is freaky, but sweet, imo. I liked that it provided an escape for the kids. Their parents seemed like jerks--they were better off with GramT.

[Left Is Write]

13. Living Doll is on later - I can't remember what time.

[bliss_eternal]

16. Just past 9:00 p.m. west coast time...

Just found it on the schedule! :bounce: Can't wait!

[AllieB]

26. "Living Doll" is one of my favorites

"Nightmare at 20,000 Feet" was on last night, which is also one of my faves. It's very difficult to choose.

[swimboy]

14. Yes, some of the episodes are poignant.

I wish I had SciFi on cable so I could see these! :cry:

[YankeyMCC]

17. To difficult to choose a favorite

TW was so cutting edge it really highlights the lack of this sort of quality show on TV today. I'm not sure it would ever get on the air today if it were pitched for the first time.

I put the original Outer Limits in the same category. When they brought OL back a few years ago the modern version usually puts out anemic, underachieving episodes.

[bliss_eternal]

21. Doesn't it seem so ahead of it's time...?

...the Twilight Zone? I probably shouldn't say ahead of it's time, as I don't know if there's been such intelligent and incisive writing on television after or since this, unless of course you count the wonderful satiric show All in the Family.

It's wonderful work for any time! Still such a wonderful social commentary, in so many ways.

[Tom Joad]

19. Monstors are due on Maple Street. Opposing scapegoating.

"The Monsters are Due on Maple Street" was one of several that was a challange to McCarthyism still prevalent in the early 60's... damn still around right now in 21st centrury. (Where we scapegoat Arabs and Muslims)

Ending narration:
"The tools of conquest do not necessarily come with bombs and explosions and fallout. There are weapons that are simply thoughts, attitudes, prejudices, to be found only in the minds of men. For the record, prejudices can kill and suspicion can destroy, and a thoughtless, frightened search for a scapegoat has a fallout all of its own - for the children, and the children yet unborn. And the pity of it is that these things cannot be confined to the Twilight Zone."

Rod Serling was a very gifted person.

[bliss_eternal]

22. Yes he was--

I'm just sad his work didn't earn him the great fortune it so deserved. He sold the right to TZ for next to nothing, to his wife's eventual chagrin. It earned someone else millions later on... :(

I get WHY people try to reincarnate it with contemporary twists, but it just never seems to hold the same appeal.

[Love Bug]

23. They're great -- I've been watching off and on since yesterday, but

If I have to see that stupid man-eating-bugs-movie ad again I will SCREAM!!!!

[u4ic]

24. The Nazi sub commander

who has to relive the last moments on the ship he sank, every night for eternity.

That is a great one.

[robbedvoter]

29. The Good Life - Bill Mummy - new meaning as W

Someone posted here once that it applies to W's reign of terror - and it stuck in my mind when I watched today - perfect commentary. Absolute power/abject fear.
My fav is Time enough at last - didn't catch it though.

[xmas74]

30. Not on until midnight EST.

To Serve Man. I have to be at work at 5 so I don't think I'll stay up for it.

[ddeclue]

32. How about the one where George Bush gets reelected?

Oh no!! We're in an episode of the Twilight Zone!!

:yoiks: :hide:

Doug d.

[AlanAdam]

34. Could someone tell me ...

the name of the episode where the elderly teacher is about to shoot himself, but as he is in a classroom a group of his students who had died over the years appear and tell him how much they appreciate what they learned from him? I only saw the last ten minutes of it.

[Tom Joad]

35. The Changing of the Guard (episode #102)

http://www.tv.com/the-twilight-zone/the-changing-of-the-guard/episode/12687/summary.html

[merh]

36. Has Green fingers shown yet?

That one gives me the creeps.

How are you bliss_eternal? :hi:

[bliss_eternal]

43. Hi merh!

:hi: How are you? Happy New Year! I didn't see one of that title when I was watching. What's that one about?

[merh]

49. That's the one about the old lady that grows plants and loves

her flowers and she is attacked and killed. The killer buries her fingers and she comes back from her fingers with vines all over her to torment her killer. :scared:

I did see my favorite one this a.m., the one with the young Robert Redford as death. That is a true classic.

Have a great day. :hi:

[bliss_eternal]

53. We watched the Robert Redford one, too!

It's a great episode! I'm sorry I missed the one you described, it sounds really cool--I'll have to look for it in the future!

I'm watching the replay of the Rose Parade--just saw Justice O'Connor--kind of a bittersweet moment. Apparently this is the first time in the Parade's history they've had a woman president, and she elected to feature the only woman to serve on the Supreme Court in the parade. Very cool, but I hate that she's leaving us...

You have a great day, too merh!
:hi:

[Fox Mulder]

37. My favorite is the one titled "To Serve Man"

and I missed it. It was on at 11 pm central time. :(

[bliss_eternal]

47. To Serve Man is a popular choice

as favorite, it seems. I can see why. It's such a clever (and frightening) episode. :hi:

[EstimatedProphet]

38. There was one earlier that I talked about on the other thread

about the town absorbed by darkness from all the hatred. Powerful stuff.

[bliss_eternal]

44. I think I've seen that one before--

it is quite powerful and profound. When you think of when it was made--rather ahead of it's time as a social commentary on hatred, dontcha' think?

:hi:

[NMMNG]

39. Two of mine

I posted a thread about them here http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=105&topic_id=4522314&mesg_id=4522314

[bliss_eternal]

45. I haven't seen the episode you spoke of

but it sounds amazing! Really interesting to me the statements that were made on that show about the human condition.

Saw one earlier tonight about a future society (it was supposed to be the year 2000--lol) where at the age of 17 everyone is taken in for a surgery and made beautiful. One girl decides she doesn't want it done, and makes arguments about individuality. She asserts that when EVERYONE and EVERYTHING is beautiful nothing will be--as there won't be anything to contrast it, the world would all be the same.

At the beginning of the episode my husband jokingly said something about how their idea of what we would be like was so far off (he found it humourous that everyone was wearing leotards, tights and belts--that was future fashion apparently--lol). But as the episode progressed we agreed that it was so dead on, when you looked past the clothing. Think of all the plastic surgery going on within the mainstream now. There was a time that only the wealthy and the famous considered it--now many do. So much so that there are several tv shows based on it.

Scary when you think of how accurate the Twilight Zone is in ways.

[sasquatch]

40. What about the one where the sun never rose in this small town?

I didn't see that one and it's my personal favorite.

[EstimatedProphet]

41. That's the one I was talking about upthread

[EstimatedProphet]

42. The freeper that makes evil people short is on now

[bliss_eternal]

46. What was the gist of that one?

Sadly, I missed it. :(

[EstimatedProphet]

50. It's called "Four O'Clock"

There's a freeper that spends his days reporting on all the evil people of the Earth (evil as he sees it, anyway). His list is basically anyone who isn't him. He develops a way to turn evil people into 2 ft tall dwarves, and at 4 o'clock he does it-he becomes 2 feet tall.

[bliss_eternal]

52. Hahahhaha!

That's GOOD--glad everything he wanted to dish out, came right back to him!

Don't you wish some of the outcomes on TZ could happen in reality? That would be great! :hi:

[pinniped]

48. "Hi, my name is Talking Tina, and I'm going to !@#$ you."

Living Doll, not my favorite episode, but still cracks me up everytime it airs.

Telly's favorite torture devices:

- bench vise
- propane torch
- circular saw/sander

I dunno if they aired this one on the marathon, but it's the only episode that made my hair stand: The After Hours. I froze in fear when the elevator door opened and the mannequin was standing there.:scared:

The last episode is about to start right now on the west coast.

[flamingyouth]

51. Yes

:scared: