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the_man_you_fear
09-26-2007, 12:09 PM
I really like that show my personal favorite is probably "how to serve man" you know the one where aliens have those guys and theyre being all nice to them then find out that their book "how to serve man" is a cook book awsome episode.
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ferretchucker
09-26-2007, 12:25 PM
I think it was the twighlight zone where the troll went into the little girls room and tried suffocating her then the cat saved her. Or was that tales of the unexpected?
neverending
09-26-2007, 12:46 PM
Twilight Zone (the ORIGINAL series) is such a classic it's impossible to pick a favorite. Nearly every episode is so great- including the rarely shown hour long episodes. One of my favorite hour long episodes has a young Robert Duval as a reclusive guy who's in love with a tiny girl in a museum display.
Other favorites are the one with Buster Keaton as an inventor who creates a hat that takes him into the future, the one with Burgess Meredith as a bookworm who survives a nuclear holocaust, looking forward to spending the rest of time reading everything he can get his hands on- when he breaks his glasses.
And then of course, the all time classic with Shatner as the guy seeing the gremlins on the plane.....
the_man_you_fear
09-26-2007, 12:56 PM
I think it was the twighlight zone where the troll went into the little girls room and tried suffocating her then the cat saved her. Or was that tales of the unexpected?
your thinking of stephen kings "cats eye" good movie but it wasnt showing in the theater lotated in "the twilight zone" (as rod sterling would put it)
the_man_you_fear
09-26-2007, 12:58 PM
Twilight Zone (the ORIGINAL series) is such a classic it's impossible to pick a favorite. Nearly every episode is so great- including the rarely shown hour long episodes. One of my favorite hour long episodes has a young Robert Duval as a reclusive guy who's in love with a tiny girl in a museum display.
Other favorites are the one with Buster Keaton as an inventor who creates a hat that takes him into the future, the one with Burgess Meredith as a bookworm who survives a nuclear holocaust, looking forward to spending the rest of time reading everything he can get his hands on- when he breaks his glasses.
And then of course, the all time classic with Shatner as the guy seeing the gremlins on the plane.....
those are all great episodes what about "talking tina" thats a good one. you know the one with the evil doll "my name is talking tina and I dont like you"
Twilight Zone (the ORIGINAL series) is such a classic it's impossible to pick a favorite. Nearly every episode is so great- including the rarely shown hour long episodes. One of my favorite hour long episodes has a young Robert Duval as a reclusive guy who's in love with a tiny girl in a museum display.
Other favorites are the one with Buster Keaton as an inventor who creates a hat that takes him into the future, the one with Burgess Meredith as a bookworm who survives a nuclear holocaust, looking forward to spending the rest of time reading everything he can get his hands on- when he breaks his glasses.
And then of course, the all time classic with Shatner as the guy seeing the gremlins on the plane.....
Theres something on the wing.....some......thing......on the wing.
http://www.greenballoon.net/uploaded_images/shatner_twilight_zone-719871.jpg
neverending
09-26-2007, 02:05 PM
those are all great episodes what about "talking tina" thats a good one. you know the one with the evil doll "my name is talking tina and I dont like you"
Yep- great one! And of course Billy Mumy as the creepy little kid who talks to his dead grandma on the phone....
Yep- great one! And of course Billy Mumy as the creepy little kid who talks to his dead grandma on the phone....
That reminds of one that creeped me out as a tyke...not sure if it was Twilight Zone or Night Gallery...or hell it could have been "One Step Beyond"....damn we had some good TV "back in the day". Anyway it was about this old lady who would talk on the phone to her dead husband......I believe it was her son who just figured it was her way of coping. Turns out he goes to the grave site and a storm had knocked a phone line down ......the line was going into the grave.
creepy stuff when your a little kid.
neverending
09-26-2007, 03:01 PM
That reminds of one that creeped me out as a tyke...not sure if it was Twilight Zone or Night Gallery...or hell it could have been "One Step Beyond"....damn we had some good TV "back in the day". Anyway it was about this old lady who would talk on the phone to her dead husband......I believe it was her son who just figured it was her way of coping. Turns out he goes to the grave site and a storm had knocked a phone line down ......the line was going into the grave.
creepy stuff when your a little kid.
I remember that one! I'm remembering that in color, so I'm thinking it might have been Night Gallery...
the_man_you_fear
09-26-2007, 05:06 PM
was it on the the twilight zone where there was that kid who could start fires with his mind or am I trippin?
I remember that one! I'm remembering that in color, so I'm thinking it might have been Night Gallery...
Did a bit of research...it was Twilight Zone,
Season 5
139. Night Call
First aired: 2/7/1964
Mysterious phone calls haunt a disabled woman.
Writer: Richard Matheson
Director: Jacques Tourneur
Guest star: Gladys Cooper (Elva Keene), Nora Marlowe (Margaret Phillips), Martine Bartlett (Miss Finch)
got some of my facts wrong...hey..it was a looooong time ago
Opening narration:
Miss Elva Keene lives alone on the outskirts of London Flats, a tiny rural community in Maine. Up until now, the pattern of Miss Keene's existence has been that of lying in her bed or sitting in her wheelchair reading books, listening to a radio, eating, napping, taking medication—and waiting for something different to happen. Miss Keene doesn't know it yet, but her period of waiting has just ended, for something different is about to happen to her, has in fact already begun to happen, via two most unaccountable telephone calls in the middle of a stormy night, telephone calls routed directly through—the Twilight Zone.
An elderly, wheelchair-bound lady named Elva Keene receives strange anonymous phone calls. At first the caller says nothing, and all that can be heard is static. In subsequent calls, he can be heard moaning. After several calls, Elva says repeatedly, "Hello? Hello?" The caller finally says slowly, garbled, and weakly, "Hello?". Elva demands to know who is calling, but the only response is "Hello?" Finally the caller manages to get out the words, “Where are you? I want to talk to you.”
Elva has had enough and screams at the man to leave her alone. There are no more calls and the phone company traces the source to a fallen telephone line.
Elva and her housekeeper visit the location of the line given by the telephone operator. To the astonishment of both, they find themselves at a cemetery, and they find that the line is resting on the grave of Elva’s fiancé, Brian Douglas. Elva says that she always insisted upon having her own way, and Bryan always did what she said. A week before they were to be married, she insisted upon driving, and lost control of the car. The accident left Brian dead, and her, a lonely cripple. Now she can talk to him again, she won't have to be alone.
At home, she picks up the phone and calls out to Brian. She pleads with him to answer so that she can talk to him. He replies that she has told him to leave her alone, and that he always does what she says. And then the line goes dead.
Closing narration:
According to the Bible, God created the heavens and the Earth. It is man's preogative—and woman's—to create their own particular and private hell. Case in point, Miss Elva Keene, who in every sense has made her own bed and now must lie in it; sadder, but wiser, by dint of a rather painful lesson in responsibility, transmitted from the Twilight Zone.
neverending
09-26-2007, 06:15 PM
Yah- that was a great episode. And Jaques Tourneur directing! Richard Matheson wrote a lot of the Twilight Zone episodes. One of the best horror writers ever.
the_man_you_fear
09-26-2007, 10:09 PM
does anyone like the outer limits there were a few good episopes
neverending
09-26-2007, 10:41 PM
The original series - yes. Just as classic as The Twilight Zone!
Marya Zaleska
09-27-2007, 07:25 PM
The original series - yes. Just as classic as The Twilight Zone!
I agree fully. The ORIGINAL series!
Marya Zaleska
09-27-2007, 07:41 PM
This was one of the classics of TV. The mold was broken with this series.
Like Neverending, it is really hard to pick a favorite.
But some of my favorite episodes were:
Walking Distance
One For the Angels ( a great dramatic performance by Ed Wynn, The Perfect Fool)
A Stop At Willoughby
Long Live Walter Jameson
The Monsters Are Due On Maple Street
The Hitchhiker
Time Enough At Last
Dust
The Invaders
Kick The Can
Static
To Serve Man
The Hunt
I Sing The Body Electric
Miniature
The Incredible World of Horace Ford
Passage On The Lady Anne
On Thursday We Leave For Home
Night Call
Nightmare at 20,000 Feet
I just recently purchased the first season on DVD. I am in the process of watching it now. It's very expensive so I will have to get them over a period of time.
Rod Serling was great! This series was great!
We have to be thankful that this series was saved on film for future generations.
Marya
the_man_you_fear
09-27-2007, 07:58 PM
how much did that cost?
Marya Zaleska
09-27-2007, 08:01 PM
how much did that cost?
$99.
I have seen them on sale at Columbia House as low as $79
the_man_you_fear
09-27-2007, 08:02 PM
fuckin aye that is expensive
Despare
09-27-2007, 08:07 PM
The Jeopardy Room was a good one... there were soooooo many great episodes it would be difficult to pick even a top 5.