View Full Version : "Twilight Zone" Marathon on Sci-Fi Channel
Sandy G 01-01-2008, 04:58 PM Yeah, I know, its about over, but to me, its a thousand times better than watching interminable parades, & endless phootball games that I have little or no interest in...."TZ" is head 'n' shoulders above 98% of the crapola on TV nowadays...
bordeno 01-01-2008, 06:46 PM Definitely....didn't get to see much of it this time. They do it every year. "Eye of the Beholder" is a classic.
Sandy G 01-01-2008, 07:02 PM That one still chills my shit, what-48 years later ?
doucanoe 01-01-2008, 07:02 PM I watched it for a couple of hours yesterday with my oldest daughter. I loved it but she was only moderately amused. She hung in there until we got to that Burgess Meredith episode where all he wanted to do was read.
RC
Luckyman 01-01-2008, 09:43 PM I'm waiting for it to resume in 20 minutes. Love that show!
75Center 01-01-2008, 09:46 PM I've been watching some of them, too. Interesting to see actors: Robert Redford, Agnes Moorehead, Telly Savalas much much younger.
sampson159 01-01-2008, 09:48 PM was then and still is MUST SEE TV! many great episodes and they still hit home almost 45-50 years later.charles bronson and elizabeth montgomery in "two" is my favorite.
jimfet 01-02-2008, 06:42 AM I watched it for a couple of hours yesterday with my oldest daughter. I loved it but she was only moderately amused. She hung in there until we got to that Burgess Meredith episode where all he wanted to do was read.
RC
I think Burgess was in about every other episode. I have been watching it on and off all day.
At the end when it shows who wrote the story. You would be amazed at how many Rod wrote himself.
Andyman 01-02-2008, 09:43 AM Was "To Serve Man" on? Or that one with Agnes Moorehead as the old woman with the spaceship on the roof??
Damn, there was more thought in one of those shows than a whole season worth of MTV programming these days.
Celadon 01-02-2008, 09:49 AM I just hope no one got "sent to the cornfield"
jonman 01-02-2008, 11:16 AM I just hope no one got "sent to the cornfield"
Unless he is a "Badman. he's a very badman"!!
bordeno 01-02-2008, 01:12 PM How 'bout that one with a very young William Shatner getting spooked by that future-predicting bobblehead devil thing in the booth of that restaurant?
Don't remember the name, but a chilling TZ.
gearhound 01-02-2008, 04:01 PM No car chases, no gushing blood, no nudity, no f-word.......
Can't be entertaining right?
Loved it!!
Steve
Sandy G 01-02-2008, 05:02 PM TZ would NEVER make it nowadays...They've tried a couple of times-It required the viewer to THINK, to use his/her imagination a bit. Which is something seemingly nobody really wants to do much of anymore...But look what wonders they're missing...WE know, the ones who have eat the show up for nigh on to 50 years now...Too bad today's people ain't gotta clue...
whoaru99 01-02-2008, 06:21 PM What a great program that was.
Andyman 01-02-2008, 06:37 PM Somedays I think we are living in the Twilight Zone right now.....................
Sandy G 01-02-2008, 07:10 PM ...If you lived in Sneedville, Tennessee, that statement WOULD be true, Andyman...
SSBN 618 01-02-2008, 10:59 PM $169.99 with free shipping - I think I'm going to get this
http://www.amazon.com/Twilight-Zone-Complete-Definitive-
Product Description
For the first time ever find all 156 complete episodes of Rod Serling's groundbreaking series in one box set packed with exciting extras! Travel to another dimension of sight and sound again and again through these stellar remastered high-definition film transfers.Extras include the fascinating Serling bio-documentary Submitted for Your Approval compelling interviews with the show's writers the series' unaired pilot audio commentaries with Martin Landau Leonard Nimoy Cliff Robertson and much much more!System Requirements:Running Time 4524 Mins.Format: DVD MOVIE Genre: TELEVISION/CLASSICS Rating: NR UPC: 014381247428 Manufacturer No: ID2474CUDVD
The Twilight Zone rules. One of my favorites was the one where that girl wandered into that other dimension through her bedroom wall and they could hear her in the house but they couldn't see her, she was sort of there but not, something about that idea always fascinated me. The one thing I miss about not having cable is those twilight zone marathons, and even before they had them on the sci fi channel, ch 20 up in the bay area where I lived used to show all night twilight zone marathons, it was a bit of a tradition for me, I had been staying up all night for them since I was 8 years old. I stayed up all night last night as I had to finish up an initial draft of my master's thesis. I was up all night last night and I went to bed at 5PM today, but I just woke up, it felt like I slept for days, I was sure it was almost dawn, but it's only 11:30PM, but I'm wide awake (I feel a bit like I'm in the twilight zone too), oh well, maybe I'll get some work done on my RCA 6T65 tonight, I've been so busy I haven't had any time to work on it for the last month or so.
One of my favorite episodes is a "comic" episode starring the immortal Buster Keaton as a put upon 1890s inventor who makes a time travelling hat that takes him to the present (1960s). He's been bored in his own time but the pace and change of the present made him realize that there is indeed "no place like home." It's a simple tale with little dialogue. It works for me because of Keaton, who was, quite simply, a comic genius and possibly the greatest physical comedian of all time.
bordeno 01-03-2008, 07:05 AM $169.99 with free shipping - I think I'm going to get this
http://www.amazon.com/Twilight-Zone-Complete-Definitive-
Product Description
For the first time ever find all 156 complete episodes of Rod Serling's groundbreaking series in one box set packed with exciting extras! Travel to another dimension of sight and sound again and again through these stellar remastered high-definition film transfers.Extras include the fascinating Serling bio-documentary Submitted for Your Approval compelling interviews with the show's writers the series' unaired pilot audio commentaries with Martin Landau Leonard Nimoy Cliff Robertson and much much more!System Requirements:Running Time 4524 Mins.Format: DVD MOVIE Genre: TELEVISION/CLASSICS Rating: NR UPC: 014381247428 Manufacturer No: ID2474CUDVD
Maybe its just me but TZ has some of the most beautiful black and white cinematography I've seen. Or maybe its just that this last marathon was the first time I've really seen b/w on the new TV. Great show..
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