Twilight Zone Marathon July 4th Sci-Fi Channel

[PrettySquareGal]

Every year I forgo the out-of-doors for the TZ marathon, although I do eat BBQed steak and lots of junk food while watching it.

Just letting people know about the Sci-Fi TZ marathon!

 

[PrettySquareGal]

Oops, I just found the thread from last year. Mods feel free to merge!

http://www.thefedoralounge.com/showthread.php?t=20963&highlight=twilight+zone

 

[Twitch]

Good. I'm just in the mood for that again!

 

[Feraud]

Looking forward to it. I was just thinking about the episode Dead Man's Shoes.

 

[PrettySquareGal]

What's fun for me is that I sometimes pretend that I am watching it back when it originally aired.

 

[John in Covina]

It's a COOK BOOK!

The Twilight Zone is almost always good. It gives one a real tweak on the nose for irony with the twist you did not see coming for the first time viewer. It was almost always a drama with themes of being trapped in a nightmarish situation but sometimes could have a happy ending. Often it was a morality play with some type of justice in the end too. Strangely, even if you know an episode by heart, you can still watch it and be thrilled by it.

Here in the LA area if you can get in open air channel 56 they show the Zone in the evenings sometimes and on weekends sometimes too. That's where I saw the episode "How to Serve Man" not too long ago.

Wish I had cable and Tivo!

 

[DutchIndo]

"To serve man" always bugged my friend. It was kind of disturbing with "Lurch" as the alien. The one episode that scared me as a kid was the one with Will Shatner on the plane. I always imagined that Gremlin outside my window at night. My all time favorite was with Agnes Moorehead. She played the old woman that had a flying saucer on her shack.

 

[MrBern]

this one was a heartbreaker

 

[EVEN-STEVEN]

Burgess Meredith was in two other episodes I can think of. One was where he played the devil as a linotype operator for a small town newspaper. Whatever he typed in the machine as news... a plane crash, etc.... came true the next day.

The other episode was set in a future totalitarian state... he was sentenced to die be cause he was "obsolete."

Great, great actor.

Anybody remember the episode Robert Redford did? As a blonde policeman who was actually the "angel of death"?

 

[Mike in Seattle]

William Shatner saw the gremlin on the wing in the TV original series. John Lithgow played the same part in the movie in version. Several years after the latter, John Lithgow is the lead on Third Rock from the Sun. Guest star William Shatner played the Big Giant Head. Shatner's arriving at the airport and came down the jet way saying, "There was something on the wing!" and Lithgow says "Oh my God! The same thing happened to me!" Hilarious!

 

[DutchIndo]

The gremlin episode was also spoofed on an episode of the Simpsons. Bart tried to convince "Otto man" that something was on the school bus. I like that episode with Burgess, as a voracious reader I can totally identify. Another great episode which is timely is the one where that guy built a bomb shelter. It showed the ugliness of man under stress. Who remembers the "Outer Limits" ? I am talking about the BW series I had to buy 1st and 2nd season on DVD. Also "One Step Beyond" another great series.

 

[Feraud]

The episodes never get old.
I saw a couple of episodes I had never seen before. Good stuff.

Why isn't Fear Itselfhttp://www.thefedoralounge.com/showthread.php?t=31009 trying to be more like TZ?
The episodes can use a healthy does of inspiration from the Zone.

 

[ScionPI2005]

Like many others here, I too have a fond admiration of TZ. I was in College Station Texas visiting family on the Fourth this year, and so we all settled down and watched some that evening.

I've also been known to occupy the tv during the same marathon for New Years.