TWILIGHT ZONE MARATHON...

Louis Cypher · 12-31-2005, 04:04 PM

on the SCI-FI channel as I type...it's on for almost two straight days!

My 3 favorites:

*the guy has his laranyx taken out in order to win a bet

*Buddy Ebsen has magical powers and he and his buddy Ace Larson head to Vegas

*William Shatner sees a monster on the wing of the plane

TRUE CLASSICS!

LC

The Actuary · 12-31-2005, 04:09 PM

Gotta love the one where they head to the track with the camera that takes pics of the future.

alysheba88 · 12-31-2005, 04:14 PM

Favorite show ever made. Still holds up over time. Rod Serling and his writing team were geniuses.

Flipping between that, TVG and the football game. Wife is at the mall to boot, lol.

Too many great episodes to name.

Triplecrown · 12-31-2005, 04:18 PM

get netflix and one can see the twilight zone at their leisure.

alysheba88 · 12-31-2005, 04:33 PM

TC, I love Netflix but not the same as watching a free marathon

Louis Cypher · 12-31-2005, 04:38 PM

Forgot another one of my favorites.

TITLE: The Howling Man

It's the story of David Ellington, who, while on a walking tour of Europe in the 1930s, is forced to take shelter in a non-religious monastery. Despite the warnings of Brother Jerome (John Carradine), Ellington takes pity on the bearded, wild-eyed "howling man" who is locked in a basement cell. All hell breaks loose (literally!) when the foolhardy Ellington releases the prisoner.

LC

Banned4Life · 12-31-2005, 04:58 PM

I liked the one where these guys stole a bunch of gold, and freeze themselves for 100 years. They all end up dead and it turns out that gold became worthless while they were asleep.

Then there's the one where Peter Falk plays the role of Fidel Castro.

alysheba88 · 12-31-2005, 05:03 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by: Louis Cypher
Forgot another one of my favorites.

TITLE: The Howling Man

It's the story of David Ellington, who, while on a walking tour of Europe in the 1930s, is forced to take shelter in a non-religious monastery. Despite the warnings of Brother Jerome (John Carradine), Ellington takes pity on the bearded, wild-eyed "howling man" who is locked in a basement cell. All hell breaks loose (literally!) when the foolhardy Ellington releases the prisoner.

LC

Definitely a classic.

alysheba88 · 12-31-2005, 05:06 PM

The Jack Klugman pool champ is a great one

Loman · 12-31-2005, 05:35 PM

To Serve Man.

Loman · 12-31-2005, 05:36 PM

The Monsters are Due on Maple Street.

Loman · 12-31-2005, 05:39 PM

The Hitchhiker.

FIREHORN · 12-31-2005, 07:10 PM

Freeman Freeman Freeman. The one where the man plays the slot machine for over 24 or more hours and ends up seeing it taunting him and falls out the hotel window.

FIREHORN · 12-31-2005, 07:11 PM

1 more, TALKY TINA, where the doll ends up making Telly (Kojack) die.

Louis Cypher · 12-31-2005, 07:11 PM

FIREHORN,

Also a great one...but the machine was saying "Franklin."

Have a good one.

LC

FIREHORN · 12-31-2005, 07:20 PM

Thanks LC, Franklin...Franklin.....Franklin...

ChuckyTheGoat · 12-31-2005, 07:50 PM

I like the one where Burgess Meredith survives Armageddon. He's all alone to read his books, but he smashes his glasses. Whoops.

Crony · 12-31-2005, 08:35 PM

Great series.
Every episode summarized here:

http://www.scifilm.org/tv/tz/

A lot of great episodes.
To Serve Man.

Also like the Mask:

http://www.scifilm.org/tv/tz/twilightzone5-25.html

A dying man named Jason Foster (Robert Keith in a powerful performance) faced with greedy heirs, waiting like vultures to pick clean the bones of his life's earnings, forces them all to wear masks reflective of their true inner selves at a very special Mardi Gras party or else be denied their inheritance.

This "Twilight Zone" focuses on a topic all too real. It's something I myself have seen. Families fighting over a loved one's possessions after their death as though these things were ever as important as or could ever replace those who have been lost. That this reality has happened in life there can be no doubt but rarely in real life is justice meted out quite as effectively (if at all) as it is in this particular episode. A jarring and shocking ending, this one ends in a potent and ,I'm sure to those who think it goes perhaps a bit too far, controversial fashion.

The memorable masks used here were created by William Tuttle who also provided the faces of the "normals" in "The Eye of the Beholder" and designed the gremlin which appeared in "Nightmare at 20,000 Feet".

Minnow · 12-31-2005, 09:04 PM

Loved the camera that took future pics, and the watch that caused suspended animation.