Posted on 05/11/2018 12:14:23 PM PDT by heterosupremacist
Always observed on May 11, National Twilight Zone Day is that mysterious day highlighted with eerie background music and unexplainable occurrences.
The television show The Twilight Zone was created, written and narrated by Rod Serling. It premiered on October 1, 1959. The episodes were wildly popular, stretched the imagination, and captivated viewers. The show aired from 1959-1964.
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I googled Rod Serling - Wikipedia entry says in WWII Serling served in the 11th Airborne 5th division, 511 demolition platoon, known as “the Death Squad.”
I do watch Brit shows on PBS, but less than I used to, because their shows have gone waaaaaaaaaaaay downhill too.
And as far as cable shows go...it's been a long time for them too. The last one I watched was on STARZ, a while back, but as much as I enjoy anything with Ian McShane it...I did NOT care for that series at all.
You're right...watching old shows are a far better way to spend our time!
That show was aired, on Sci-Fi in their NEW YEAR’S EVE MARATHON, so you’re wrong.
It has the same theme as “The Logical Song” by Supertramp:
When I was young, it seemed that life was so wonderful
A miracle, oh it was beautiful, magical
And all the birds in the trees, well they’d be singing so happily
Joyfully, playfully watching me
But then they sent me away to teach me how to be sensible
Logical, responsible, practical
And they showed me a world where I could be so dependable
Clinical, intellectual, cynical
He was genius!
Back then, a season was 39 weeks and nobody else died "early from the strain". I'm not home, otherwise I would gab a book or two and see what I could add. If you'll send me a FRmail, I'll do so when I get home. :-)
You’re welcome and now I too want the boxed set! :-)
That one is in my top 5 too and i always cry at the ending; it’s heartbreaking; especially for someone like me, who has always been a rabid/avid reader.
I liked Lovejoy.
It was good for a few seasons. The first episode was awesome. Then it turned into some psychic show with that same actor every week, Gary Collins.
OTOH...the series on STARZ was not well written nor done, even with McShane having a prominent role; sadly.
Now that you mention Gary Collins, I think you are referring to the series The Sixth Sense.
Could have been a spinoff. He was in every NG after Serling died.
My favorite Twilight Zone episode is “Hocus Pocus & Frisby” starring Andy Devine and a wonderful cast of old timers. Frisby (Devine) is a teller of tall tales and when he gets captured by aliens and escapes, no one believes his story.
As I’ve gotten older I realize most Twilight Zone episodes don’t make sense.
It was one of my favorite shows when I was a kid, even from when I was too young to understand all the levels of meaning; and as the decades have gone by, I’ve seen more and more thoughtfulness in the scripts.
They just don’t make ‘TV’ like that, anymore.
That was one of the really creepy ones.
Cut my teeth on Alfred Hitchcock Presents ( that began in the mid '50s ), so when the TZ began,I was ready for it and have LOVED it ever since...liked Night Gallery too, though that wasn't as good.
And OUTER LIMITS was great too!
Though I was too young to see most of the earliest GOLDEN AGE OF T.V., I am very thankful that I was around for a lot of the late middle and end of it.
It devolved slowly, at first ...then picked up speed and went to hell in a handbasket. There hasn't been much of anything worthwhile, to watch on ANY of the 100s of channels we now get, in decades.
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