Posted on 07/03/2008 5:37:08 AM PDT by ETL
Here is a schedule from the Sci-Fi Channel's website
(times listed are in Eastern/ET):
http://www.scifi.com/schedulebot/index.php3
Wish they’d run a Mystery Science Theater 3000 marathon. I miss that show.
Also look for every TOS Star Trek, MacGyver, Hawaii Five-O and lots of other old stuff.
Which one had Billy Mummy as the little kid who controlled his parents via telepathy ?
"One of television's most rightly revered series, The Twilight Zone (CBS, 1959-64) stands as the role model for TV anthologies. Its trenchant sci-fi/fantasy parables explore humanity's hopes, despairs, prides and prejudices in metaphoric ways conventional drama cannot.
Creator Rod Serling wrote the majority of the scripts, and produced those of such now-legendary writers as Richard Matheson and Charles Beaumont. The series featured such soon-to-be-famous actors as Robert Redford, William Shatner, Burt Reynolds, Robert Duvall, Dennis Hopper, Carol Burnett, James Coburn, Charles Bronson, Lee Marvin, Peter Falk and Bill Mumy, as well as such established stars as silent-film giant Buster Keaton, Art Carney, Mickey Rooney, Ida Lupino and John Carradine.
An often worthy revival series ran on CBS from 1985-87, and in first-run syndication in 1988. Another recently ran on UPN, which reunited Bill Mumy and Cloris Leachman in a sequel to the classic TZ chiller 'It's a Good Life.' But it's the daring original series that shows every sign of lasting the ages as the literature that it is."
Here's an episode description guide:
http://www.scifi.com/twilightzone/episodes/
It’s A Good Life
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xfGWvexg90w
My two favorite were the alien man on the plane wings with William Shatner looking out the plane window and the one with the woman having a series of plastic surgeries and you never see the face of the characters in the end, but the surgeries were supposed to make her have an ape-like face like the rest of the characters whom you finally see at the end - a real twist.
He controlled the whole town.
From season 3:
It's a Good Life
Writer: Rod Serling, based on the short story 'It's a Good Life' by Jerome Bixby
Director: James Sheldon
A six-year-old boy holds a town in terror with his powers to change or destroy anyone or anything at will. CAST: Billy Mumy, Cloris Leachman, Alice Frost, Jeanne Bates, Casey Adams, John Larch, Tom Botcher, Don Keefer, Lenore Kingston."
http://www.scifi.com/twilightzone/episodes/season03/
Big deal. CSPAN does it every day.
My favorite is the one with Burgess Meredith and the books, it was called “Time Enough At Last.”
Willoughby!
“Twilight Zone”! Sounds like this election cycle.
Yeah, that was a great one! Poor guy.
From Season 1:
Time Enough at Last
Writer: Rod Serling
Director: John Brahm
Nearsighted, meek bank clerk Henry Bernis is the sole survivor of an H-bomb attack. At last he has the time to engulf himself in his passion for books. Or so he thinks.
CAST: Burgess Meredith, Vaughn Taylor, Jacqueline de Wit, Lela Bliss.
http://www.scifi.com/twilightzone/episodes/
Two of my favorites had Mr. Meredith. My favorite was when he played the part of a teacher or librarian (memory fading...), and was told he was obsolete according to the state. Loved the ending.
You're right. Thanks!
“They should have taken the tank” - can’t remember if that one was OL or TZ.
The Outer Limits could be just creepy sometimes.
Loved them both.
I think they were pig-like.
Yes, you’re right-pig like. I was getting it confused with Planet of the Apes.
LOL! One of my favorites! Whenever I'm riding on a commuter train, which isn't very often, I can't help but call out "Willoughby!...next stop Willoughby!" Almost always gets a good laugh from the other passengers. (almost)
Unfortunately, it doesn't appear either that or the one with Burgess Meredith, (Time Enough At Last) will air during the marathon.
Schedule (times are in EASTERN):
http://www.scifi.com/schedulebot/index.php3
Ohh...that little Billy was a bad kid.
The Obsolete Man... Absolute classic (he was a librarian).
I got tired of the marathons years ago. They kept showing the same episodes over and over again. I knew that there had to be more of them somewhere ...
My first thought.
It was Twilight Zone, from season 5:
The 7th Is Made Up of Phantoms
Writer: Rod Serling
Director: Alan Crosland Jr.
During maneuvers near the site of Custer's Last Stand, three national guardsmen find themselves plunged into the Battle of Little Big Horn.
CAST: Ron Foster, Warren Oates, Randy Boone, Robert Bray, Wayne Mallory, Greg Morris, Jeffrey Morris, Jacque Shelton, Lew Brown.
http://www.scifi.com/twilightzone/episodes/season05/
ping to Papa
Rod Sterling was also a paratrooper during WWII I believe.
Rod Serling could never have dreamed such a nightmare like we have today!
Rod Serling
You're right.
"On the day he graduated from high school, Serling enlisted in the U.S. Army 11th Airborne Division paratroopers, and after basic training (during which time he took up boxing and won 17 out of 18 bouts) he was sent into combat in the Philippines and wounded by shrapnel."
YES! That was CLASSIC.
D’oh! I thought it started tomorrow!
On Audible.com (download audio books right to your computer and MP3 player) they have dramatized versions of a ton of episodes. Some B/C-level celebs do a lot of the characters, Blair Underwood, Jason Alexander, Lou Diamond Philips, Bruno Kirby, and Daniel J. Travani are a few of them.
They are really fun to listen to, sort of like old time radio shows.
But the one that haunted my entire childhood was the also-classic, with young neurotic William Shatner on a plane, seeing the gremlin on the wing.
It’s the scene where the gremlin looks up and sees him, so he snaps down the blind. He’s plastered to his seat in terror for a minute then, unable to resist, slowly reaches out to open the blind... reaches out... and... and....
AAAAAH! I can’t!!
I just signed up for Netflix a couple of weeks ago and was very pleasantly surprised to find they have if not all, then nearly all the MST3K episodes available to rent!
I'm one of the few people I know (makes sense?), that actually was a huge fan of Lost In Space. I loved that show. Used to laugh a lot at it and with it. "Oh...my aching back!" ... "The pain...the pain!" ... "You bumbling bionic birdbrain!"
Yes, it's terrible what's going on today. Even the cartoons are horrible (cheap, not funny at all, and just plain stupid). Hobbies ain't what they used to be (I loved building scale model cars and racing slots). Most of the sitcoms suck. Music, movies, etc, etc.
I want to see three episodes: The one with Robert Redford and the Little Old Lady, The Old Man and Dog Walking Down the Road and Kick The Can./Just Asking - seoul62.......
I know isn’t that great? I was thinking about buying them but they’re expensive....thank god for netflix.
He was in at least one other episode...
Mr. Dingle, the Strong
Writer: Rod Serling
Director: John Brehm
A timid little man is experimentally endowed with superhuman strength by a visiting Martian scientist.
CAST: Burgess Meredith, Don Rickles, James Westerfield, Edward Ryder, James Millhollin.
http://www.scifi.com/twilightzone/episodes/season02/
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They’ve been doing this every year for a long time.
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