Posted on 12/31/2008 9:06:01 AM PST by ETL
There’s also a Clint Eastward marathon on AMC (American Movie Classics). It’s scheduled to run until 12 noon(ET) New Years Day. Immediately following the final Eastward film is The Magnificent Seven.
BTTT! Thanks for that info.
That one caught my wife totally off-guard, and it was right after some other episode that made her comment, "Why does it always seem like they're saying 'don't bother trying to be better than you are, be happy with you're current lot'?"
Actually, that's one thing that I hate about bad TZ ripoffs (and some of the poorer episodes): whether the main character lives or dies, thrives or is punished seems to be totally random, regardless of character or decisions or even any relevant moral.
Excellent episode! One of my favorites. But I would say it had a very sad twist ending.
Every time I'm on a commuter-type train like that (not often), I can't resist calling out "Willoughby...Next stop is Willoughby". It almost always gets a few laughs from the other passengers. I can't imagine what the rest might be thinking!
* "The Time Element" ..................................... 11/24/58 (Original Pilot Episode)
* "An Occurrence At Owl Creek Bridge" ... 2/28/64
* "The Encounter" ............................................ 5/1/64
NOW THAT SOUNDS LIKE SOME GOOD MOVIE WATCHIN THERE.....
Today's schedule:
http://www.scifi.com/schedulebot/index.php3
Tomorrow's schedule (Jan 1):
http://www.scifi.com/schedulebot/index.php3?date=1-JAN-2009&feed_req=
Did you check with the free online site? Be sure to check each of 3 seasons. Note that for each season, there are 2 pages.
http://www.cbs.com/classics/the_twilight_zone/
I’ve been scanning the SciFi marathon schedule for years and I never see these episodes listed.
I don't blame Shatner for shutting his eyes. That is one ugly son-of-#.
There could be a rights issue with that one. If I'm not mistaken, that was an independent show (foreign?), that Rod Serling licensed for use on the TZ. It wasn't reshot as a TZ episode, mind you. He used the original telecast.
Dang! I’d forgotten about this!
A fanatical lib, unfortunately, who wanted to ban ethnic slurs while removing the bans on swearing. Which of his shows would have been better with swearing?
No denying his writing talent, though.
Thanks for the heads up. However, I don’t have to watch it on Sci-Fi any more. I’ve got the complete boxed set so a TZ marathon is possible at anytime.
As an aside, I want to wish all FReepers a very happy and prosperous new year in 2009. That is despite of The Messiah taking the reins of the country for the next four years.
Yes, no question a lib-not unusual for Hollywood writers in the 1950s and 60’s. He was also a 1950 graduate of Antioch College.
As you said, “no denying his writing talent”. I wish we had more conservatives with those skills.
“Rodman Edward Serling was born in Syracuse, N.Y., on December 25, 1924, and grew up in Binghamton, the son of a wholesale meat dealer. By his own account, he had no early literary ambitions, though from an early age, he and his older brother, Robert, immersed themselves in movies and in such magazines as Astounding Stories and Weird Tales.
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.
After being discharged in 1946, Serling enrolled at Antioch College in Yellow Springs, Ohio, where he majored in Physical Education. He soon switched to Language and Literature, and began writing, directing and acting in weekly productions on a local radio station. While still a student, Serling sold his first three national radio scripts — and even his first television script, “Grady Everett for the People,” which he sold to the live half-hour anthology series Stars Over Hollywood (NBC 1950-51) for $100.
Serling married Carolyn Louise Kramer in 1948. After graduation, the pair moved to Cincinnati, where Serling became a staff writer for WLW radio and collected rejection slips for his freelance writing — 40 in a row at one point!
Serling’s fortunes changed when he began writing full-time. From 1951 to 1955, more than 70 of his television scripts were produced, garnering both critical and public acclaim. Full-scale success came on Wednesday, Jan. 12, 1955, with the live airing of his Kraft Television Theatre script “Patterns.” Deemed a “creative triumph” by critics, and the winner of the first of Serling’s six Emmy awards, the acclaimed production was actually remounted live to air a second time on Feb. 9, 1955 — an unprecedented event.
Serling went to work on screenplays for MGM and as a writer for CBS’ illustrious Playhouse 90, for which he crafted 90-minute dramas — including both the series’ 1956 debut, “Forbidden Area,” starring Charlton Heston, Vincent Price, Jackie Coogan and Tab Hunter; and the multiple-Emmy Award-winning “Requiem for a Heavyweight,” starring Jack Palance and Keenan Wynn that later was turned into both a feature film and a Broadway play. Remarkably, in a milieu that included such writing legends as Paddy Chayefsky and Reginald Rose, Serling took the writing Emmy again the following year for his Playhouse 90 script “The Comedian,” starring Mickey Rooney.
A critical and financial success, Serling shocked many of his fans in 1957 when he left Playhouse 90 to create a science-fiction series he called The Twilight Zone.
CBS would air 156 episodes of The Twilight Zone, an astonishing 92 of which were written by Serling, over the next five years. His writing earned him two more Emmy Awards. The show went on to become one of television’s most widely recognized and beloved series, and it has achieved a permanent place in American popular culture with its instantly recognizable opening, its theme music and its charismatic host, Serling himself. With early appearances by such performers as Robert Redford, Burt Reynolds, Dennis Hopper and many others, The Twilight Zone became a launching pad for some of Hollywood’s biggest stars.
After the production of The Twilight Zone ended in January 1964, Serling remained active in television and movies, winning an Emmy for his Bob Hope Presents The Chrysler Theatre adapted script “It’s Mental Work,” and hosting and writing episodes of the 1970-73 anthology series Rod Serling’s Night Gallery. There, his script “They’re Tearing Down Tim Riley’s Bar” earned an Emmy nomination as the year’s Outstanding Single Program. Serling returned to Antioch College as a professor and lectured at college campuses across the country. Politically active, Serling spoke out against the Vietnam War in the late ‘60s and early ‘70s.
Rod Serling died on June 28, 1975, in Rochester, N.Y., of complications arising from a coronary bypass operation.”
http://www.scifi.com/twilightzone/about/
I can't help but wonder if Rod Serling would condemn the Leftist conformity of today's media and academe or if he'd be as hypocritical as most liberals are.
I don’t know if he would be hypocritical or not but if anyone would condemn Leftist conformity it would be him.
I don’t know if he would be hypocritical or not but if anyone would condemn Leftist conformity it would be him.
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