Author Topic: The Twilight Zone (Read 4347 times)

Zardozimo Oprah Bannedalas · « **on:** March 28, 2008, 06:49:08 PM »

I expect most folks here grew up with this show (or reruns thereof). Those who did may very well have seen an episode that scared the living daylights out of 'em... at least for a while.
Wikipedia has a list of TZ episodes, and synopses for 'em:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_The_Twilight_Zone_episodes

What's the scariest episode you remember seeing?

Zardozimo Oprah Bannedalas · « **Reply #1 on:** March 28, 2008, 07:10:37 PM »

For myself, I think 'The Living Doll' tops the list. I still remember the line "My name is Talky Tina, and I am going to kill you" fifteen years after seeing it. Shook me up at the time.
Still, "It's a Good Life" had the highly disturbing image (at the time) of the kid turning a guy into a jack-in-the-box... pretty sure I had nightmares after that.

Uncle Bubba · « **Reply #2 on:** March 28, 2008, 10:10:56 PM »

I read through that list not long ago and surprised myself with how many episodes I remembered. I guess you could call it my scariest episode, but also the one that intrigued me the most, was the one when the little kid fell through the dimension hole (that no one could see) in the wall (behind his bed, wasn't it?). I didn't bump against any wall in our house for several days, but then I went around testing all of them to see if we had an escape hatch like that.

Silver Bullet · « **Reply #3 on:** March 29, 2008, 07:49:24 AM »

I rented a few old Twilight Zone episodes recently. They were okay, as the old Outer Limit shows. What I really liked were the newer Outer Limit shows done 1995-2002. Great story lines in many episodes.

Perd Hapley · « **Reply #4 on:** March 29, 2008, 05:41:08 PM »

CBS, and I think some other networks as well, have recently begun offering some of their series online. Here ya go.

http://www.cbs.com/classics/the_twilight_zone/video/video.php

K Frame · « **Reply #5 on:** March 29, 2008, 09:09:03 PM »

Two have always gotten to me...

The Monsters are due on Maple Street

The Hitch-Hiker.

MillCreek · « **Reply #6 on:** March 30, 2008, 04:13:34 AM »

Although it was not a scary episode, my favorite is "Time Enough At Last" starring Burgess Meredith. The story of a bookish man who survives a nuclear war and finally has time to read all his favorite books in the public library. But just as he begins to pull down a book from the shelf, he drops his glasses, they shatter, and he cannot see well enough to read. "It's not fair, It's not fair!" are the final lines of dialogue.

This was later parodied on Futurama as an episode of "The Scary Door".

Sergeant Bob · « **Reply #7 on:** March 30, 2008, 04:39:30 AM »

Quote from: MillCreek on March 30, 2008, 03:13:34 AM

Although it was not a scary episode, my favorite is "Time Enough At Last" starring Burgess Meredith. The story of a bookish man who survives a nuclear war and finally has time to read all his favorite books in the public library. But just as he begins to pull down a book from the shelf, he drops his glasses, they shatter, and he cannot see well enough to read. "It's not fair, It's not fair!" are the final lines of dialogue.

This was later parodied on Futurama as an episode of "The Scary Door".

That's probably my all time favorite too! My other favorite is "the Midnight Sun".

Quote from: Mike Irwin on March 29, 2008, 08:09:03 PM

Two have always gotten to me...

The Monsters are due on Maple Street

The Hitch-Hiker.

Those too! There are a bunch of them. Monsters was particularly interesting in that it explored how the power of suggestion affected the group dynamic of the neighborhood.

A lot of the Zone stories played on the quirks and irrational fears of people.

Mabs2 · « **Reply #8 on:** March 30, 2008, 05:50:33 AM »

I think I remember The Monsters are Due on Maple Street.
I seem to recall two that I enjoyed, but it's been so long...
One was a man finding himself alone in an old deserted town...was really rundown, can't remember much more than that. (Possibly "Where Is Everybody?")
Another was about a few bank robbers stealing a bunch of gold and going into suspended animation in a cave in the desert for a long time...when they woke up, half of them were dead and their car was broken. So they have to carry their heavy load of gold through the desert...and in the end it turns out that in the future, gold is worthless since science discovered a way to manufacture it. ("The Rip Van Winkle Caper")
I think I remember "A Most Unusual Camera" too.

Perd Hapley · « **Reply #9 on:** March 30, 2008, 06:02:59 AM »