Any other gazetters love this show?

It brings back fond childhood memories for me, I used to sneak downstairs late at night to watch it. I'm currently working my way through tons of episodes on alluc.org, there are so many I've never seen!

favourite episodes so far:

• An Occurence at Owl Creek
• Death Ship
• Eye of the Beholder
• Will the Real Martian Please Stand Up

Please use this thread to name your favourite episodes!

Theater Schmeater, a fringe theater group in Seattle bought the rights to ALL of the TZ scripts about 10 years ago. They present  several TZ Live shows (2 episodes each edition) a year. It's very solidly popular, their "cash cow".  I have several friends who have directed and/or acted in these shows...

I love this show, although I only see it every now and then. Thanks for the link... a lot of episodes there. My absolute favorite that I've seen has to be The Obselete Man. It's chilling... a sci-fi classic in it's own right. The ending is unforgettable... you should definitely check it out if you haven't seen it yet...

I always love talking about this show, which is in my top ten all time easy...

some of my faves...in mostly chronological order

1) Time Enough At Last - the one with Burgess Meredith and a lot of books..

2) The Monsters Are Due On Maple Street

3) A Stop At Willoughby

4) The Eye of the Beholder

5) A Hundred Yards Over The Rim - the one with Cliff Robertson

6) Five Characters in Search of an Exit

7) To Serve Man - "It's a cookbook!!"

8) The Little People

9) Nightmare at 20,000 Feet

10) Nothing in the Dark - featuring Robert Redford as Death

Occurence at Owl Creek and The Obsolete Man are both great episodes as well

Thanks LWAPOM...Obsolete man was great

Just watched 'Living Doll' and nearly wet myself - 'My name's talky tina and I'm going to kiiiill you!'

As the pompous Tim Robbins once opined when discussing some actor's work in Shakespeare in the Park, "His perf has informed my work ever after."  The Monsters Are Due on Maple Street was the perf that did the informing for me!

I watched them each week with my family like people did back then -- all of us together in the living room watching our one TV.  When they did the marathons on Thanksgiving, I would begin in the morning watching as I made my pecan pies and cranberry sauce.  Then everyone would watch into the evening after dinner was over.

Never bought the DVDs though.  I like the natural occurence when they're on TV.  Pretty sure the Science Fiction channel does a marathon at Halloween time.  

I'm Talking Tina and I don't like you!  Yes, all of them you've mentioned were great.  And how wonderful was the smoking Rod Serling.  How did he die again???  Oh well, smoke does look good on screen especially in B&W.

Not to be preachy (oh sure) but I just checked Wikipedia and found this:

Years of stress from heavy smoking and perfecting his craft took their toll on him in his final years. In 1975, the 50-year-old Serling suffered two severe heart attacks before entering Strong Memorial Hospital in Rochester for heart bypass surgery. He had a third heart attack during the operation and died the following day. 

Susan 

The short-lived new Twilight Zone in the mid-'80s was promising. The initial installment had Bruce Willis starring in an adaptation of Harlan Ellison's short story Shatterday. And The Grateful Dead (no foolin') did their own trippy take on the classic TZ Theme...

Then they restarted it again in 2002, with Forrest Whitaker hosting. Lasted one season. I watched the premiere, which was pretty generic. I was kinda excited when I heard about it, but it turned out to be not much. The first story starred Amber Tamblyn (Russ' daughter) as a troubled teen who's drugged by her parents and taken to a community where troublemakers are "recycled".

And now they're once again reinventing it as a radio serial, which sounds like a fantastic idea to me, though I wonder just how successful it will be.

What are opinions on the '83 movie? The opening and closing sequences are the ones that always stick out in my mind. The only segment I flat-out didn't care for was the kid with the magic powers, even as a kid I thought: this needs to be scarier!

What are opinions on the '83 movie? The opening and closing sequences are the ones that always stick out in my mind. The only segment I flat-out didn't care for was the kid with the magic powers, even as a kid I thought: this needs to be scarier!

That's the one you didn't like? Not the Spielberg one? I thought that was the stinker.
Other than that it was a really entertaining movie. There should be more anthology movies made.

Smokey, you list 'Time Enough At Last' as your numero uno, what do you think about this one? Do you think Bemis deserved his fate?

That's the one you didn't like? Not the Spielberg one? I thought that was the stinker.

It was cornball, to be sure. But the Dante-helmed Billy Mumy update was just disappointing. Seemed like he was going for the comedy/horror hybrid he more successfully managed with Gremlins, but it wasn't funny or scary enough.

Hey Roque,

Time Enough at Last is not my numero uno...I listed them in chronological order of their release...i don't think I could honestly pick a favorite out of those ten, but I will say I don't think Bemis deserved his fate, it is a really sad tale and fate that happened to him....

Thats exactly what i thought! Each episode seems to have a morality lesson and I was rooting for this poor guy who was bullied by everyone around him when all he wanted to to was read books. For this reason I was shocked when fate gave him a real 'kick in the stones' at the end.

 This is from a guy on imdb which may give an insight as to why the writer needed to give him that metaphorical kick :

'This only reinforces my suggestion that a person like Bemis was first seen as a negative member of society at the time: his immediate disregard of the newspaper article (the H-Bomb) suggests a broader lack of concern with current events and, hence, the real world...still too common among ardent bibliophiles. A fellow like this just couldn't function in the 50s your-neighbour's-your-buddy community, so he receives a comeuppance of a kind via his final, absolute isolation.'

I remember thinking that episode was unconvincing even as a teenager.  See I was very nearsighted and wore glasses too.  But one thing all nearsighted people know is that your close-up vision is excellent.  In fact I could thread a needle with absolute clarity without glasses.  Since he was an older gentleman perhaps we are to believe he was too far-sighted to read his books, since that condition tends to set in somewhere around forty years of age.  He could still read books by setting them at arms length, worse case scenario.  He could probably even locate a magnifying glass somewhere in the rubble.  I just never thought his dilemma was all that problematic.

Susan 

Wow. Great subject. Great show. Great lesson - Don't Smoke!

My two faves that I remember are;

One that Dennis Hopper starred in, as an American Hitler Youth type, whose mentor you only see in shadow and silhouette, and it is implied that it is Hitler.

Another with Mickey Rooney as a race horse jockey, who makes a deal with the devil, then starts growing larger and larger.

Don't know the names of either one, but they were great.

I remember thinking that episode was unconvincing even as a teenager. ...He could still read books by setting them at arms length, worse case scenario. He could probably even locate a magnifying glass somewhere in the rubble. I just never thought his dilemma was all that problematic.

You are entering the vicinity of an area adjacent to a location. The kind of place where there might be a monster, or some kind of weird mirror. These are just examples, it could be something much better. Prepare to enter... The Scary Door.

the hitch - hiker, long distance call, hocus pocus and frisby, the invaders, nick of time