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dawsongirl

02-24-2002, 10:53 PM

Oh lots.

I suppose my favorite is "Mirror Image." One because it's a very interesting plot, and second because Marty Milner's in it. ;)

I also like "A Game of Pool," "You Drive," "The After Hours," the one with the Talkie Tina doll (My name is Talkie Tina and I don't like you!), and "The Dummy."

DarleneIllyria

02-25-2002, 07:01 PM

I love TZ, so I've got a very long list

A Stopover in a Small Town
Willoboughy (?)
The episode with William Shatner with the fortune telling machine
The Masks (FREAKY ENDING!!!)
Will the Real Martian Please Stand Up? (another freaky ending)

I have a few more favorites, but they've slipped my mind for now. I've got a question though. You know that TZ movie they made in the 80s? Why did they choose the least scary plot lines for the stories?

1st story- The two guys in the car and one turns out to be a monster- (best one out of the story's they used)
2nd story- The bigot episode- He gets thrown into time, and they think he is a nazi or something
3rd story- Kick the Can- The elderly get turned into youngsters again
4th story- Billy- The kid that controls the whole town
5th story- ?- The man goes crazy on an airplane- (2nd best one)

I've summed it up that they probably couldn't get the rights to the better episodes, but that explanation doesn't make any sense either.

Penny Lane

02-25-2002, 08:18 PM

I like the one about the hitch hiker. very creepy.

And also the one where the little girl falls into the wall into the 4th dimension and her dad has to get her out!:eek:

And the airplane episode with the creature on the wing. William Shatner was in that one too!

So many good ones! so little space!:(

mamamiasweetpeaches

02-27-2002, 12:13 AM

#1 Talking Tina with Telly Savalas
#2 "Thats a good thing you did Anthony"Lil bad-ass kid turns uncle into Jack in the Box
#3 William Shatner fortune machine.
p.s:William Shatner was a bit of a honey back then!!

dawsongirl

02-27-2002, 10:15 PM

Originally posted by Jenny

3rd story- Kick the Can- The elderly get turned into youngsters again

You're right. That's not scary. :confused:

TJL

02-27-2002, 11:05 PM

Two words:
Shatner episodes!

DarleneIllyria

03-14-2002, 07:00 PM

Okay so I won't get mixed up- I'll post the ones I've already mentioned --------->

A Stopover in a Small Town
Willoboughy (?)
The episode with William Shatner with the fortune telling machine
The Masks (FREAKY ENDING!!!)
Will the Real Martian Please Stand Up? (another freaky ending)

New Additions:

Where is Everybody?
Walking Distance
The Fever- (the man gets addicted to a slot machine- WATCH THIS EPISODE! It is so freaky!!!)
Time Enought At Last
The Monsters are Due on Maple Street- This episode rocked!!! The whole episode is crazy!
The After Hours (the mannequin episode)
A World of His Own- This episode was cool :)
The Silence- Oh my stars....I loved the ending of this episode too. It had such a shock value. One man loses his rich reputation and the other man cut out his vocal cords. Totally cool ending
To Serve Man- Don't get on the ship! It's a cookbook!
The Little People
The Dummy- Look at Sgt. Carter (Frank Sutton) on this episode
Jess-belle-
The New Exhibit
Living Doll-
A Kind of Stop Watch
Uncle Simon- This episode is so cool. It has a great shock ending. ;)
Queen of the Nile- Has downright weird ending....

Well, I think that's all of my fave episodes.

dawsongirl

03-18-2002, 09:54 PM

You're right Jenny. The Fever IS freaky!! :eek:

sami dg

03-19-2002, 10:10 AM

I dont know the name of it but I like the one where the old man that runs the store is always telling tall tales and aliens from outer space think that he is the smartest person on earth because he is always talking about his life experiences so they abduct him thats a cool episode.

Central Perk

03-24-2002, 05:08 PM

The Monsters are Due on Maple Street.

By The Way Rod Serling is from my city.

Brian

03-24-2002, 06:36 PM

Originally posted by sami dg
I dont know the name of it but I like the one where the old man that runs the store is always telling tall tales and aliens from outer space think that he is the smartest person on earth because he is always talking about his life experiences so they abduct him thats a cool episode.

I believe that episode was "Hocus Pocus and Frisby" starring Andy Devine as Frisby. I have it on tape.

Here are my favorites:

A Nice Place to Visit (Sebastion Cabot from Family Affair appears in this episode

The Invaders (Agnes Moorehead doesn't talk at all in this episode but she is good.)

The Prime Mover (I just love Buddy Ebsen as the man with telekinetic powers)

The Mirror (Columbo plays a dictator who sees his assassins in a mirror. Just kidding but Peter Falk is great in this episode as the dictator.)

The Grave (Great spooky episode set in the old west)

Five Characters in Search of an Exit (starring William Windom as the prone-to-hysteria major. The ending is cool)

Hocus Pocus and Frisby (Andy Devine fits the title role like a glove)

The Last Night of a Jockey (Mickey Rooney stars in this brilliant episode)

Living Doll (stars Telly Savalas before his "Kojak" days)

The 7th is Made Up of Phantoms (my personal favorite episode)

Night Call (creepy episode but it has an unfair ending. But in the Twilight Zone, nothing is ever fair)

From Agnes With Love (Wally Cox, perhaps best known for providing the voice of Underdog in the popular 60s cartoon is good)

What's In the Box (great cast of old time actors)

Stopover in a Quiet Town (great ending)

Janice

03-25-2002, 06:20 PM

I don't know the name of the episode. It's the one with Billy Mumy terrorizing the town. If anyone, even his parents, so much as looked sideways at him, he'd turn them into a jack-in-the-box and banish them to the cornfield. Everyone just keeps yes-ing him to death.
Another one with Billy Mumy that was good was where he was walking around town with a real loaded gun....he thought it was a toy. It showed all the close calls as he points it at people and says bang bang, yet doesn't pull the trigger.

TV Guy

03-26-2002, 01:09 PM

Originally posted by JanLady617
Another one with Billy Mumy that was good was where he was walking around town with a real loaded gun....he thought it was a toy. It showed all the close calls as he points it at people and says bang bang, yet doesn't pull the trigger.
I believe this is actually an "Alfred Hitchcock Presents" episode called "Bang! You're Dead". It was on the original series, and then remade for the 1980s version. I've seen both, and they were great.

The "It's a Good Life" episode (boy with supernatural powers) was spoofed in one of the "Simpsons" Halloween specials, with Bart as the evil boy. "The Simpsons" also spoofed the classic "Nightmare at 20,000 Feet" episode (the one where the guy saw the gremlin on the wing of an airplane). If you haven't seen them before, they're worth keeping an eye out for -- very funny.

Janice

03-26-2002, 05:27 PM

Thanks TV Guy, for setting the record straight. I always confuse those shows. The Simpson's spoofs sound great.
Wonder whatever happened to Billy Mumy? Was his departure from acting voluntary or another sad case of a child actor unable to make the transition to adult actor? He was one hell of a talented child actor.
:)

TheLurkerKing

03-26-2002, 05:48 PM

My favorite episode? The one that someone has already mentioned. The one that scared me so much, when I first saw it as a child. The one that put me off of watching "The Twilight Zone" for years. My favorite: "Will the Real Martian Please Stand Up?"

17Mar59

04-09-2002, 10:18 PM

The Meredith Burgess episodes,especially Time Enough At Last
with it's ironically sad ending.
Also The Two with Elizabeth Montgomery and Charles Bronson,
and one with Orson Bean where his character gets fired and then
his guardian angel gives him the chance to relive the day differently but he only wants things to be the way they were;a
really sweet ending.

cablejockey

04-17-2002, 10:57 AM

I saw a documentary on Rod Serling last weekend on the Space Channel. It went into his life and realatively early death, how the show came about and the ideas behind certain Twilight Zone episodes. Anyone else see it?

Mysty Eyes

04-17-2002, 04:18 PM

Originally posted by JanLady617
Wonder whatever happened to Billy Mumy? Was his departure from acting voluntary or another sad case of a child actor unable to make the transition to adult actor? He was one hell of a talented child actor.
:)
I don't know what Bill Mumy is doing currently, but he co-starred on the sci-fi show Babylon 5 for several years as Lennier (sp).

Favorite TZ? Oh, probably too many to pick a favorite. Some that come to mind right now:

Time Enough At Last with Burgess Meredith
The Masks
To Serve Man
In the Eye of the Beholder (I think it's called) with Donna Douglas

DarleneIllyria

04-17-2002, 07:18 PM

Originally posted by cablejockey
I saw a documentary on Rod Serling last weekend on the Space Channel. It went into his life and realatively early death, how the show came about and the ideas behind certain Twilight Zone episodes. Anyone else see it?

Crap, I don't get the Space Channel. ----! Why does my cable company suck? If a Serling special comes on any spanish channel-let me know- I have 4 spanish channels- don't speak a word of spanish but the cable co. just keeps adding the sucky stations. :(

Kitt

09-10-2002, 12:10 AM

Bill Mumy has a website, Bill Mumy.com. He is and has been doing quite well. he has continued to act. He's done voice overs for commercials and for cartoons and, he's in a band. The site tells where and when they'll be playing.

fonzyfvr

09-10-2002, 10:46 PM

I loved The TZ, can't wait to see the new series this season.

Here are my favorites

Eye of the Beholder
Five Characters in Search of an Exit
The Masks
The Hitchhiker
William Shatner episodes, and I agree he was fine as hell back then
Time Enough at Last
Where is Everybody?
To Serve Man
The Tina Doll one, how funny! My name is Tina and I like you, my name is Tina and I don't think I like you, my name is Tina and I'm going to kill you!:lol:
The girl in the Wall one

I have so many favorites but that's just a few!

Barnabas1

11-16-2002, 08:37 AM

tHE tALKING tINA EPISODE!:cool: Don't know the star though, but she was going to kill him!:eek:

Mijada

11-17-2002, 02:06 PM

Living Doll
Walking Distance
Stopover in a Quiet Town

Kristina

11-29-2002, 11:32 PM

"Long Live Walter Jameson" that episode was such a mindblower, I just watched it a few nights ago and bought some DVD's today and one had that episode on it. Its so weird, the end where he collapsed and finally started aging was so freaky and when they found him he was just dust. I also like "The Incredible World of Horace Ford" that was also pretty weird, nobody believed him about him seeing his childhood friends that one creeped me out.

DarleneIllyria

11-30-2002, 12:07 AM

Originally posted by Avril Lavigne
"Long Live Walter Jameson" that episode was such a mindblower, I just watched it a few nights ago and bought some DVD's today and one had that episode on it. Its so weird, the end where he collapsed and finally started aging was so freaky and when they found him he was just dust. I also like "The Incredible World of Horace Ford" that was also pretty weird, nobody believed him about him seeing his childhood friends that one creeped me out.

Oh yeah, Walter Jameson is an excellent episode. Have you seen Queen of the Nile yet? It has similar special effects, but it's another cool episode.

Barnabas1

12-08-2002, 03:03 PM

Ian

12-20-2002, 04:17 AM

I haven't read through the other posts so excuse me if someone mentioned this before. My favorite was the one where the guy stops time with the stopwatch, I'm not sure of the show title.

mister bluster

12-31-2002, 12:57 AM

The fortune-telling machine.

Janice

01-02-2003, 01:42 AM

I watched a lot of the TZ New Year's Eve Marathon on Sci-Fi, and I really enjoyed it. I'm not good with the names of episodes but they showed the best ones.
William Shatner on the plane with the monster on the wing--oh my God....it was both hilarious and scary. I know they put that one in the TZ movie. Was it John Lithgow?
Agnes Moorehead beating off the robot things was another good one. She looked like she fought in a war at the end of that one.
I think my all-time favorite is the one with Billy Mumy as the boy who terrorizes everyone in town by bullying them, then turning them into Jack-in-the boxes and sending them into the cornfield. Even his own parents were afraid of him. Cloris Leachman as his mother was so young and pretty.

DarleneIllyria

01-02-2003, 01:50 AM

Originally posted by Janice
I watched a lot of the TZ New Year's Eve Marathon on Sci-Fi, and I really enjoyed it. I'm not good with the names of episodes but they showed the best ones.
William Shatner on the plane with the monster on the wing--oh my God....it was both hilarious and scary. I know they put that one in the TZ movie. Was it John Lithgow?
Agnes Moorehead beating off the robot things was another good one. She looked like she fought in a war at the end of that one.
I think my all-time favorite is the one with Billy Mumy as the boy who terrorizes everyone in town by bullying them, then turning them into Jack-in-the boxes and sending them into the cornfield. Even his own parents were afraid of him. Cloris Leachman as his mother was so young and pretty.

Yeah, Nightmare @ 20,000 feet was part of the TZ movie. John Lithgow was playing the main character in it. I like that ep too.

Now that Agnes Moorehead episode proves one thing, you don't have to have people talking all over the place in order to have entertainment.

I love that Billy Mumy episode. I think that's my favorite episode with Billy.

Did I mention 'To Serve Man'? It's a Cookbook! That one has such a creative ending.

Christopher

01-09-2003, 02:46 AM

I haven't seen that many episodes of TZ but I really like Printer's Devil and Dr. & The Nurse. Those 2 are really interesting.

I have to thank Jenny for telling me about Printer's Devil, I never would have watched it if she never told me Penguin from Batman was in it. :)

DarleneIllyria

01-09-2003, 02:52 AM

Originally posted by Silver Daze
I haven't seen that many episodes of TZ but I really like Printer's Devil and Dr. & The Nurse. Those 2 are really interesting.

I have to thank Jenny for telling me about Printer's Devil, I never would have watched it if she never told me Penguin from Batman was in it. :)

Your welcome, Chris. :)

douglasjc

05-25-2003, 03:21 PM

I have to the say the most favorite episodes from the TZ are these:

1960s Verison:

1. Monsters are due on Maple Street
2. Deathhead's revisited; About the ex-Nazi who visits the Concentration camp he ran.

3. Beauty is in the Eye of the Beholder

4. To Serve Man: about ALiens who come to earth whose sole purpose to have man for dinner

5. All the Time in the World: about a weak little man who only wants to read but no else will allow him until he is the only person left after a Nuclear War.

6.The Masks: an old man makes his dysfunctional relative put on masks to that reveal their personalities.

7. The epsiode about the child Billy that has powers to manipulate people and the environment. Classic scene was when he turned a man into a Jack in the Box

DickSolomonFan

06-04-2003, 12:49 AM

Oh, that explains the joke in 3rd Rock where his character goes wiggy on the airplane and yells, "What's that on the wing?!"

(Speaking of William Shatner, he wasn't chopped liver in Star Trek either. Oops, I hope I'm not too far off the subject.)

Tyler77

06-21-2003, 08:44 PM

"Spur of the Moment": It's shock value is more psychological than visual. The actress who played the mother on "Eight Is Enough" played a young woman who was about to marry a young man that was pretty much an arranged marriage by her well to do parents. She always encounters a woman dressed in black when she goes horseback riding, and the woman was always screaming "Wait, wait" as she tried to get away from her. Turns out that the woman was actually HERSELF warning her not to marry him because he'd turn out to be an abusive husband.

Celestia

07-16-2003, 06:59 AM

Can't rember what the is, But its the one when the couple had a few drinks and when they were driving home They ended up in Centerville. Where they found that stuffed squirl, and they kept hearing that laughing? Doe anybody remember the name of the ep? Its my all time Favorite!!!:wave: :crazy: :lol:

DarleneIllyria

07-16-2003, 02:28 PM

Originally posted by Celestia
Can't rember what the is, But its the one when the couple had a few drinks and when they were driving home They ended up in Centerville. Where they found that stuffed squirl, and they kept hearing that laughing? Doe anybody remember the name of the ep? Its my all time Favorite!!!:wave: :crazy: :lol:

Stopover in a Quiet Town, I believe is the name of it.

dandelion wine

07-23-2003, 05:41 PM

The After Hours, Night Call, and Living Doll are my top favorites.

damin mance

08-26-2003, 02:28 PM

is a hole alot i like

its a good life
the mask
the fever
death ship
what you need

Zoneboy

08-27-2003, 12:42 AM

Originally posted by douglasjc
I have to the say the most favorite episodes from the TZ are these:

1960s Verison:

1. Monsters are due on Maple Street
2. Deathhead's revisited; About the ex-Nazi who visits the Concentration camp he ran.

3. Beauty is in the Eye of the Beholder

4. To Serve Man: about ALiens who come to earth whose sole purpose to have man for dinner

5. All the Time in the World: about a weak little man who only wants to read but no else will allow him until he is the only person left after a Nuclear War.

6.The Masks: an old man makes his dysfunctional relative put on masks to that reveal their personalities.

7. The epsiode about the child Billy that has powers to manipulate people and the environment. Classic scene was when he turned a man into a Jack in the Box

#3-That's The Eye Of The Beholder
#4.-Was it necessary to give away the ending?
#5-That's Time Enough At last
#7-That was Anthony (Fremont) not Billy