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Twilight Zone Marathon on the SyFy Channel (1 Viewer)

Saw one today I've never seen before. The old man with the suitcase containing what "everyone needs."

Including slippery shoes. :shrug:

 
watched a few today. Good stuff

This is one of those shows that I feel like I have seen them all but I always see one I haven't during these marathons. Makes me feel like I am in the twilight zone.

 
I still remember when WPIX used to run the 30-hour marathons. I used to break out a pack of VHS tapes and get up every 6 hours or whatever to change 'em so I'd have 'em all.

This year, someone gave me the whole series on DVD. Never been happier. :unsure:

 
My favorite episode is being shown 3:30 Sunday morning: The Rip Van Winkle Caper

To escape the law after stealing $1 million worth of gold bricks, a band of four gold thieves, led by scientist-mastermind Farwell, hide in a secret cave in the desert. Farwell has designed suspended animation chambers and set them for 100 years, figuring that by 2061, nobody will remember the robbery and the gang will be in the clear. When they wake up, everything starts to go awry. One of the gang is already dead, a mere skeleton, because a rock had fallen and shattered his glass chamber. Greed soon begins consuming the others. Brooks demands that DeCruz drive the getaway car. DeCruz kills Brooks by running him over with the getaway truck, but then finds that the brakes do not work and barely escapes before the vehicle crashes into a ravine. Consequently Farwell and DeCruz must walk through the desert in summertime, carrying as much gold as they can.

Later, Farwell, who is older and somewhat obese, loses his canteen, and DeCruz forces him to ante up one gold bar for each sip of water. When the "fee" goes up to two bars, Farwell strikes DeCruz with the gold bricks, killing him. Farwell then continues to a highway, lugging the gold he refuses to abandon. Finally, weak and dehydrated, he collapses. A futuristic car drives up and Farwell offers his gold to the couple inside in exchange for water and a ride to the nearest town, but expires a few moments later.

As the man gets back into his car to report Farwell's death to the police, he quizzically remarks to his wife, "Can you imagine that? He offered this to me as if it was really worth something." The wife vaguely recalls that it had, indeed been valuable sometime in the distant past. The husband replies, "Sure, about a.... hundred years or so ago, before they found a way of manufacturing it," and tosses the gold bar away.
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Rip_Van_Winkle_Caper
 
Philo said:
I still remember when WPIX used to run the 30-hour marathons. I used to break out a pack of VHS tapes and get up every 6 hours or whatever to change 'em so I'd have 'em all.This year, someone gave me the whole series on DVD. Never been happier. :lmao:
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I've had them on tape since the 80s.Eye Of The Beholder is still the best TV show episode ever.
 
Raider Nation said:
My favorite episode is being shown 3:30 Sunday morning: The Rip Van Winkle Caper

To escape the law after stealing $1 million worth of gold bricks, a band of four gold thieves, led by scientist-mastermind Farwell, hide in a secret cave in the desert. Farwell has designed suspended animation chambers and set them for 100 years, figuring that by 2061, nobody will remember the robbery and the gang will be in the clear.
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Rip_Van_Winkle_Caper
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Great episode, however...It's been a long time since I'm seen it but I don't recall any of the characters being intelligent, let alone capable of creating suspended animation chambers.

And if you're able to build suspended animation chambers, why do you need to steal gold?

 
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cstu said:
Raider Nation said:
My favorite episode is being shown 3:30 Sunday morning: The Rip Van Winkle Caper

To escape the law after stealing $1 million worth of gold bricks, a band of four gold thieves, led by scientist-mastermind Farwell, hide in a secret cave in the desert. Farwell has designed suspended animation chambers and set them for 100 years, figuring that by 2061, nobody will remember the robbery and the gang will be in the clear.
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Rip_Van_Winkle_Caper
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Great episode, however...It's been a long time since I'm seen it but I don't recall any of the characters being intelligent, let alone capable of creating suspended animation chambers.
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From the link above which you didn't click: :thumbup:
To escape the law after stealing $1 million worth of gold bricks from a train on its way from Fort Knox to Los Angeles, a band of four gold thieves, led by foreign-accented scientist-mastermind Farwell (Oscar Beregi, Jr.), hide in a secret cave in Death Valley, California.
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One year Comedy Central ran a "Soap" marathon. For those of you unfamiliar with it, they went to and came back from commercial with the

over some cliffhanger type questions. So when you count all the commercial breaks along with back to back beginning and ending credits, that damn song got played a lot. Of course, making it a lot crazier was our annual NYE tradition of taking a bunch of acid. Strange, strange NYE that year...
 
Anybody watching the episode now about the toy phone? Why does this look so much different than the later episodes, and so much different from other shows in general? Is this the difference between how they shot on film vs. shooting on video?

 
Raider Nation said:
Anybody watching the episode now about the toy phone? Why does this look so much different than the later episodes, and so much different from other shows in general? Is this the difference between how they shot on film vs. shooting on video?
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Yeah, I think they went back. I remember reading they did it for budgetary reasons. Some great episodes on from about 8-11 tomorrow. Time Enough at Last, with Burgess Meredith is one of my all time favorites :thumbup:
 
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Raider Nation said:
Anybody watching the episode now about the toy phone? Why does this look so much different than the later episodes, and so much different from other shows in general? Is this the difference between how they shot on film vs. shooting on video?
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Yup, video. Looked and sounded so terrible I had to turn it off.
 
mad sweeney said:
Raider Nation said:
Anybody watching the episode now about the toy phone? Why does this look so much different than the later episodes, and so much different from other shows in general? Is this the difference between how they shot on film vs. shooting on video?
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Yup, video. Looked and sounded so terrible I had to turn it off.
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Six season two shows were filmed on tape;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Lateness_of_the_Hour

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Static_(The_Twilight_Zone)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Whole_Tru..._Twilight_Zone)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Night_of_the_Meek

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twenty_Two_(The_Twilight_Zone)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Long_Distance_Call

 
Twilight Zone hasn't aged well. I enjoyed watching reruns in the '80s, but now? Most of the episodes are terrible.

 
Juxtatarot said:
Twilight Zone hasn't aged well. I enjoyed watching reruns in the '80s, but now? Most of the episodes are terrible.
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I'm going to go ahead and disagree with you there. Keeping in mind when they were created and you have to appreciate how ahead of their time they were.
 
RudiStein said:
Juxtatarot said:
Twilight Zone hasn't aged well. I enjoyed watching reruns in the '80s, but now? Most of the episodes are terrible.
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I'm going to go ahead and disagree with you there. Keeping in mind when they were created and you have to appreciate how ahead of their time they were.
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The episode that I am watching right now is set in the futuristic year of 2000. Where you can change your face. But the rest of it is spot on. A cup of instant smile
 
Three episodes from now, William Shatner began his glorious overacting shtick when he sees the creature on the airplane wing.

 
'Thread Killer said:
'Raider Nation said:
'EZD222 said:
"To Serve Man"
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Sorry for the Hipple, but this episode is on at 10pm EST.Might this one be the most well-known TZ episode?
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Perhaps the GOAT.
I still work "It's a cook book!!" every so often into conversations just for of the hell of it.
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I love the initial meeting at the U.N. between the alien and the suits.Secretary General: "Would you be willing to be interrogated here, at this time? There are U.N. delegates present from most of the important countries." :lmao: :lmao:

 
Speaking of episodes ahead of their time: "Death's Head Revisted", A Nazi general who ran the concentration camp at Dauchow, comes back after 15 years to visit his old haunts. And finds that the camp is.

Second episode that was so far ahead of its time and controvesial at the time, was "The Encounter". This episode starred Neville Brand and George Takei of Star Trek fame: A former marine seargent who fought at Okinowa, is cleaning out his attic when Tao, the yard man visits. The encounter becomes deadly. BTW, this episode never appeared on Network television. The only way you can see it now is on DVD.

 
'nysportsfan said:
'Raider Nation said:
Anybody watching the episode now about the toy phone? Why does this look so much different than the later episodes, and so much different from other shows in general? Is this the difference between how they shot on film vs. shooting on video?
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Yeah, I think they went back. I remember reading they did it for budgetary reasons. Some great episodes on from about 8-11 tomorrow. Time Enough at Last, with Burgess Meredith is one of my all time favorites :thumbup:
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it's probably my favorite of them all. something about meredith's character just breaks my heart.
 
'Dragons said:
'Raider Nation said:
'Dragons said:
'Raider Nation said:
CREATURE ON THE WING! :excited:
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My wife and her sister are looking at me like I'm crazy. They just don't understand the awesomeness of this episode. Too concentrated on the cheesiness of the costume. :kicksrock:
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Am I nuts or is Kirk wearing eyeliner? :unsure:
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LOL, immediate confirmation from the peanut gallery. "Yep. Yes he is. And you like this show."
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Tell the naysayers that the "cheesiness of the costume" is intentional. Even in the 60s, they could have given the creature a more authentic look. But that's how the creature looked in Shatner's mind.Say hi to the SIL for me. :bye:
 
'Raider Nation said:
'Dragons said:
'Raider Nation said:
'Dragons said:
'Raider Nation said:
CREATURE ON THE WING! :excited:
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My wife and her sister are looking at me like I'm crazy. They just don't understand the awesomeness of this episode. Too concentrated on the cheesiness of the costume. :kicksrock:
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Am I nuts or is Kirk wearing eyeliner? :unsure:
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LOL, immediate confirmation from the peanut gallery. "Yep. Yes he is. And you like this show."
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Tell the naysayers that the "cheesiness of the costume" is intentional. Even in the 60s, they could have given the creature a more authentic look. But that's how the creature looked in Shatner's mind.Say hi to the SIL for me. :bye:
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Yeah, they're still not impressed. Although they found some guy hitting on her from the internet funny. :thumbup:
 
'Dragons said:
'Raider Nation said:
'Dragons said:
'Raider Nation said:
'Dragons said:
'Raider Nation said:
CREATURE ON THE WING! :excited:
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My wife and her sister are looking at me like I'm crazy. They just don't understand the awesomeness of this episode. Too concentrated on the cheesiness of the costume. :kicksrock:
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Am I nuts or is Kirk wearing eyeliner? :unsure:
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LOL, immediate confirmation from the peanut gallery. "Yep. Yes he is. And you like this show."
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Tell the naysayers that the "cheesiness of the costume" is intentional. Even in the 60s, they could have given the creature a more authentic look. But that's how the creature looked in Shatner's mind.Say hi to the SIL for me. :bye:
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Yeah, they're still not impressed. Although they found some guy hitting on her from the internet funny. :thumbup:
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She's sitting with her sister on July 4th watching the Twilight Zone. I was guessing that her social calendar wasn't jam packed.
 
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