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Twilight Zone Marathon on the SyFy Channel (1 Viewer)

'Novice2 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. 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
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These guys are in for a world of hurt when they awaking to the buying power of one mil split four ways in 2061. Sheesh these guys would be Ffa poor in 2012
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That's what it was worth when they stole it.
 
'Raider Nation said:
'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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Not a bad guess, although they weren't watching Twilight Zone by choice. I probably didn't sell the guy from the interwebs thing very well, either. ;)
 
Can anyone help me identify what episode of TZ or other TV show this plot line comes from?

Car is driving, at night, on a deserted 2 lane road. At some point they see headlights ahead of them. As they approach, they realize the headlights are in their lane. I don't remember full details here, but I assume they change lanes several times and slow down and the headlights change back and forth with them into the lane they're in. They finally come to a stop, headlight to headlight, get out of the car and there's a mirror directly in front of them which stretches as far as they can tell off both sides of the road.

It seems to fit as a TZ episode and I always thought it was one since watching this show with my parents very young, but I can not for the life of me figure out which episode it comes from by reading the episode descriptions.

 
Dragons said:
Can anyone help me identify what episode of TZ or other TV show this plot line comes from?

Car is driving, at night, on a deserted 2 lane road. At some point they see headlights ahead of them. As they approach, they realize the headlights are in their lane. I don't remember full details here, but I assume they change lanes several times and slow down and the headlights change back and forth with them into the lane they're in. They finally come to a stop, headlight to headlight, get out of the car and there's a mirror directly in front of them which stretches as far as they can tell off both sides of the road.

It seems to fit as a TZ episode and I always thought it was one since watching this show with my parents very young, but I can not for the life of me figure out which episode it comes from by reading the episode descriptions.
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I don't know the name of that one.
 
Fariq said:
Dragons said:
Can anyone help me identify what episode of TZ or other TV show this plot line comes from?

Car is driving, at night, on a deserted 2 lane road. At some point they see headlights ahead of them. As they approach, they realize the headlights are in their lane. I don't remember full details here, but I assume they change lanes several times and slow down and the headlights change back and forth with them into the lane they're in. They finally come to a stop, headlight to headlight, get out of the car and there's a mirror directly in front of them which stretches as far as they can tell off both sides of the road.

It seems to fit as a TZ episode and I always thought it was one since watching this show with my parents very young, but I can not for the life of me figure out which episode it comes from by reading the episode descriptions.
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I don't know the name of that one.
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I just skimmed all the Twilight Zone and Outer Limits episode plots and came up empty on this one.

 
Dragons said:
Can anyone help me identify what episode of TZ or other TV show this plot line comes from?

Car is driving, at night, on a deserted 2 lane road. At some point they see headlights ahead of them. As they approach, they realize the headlights are in their lane. I don't remember full details here, but I assume they change lanes several times and slow down and the headlights change back and forth with them into the lane they're in. They finally come to a stop, headlight to headlight, get out of the car and there's a mirror directly in front of them which stretches as far as they can tell off both sides of the road.

It seems to fit as a TZ episode and I always thought it was one since watching this show with my parents very young, but I can not for the life of me figure out which episode it comes from by reading the episode descriptions.
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"The Last Mescaline"

 
Dragons said:
Can anyone help me identify what episode of TZ or other TV show this plot line comes from?

Car is driving, at night, on a deserted 2 lane road. At some point they see headlights ahead of them. As they approach, they realize the headlights are in their lane. I don't remember full details here, but I assume they change lanes several times and slow down and the headlights change back and forth with them into the lane they're in. They finally come to a stop, headlight to headlight, get out of the car and there's a mirror directly in front of them which stretches as far as they can tell off both sides of the road.

It seems to fit as a TZ episode and I always thought it was one since watching this show with my parents very young, but I can not for the life of me figure out which episode it comes from by reading the episode descriptions.
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Honestly I don't think this is TZ.

 
Officer Pete Malloy said:
Dragons said:
Can anyone help me identify what episode of TZ or other TV show this plot line comes from?

Car is driving, at night, on a deserted 2 lane road. At some point they see headlights ahead of them. As they approach, they realize the headlights are in their lane. I don't remember full details here, but I assume they change lanes several times and slow down and the headlights change back and forth with them into the lane they're in. They finally come to a stop, headlight to headlight, get out of the car and there's a mirror directly in front of them which stretches as far as they can tell off both sides of the road.

It seems to fit as a TZ episode and I always thought it was one since watching this show with my parents very young, but I can not for the life of me figure out which episode it comes from by reading the episode descriptions.
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Honestly I don't think this is TZ.
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It isn't Twilight Zone.

 
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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In an effort to save money on production costs six episodes of TZ were shot on video tape instead of film:  "The Lateness of the Hour", "The Whole Truth" ,  "The Night of the Meek",  "Twenty Two".  "Long Distance Call", the episode you're talking about, was the sixth.  

Rod Serling hated video tape and the cost savings wasn't as much as expected so they went back to film.

 
Always liked the one with Buster Keaton but it wasn't until I watched it last night that I realized he was at least 65+ when he made that episode.  As spry as he was then, he looked like he could have gone another 20 years making movies. Glad they made this one.

 
A few years ago I did a thread reviewing nearly all of the episodes. I never did finish watching all of the hour long ones...

The Twilight Zone project - Ranking episodes (per season)

I'm surprised by the number of episodes I haven't seen. I thought I'd watched a lot more of them with my dad when I was younger. As I'm going through these, it's easy to see why the ones that are considered "classic" are that indeed. There's a lot more clunkers than I thought there were. And of...
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