Twilight Zone Marathon

[jeffg]

Some of Serling's best episodes are playing tonight... A Stop At Willoughby, The Hunt, Time Enough At Last etc.

06:00 PM THE HOWLING MAN
06:30 PM LIVING DOLL
07:00 PM WHERE IS EVERYBODY
07:30 PM A STOP AT WILLOUGHBY
08:00 PM WILL THE REAL MARTIAN PLEASE STAND UP
08:30 PM TIME ENOUGH AT LAST
09:00 PM EYE OF THE BEHOLDER
09:30 PM THE MONSTERS ARE DUE ON MAPLE STREET
10:00 PM TO SERVE MAN
10:30 PM NIGHTMARE AT 20,000 FEET
11:00 PM DEATH'S HEAD REVISITED
11:30 PM THE HUNT
12:00 AM TWO
12:30 AM PEOPLE ARE ALIKE ALL OVER
01:00 AM A PENNY FOR YOUR THOUGHTS
01:30 AM NIGHT CALL
02:00 AM A NICE PLACE TO VISIT
02:30 AM TWENTY-TWO
03:00 AM QUEEN OF THE NILE
03:30 AM THE RIP VAN WINKLE CAPER
04:00 AM THE LONELY
04:30 AM IN PRAISE OF PIP
05:00 AM I SHOT AN ARROW INTO THE AIR
05:30 AM I AM THE NIGHT - COLOR ME BLACK

 

[alr2903]

Jeff i had forgotten, i just tuned in to: "To Serve Man". Thanks for posting this reminder. alr2903

 

[bugsyjones]

Oh man,,,,

I watched some of that on Saturday...

There was one on during the day that was called 'The Invaders.'

It featured the very good actress Agnes Moorehead. (If you don't know her from the movies, she was Endora, Samantha's Mother on 'Bewitched.')

Little tiny space men crash their saucer on the roof of her very, VERY rural home. Terrorized by the tiny space men (puppets), she hacks their saucer to bits with a hatchet.

Then the camera zooms in on the saucer...it reads: U.S. Air Force...

oooooooooooo! Twilight Zone!!!!

I've also seen Nightmare at 20,000 feet. It's the one with Shatner in it, and he sees 'Some...man...out there...on the wing...'

Great show...

~Tim

 

[westyslantfront]

After I got home and turned on the a/c, I switched on Twilight Zone marathon. I still enjoy seeing them as it was one of the TV programs I grew up with.

Ross

 

[jeffg]

Fortunately CBS has made full TZ episodes available for viewing on their website. These are uncut (unlike the Sci-Fi versions), and include the promos Serling did for upcoming episodes.

A list of my "essential" TZ episodes would be something like this:

Walking Distance
Nothing In The Dark (Robert Redford, woof)
The Last Rites Of Jeff Myrtlebank (James Best, double woof)
The Hunt
A Stop At Willoughby
Time Enough At Last
The Invaders
Changing Of The Guard
100 Yards Over The Rim
Five Characters In Search Of An Exit
Third From The Sun
The Masks
To Serve Man
The Fugitive

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[rp2813]

Larry Blyden

For me, the definitive TZ episode will always be "Nightmare at 20K Feet." I was probably about 6 years old when I first saw that one, and it scared the living sh*t out of me. Interesting how Shatner went from being a complete basket case on a comparative puddle-jumper to a collected commander of a much more sophisticated ship with far more formidable "monsters" to contend with. Who knew?

Tuned in last night by accident and was met by Larry Blyden in "A Nice Place to Visit," an episode I hadn't ever seen. TZ was never appointment TV for me back in the day.

So I got to thinking. Larry Blyden, why does that name sound familiar? After a bit of scanning, way back in some cobwebbed corner of my memory there was a fuzzy memory of him wearing glasses and hosting a 60's game show. Does anyone remember what it was?

Ralph

 

[jeffg]

According to IMDB Blyden guest hosted several game shows, including What's My Line, Match Game and To Tell The Truth. He's probably best known for his stint on What's My Line.

 

[rp2813]

Thanks Jeff. I was pretty sure it was a panel show, which all of those were. My visual recollection was one of him holding cards in his hand. Maybe in that regard I'm getting him mixed up with Peter Marshall.

Ralph

 

[drmitch]

Rod Serling had many good writers and my favorite was Charles Beaumont, The Howling Man. Fantastic stories and a sick man, only lived to be 38yr. More on his blog.

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[qsd-dan]

Anybody familiar with the New York Telephone Outtake Rod Serling did in the 70's?

Warning!! Lots of fun filled four letter words and phrases!!

 

[jeffg]

That doesn't sound anything like Rod Serling.

 

[qsd-dan]

Time to have your ears checked....

Sounds like him to me. That's because it's Rod!

The history of this commercial (as supplied by "BL" in February 2008):

I still have one of the original cassette tapes from the day Rod Serling made the recording. I have only recently converted it to digital and was wondering when it would show up on the Internet. There were only about 10 copies made and the originals cuts were destroyed.

Background: New York Tel had a very sophisticated audio and video studio at 1095 Avenue of the Americas in midtown Manhattan. Mr. Serling was recording several commercials for NYT at the time (about 1973-74). He was having a problem with one of the takes and he kept cracking up. It seems that Mr. Serling, the coiner of the phrase "you can't argue with a sick mind, so don't try", did indeed have a sick mind.

He revealed that every time he did a take, these other words would roll around in his head asking to come out. He asked that he just be permitted to get them out of his system so he could carry on with the rest of the takes. In humble awe the creator and chief writer of the Twilight Zone was let loose to speak his mind. What you hear in this recording is Rod Serling, getting the recording demons out of his system.

He was one of the nicest people you would ever want to meet. Charm, grace, a very sick sense of humor, and he always bought the coffee and, cigarettes.

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