I was brosing on youtube and found this full episode classic. Thought I would share...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Dz8dMwCk7c
Yes this is one of Shatner's classics (I think he appeared on TZ twice). This epsisode was featured in the Twilight Zone movie with John Lithgow playing Shatner's part.
Years later Lithgow had a tv series called 3rd Rock from the Sun, where he was commander of a group of aliens strudying earth. Shatner appeared on the show as their Supreme Commander "The Great Big Head". Lithgow was picking him up at the airport and asked him how the flight was, Shatner replies " It was terrible, there was creature on the wing." Lithgow then says " You know the same thing happened to me!"
He was also in the TZ episode A Nick In Time (or something like that) in which he gets obsessed with some fortune telling machine in a diner.
That 3rd Rock episode was great but when I watched it, I had to wonder how many people actually got that reference...good stuff.
For all you kids who've bothered to sit through Ace Ventura 2, this is where the "There's.... something on the wing!" reference came from...
I actually saw the movie version with Lithgow before the original. I haven't watched a lot of 3rd Rock, so missed that episode. By the time that show was around I would have gotten the reference. Darn. :)
That is one of the most memorable episodes of the original TZ, imo. If you asked me to give a short list of the best eps, I'd give this one, the one with Agnes Morehead (she does not say a WORD in the whole episode, yet it is so creepy) and the one where the guy was locked in a chamber alone so scientists could study how people react to loneliness. I know there are other good ones (the pig lady one, eg), but these three really stand out in MY mind.
The pig lady one you are referring to I believe is titled "Eye of the Beholder" and can watch it full legnth on youtube as well.
I don't remember the one with Agnes Moorehead and now I really want to see it!
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> I don't remember the one with Agnes Moorehead and
> now I really want to see it!
It's one of the most intense ones, imo. She does not say a word the whole episode. It's the one where she is in a little house and hears SOMETHING outside, climbing on roof, etc.
Very creepy, and incredibly acted. Sorry, I cannot recall the title.
If I wanted to buy that or get it somehow, where do I go? I have seen so many TZ episodes with those sci fi marathons and seen so many over and over but yet to see that one. Now it's bugging me..lol
Here You Go: The Invaders (http://www.tv.com/the-twilight-zone/show/237/episode_guide.html?season=0&tag=season_dropdown;dropdown;5)
Sorry I could not think of it before; it's kinda obvious in hindsight.
I have to agree about The Invaders episode, Ulthar... a really damn good one ( rather amusing twist ending as well). I like the message of "Eye of the Beholder"- one that I think our society as a whole managed to ignore over the many years since it came out. The one with the hitchhiker was pretty good, too... but my personal fave was "The Masks"; I think it does a good job of simultaneously showing both human greed & spitefulness as well.
There are simply too many very very good Zone episodes to pick out the "best" ones --
Really, every time I think I can, one of the next ones I see ends up being the "best" one I've ever seen -- Some of them/most of them can stand on their own as short films.
Ever see the one where Jack Klugman brings Jonathan Winters back from the dead to shoot a championship game of pool?
Cliff Robertson, "A Hundred Yards Over the Rim"? or the one where he trades places with a ventriloquist's dummy?
I could go on and on --
peter johnson/denny crane
Telly Savalas vs Talking Tina---nightmares for years
"I'm talking Tina and I don't like you very much." "I'm talking Tina and I'm going to kill you." Oh yes, and maybe this can explain my strange fear of dolls and vantriliquist dummie?
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> There are simply too many very very good Zone
> episodes to pick out the "best" ones --
> Really, every time I think I can, one of the next
> ones I see ends up being the "best" one I've ever
> seen
I agree with that 100%. That's why I said those were my memorable top 3 rather than the best top 3; when I see an ep, I think "wow," but when I go months without seeing one and someone mentions TZ, it is these three I instantly think of.
Were there any BAD episodes of the original run TZ?
Bad Twilight Zone?
I'm hard-pressed to come up with one. Their quality-control standards were pretty stiff: Rod had hands-on Production credits on every episode, even the ones he didn't write or direct. Buck Houghton, the Line Producer, was highly literate and they threw away a lot of scripts for every one they shot.
I used to think that the quasi-silent one with Buster Keaton as a time-traveler was pretty weak, but I had occasion to see it again with new eyes last month and . . . pretty damn good, really. A lot of classic comic bits strung together.
Nope, can't think of one --
peter johnson/denny crane
I can't think of a bad one either. I remember watching the marathons and glued to the set. Another I like came to mind about the bet where the man couldn't talk for a whole year or something...only to find out ****spoiler*****that he cut off his tounge and the man didn't have the money to pay him. Of course there are some that you like better than others, but I too cannot think of one where I sat there and said "This is stupid".
You know, I inadvertanly downloaded "Where is Everybody" but watched it anyway lol. I couldn't download the Invaders though :(. But I can buy on Amazon...or rent on netflix I think. Thanks for the info. A lot easier when you know the name, season and episode.
Twilight Zone episodes only fit two categories, good and great.
My personal favorite would have to be "The Monsters are due on Maple Street", because it did what the best of TZ alway does, teach us something about ourselves.
"The tools of conquest do not necessarily come with bombs and explosions and fallout. There are weapons that are simply thoughts... attitudes... prejudices. To be found only in the minds of men. For the record, prejudices can kill, and suspicion can destroy, and the thoughtless, frightened search for a scapegoat has a fallout all its own for the children, and the children yet unborn. And the pity of it is that these things cannot be confined to The Twilight Zone."
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> My personal favorite would have to be "The
> Monsters are due on Maple Street", because it did
> what the best of TZ alway does, teach us something
> about ourselves.
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Yep, that's a good one, too. It was one of the ones remade by the 2002 Twilight Zone (http://www.tv.com/the-twilight-zone-2002/the-monsters-are-on-maple-street/episode/228680/summary.html?tag=ep_list;title;31). I thought the remake was not too bad, either.
was this the one with the bomb shelter?