A classic Twillight Zone episode starring a young Shatner

loyal1 · August 14, 2006, 11:17:37 PM

I was brosing on youtube and found this full episode classic. Thought I would share...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Dz8dMwCk7c

trekgeezer · August 15, 2006, 07:28:20 AM

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!"

odinn7 · August 15, 2006, 08:15:10 AM

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.

Just Plain Horse · August 15, 2006, 10:40:02 AM

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...

loyal1 · August 15, 2006, 11:00:23 AM

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. :)

ulthar · August 15, 2006, 11:21:54 AM

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.

loyal1 · August 15, 2006, 11:57:48 AM

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!

ulthar · August 15, 2006, 04:23:41 PM

loyal1 Wrote:
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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.

loyal1 · August 15, 2006, 08:14:07 PM

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

ulthar · August 15, 2006, 09:45:45 PM

Here You Go: The Invaders

Sorry I could not think of it before; it's kinda obvious in hindsight.

Just Plain Horse · August 17, 2006, 01:29:39 PM

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.

peter johnson · August 18, 2006, 06:28:38 PM

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

onionhead · August 18, 2006, 07:19:19 PM

Telly Savalas vs Talking Tina---nightmares for years

loyal1 · August 18, 2006, 11:13:03 PM

"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?

ulthar · August 19, 2006, 09:04:28 AM

peter johnson Wrote:
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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?