Twilight Zone New Year's Marathon

I'm watching. Although I must say I'd much prefer an Outer Limits marathon.

Me!!!! I watch every year

The Obsolete Man just started. One of my favorites.

The one on now features Kevin Hagen from Little House on the Prairie!

Love the one with Rod Taylor

I love the Decades channel AND the Twilight Zone. So I'm watching intermittently. since I have a few things I really need to get done today.

In OP's picture William Shatner has the same expression as THOT William O'Connor.

Murderer Albert Salmi playing a murderer....

I'm watching the one on Decades, because SyFy pisses me off with their edited episodes stuffed with commercials and "SyFy Wire" scroll at the bottom of the screen.

"The Hitchhiker" was one of my favorites. No matter how many times I see it, it's still such a creepy episode.

I always forget how bad Brooke Hayward is in the New Year's oogly mask episode.

R10, I love that episode, too

Inger Stevens was great

It’s the best thing about nye!

So many episodes still very poignant today, e.g. Deaths-Head Revisited (that closing narration always effects me), The Monsters Are Due on Maple Street. But so many personal favorites including One for the Angels, Nothing in the Dark and many, many more

I gave up on it. SyFy makes too many cuts. You can go to Netflix or YouTube and see unedited versions, so why support their butchering?

"The Hitchhiker" is probably my all time favorite episode. The guy who played the hitchhiker was perfect. So ordinary looking, and yet so menacing.

I'm watching Nigel Kneale's 1975 teleplay "Murrain." Vintage English folk horror.

The Hitchhiker was originally a radio play that I can't remember for the life of me for what show. I'll have to watch it here, never saw it. I'm gonna watch how bad Brooke Hayward is. She's actually a lovely person that sort of trashed my family in her book.

I've only recently come to appreciate "It's a Good Life" and admit it's a great (and terrifying) episode. For years I hated it because I couldn't believe they let that kid get away with all of the shit he did but I get it now.

Well I did like Haywire, r18, and I thought she was a good writer, but an actress (at least in that episode) she was not.

When The Hitch-Hiker was a radio play, the protagonist was a male. Played by....Orson Welles

R18, is your family in showbiz?

Brooke Hayward indeed had no talent as an actress. But she is a good writer. Her awful step-mother Pamela Harriman, who she wrote unfavorably about in "Haywire", sniped about how Brooke was jealous of her friend Jane Fonda, who had real talent as an actress, whereas Brooke most certainly did not. Harriman was such a bitch. At any rate, I recommend reading "Haywire." It's a very well written book about Brooke Haywire's picture perfect, but insane, Hollywood family.

In light of R22’s post, it’s interesting that Brooke’s mother was married to Henry Fonda for a couple of years.

[quote] "The Hitchhiker" was one of my favorites. No matter how many times I see it, it's still such a creepy episode.

[quote] "The Hitchhiker" is probably my all time favorite episode. The guy who played the hitchhiker was perfect. So ordinary looking, and yet so menacing.

Going my way?

"It's a Good Life" is a much better short story than it's portrayed on the Twilight Zone.

"It's a GOOD Life", by Jerome Bixby, is one of the all time classic science fiction short stories. By the way, in the short story it's not specified WHAT Anthony is. But it's obvious he's not an ordinary looking child, as played by Billy Mumy. He has a "wet, purple gaze" and at one point he curls up into "an likely shape." It would seem he's some kind of strange, supernatural being. Anyway, read the story. It's great.

R26, you’re a bad man!

Is Serling saying in the beginning of the episode that Anthony has destroyed the rest of the world and the only people left are those in that little town? Is that implied in the short story as well?

It's a Cookbook!!!

[quote] It’s a Cookbook!!!

Yay!!!

"Is that implied in thes Serling saying in the beginning of the episode that Anthony has destroyed the rest of the world and the only people left are those in that little town? Is that implied in the short story as well?"

Yes. The story states:

Mom looked out of the the front window, across the darkened road, across Henderson's darkened wheat field to the vast, endless, gray nothingness in which the little village of Peaksville floated like a soul-the huge nothingness that was most evident at night, when Anthony's brassy day had gone.

It did no good to wonder where they were...no good at all. Peaksville was just someplace. Someplace away from the world. It was wherever it had been since that day three years ago when Anthony had crept from her womb and old Doc Bates, God rest him, had screamed and dropped him and tried to kill him, and Anthony had whined and done the thing. Had taken the village someplase. Or had destroyed the world and left only the village, nobody knew which.

It did no good to wonder about it. Nothing at all did any good...except to live as they must live. Must always, always live, if Anthony would let them.

[quote] crept from her womb

Beautiful.

Give me that fucking genie bottle, That dumbass with the antiques shop shouldn't have gotten it!

Creepy, guilty pleasure to end one year and bring in a new one. Twilight Zone seems real at the moment.

June Foray voiced Talky Tina and Chatty Cathy and Rocky and Natasha. She got around.

Ism’t this a Fourth of July thing?

And don't forget that weird use of Foray's voice for certain parts of The Bewitchin' Pool"

R35, Syfy does it twice a year -- 4th of July and New Year's.

I seem to recall a few years back where they tried something different for New Year's but the viewers weren't happy about it, so they went back to TZ the next year (and haven't strayed again since).

[quote] And don't forget that weird use of Foray's voice for certain parts of The Bewitchin' Pool"

The worst Twilight Zone episode ever. So lazy and grating.

Inga Stevens was indeed going his way. She commited sucide 4 years later.

Thanks for the reminder, R21 Welles was perfect for the part. No, we are not in show business.

I'm still watching today

So am I, R41. I'm going between it and "The Honeymooners" marathon on PIX11 here in NYC.

They just showed two of my favorite TZ eps, "A Hundred Yards Over the Rim" with the gorgeous Cliff Robertson and "The Silence" with Franchot Tone.

Liam Sullivan from The Silence was really handsome. Homo? Can't find any mention of wives or kids.

If you're going to be one of only two people left after a war, a young Charles Bronson being the other ain't so bad.

It's a Good Life was better in The Twilight Zone movie. In fact all the segments from that movie were better than the originals, even Kick the Can.

All those "OK Boomer" people should watch The Obsolete Man.

Bronson lucked out. I mean she's Samantha for chrissakes.

[quote]I've only recently come to appreciate "It's a Good Life" and admit it's a great (and terrifying) episode.

Damn straight. Best episode EVER.

"It's a Good Life was better in The Twilight Zone movie. In fact all the segments from that movie were better than the originals, even Kick the Can."

You're nuts or just trolling. That movie is universally recognized as mostly terrible. The"It's a Good LIfe" segment was pure crap; it had a HAPPY ENDING. The only part was effective was the "Terror at 20,000 Feet" segment that featured a great performance by John Lithgow and frightening special effects. That whole movie was bad news. Three people died because of it. And the movie turned out to be shit.

Love the obvious shop bottom in The After Hours

"A wooden lady with a painted face..."

So Melania Trump, then?

The mannequin one is creepier to me than "It's a Good Life." The elevator constantly opening onto a dark, empty floor scares me. Plus, mannequins have always been creepy to me.

William Shatner was so handsome when he was younger. I'm sure part of the issue between he and George Takei is that George had a crush on him and Shatner was such an asshole in general.

Well, living in a small town outside Dayton, Ohio is definitely like living in the Twilight Zone, I'll give them that...

I had to watch Midnight Sun last night after midnight. I watched on Hulu and picked some of my favs - Howling Man, The Masks, and 22.

At this performance of Do I Hear a Waltz? the role of Leona will be played by Miss Allen's mannequin.

R53, years ago there was a poster here who claimed to know Takei and said he would refer to him as "that queen Bill Shatner"

Will the Real Martian Please Stand Up, featuring officious bitchy queen John Hoyt

R58, who later played Grandpa on "Gimme A Break."

OMG, R59! I didn't make that connection!

Look, it's Jean the Lebanese!

r59, and while he was on Gimme a Break, he enjoyed orgies with young twinks!!!

It’s. It’s. It’s a cookbook!

SPOILER ALERT, BITCH!^

I'm shocked there's been no porn version created of this episode in which "To Serve Man" has a totally different meaning.

Look how everyone is dressed on that plane. No fucking flip flops or yoga pants

[quote]years ago there was a poster here who claimed to know Takei and said he would refer to him as "that queen Bill Shatner"

There was a. poster on here who years ago posted the he had hooked up with Shatner at some motel in Canada when Shatner was in town doing dinner theater or something, This was around Shatner's TJ Hooker phase before Star Trek nostalgia really took off.

Anyway, the post was very believable.

[quote] ago SPOILER ALERT, BITCH!^

Sorry, R64. I’ll stop before I reveal that the earth is not actually getting too hot be livable. It’s actually...

Wow, Shatner is bi/gay? News to me. I'm surprised Takei never publicly-hinted because he sure as hell was willing to say everything else about Shatner.

In "To Serve Man" I can't believe how naive those people are about hopping on a space ship

The Masks!

[quote] You're nuts or just trolling. That movie is universally recognized as mostly terrible. The"It's a Good LIfe" segment was pure crap; it had a HAPPY ENDING. The only part was effective was the "Terror at 20,000 Feet" segment that featured a great performance by John Lithgow and frightening special effects. That whole movie was bad news. Three people died because of it. And the movie turned out to be shit.

No, I really do think the movie did it better. I still love The Twilight Zone and I think the original episode is good, but I preferred the film version more. The movie has the mystery setup, takes away the mind reader aspect, adds much more dark humor and fantastic visuals, and the ending is still really bleak. It's not a happy ending by any stretch.

The first segment, where Vic Morrow died, does taint the entire project unfortunately and the segment he was in wasn't that great either. Still an above average movie and far more effective than any of the other Twilight Zone reinventions on televison.

[quote]"You're caricatures! All of you! Without your masks, you're caricatures!"

I love this line and recite it along with the character every time I see this episode.

R70, I don't think the people are naive. Even now, we're desperate to discover alien life. I mean the opportunity to travel to another planet, who would pass that up?

True, R74, but we might be more cautious just because you know everyone would have that episode in mind when considering the idea of boarding an alien ship to travel to their planet. I can already imagine the headline in the Washington Post: "Should we follow them? What if it's a cookbook?"

Vic Morrow and two children

Dead Man's Shoes. How the fuck does a homeless guy (at the end) sound like a Shakespearean actor?

"Dead Man's Shoes".....wasn't that an episode of That Girl?

" It's not a happy ending by any stretch."

Compared to the ending in the TZ episode and the short story, the "It's A Good Life" segment in the TZ movie was happy as hell. It was a very upbeat ending that basically fucked up the whole story.

Had fun as usual, folks. See you next 4th of July!

They did a sequel to it's a good life when they rebooted the series in the 90's. They had Bill Mumy played the grown up version of the monster as well as other actors who were on that episode.

R81, and his real life daughter played his daughter who inherited his "gift"

“The After Hours” is my favorite. Anne Francis is perfect as the terrorized gold-thimble shopper.

“Was someone helping you?”

R81, I remember that episode from the '80s and hated it with the fire of 10,000 suns. I just thought it was such a missed opportunity to finally see Anthony Fremont get the comeuppance he deserved and they totally threw it out the window. And though I know not every story gets to have (or even should have) a happy ending, I just think it would've been such a satisfying moment to see as someone who remembered what a monster he was from the original episode. (In fact, if he could get Bill Mumy to do it, how nice it would be if Jordan Peele would take it up one more time in the new TZ he's created and finally give us that ending.)

"They did a sequel to it's a good life when they rebooted the series in the 90's. "

I saw that. It sucked, as sequels almost invariably do.

The SyFy Channel is having a Twilight Zone marathon now!

One piece of bad news though - it's a cookbook!