Let's be an episode of The Twilight Zone.

I'm the misfortune cookie.

I'm the nightmare at 20,000 feet

I’m one of the “seedy little men” Serling liked to look down his nose at.

I’m one of the speeches given by a character. I pass for dialogue. Hi!

I’m Bea Arthur being the belle of the ball.

I’m ...

I'm, I'm, really a COOKBOOK!

I'm the last stop at Willoughby.

I'm Queen of the Nile -- the best episode of the show -- which should be iconic for DL, as it involves an aged actress who walks around in a caftan, looks 30 years younger than she is, and turns her male suitors to dust after she's through with them.

I'm a pre-famous Charles Bronson

I'm Arlene Martel saying, "Room for one more, honey."

I'm the line that is overused by, I suspect, more than one Datalounger.

I'm Burgess Meredith avidly reading with coke bottle glasses, a minute before shattering them.

I’m, “In His Image”, the gay episode.

I'm the boy who makes people disappear if they don't do exactly as I say!!

R15, you're a bad man! A very bad man!

I'm Talky Tina and I'm going to kill you!

I’m Anne Francis, as the mannequin, in “The After Hours” (1960).

I'm Bunny Blake, the Ring-A-Ding girl. I like to drag my fur coat on the floor when I walk. The obvious sexual tension I have with my nephew, Bud, was never explored.

I'm Boris Karloff's "Thriller." I was a precursor to The Twilight Zone and was hosted by--wait for it--Boris Karloff.

If you want so see skinny/sexy Alejandro Rey before his Flying Nun job, you should definitely watch me.

If you want to see Ellie Mae Clampett scream at pig nosed people, you should definitely watch Twilight Zone.

You can do both, but I was way more demented than Rod's musings. And I only have two years of episodes but we made a ton of tv episodes per year back then.

I’m Bill’s nuclear shelter, which I’m sure is well stocked with toilet paper and bleach.

I'm here to "serve man"

Bwahahahahaha!

[quote] I'm Bunny Blake, the Ring-A-Ding girl.

I’m the profoundly parochial corniness of pre-60s America, which, even funnier, found itself so jaded and hip.

I'm Roddy McDowell, the astronaut who now lives in a typical American home inside the Martian zoo.

I'm the numerous episodes where the main character realizes they're dead in the last five minutes.

I’m Rod Serling’s skinny suit, hijacked by the Mad Men costumer!

I am not the iconic opening theme music. I am the lesser known and better music composed by the great Bernard Herrmann. I think this was used only in season one.

R27 Beautiful! You can hear how the iconic theme originated in that piece - sped up and syncopated. Herrmann's theme is spookier and more thoughtful, less visceral than the piece that became popular.

I'm the episodes where (Act 1) someone wakes up to a different world in the future or in the past. Act 2, they attempt to understand and adapt until (Act 3) they are accidentally knocked out and return to their original environment...AND they are holding a remnant of 'something' from their time in the future or past or wherever the hell they were.

I'm the modern day airplane lost in time and flying over a tyrannosaurus rex.

I'm a robut.

Submitted for your approval - and amusement - Futurama's The Scary Door

I'm every aspect of life in the year 2020; it doesn't get any more terrifying or surreal than this.

I'm the thimble purchased by Marsha on the ninth floor.

I'm Elizabeth Montgomery in sexy combat boots!

Why don't you get out of here, Finchley?

I’m the preachiness. I’m as big as a house!

I'm the millions of men and women who were ready to sell their soul to Julie Newmar

I'm this rather terrifying, talking ventriloquist dummy.

I'm usherette Carol Burnett!

I'm a young, hot Rod Taylor

I'm the omnipresent cigarette between Rod Serling's fingers.

I'm the perfect parking spots available everywhere in LA. And the Baldwin Hills, I believe pictured below.

I’m Mr. Frisbee. Don’t believe a thing I say.

I’m one big pitch. One for the angles!

R36 I'm Mr. Finchley's electric razor that slithers down the stairs, trailing its long black cord behind it.

Oh dear, dear, dear.

Angels.

I was wondering what 'angles' had to do with it...

I'm Mr Finchley's secret bf

I'm Inger Stevens, and I've just discovered I'm a robot.

I’m so hot, no, make that freezing.

R51 Episode please?

I'm #12 and I look just like you!

I’m a most unusual camera.

Watch out for that first step..it’s a doozy!

Watch out for that first step..it’s a doozy!

Watch out for that first step..it’s a doozy!

I'm a real Martian!

R51 is The Midnight Sun.

I'm the weirdly structured and generally underwhelming stage adaptation.

R51, here’s a description of the episode.

[quote] I'm Inger Stevens, and I've just discovered I'm a robot.

R50, it’s robut! See R31.

I’m Aunt T. , the creepy bitch who lives in another dimension under your swimming pool.

R56 Thank you. I remember that episode but not the ending!

The Midnight Sun stars that famous LesBian!, Lois Nettleton.

I'm the best closing monologue of the show:

"There is an answer to the doctor's question. All the Dachaus must remain standing. The Dachaus, the Belsens, the Buchenwalds, the Auschwitzes – all of them. They must remain standing because they are a monument to a moment in time when some men decided to turn the Earth into a graveyard. Into it they shoveled all of their reason, their logic, their knowledge, but worst of all, their conscience. And the moment we forget this, the moment we cease to be haunted by its remembrance, then we become the gravediggers. Something to dwell on and to remember, not only in the Twilight Zone, but wherever men walk God's Earth."

-- From "Death's Head Revisited"

R60, that hag was running a child sex trafficking ring!

[quote] -- From "Death's Head Revisited"

I think that episode was on MeTV a couple of nights ago.

I'm the asshole who bought this guy a record for his birthday, even though the "monster" doesn't like music!

I'm the multi-talented Ida Lupino, who was the only woman to direct an episode in the entire run of the series. My episode is a standout, and is often included in "Top Ten Episodes" lists.

R9 "Queen of the Nile" is one of my all-time favorites. It's ESPECIALLY important to DL, due to the fact that it stars inconic actress Ann Blyth, of "Mildred Pierce" fame.

And Ida Lupino is great in "Twilight Zone"'s "Sunset Boulevard" rip-off "The Sixteen-Millimeter Shrine."

Number Twelve Looks Just Like You (the episode at R53) is on Friday at 5:30am Pacific on the SyFy channel.

On 11/30/20, at 9:15 am Pacific, the episode “The Miniature” will be broadcast on SyFy. It stars Robert Duvall as an introverted man who is fascinated by a doll that lives in a dollhouse in a museum, that only seems to move when he’s there alone. Duvall was young then, and he just acts the hell out of it. You can see how good he is. He’s miles above most actors they could have put in that role.

We're the thousands of library books in Time Enough at Last that somehow survived an atomic blast.

R70, during the Cold War, the government promoted the idea that paper books in libraries were good insulation against fallout and turned libraries into potential WWIII bomb shelters.

That’s the context that 1960s viewers believed about libraries and the ability to survive a nuclear attack. According to government propaganda of the day, a man in the lower levels of a library might survive and he protected from radiation, when others wouldn’t.

“Librarians encouraged civil defense groups to use their facilities for recruitment, training, and first aid classes. A branch even became New York’s civil defense headquarters. “If World War III had broken out,” writes Spencer, “emergency operations in America’s largest city might very well have been directed from a public library.” Libraries were turned into fallout shelters, urged on by government claims that the stacks “offered excellent radiation shielding.” Librarians stood ready to help shelter citizens or even evacuate their cities in case of emergency.”

It seemed to me growing up that a large part of the plots involved a nuclear apocalypse.

R72, It was the Cold War. At that time, kids were doing nuclear attack drills in school, which consisted of instructing small children to get under their school desks and cover their heads if a nuclear bomb hit. There were bomb shelters everywhere, which were public buildings that could be used as bomb shelters in case of emergency, because they had underground parking lots or basement floors.

The Cuban Missile Crisis happened in 1962. The Twilight Zone was broadcast from 1959-1964.

I'm the cruelest...and perhaps the most deserved...Mardi Gras souvenir in history.

I'm right here...but hey, where is everybody?

My name's Alicia....what's yours?

OMG!

Those tiny aliens are American!

And that broad is a witch!

I am the guy taking Donna Douglas to the Gay Compound where everyone is hot in Eye of the Beholder.

[quote] My name's Alicia....what's yours?

She’s a robut!

I’m a puppet in an alien zoo! And I’m dead!

I'm Robert Redford, and I'm hot to death.

Actually, I AM death.

R67, my favorite line from the "Queen of the Nile" episode -- "I'm not her mother. I'm her daughtah!"

I’m Mr. Wickwire! Don’t mind me, I’m just feather dusting these three cute young astronauts I’ve just murdered. When I’m done, you can be sure I’ll head over to the DL to post, “They had hot asses but they couldn’t live forever!” Tee hee.

R50, I didn't like that episode because the mother was so repulsive and I couldn't stand the length time her character moaned in ecstasy over the shoulder massage. It must have lasted two minutes. The daughter eventually calls her out and makes some reference to animal noises. I don't remember the line. It's one of the episodes I find unwatchable.

^ Bitchy, gay John Hoyt makes it watchable!

[quote] I didn't like that episode because...It's one of the episodes I find unwatchable.

It's also one of the videotaped episodes. I generally won't watch those. They're not quite as bad as The Bewitchin' Pool (for a different reason), but they're up there.

[quote] Bitchy, gay John Hoyt makes it watchable!

[quote] Hoyt was married twice: first to Marian Virginia Burns from 1935 to 1960, with whom he had one child, and later to Dorothy Oltman Haveman from 1961 to 1991 when he died of lung cancer at the age of 85 in Santa Cruz, California.

Many years after Gimme a Break was on (with DL fave Nell Carter), I learned that John Hoyt played the grandfather on the show. I never made that connection until I read it. After learning that I wondered why I never made that connection. I was very young when Gimme a Break was on however.

[quote] The Bewitchin' Pool

Is that the one that has a port at the bottom of the swimming pool and the two kids can swim through it? They arrive and help that creepy woman frost a cake. That episode is also unwatchable.

It hard to have a favorite but one is the man who hits a kid with his car and drives off. The car stalks him until he finally gets in and is dropped off at the police station to confess.

[quote] Is that the one that has a port at the bottom of the swimming pool and the two kids can swim through it? They arrive and help that creepy woman frost a cake. That episode is also unwatchable.

Yes it is. It is often considered the worst Twilight Zone episode.

I find that one unwatchable, R88, because the girl’s voice is clearly dubbed in using June Foray’s voice. It’s very obvious and off-putting.

[quote] the girl’s voice is clearly dubbed in using June Foray’s voice

Lesson: don't make Foray your foray into The Twilight Zone.

I have no idea who Foray is but I'll take your word for it. If I can ask, why would they dub a little girl's voice instead of finding someone with a voice they like? It seems like a lot if work.

[quote] I have no idea who Foray

She was the voice actress who voiced, among others, Rocky the Flying Squirrel. She was also the voice of Talky Tina the evil doll mentioned upthread from the "Living Doll" episode of The Twilight Zone. She lived to be almost 100.

[quote] If I can ask, why would they dub a little girl's voice instead of finding someone with a voice they like? It seems like a lot if work.

[quote] Numerous production problems delayed the premiere of this episode, which was originally scheduled for March 20, 1964. Most noticeably, back-lot noise rendered much of the outdoor dialogue unusable – only the indoor scenes with Aunt T were considered audible. The entire cast (except Aunt T) consequently re-dubbed their outdoor dialogue in September 1963, but Mary Badham's voice was still deemed not right.[2] Unfortunately, by the time this decision had been made, Badham had returned to her home in Alabama, and the cost of flying her back to Los Angeles to re-record her lines yet again was ruled to be too expensive. Eventually, voice actress June Foray, best known as the voice of Rocky the Flying Squirrel in the Bullwinkle cartoons, dubbed Sport Sharewood's lines for all the scenes that take place outdoors. In the finished episode, the change in Sport's voice is noticeable when she moves indoors, and Badham's own deeper voice and more authentic accent are heard in place of Foray's overdubbed voice characterization.

We're the monsters that are due on Maple Street.

R93 and R94 thank you. I had no idea!

I'm a dreary, almost deserted bus stop, a suitability liminal place. Here trench coats, hats, black/white cinematography, fog and chiaroscuro lighting gather for a fighting retreat, perhaps a last stand. Soon the clothing, colors and attitudes of sixties will make my characters look like artifacts for 50 years prior.

I am also about doppelgangers - the evil type.

^^^ I'm Vera Miles in that doppelganger episode, who Hitchcock wanted desperately for Vertigo a few years before.

R81 Another all-time favorite, and Redford's gorgeous visage is definitely one of the reasons! Gladys Cooper should be a DL fave & icon if she isn't already. One of her three Academy Award nominations came as a result of her stellar performance in DL fave "Now, Voyager".

I'd mention the other two ("Song of Bernadette" & "My Fair Lady"), but I can't remember how DL collectively feels about those films.

"What you feared would come like an explosion, is like a whisper."

[quote] Gladys Cooper should be a DL fave & icon if she isn't already. One of her three Academy Award nominations came as a result of her stellar performance in DL fave "Now, Voyager".

She is revered here for playing the vicious and cutting cunt of mother to Bette Davis’ character.

I'm the toy telephone that lets you talk to dead people.

I'm the set in the Mojave desert that is supposed to be the surface of Mars.

Agreed, R68!

Yes, R100! It was a much-deserved nomination in a fairly competitive year.

Another creepy telephone episode is "Night Call" starring DL fave Gladys Cooper...

“Where are you? I want to talk to you.”

I'm being forced to make hot chocolate. Ain't that a kick in the cunt!

R69 I remember that Duvall episode. YES, at the time I remember thinking exactly what you wrote -- that guy is going places! I had no idea who he was but he was totally committed to that role. The ending was very gratifying. Can't wait to see it again.

^^Robert Redford gave me the same chill in the episode where he played 'Death'. I know it was mentioned above, but it deserves repeating.

R57 That looks interesting. Any details?

R1”8, it’s a shame there isn’t a modern anthology series like the Twilight Zone, it was a showcase for a lot of excellent actors, up and coming and old veteran actors, to do their best. The actors on TZ really gave it their all.

There are a few shows today that are the same launching board for some actors. Supernatural is one. If you go back a few seasons, there are a lot of actors that appeared in one or a few episodes that are known actors now. The show doesn’t require great acting, but some actors have risen above the material, or at least improved since.

I wish we had an anthology series like TZ now.

Lots of criticism for The Bewitchin' Pool but I liked it for the opportunity to see Mary Badham again (Scout from To Kill a Mockingbird).

I’m the little boy who wakes each morning, thinking he hears the usual neighborhood noises, muffled by snowfall, and it’s never snowing. Eventually, though, it starts to snow in his bedroom, and his father can’t get in, because the door is blocked by a snow drift.

I’m the guy who trades his soul with the devil, for eternal life. I get bored after a while, and try to off myself, unsuccessfully. Finally, I commit a capital crime, expecting the state to execute him. But instead, he gets a sentence of life behind bars.

"I wish we had an anthology series like TZ now."

There's a TZ reboot

I’m the shadow on the wall. Some guy takes to reading stories to his aunt to ingratiate himself to her and get an inheritance. Finally he decides to kill her. After which, a shadow of the old woman appears on the wall, and it can’t be painted over. Eventually, the man goes mad, and kills himself. He then becomes a second shadow, book in hand, sitting with and reading to his aunt.

This might have been from Night a Gallery:

I’m the nice man who owned an antique store. I find a mirror that’s been painted over, and remove the paint. But it turns out to be a portal to the age of dinosaurs. Enter Eva Gabor, maybe, as the landlady who is going to force him to close. I throw her dog’s ball through the mirror, and Eva runs after him. Then I grab a gallon of paint and splash it on the mirror, sealing the portal.

r116, that was Night Gallery

R112 and R115 I don't remember seeing those episodes and I thought I saw every episode. They sound intriguing; I need to do a search.

r112 and r115 are describing episodes of The Night Gallery

R119 Thanks! No wonder I couldn't find anything by searching The Twilight Zone...duh.

If it was in color, it was "Night Gallery," or one of the TZ reboots. The original TZ, an well as the very similar Alfred Hitchock programs, were all in B&W.

This is the episode r115 is describing

[quote]There's a TZ reboot

There have been several TZ reboots.

1985-1989

2002-2003 (the one with Forest Whitaker)

and the current one with Jordan Peele.

None has been as successful as the original. I don't think the original can be replicated.

r112's episode:

Another Night Gallery episode, IIRC.

Some evil woman wears an opossum broach, but somehow, the broach grows into a full-sized opossum, and she can’t take it off.

While I think nothing can ever touch the original series, I liked several episodes of the 80's reboot of TZ. There was one called "The Beacon" that creeped me out in that [italic]Harvest Home[/italic] kind of way. Another one, "To See the Invisible Man" was very moving, I thought. I also remember a short one called "The Elevator," that's just too odd and twisted to explain, but I liked that one too!

r125, that Night Gallery episode was called A Feast of Blood (starring Sondra Locke and DL's favorite 106-year-old actor Norman Lloyd)

I like the episode that has the petty crooks finding a camera that can take a picture one minute into the future.

After they win a lot of money at the horse races by photographing the winning board - a waiter tells them the writing says there are only 10 pictures.....they've already taken eight.

They start fighting over it and accidentally take a picture of the sidewalk below there 8th floor window and the three of them are lying there dead....they start fighting again and all three of them fall out the window.

The waiter takes a picture of them....and when he looks at it....there are FOUR bodies on the ground.....he soon joins them after he takes a tumble out the window, too.

*there* = "their"

R128 see R54.

I'm the idiot spinster who waited around until the object of her affection's mother died to finally marry him. But, a Young Man's Fancy will always be his mother, particularly if he's a homosexual. A dead mother is just as emotionally satisfying as a live one.

[quote]Some evil woman wears an opossum broach, but somehow, the broach grows into a full-sized opossum, and she can’t take it off.

Oh, dear.

R36 - the flamenco dancer on the TV who would stop her dance and say, "Why don't you get out", freaked me out as a kid!

I'm "An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge" and I won an Oscar, bitches! I'm also devastatingly sad.

R134 Serling found that at a French film festival. Interesting backstory from IMBD:

[quote]Rod Serling was getting ready to take his end-of-season break, with all but one of the shows for the fifth season already filmed or in production, when he decided to leave early and go to a French film festival. There he saw Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge (1961) and immediately hunted down the producers with an offer to buy it for a one-time showing for American TV. Serling reportedly picked it up for $20,000 and flew straight back to Los Angeles, filming a new intro the moment he got to the studio and plugging the show into that same week's time slot. Not only did Serling get what was considered a classic, he also saved nearly $100,000 in production costs and brought the season's worth of shows in on budget.

R2 is why I cannot look out a window at nighttime.

I love how many future famous actors were cast in these episodes.

I'm should-be DL icon and chubbette Muriel Landers.

R113 that sounds like the Conrad Aiken story, Silent Snow, Secret Snow.

I'm that creepy cool hitchhiker appearing along the road you drive. Always ahead of you , impossibly there, even though I'm walking and you're driving.

I'm the overbearing mother who must be escaped.

And the nagging wife who must be punished.

I'm Rod Sterling appearing in the background after the intro, startling the audience by breaking the 4th wall.

[quote]I'm Rod Sterling

Oh, dear.

I'm the elderly couple trading in their old bodies for new, younger ones. But since they only have half the money required for both of them to get the procedure, only the man becomes a young stud again.

I'm all the episodes that taught kids to see life from a other point of view.

We could be the fearful Aliens, or toys in a charity bin not understanding our lives, etc., etc.

Oops ! Thank you R142.

Well, that man was worth silver sterling, wasn't he ?

We are Maccarthysm and Communist witch hunts allegories.

[quote] I'm that creepy cool hitchhiker appearing along the road you drive.

I believe you’re going...my way?

I’m the future movie star.

THAT SCENE !!! R147, always has me jump a little, even if I know it is coming !

[quote] Let's be an episode of The Twilight Zone.

If you insist, OP...

This thread is triggering.

I'm the creepy-yet-brilliant shot of the guy shape shifting into the Devil in The Howling Man.

[quote] Vic Morrow

Actor Vic Morrow and two children.

I'm the ratings, I eventually killed this innovative and creative show, like I always do.

I'm Rod Serling's first on-screen appearance in an episode, and it's the only time he actually interacts with a character.

I'm the "A World of Difference" episode, which The Truman Show ripped off

R152 He was played by the gorgeous Robin Hughes! You may remember him as O’Bannion in Auntie Mame.

I'm a haunting "folk-song" that's actually the only good thing about this episode.

I'm the girl who sang the song, and I'm not Liza Minnelli.

r159, Minnelli bombed her audition. That's show bizness.

R158 / R159 Thanks for the pics but there's no "song"

R161--Sorry 'bout that....I tried. Let's try again.....

R156 You're welcome!

I'm a poor man's riff on Kafka.

I'm looking to purchase a gold thimble.

I'm one of the characters in search of an exit

[quote] I'm a poor man's riff on Kafka.

R164, you are also obsolete.

I'm Twilight Zone's OTHER Tina!

I'm the prescient episode about Donald Trump.

R169 Nope, don't know which episode. Can you give us a hint (or a title)?

R155, Rod's handsome in that episode.

I'm Jack Weston, years before I became the object of a chubby-chaser.

I'm child actor Denise Lynn.

If we're talking about prescient Trump episodes, this Tales from the Darkside episode fits

r165 Silver. And besides, the damned thing was scratched.

I'm Bing Crosby's son, Gary. And I swear I got the part in "Come Wander With Me," all on my own merits. Not that it made any difference, it was one of the worst episodes. Boy oh boy, my dad really beat me after that one.

Bronze, it was gold. I just watched that one again the other day. And it WAS scratched!

I'm the closing narration of The Monsters Are Due on Maple Street and I am still relevant 60 years later.

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 a thoughtless, frightened search for a scapegoat has a fallout all of 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.

R170, I was thinking about that awful, hateful little brat with too much power for his maturity.

I remember the day of the inauguration, Melania's forced smile, followed by a sad rictus was eerily similar to Billy's mother reaction. No, I don't pity Mrs Trump.

In the end, no one had the courage to kill him. And he keeps on being a bully and sending people in the corn field.

Also, there is this less known episode about a narcissic fool who has a shelter and invites a few people who he considers slighted him in the past ( he is a bit thin-skin). He wants them to grovel, beg his forgiveness in order to get to stay in the shelter during the nuclear attack that is just about to happen.

They stand up to him. He loses.

What’s the name of the one where the misanthrope decides the best way to out all the criminals in society is to make them all two feet tall. At the end he’s tiny and his parrot is eying him.

[quote] What’s the name of the one where the misanthrope decides the best way to out all the criminals in society is to make them all two feet tall.

Four O'Clock

I'm Jan Handzlik appearing in "The Monsters Are Due on Maple Street," my only other performance besides Patrick Dennis in "Auntie Mame"

r176 You are indeed correct about it being a GOLD thimble, mea culpa. I really would've bet money otherwise, I was THAT sure of it.

I enjoyed "Night of the Meek,"(with Art Carney) one of their better sad/sweet episodes, as was "Static"( with Dean Jagger) "Kich the Can"(with Ernest Truex) is in this category also.

The only problem with the Robert Duvall episode was its length, it went on way too long, and was getting repetitious.

"In His Image" had George Grizzard doing his best Aldo Ray impression.

[quote] Minnelli bombed her audition

That, or Bonnie Beecher blew the casting agent.

I knowed it! I knowed it! We killed a man....

I'm not ugly. I'm not [italic]pretty[/italic]...but I'm not ugly.

....I think what you need is a nice cup of Instant Smile.

I'm the ever present feeling of foreboding. hahaa😃

R185 / R186 Collin Wilcox was perfect in Alfred Hitchcock Presents "The Jar" as Thedy Sue.

R182/Bronze I always enjoy your posts. You can be forgiven a lapse in memory of TZ trivia.

I’m Martin Balsalm’s wife in The Exhibit. Why did I let him bring those wax figures home!

Has anything good EVER come from the presence of wax figures in a movie or TV show?!

r189 Much obliged, Mr. Serling. I remember seeing a pic of your father in front of what looked like a small-ish supermarket c. 1950(?). I think we might've worked for the same company.

Joined the army right after high school graduation. Volunteered for the paratroops.

In November of 1944, the 11th Airborne Division first saw combat on the island of Leyte in the Philippines. They did not deploy with parachutes, however, and served as light infantry. Despite his reputation of hot-headedness and passion for serving the U.S., Serling was transferred to the 511th's demolition platoon.

Despite receiving two wounds on the island, Serling was still ready for combat and deployed with his platoon to Tagaytay Ridge in 1945 and marched on Manilla. Japanese forces defended the city with 17,000 troops and laid numerous traps. It took roughly one month to take control of the city. When a city block was peaceful enough and devoid of Japanese forces, locals would celebrate with the Allies. Serling's unit was enjoying such hospitality one night when Japanese artillery rained down on them. He ran into the shellfire to rescue a performer, earning the notice of his sergeant.

When he was discharged in 1946, Serling had earned the Purple Heart, Bronze Star, and Philippine Liberation Medal. The experience of war followed him home, and he experienced nightmares and flashbacks for the rest of his life. Serling said that, "I was bitter about everything and at loose ends when I got out of the service. I think I turned to writing to get it off my chest." When he returned to civilian life, he used his G.I. benefits for medical services as well as a college education.

Rod Serling was on The Donald O'Conner talk show once. The other guests were Keefe Braselle (a two bit actor who had written a book about his experience at CBS). He was on because he had done a small part in a movie, I think.....

Donald was talking to Rod who started laughing. Donald asked what was funny, and Rod said: "Look at us, a singer who thinks he's a writer, a writer who thinks he's an actor, and a dancer who thinks he's a talk show host. We're hilarious."

Donald was not pleased and said so......Rod replied: "I don't have to do this - my wife is rich. She has over $500 in the bank!"

I have the great misfortune of being married to a man whose greatest ambition in life is to be [italic]Huckleberry Finn![/italic]

R193, that is a GREAT Rod story!

I just came from Pinto’s grave. He’s waiting for you….

(I am also definitely drunk, possibly half-witted and [italic]juuuuuuust maybe[/italic] had an incestuous relationship with “Bud,” based on my extravagantly strange behavior.)

I wonder if Flight 33 ever got home?

"A Global jet airliner, en route from London to New York on an uneventful afternoon in the year 1961, but now reported overdue and missing, and by now, searched for on land, sea, and air by anguished human beings, fearful of what they'll find. But you and I know where she is. You and I know what's happened. So if some moment, any moment, you hear the sound of jet engines flying atop the overcast - engines that sound searching and lost - engines that sound desperate - shoot up a flare or do something. That would be Global 33 trying to get home - from The Twilight Zone."

I think of it every time I hear a jet above the clouds....all these years later.....

R197, that's so cool.

I'm the cafe fortune-telling machine that causes trouble for William Shatner and his new wife.

I’m King Nine, and I WILL NOT return.

R196, am I the only one who found Lee Marvin smoking hot in that episode. He is not my type at all, but he was a hunk of man.

I'm gay James Daly (Tim and Tyne's daddy) making a stop at Willoughby. I wonder if they had a bathhouse.

I'm Mr. French as my alter-ego, Lucifer.

That's my blatino husbear, r2!

I'm "Caesar and Me", the OTHER creepy ventriloquist dummy episode.

I'm Suzanne Cupito, star of the aforementioned "Caesar and Me". I'll grow up to become raging MAGAbitch Morgan Brittany.

I was just playing myself in that episode.

[quote] I'm gay James Daly (Tim and Tyne's daddy) making a stop at Willoughby.

Willoughby!

I'm the hitchhiker and I believe you're going...my way.

[quote] I'm the hitchhiker and I believe you're going...my way.

Call me Gabe.

I am among the most beautiful scores ever written for television, courtesy of Bernard Herrmann. Laid against Rod Serling's closing narration to "Walking Distance," I will bring grown men to tears.

"The daughter eventually calls her out and makes some reference to animal noises. I don't remember the line."

"Grunts of animal pleasure" is how I think she describes her mother's groaning. I thought it was a great line, very apt.

I know many things.....I'm Maya.

Here is the closing narration for R212's post of the beautiful Herrmann score:

[quote]Martin Sloan, age thirty-six, vice-president in charge of media. Successful in most things but not in the one effort that all men try at some time in their lives—trying to go home again. And also like all men, perhaps there'll be an occasion, maybe a summer night sometime, when he'll look up from what he's doing and listen to the distant music of a calliope, and hear the voices and the laughter of the people and the places of his past. And perhaps across his mind there'll flit a little errant wish, that a man might not have to become old, never outgrow the parks and the merry-go-rounds of his youth. And he'll smile then too, because he'll know it is just an errant wish, some wisp of memory not too important really, some laughing ghosts that cross a man's mind, that are a part of the Twilight Zone.

[quote] I'm Queen of the Nile -- the best episode of the show -- which should be iconic for DL, as it involves an aged actress who walks around in a caftan, looks 30 years younger than she is, and turns her male suitors to dust after she's through with them.

Isn't she like 300 years old in that episode? Shaving 30 years off would make her 270.

Thank you, R215!

R212 You're welcome. That score is truly beautiful. Herrmann could compose great melancholy themes. His original score for the Twilight Zone as posted by R27 is also a good example.

I’m the hour long episodes. Yes I suck, I know. I’m sorry.

R212 & R215 We had an interesting thread about The Alfred Hitchcock Hour and Bernard Herrmann's beautiful scores for that series were mentioned and highly praised...

Here's an example of a beautiful, haunting Herrmann score from an Alfred Hitchcock Hour called "Change of Address" that makes the episode unforgettable...

I'm Diana Hyland from "Spur of the Moment" before Eight is Enough and dying in John Travolta's arms.

I give true meaning to the phrase "Go chase yourself".

I'm Robert McCord and I appeared in more episodes of TZ (32) than anyone other than Rod.

I'm five seasons' worth of snappy little Kuppenheimer suits.

I have what you need...

I'd tell you who I am, but unfortunately, my vocal chords have been severed.

I dont like any of the feel-good episodes. I want to be intrigued. There's an episode with a Santa who does something nice and a little girl with a leg and shape shifts into an old man. In her defense, the mother is a real bitch.

[quote]my vocal chords have been severed.

Oh, dear.

I'm the star of the episode referenced at r226, and I can assure you that nothing on The Twilight Zone was ever scarier than being married to Joan Crawford.

I am notalgia. You can find me in many episodes and throughout this thread.

I am the missing letter "s".

R231 I don't get it. Missing from what?

I'm the supporting cast member in r226 and r229. I'm a fine serious performer specializing in serious roles and I steal the scenes where I appear in this and the "room for one more" episodes. Just as a change of pace I wish someday somebody will let me play broad comedy.

Isn't that Jonathon Harris (Dr Smith) from the original Lost in Space?

R231 I get it now. I'm a little slow.

R231 and R235... Okay, I'm the dummy (though I've never sat on Cliff Robertson's lap). I've been wracking my brains trying to figure out where the missing letter "s" comes from. Be a pal and a spoiler and tell me!

R236 It took me awhile too. R230 is missing the letter s in 'nostalgia'

I'm the missing space.

R224, Kuppenheimer always stood out to me because of all the homoerotic J.C Leyendecker ad

R221, thanks to you, I just watched this episode. Oh, it was excellent ! I commented on the Hitchcock thread.

And I'm R230 who just read R231's comment !

Good one !

I'm Shelley Fabares, and I'm hot for this bad-boy leather-jacketed motorcycle guy.

I'm fair Elly Glover and I'm dark Jess-Belle. We both loved the same man and we both loved him well.

R237--Thank you!

I’m “MOMMMMEEEE!!!”

I'm the hottest day in history.

....and I'm sweating more than Fritz Weaver in "The Obsolete Man."

I'm the anguished child watching the twist ending of the TZ episode when astronauts believe they're marooned on Mars but what they don't know is that they're on Earth and all will die with a state highway in walking distance.

I think Ernest Borgnine was in that episode.

I Shot An Arrow Into the Air.......no Borgnine.

Dewey kills the other members of the team.....and then finds the sign.....

"It fell to EARTH I know not where......" The answer was in the title......all the time.

Oh.

Thank you r259 and r250.

I'm the two TZ episodes-- the one about the ventriloquist (Cliff Robertson) and his dummy, and the one with DL icon Barbara Nichols and "Room for one more"--stolen from the classic chiller film "Dead of Night" (1945).

I'm older than I look

[quote]I'm older than I look

Spoken like a true Datalounger.

I'm "In His Image." See, not all the hour long episodes sucked.

[quote] It's also one of the videotaped episodes. I generally won't watch those. They're not quite as bad as The Bewitchin' Pool (for a different reason), but they're up there.

I think this is also videotaped episode. The story and the acting are over the top so I watch it for some reason. It's so fucking unrealistic that an 80 year old lawyer will be checking on the niece every Friday night to make sure the robot is running.

Can't wait for the TZ marathon on New Year's Eve

I'm unknown actress Elizabeth Montgomery looking darn good in my natural hair color and army boots

Will there be one this year, R257?

r259, yes, they've already put the schedule up

Thanks, R260.

My favorite is probably the Howling Man. i remember it having quite an impression on me as a kid seeing it for the first time.

After all these years and TZ marathons, i can't say that i've ever seen the "worst episode" Bewitchin' Pool. Amazing.

R181 i thought he was a good looking kid

r262, The Bewitchin' Pool is airing at 5:30 am on Jan. 2!

For your approval.......

I loved Rod!

I stopped watching TZ on SyFy when I noticed they cut out a scene in The Lonely. It's only about 30 seconds, but "robut" girl (played by the still-living Jean Marsh) has very little screen time anyway(s). I figure they must cut other episodes as well.

Oh yes all episodes of old tv shows are cut to make time for more commercials. It is especially egregious in I LOVE LUCY when scenes start a minute into it or lines are cut that make things incomprehensible.

Trust me, you're not missing much if you haven't seen "The Bewitchin' Pool".

The Bewitching Pool is not the worst episode. The worst one is the one with Carol Burnett, "Cavender is Coming".

Cavender is Coming and The Bewitchin' Pool were both pretty bad. The episodes that try to be cutely whimsical or funny don't work as well as the others

I once read a theory that the kids in The Bewitchin' Pool actually committed suicide at the end of the episode and thats's why they never came back from "Aunt T's."

[quote] I once read a theory that the kids in The Bewitchin' Pool actually committed suicide at the end of the episode

They should have. They should have for that travesty of an episode!

Mr. Chambers

I’m the old man in the cave.

I’m season four.

I’m season four.

R268 I know I type fat BUT I will say in defense of the Bewitching Pool that the cake Aunt T was frosting looked amazing.

Aunt T - an inspiration to fat whores everywhere!

R278 I bet she didn’t want any of that cake after those kids all had their nasty fingers into the frosting.

Seems to me Aunt T's kiddie heaven was kind of a hell. A life of sloth, never working or learning, playing all day, seemingly eating nothing but cake....it sounds like a pitiful kind of existence.

[quote] .it sounds like a pitiful kind of existence.

It does seem like heaven except the eating nothing but cake. Growing boys need to eat more than cake (wink, wink) and need to keep their figures.

I can see it now: a bitchin’ Bewitchin’ Pool themed pool party. You go through the pool to get to the bottom, so to speak. I’ll call it Through the Bewitchin’ Pool.

I’ll come as Aunt T

[quote] A life of sloth, never working or learning, playing all day, seemingly eating nothing but cake....it sounds like a pitiful kind of existence.

It sounds remarkably like my current COVID-imposed situation.

r257/r259 Decades TV has a TZ marathon this year as well, and they air complete episodes with the original commercial breaks (as opposed to SyFy's randomly-shoehorned breaks, repetitive commercials, and minimizing the end credits).

Unfortunately I don't get Decades anymore

Bump for the marathon tomorrow

For those who are interested, it looks like SyFy is doing their annual NYE TZ marathon starting tomorrow at 6am EST.

I think I’ll watch the Decades TZ!

I wonder what that says about me: that I choose Decades over SyFy.

It would be interesting to watch these old shows in context with the original commercials. A much better view of old time television.

I have to do SyFy's because I don't have Decades.

The Ring A Ding girl episode was on a few days ago.

"Bunny, you must come home. Please help us...help us...help us..."

R293, I loved "Ring-A-Ding Girl." One of my favorites.

Agreed R294. It's actually my favorite episode.

The actress who played her had a sad ending in real life. According to wiki:

[quote] After her last onscreen role in 1964, McNamara fell out of public view. For the remaining 15 years of her life, she worked temp jobs as a typist to support herself. Her obituary noted she had been writing scripts, including one titled The Mighty Dandelion, which had been purchased by a production company at the time of her death.

[quote] On February 18, 1978, McNamara was found dead on the couch of her apartment in New York City. She had taken a deliberate overdose of sleeping pills and tranquilizers and left a suicide note on her piano. According to police reports, she had a history of mental illness, and friends reported that she had suffered from acute depression. She is interred in Saint Charles Cemetery in Farmingdale, New York.

That's awful, R295. What a horrible detour for her life to take. Textbook example of the uncertainties of Hollywood.

[quote] Textbook example of the uncertainties of Hollywood.

It’s...It’s a textbook!

[quote] The Bewitchin' Pool is airing at 5:30 am on Jan. 2!

The mother in that episode is a drama queen and comes across self absorbed.

They're all on youtube now, I liked this one okay

I'm the smiling hitchhiker who creeped the fuck out of everyone (and Inger Stevens).

I'm the queen of the pageant. Forever.

The Last Flight is coming on in a few minutes, I love that one

Who is watching the marathon?

I have it on, but I would have preferred to have my Lucy and DVD in their usual time spots.

Oh, it's Aggie!

R304, you haven’t had sufficient of I Love Lucy?

I haven't watched them in some time, r306. And starting around Thanksgiving and going through New Year it's been a comforting respite from everything. Getting to see the succession of classic episodes from the Hollywood and European trips (and, well, all the other classic episodes) also gave me renewed respect for the show.

I'm Albert Salmi playing a murderer in Execution. It's ironic, because I actually became a murderer

Didn't realize he'd been married to Miss Peggy Ann Garner.

"No frozen TV dinners...no bikinis..."

[quote]Unfortunately I don't get Decades anymore

I can't get Decades on my cable anymore, but I can get it over-the-air. Assuming you live in a market where they're on a local station (I'm in LA) and your reception is decent, you should be able to as well.

Ditto, r311.

I'm GAY George Grizzard, when I was still young

I’m Walter Smith.

More Walter Smith.

I had forgotten that Miss Ida Lupino directed the mask episode. Brooke Hayward is so very, very bad in it. Ida must have been pulling her hair.

He is quite comely, r314.

Was Edson Stroll family?

Walter Smith had a flat ass and a hideous face.

bump

I'm Edson Stroll, who made a career out of going shirtless on television, and I was in two well known episodes. Nobody is sure if I had any other talents, but I sure was easy on the eyes.

Watching Edson Stroll on "McHale's Navy" turned me gay.

The guy who cuts out his vocal chords in The Silence was a cutie

I’m in the cornfield.

I'm 2020.

R323, I saw him on Wagon Train a few days ago playing one of several Brits without British accents.

R320 is Bump.

I'm the protagonist; I don't know it yet, but I'm actually -- *gasp!* -- dead.

R328, I'll be all the movies that ripped-off that plot twist!

I'm "the sound of actual time approaching" (𝐀 𝐌𝐚𝐭𝐭𝐞𝐫 𝐨𝐟 𝐌𝐢𝐧𝐮𝐭𝐞𝐬, Twilight Zone 1986; 13:39 into the episode):

I'm goofy BTS stills from the Twilight Zone (SPOILER ALERT)...

r331, I took a real quick look at your post and all I could think was "what the fuck does that gay group BTS have to do with the Twilight Zone?"

Red skirt. Never would have guessed.

Great pics, R331. Thanks for sharing.

Thanks, R333. I never would’ve guessed either. I wonder what Charles Bronson’s uniform colors were.

I always assumed Bronson was in gray and Montgomery was in army green. But after seeing the color picture of Liz, maybe he is in blue.

I'm the asshole who bought this guy a record for his birthday, even though the "monster" doesn't like music!

Plus, Rod Serling stood next to a discarded refrigerator at the beginning of the episode & announced that the monster had taken away electricity. So how could anyone play a record unless they had a gramophone?

Sorry forgot to put the first sentence in quotes

r337, the same why they "watched" TV earlier in the episode, Anthony made it work.

Wait! we're both wrong. Anthony did make the TV show happen, but the record was never played. It was the playing of the piano that made Anthony angry, not the record. And then Dan got drunk and started bitching about not being able to play his record and that set Anthony off and...

that was the end of Dan.

What "is" Anthony?

NBC news projects Warnock the WINNER!!!!!

Whoops! wrong thread.

[quote] NBC news projects Warnock the WINNER!!!!!

R342 is posting from...

I'm the mysterious chemical, making all men homosexual!

R337 he brought back electricity when he wanted to......they were watching television......

"I'm the asshole who bought this guy a record for his birthday, even though the "monster" doesn't like music!"

The record was never played, so that wasn't the cause of Dan's demise. The real stupidity was serving alcohol at the wretched "surprise birthday party." According to the story this was based on "Afterward everybody wished the brandy hadn't been brought out. Because Dan Hollis drank more of it than he should have, and mixed it with a lot of the homemade wine. Nobody though anything about it at first, because because he didn't show it much outside, and it was his birthday party and a happy party, and Anthony liked these get togethers and shouldn't see any reason to do anything even if he was listening. But Dan Hollis got high and did a fool thing. If they'd seen it coming they'd have taken him outside and walked him around."

The story mentions the Fremonts having a a gramophone, so I suppose the people in Peaksville had gramophones to listen to records on. "

TZ.

I'm the preoccupation with outer space, nuclear energy, robots and Communism.

I'm the Chesterfields Rod is smoking in many of the intros AND the commercial at the end. I wonder how many of our hipster audience Rod and I killed.

I'm an inanimate object that comes to life, typically a doll, for the sole purpose of tormenting someone.

I'm one of the recurring themes, that "robuts" will take away all the jobs and replace the entire human race. The current fear of AI seems reminiscent of this.

I'm a FAN DANCER from YONKERS!

I'm suburbia. Secret dimensions are hidden within me.

I'm a moral lesson smuggled in, because it's still television and it's still the mid-20th century.

I'm a relatively unknown actor who will become famous someday, like Robert Duvall, Carol Burnett, Telly Savales, Robert Redford, George Takei, and William Shatner.

One of the faves -- Time Enough at Last -- was on MeTV tonight. Burgess Meredith as the librarian. It really holds up.

I'm a passionate monologue about the menacing threat to personal individuality posed by communism, or maybe even capitalism.

I'm one of the stories about Americans troops fighting the Japs in the jungle

I'm pretty intelligent for a TV show in the early 60s.

[quote] I'm pretty intelligent for a TV show in the early 60s.

Hi, TV show in the early 60s!