Anyone watching the Twilight Zone marathon?

[randwill]

@Johnny Hildo

I doubt “An Occurence Owl Creek Bridge” should be that hard to find. As a schoolboy, they paired it with “The Red Balloon” on the VHS tapes they rented out at the library. Never seen the TZ version of it, but I believe it’s cut.

The TZ that used “Occurence at Owl Creek Bridge” as an episode is on the 5th season DVD set. In fact, all TZ’s are available in “The Definitive…” sets for those of us who don’t like to wait for the marathons for our TZ fix.

[ralph124c]

How did they do that crappy introduction? With Rod Serling solemnly intoning “you are entering a region of signt and sound, the boundaries of which are your imagination”! REALLY! I hadn’t remembered just how BAD a LOT of the TS episodes were! Between the hammy acting and cheezy special effects, you knew the TZ was a low-rent operation!
Although, i always liked the onc where a young Robert Duvall is trying to start up his own nazi party-and the ghost of Hitler shows up to help him out!

[WolfpackJeep]

@Baker

What was the one with the old hillbilly guy who, as it turned out, died, although I’m not sure he realized it at first. He and his dog are walking along, and a guy tries to invite him in to his place, but the dog doesn’t like him, and he can’t bring in the dog. He keeps on walking, comes to another nicer guy.

Of course it turns out the first guy was a demon/the devil, and the next one is an angel.

The Hunt.

[The_Scrivener]

@Ralph124c

Although, i always liked the onc where a young Robert Duvall is trying to start up his own nazi party-and the ghost of Hitler shows up to help him out!

That was Dennis Hopper. That particular episode has grown on me a bit over the years, actually, because of nice touches like the way it shows Hitler as a backlit profile, as a shadow on the wall…

[ralph124c]

@The Scrivener

That was Dennis Hopper. That particular episode has grown on me a bit over the years, actually, because of nice touches like the way it shows Hitler as a backlit profile, as a shadow on the wall…

Thanks-memory is getting bad, i guess. that was a very well acted episode-and the “Hitler” figure tells Hopper to murder one of his followers ("you need a martyr"0-was absolutely chilling.
Of course, the “Hitler” ghost was all in the guy’s head-but where did the money come from?

[Sternvogel]

@SurrenderDorothy

I think my favorites are… ugh, I can’t remember the names but

• the one with the “horribly disfigured” woman with all the bandages on her face, where they didn’t show anybody’s face until the end when the woman looked totally normal and everybody else was hideous (does that need a spoiler? I mean it’s only about a hundred years old… and kind of predictable)

That’s Eye of the Beholder, which the OP mentioned.

• the one where the woman goes to a department store and gets taken to the “nonexistent” ninth floor… and there’s a bunch of stuff with the mannequins.

This page lists all episodes in the order in which they originally aired. By using “ninth floor” as keywords, I discovered that the episode’s title is The After Hours.

AuntiePam: You can read Serling’s opening and closing comments for On Thursday We Leave For Home here.

[Johnny_Hildo]

@Sternvogel

That’s Eye of the Beholder, which the OP mentioned.

This episode won an Emmy for photography, which it deserved.

For some reason, no director of photography is credited on any of the shot on video episodes. Somebody must have told someone where to place the cameras.

[scotandrsn]

@scotandrsn

Whoops! Got my memories crossed. This occurred in “The Trouble with Templeton”

Whoops again! No, it was The Bard. I have Vacation Brain.

[AuntiePam]

@Sternvogel

AuntiePam: You can read Serling’s opening and closing comments for On Thursday We Leave For Home here.

Thanks. I like my endings better. This was pre-Waco and Jonestown, so I guess it makes sense that Benteen loses his followers.

[Johnny_Hildo]

One other thing I’ve noticed is that part of the end credits are digitally obscured on some episodes for some reason. Anyone know what that’s about?

[scotandrsn]

@scotandrsn

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One thing I noticed is that the quality was sometimes hit-or-miss throughout the show’s run. For example, the ridiculously schmaltzy “One for the Angels” (Ed Wynn making a huckster’s pitch to Death), which seems like it must be a season 5 indication of decline, is actually episode 2 of season 1.

Also I should have mentioned here that the fifth and final season, often disparaged by fans, contains many of what are considered the series’ signature moments: “Nightmare at 20,000 Feet”, “A Kind of Stopwatch” and “Living Doll” are all from season 5.

[Freudian_Slit]

@Omega Glory

Thanks. I watched with a couple of people who’d never seen it before either. The main comment afterward was: what the heck was that?

More Black Leather Jacket spoilers…

For some reason, I’d forgotten how abrupt the ending was. It just ends with the guy, Scott, trying to warn the girl and her family and then…nothing. No explanation for the eye either.

There was a lot of cheesiness, true. The aliens in “Hocus Pocus and Frisby” come to mind.

I never liked the hour long ones either. I also was wary of the ones with messages (there was one called “The Gift” that sort of featured a Jesus/alien and I always found “He’s Alive” too heavy handed).

Re: the digitial obscuring of credits–I think they’re doing that so they can show ads over the credits. It’s not just Sci Fi–lots of channels are doing it. I really hate it.

[Push_You_Down]

@Zoggie

There was a lot of cheesiness, true. The aliens in “Hocus Pocus and Frisby” come to mind.

This was the one episode I caught last night. I had never seen it before. I did love the cracked face effect when Frisby slugged the alien.

[Hail_Ants]

For some reason, no director of photography is credited on any of the shot on video episodes. Somebody must have told someone where to place the cameras.

Maybe because in the heady days of early TV they figured that, strictly speaking, videotaping isn’t photography! Probably a union thing too.

I never minded cheesy effects in TZ, as long as there was still a good story backing it up. Hocus Pocus & Frisbee was such a great concept, a silly boasting windbag almost gets abducted by aliens because they have no reason to doubt his stories, that the rather silly effects don’t detract from it.

But an episode like, ug!, The Mighty Casey, which is quite possibly Worst. Twilight Zone. Ever. is such an unbelievable dog of a script that effects like playing a slide whistle during the robots amazing curve ball(!) just made it unbearable.

BTW, I watched Owl Creek Bridge on YouTube a few weeks ago…