Nope…the shards of the lenses fell out of the frames when he picked them up, save for some tiny bits that aren’t knocked out until he physically checks (I just watched the episode the other night).
Ah, found the last couple minutes on YouTube. Shows both that the glasses are toast, and just how bad his vision is without them.
Fair enough.
Were those glasses bifocals? I assume they must be, but I couldn’t see the line. If not, why would he need to wear reading glasses while just walking around?
Maybe he could - but it’s important not to distill that episode down to one moment. Burgess Meredith’s character has been living alone for a long time after the apocalypse, and is on the verge of suicide from loneliness and despair. Suddenly he finds a little bit of hope - something that might made living in the ruins of his city, without any companionship, tolerable - and then it’s taken away. The possibility that with great effort, a man with very poor eyesight might find replacement glasses in a bombed-out city going to be hard to look at as good news for a person already on the edge of suicide.
Every single TZ episode that ends “It was Earth after all” are lame. Sometimes it spoils an otherwise good episode. There’s one where a group of scientists and their families are trying to escape an oncoming war, so they steal a rocketship. It’s actually a very tense episode, with a scene where a state security agent stops by their bridge(!) game and snoops around. But then they steal the spaceship and the answer to “where are we going?” is “That one, third from the sun.” And I was like, fossil records bedamned, we’re going to invent bridge again???
Fortunately, we’ve learned our lesson in the intervening years, and there’s no way that, say, a very highly regarded remake of a classic TV series would ever pull the same hackneyed trick.
Actually in the 4 times that the custody of me changed I was asked in open court in f ront of everyone involved except the last one when I had to choose between mom and grandma and only mom was there … and sometimes I think I chose poorly …
Some of us wear glasses just to function, including reading. My vision is so bad that I can’t see the big E on a chart, so until recently I used a single focal lens for near vision, distance, and reading.
I wear contacts after my laser surgery finally didn’t correct my vision anymore. I just don’t understand how the same single focal lens can let you read AND see distance. I had to get multi-focal lenses for that.
In any event, I don’t like the episode for the reason that he could find other glasses eventually.
Plus, I like the futurama bit better anyway 
I hate “The Monsters Are Due on Maple Street” and “It’s a Good Life.” I hate IAGL because of creepy Billy Mumy so maybe the episode worked. I just wanted a grown up to shoot him.
I agree with a number of the ones above, but one that bothered me. . .
Vic Morrow’s vignette in “TZ: The Movie.” His character was an unlikeable bigot. . . but there was no indication he had ever harmed anyone. And it ends up with him on a cattle car being shipped off to a concentration camp.
But it might not have been the original ending had it not been for that unfortunate accident.
Edit: Heck, Theodore Bikel was also unlikeable, but all Serling did to him was shrink him.
Until last year, all I ever had was single focus and without them I’d have to hold a printed page up to my nose and it was blurry from my nose to the horizon!
I know for myself that if I ever lost my glasses I wasn’t going anywhere fast and no drug store would have glasses that work for me on a rack. Anyway, I doubt the episode wasn’t intending to suggest he’d never see again, but show the bitter injustice of it.
One of my biggest fears is losing my glasses in an emergency. I’d watch disaster movies and say to myself “I’m dead, my glasses would have fallen off”. This episode spoke to me!
Well, sorry to hear that, but like I said I wasn’t familiar with single focus lens that worked for reading and seeing distances. Why do they make bifocals then?
But that’s just it. It doesn’t seem anything more than the injustice of scrambling around until he finds a magnifying glass or something.
Well, clearly the episode is more relevant to you than me. That’s cool too.
I think that sums up why I hated that segment. It missed what The Twilight Zone is. The Zone is good for exposing and/or punishing the wicked and guilty, or to grant favors. Episodes like Time Enough punish the character for no good reason. Was he a bad person? No. But it’s ironically “funny” what happened to him.
As in TEAL, punishing Morrow’s character so harshly for just being a bigot is excessive. Why does the TZ pick him out to meet such an extreme punishment to? Are there not more “deserving” people in Viet Nam, people who actually rape and/or kill locals just for sport? What happened to Morrow’s character way exceed what he did. And there was no chance for redemption. Interestingly, the Zone is as bad in its actions as Morrow’s character.
(The movie also missed with its interpretation of IAGL. While it’s nice to imagine redemption for the kid, the permanence of the original is what makes it truly chilling.)
The Obsolete Man. Contrived tedium.
When I still wore regular glasses to correct my nearsightedness, I had to either take them off or hold what I was reading an arm’s length away around the time I turned 45. Now that I wear contacts, I either have to take them out or wear reading glasses to read anything.
More on topic, I think the biggest stinker I’ve seen is “Probe 7, Over and Out,” another “Adam and Eve” story with Richard Basehart and Antoinette Bower. Both the dialogue and the production values were horrendous.
Watching the episodes of all five seasons in strip fashion, I’m amazed at how hokey the science-fictiony sets and costumes looked. In most cases, they were even worse than crappy 1950s SF movies. And the astronauts, hoo-whee! “Truck drivers from the Bronx,” fer sure! :smack:
How many “this guy mysteriously pops into modern times (always around 1960!) and then returns to alter the past” episodes were there, anyway? :dubious:
“Black Leather Jackets” was obviously a corollary of American fears of being infiltrated by Communists (like “The Monsters Are Due on Elm Street,” which was much better done), but I think it was also largely a ripoff of this show:
[spoiler]On January 20th, Walter Ames reported in The Los Angeles Times that Alan Young would star in an episode of Chevron Hall of Stars titled “Defense of 117,” to be directed by William Seiter [3]. He would play “a man from an unknown planet who likes the life he finds on earth and battles to remain here” [4].
The “secret defense” referred to in the title was love.[/spoiler]
What!? Is that a joke? Orson Bean? That guy has the range of a BB air rifle.
For all its awfulness, I still like a couple of scenes in “Black Leather Jackets” since the “alien pretending to be a human and not doing a very good job of it” scenes with the teenaged girl are very reminiscent of Robert Hayes in “Starman”
Lucas Jackson: The funny thing is I did not remember posting that. And more to your point, I don’t remember the episode.
L&O: TOS does a lot better than that. It’s more like 1/4 brilliance, 1/2 good, 1/8 meh, if nothing else is on, and 1/8 stinkers, and the stinkers are concentrated in the final 2 (19th & 20th) seasons (with some in the second half of the 18th season). There are really only a handful of true stinkers from the rest of the series. That’s how it lasted 20 years.