# Twilight Zone-a-thon! **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [July 3, 2011, 6:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/twilight-zone-a-thon/587737 "2011-07-03T18:31:36Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 14\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Quimby](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/22d042/32.png) [@Quimby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Quimby)\ **Post date:** [July 5, 2011, 4:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/twilight-zone-a-thon/587737/41 "2011-07-05T16:13:41Z")
> [@John\_Mace](#): > > Watching _Five Characters in Search of an Exit_. I’m fascinated by the fact that “the Major” has a mustache. In 1960. Wouldn’t that have been impossibly hip for a military guy in that time period? Or is it just anachronistic military fashion? That is one of my favorite episodes. Some trivia about it: the daughter of the woman who played the Ballerina in this episode grew up to be the infamous winner of the show “Who Wants to Marry a Multi Millionaire?” ---
**Author:** ![John\_Mace](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/john_mace/32/185_2.png) [@John\_Mace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/John_Mace)\ **Post date:** [July 5, 2011, 4:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/twilight-zone-a-thon/587737/42 "2011-07-05T16:58:30Z")
> [@ministryman](#): > > Which role are you talking about? The main character. The guy who was lost, gets taken in, and then let’s Satan out. ---
**Author:** ![Earl\_Snake-Hips\_Tucker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/earl_snake-hips_tucker/32/3269_2.png) [@Earl\_Snake-Hips\_Tucker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Earl_Snake-Hips_Tucker)\ **Post date:** [July 5, 2011, 5:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/twilight-zone-a-thon/587737/43 "2011-07-05T17:18:30Z")
> [@Quimby](#): > > That is one of my favorite episodes. Mine, too. I’ve always assumed that the title was inspired by an earlier title [Six Characters in Search of an Author](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Six_Characters_in_Search_of_an_Author), although the story seems to be more like “A writer with writer’s block in search of a script.” Serling would actually use that theme in a later work “Midnight Never Ends” in the “Night Gallery” series. He himself admitted that after having written so many stories that it was hard to stop cribbing things from earlier stories. ---
**Author:** ![Freudian\_Slit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/5daacb/32.png) [@Freudian\_Slit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Freudian_Slit)\ **Post date:** [July 5, 2011, 5:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/twilight-zone-a-thon/587737/44 "2011-07-05T17:24:07Z")
> [@John\_Mace](#): > > The main character. The guy who was lost, gets taken in, and then let’s Satan out. And gets taken in in more ways than one… ---
**Author:** ![Tom\_Tildrum](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/e95f7d/32.png) [@Tom\_Tildrum](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tom_Tildrum)\ **Post date:** [July 5, 2011, 7:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/twilight-zone-a-thon/587737/45 "2011-07-05T19:31:51Z")
> [@Captain\_Amazing](#): > > His birth name was Chaim Weiner. He changed it when he got involved in acting. I’m surprised he didn’t change it the first day of elementary school… ---
**Author:** ![John\_Mace](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/john_mace/32/185_2.png) [@John\_Mace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/John_Mace)\ **Post date:** [July 5, 2011, 9:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/twilight-zone-a-thon/587737/46 "2011-07-05T21:27:41Z")
> [@Captain\_Amazing](#): > > He’s not. He’s the son of Jewish immigrants from Eastern Europe, and is the first of his family to be born in this country. His birth name was Chaim Weiner. Kinda casts the whole “staff of truth” thing in a different light… ---
**Author:** ![YaraMateo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/y/58f4c7/32.png) [@YaraMateo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/YaraMateo)\ **Post date:** [July 7, 2011, 6:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/twilight-zone-a-thon/587737/47 "2011-07-07T06:00:30Z")
> [@Freudian\_Slit](#): > > I thought it turns out he’s a prince from another galaxy/planet who can change shapes. I don’t know if they implied romantic love between the two of them… He ends up marrying her. I always thought was weird even when I was tween and first saw it. (12ish I think at the time). It was just so weird that she was a child and he was an adult when they met. That and I believe the aunt didn’t want them paling around. I know that wasn’t the intent, but that episode and the one with the pool just makes me feel uncomfortable. ---
**Author:** ![Freudian\_Slit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/5daacb/32.png) [@Freudian\_Slit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Freudian_Slit)\ **Post date:** [July 7, 2011, 7:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/twilight-zone-a-thon/587737/48 "2011-07-07T07:47:35Z")
Yeah, I guess that probably wouldn’t fly today. I remember thinking it was sort of cool when I first saw it but in today’s Chris Hansen fueled environment, maybe not. I still find Bewitching Pool and I Sing the Body Electric the two most unintentionally creepy. ---
**Author:** ![WOOKINPANUB](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wookinpanub/32/132_2.png) [@WOOKINPANUB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WOOKINPANUB)\ **Post date:** [July 7, 2011, 3:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/twilight-zone-a-thon/587737/49 "2011-07-07T15:03:36Z")
> [@Quimby](#): > > Sorry about your Dad. It was also for me one of the shows my Dad and I would watch together. I always found that episode extra eerie because it was shot on Video. There is a handful of them that were filmed that way and they seem off when you watch them. I just thought of another one whose creepy factor was enhanced by being on video: I think it was called “Room for One More” or at least that was the catch phrase. A young actress or maybe showgirl is in a hospital suffering from exhaustion. She keeps having a dream that a nurse comes in her room at night and she follows her down to the basement where the morgue is. The nurse, who is wonderfully cold and scary says, menacingly, “Room for one more, honey”. I won’t give the ending away only because this one seems to be shown so rarely that there might be people who haven’t seen it. Definitely on of my favorites. Also have to give a shout out to the one where the greedy family has to wear masks on Mardi Gras. ---
**Author:** ![Freudian\_Slit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/5daacb/32.png) [@Freudian\_Slit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Freudian_Slit)\ **Post date:** [July 7, 2011, 3:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/twilight-zone-a-thon/587737/50 "2011-07-07T15:06:19Z")
Good one, **WOOKINPANUB**. I think it was actually called “Twenty-Two” but the catch phrase is indeed “Room for one more.” It came on late Mon night/early Tues morn. Did you catch it? ---
**Author:** ![Jim\_s\_Son](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e19adc/32.png) [@Jim\_s\_Son](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jim_s_Son)\ **Post date:** [July 7, 2011, 3:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/twilight-zone-a-thon/587737/51 "2011-07-07T15:17:35Z")
> [@Promethea](#): > > I’m not there watching with you all but my favourite episodes are rarely shown. The first one is “Miniature”. Robert Duvall (Robert DUVALL, people - man this show lucked out with the up and coming stars) delivers a beautiful turn as a lonely, awkward, sensitive man who just doesn’t fit in to the modern world. Then he sees that a tiny doll in a dollshouse in the local museum comes to life in her tiny house but only he ever sees this happening. I think the rest kind of writes itself but really, this ep was all about the mood and the acting. Funny and poignant all round. > > Runner up is “Death Ship”. The Captain of a starship, played by Quincy M.E. lands on a supposedly uninhabited alien world because on of his crew spots some glinting metal on the surface. Turns out to be a crashed starship just like theirs, complete with their own mangled corpses in it. The rest of the ep covers the Captain and crew trying to make sense of this. Deeply firghtening and thought provoking. > > Oh, and I love “Walking Distance” because Bernard Herrmann delivered one of his loveliest scores ever for that episode. If you liked his work on Fahrenheit 451, you’d also like this. > > PS: Freudian Slit, I think “Spur of the Moment” is a cracker too - I didn’t realise it was disliked. I remember seeing the Robert Duvall episode about 25 years ago when colorizing old black and white shows was the rage.They partially colorized this so the scenes in the dollhouse were color and real life was B&W. About the only time this misguided experiment actually worked. Actually if you see a lot of early 1960s TV, Robert Duvall shows up a lot.Which is fine with me. ---
**Author:** ![WOOKINPANUB](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wookinpanub/32/132_2.png) [@WOOKINPANUB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WOOKINPANUB)\ **Post date:** [July 7, 2011, 4:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/twilight-zone-a-thon/587737/52 "2011-07-07T16:50:11Z")
> [@Freudian\_Slit](#): > > Good one, **WOOKINPANUB**. I think it was actually called “Twenty-Two” but the catch phrase is indeed “Room for one more.” > > It came on late Mon night/early Tues morn. Did you catch it? No, darn it. I almost never do and I watch as much of every marathon as I can.( The only thing I enjoy more than the TZ marathons is discussing them :)) And, no offense to fans, but “The Howling Man” is one that I usually skip. Who else can name one that they saw for the first time this time around? I’m pretty sure I’ve seen them all but this year was only the second time I’ve seen the one were the airman with amnesia finds himself in a deserted town and we find out the whole thing is a military experiment in which he has been isolated in a tiny box for several weeks. I vaguely recalled it but couldn’t remember the ending so it was a treat. ---
**Author:** ![Freudian\_Slit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/5daacb/32.png) [@Freudian\_Slit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Freudian_Slit)\ **Post date:** [July 7, 2011, 5:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/twilight-zone-a-thon/587737/53 "2011-07-07T17:03:27Z")
I think that’s Where is Everybody? It was the first ever aired episode. ETA: If you missed it, you can catch it instantly on Netflix. They have all of them but the hour long season four ones. ---
**Author:** ![Pepita96](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/f0a364/32.png) [@Pepita96](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pepita96)\ **Post date:** [February 8, 2019, 3:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/twilight-zone-a-thon/587737/54 "2019-02-08T03:22:12Z")
> [@John\_Mace](#): > > I’m watching _The Howling Man_ right now. The guy staring in this, H. M. Wynant, looks like he’s African American. I can’t imagine that he is, since it would be unheard of to cast a Black man in this sort of role in 1960. His bio on wikipedia doesn’t give any info about his background. Anyone else get the sense that he’s African American? Yes! He does look mulatto or mixed with African and Caucasian. He looks especially browner next to the other Caucasian cast. Actually, there are several mixed African Americans in Twilight zone episodes that passed for Caucasian. There’s actually an almost all African American cast in season1 ep27, the Big Tall Wish. I’m glad someone else noticed this but me…many years later but noticed. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/twilight-zone-a-thon/587737.md?page=2)