It was a computer.
What was the Living Doll’s name?
Talking (or Talky?) Tina – she made short work of Kojak.
Sulu of Star Trek fame starred in an episode.
Which one?
To be honest…I remember the episode but the name escapes me.
Just give me the gist of the episode.
Charles Bronson
A machine.
What was REALLY happening when everyone thought the world was getting closer and closer to the sun?
Actually, Elizabeth Montgomery’s character did utter a line, well, word in the episode “Two.” In response to a dress Charles Bronson’s character gave her to put on, she said, “Percrasny.”
Russian for “pretty,” iirc.
Sir Rhosis
Who ghost-wrote most of the latter episodes (the Talky Tina one was one of them, iirc) credited to him when he became too ill with Alzheimers?
Sir Rhosis
“who ghost-wrote the latter episodes credited to CHARLES BEAUMONT” it should have said.
Takei and Neville “drill my hair for oil and fuel the world” Brand starred in “The Encounter.” Bigoted WWII vet meets Japanese gardener.
Sir Rhosis
The guy credited was Charles Leroy McNutt (howzat for painful irony), who used the pen name Charles Beaumont. I can’t recall the actual writer.
Chalres Nutt was Beaumont’s real name, yes, but that wasn’t the answer. I’ll go ahead and answer since this one isn’t something you’d pick up on screen. Several people wrote the final handful of eps credited to Beaumont, most notably Jerry Sohl.
Sir Rhosis
Which along with the previously-mentioned “Owl Creek Bridge” has never been part of the syndication package, although I believe both have been released on VHS.
And one nitpick, Beaumont is thought to have suffered from Pick’s Disease, not Alzheimer’s.
Interesting, I’m not familiar with Pick’s Disease.
I believe there were a couple other eps withheld from syndication (themes, lawsuits, etc.), one was “The Miniature” with Robert Duval, iirc.
Sir Rhosis
Dang it, Baker, that’s my favorite episode. I wanted to get it.
Er, I remember an episode in which a blabber-mouth takes a vow of silence and lives in a glass case for a year. Is it what you were going for?
Idle Thoughts, the opposite. The world was getting further away from the sun.
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In that episode to what city did the starlet’s neighbors flee to (aside: I lived in said city for a few years and find it hilarous that even as the world turns into a giant cinder this city is still cold)?
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What did a cross-like symbol mean when a dying astronaut drew it?
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Name the eponymous characters of “Five Characters in Search of an Exit” and describe their predicament.
or, Donna Douglas, who starred in two episodes of TZ.
^^^2. It was a telephone/power pole with lines.
“The Jeopardy Room” with Martin Landau (agent tricks bad guys into picking up bomb-rigged telephone) was a non-fantasy ep.
Sir Rhosis
Yep, until the 1980s. Those can all be seen now. And the hour-long eps were frequently not shown, since–they were an hour long.
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A bit of a trick question: What was the only TZ ep to have a sequel produced (that I know of)?
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Name eps in which Star Trek (original series) main cast alumni appeared (not counting the two Shatners and Takei ep already mentioned).
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Name the ep which had a walk-on part for Patrick Macnee (two or three years before he became John Steed).
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Name The ep which had a day of the week in the title (I recall only one, but there may have been more).
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Which ep did Rod Serling’s brother Robert Serling help write (though he received no credit). What specific portions of the dialog in this ep did Robert Serling write?
Sir Rhosis
Oh, in addition to the already mentioned episodes (“The Silence” and “The Jeopardy Room”) which contained no fantasy and could have conceivably happened in the real world, add the pilot episode “Where Is Everybody?”
Yes, Earl Holliman had some incredibly detailed hallucinations, but it sorta kinda could really have happened. Serling knew this and when he had the TZ eps ghostwritten for him into volumes of short stories, he added a filip to this adaptation – the astronaut undering sensory deprevation finds a movie ticket stub (from one of his hallucinations) in his pocket after he comes out of the tank.
Sir Rhosis
“It’s a Good Life,” I believe.
^^^Yep. “It’s Still A Good Life,” a fairly interesting followup on the 02-03 version of TZ. Mumy and daughter Lilianne were both fine. I think Cloris Leachman even returned.
Sir Rhosis