One was Buster Keaton; his TZ was one of the few times after the silent days where he reminded you of the Keaton of old. I suspect Keaton wrote most of the gags himself.
A ballerina, a hobo, a bagpipe player, a soldier, and a clown. They were dolls in a round toy box of some sort.
My question: Who played the soldier?
A savalation army type donation bin. Close enough.
I can see his face and hear his voice, but a name isn’t coming.
My first question is still up for grabs: 1. In “The Midnight Sun” 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)?
Off the top of my head, my first guess was Cliff Robertson, but on refelction, I think it was Rod Taylor.
Now I’ll go look at an episode guide…
Aw, fer cryin’ out loud! It was William Windom! I couldn’t have been more wrong! :smack:
So what WERE the two episodes Cliff Robertson appeared in?
Since I’ve seen the TZ eps so many times, my favorite part is trying to figure out who the actors are. They always look so familiar, but so young.
IRL, the ballerina from “Five Characters” was the mom of Darva Conger. If you don’t remember her, as her 15 minutes were up some years ago, she was the “winner” of “Who Wants to Marry a Millionaire?” who then decided, “No thanks.”
:eek: That’s news to me.
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In “The Midnight Sun” 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 power will you gain if you manage to flip a coin and have it land on its edge?
If you’re Dick York, you gain the power to hear other people’s thoughts. Hilarity then ensues!
IIRC, Toronto.
He was in “A Hundred Yards Over the Rim” and “The Ventriloquist”
Wasn’t it the last episode of TZ and has an intro by Rod saying it wasn’t his?
I love AHYOtR – Robertson nailed the accent and inflection so well. And that stove-pipe hat was authentic too – it wasn’t what TV cowboys ca. 1960 wore.
Nope, wrong side of Lake Ontario. Here’s a hint: I lived in said city for college.
OK, you’ve jogged some long-dormant neurons – I think the father said he had 12 gallons of gas, which would get them as far as… Syracuse.
But their destination was Toronto – he had a cousin there.
IIRC.
D’oh! You’re absolutely right.
Wouldn’t the William Shatner one count as an episode without the supernatural?
IIRC the answers the machine gave were ambiguous, along the lines of ‘if thats what you want’ and ‘what do you think’ So in the story, maybe it was all in his mind.
Time Enough At Last too. A nuclear war isn’t supernatural.
This is the only episode in which Rod Serling, playing himself, interacts with another character.
Hint: the lead actor’s father appeared in a separate Twilight Zone episode.
That would be a “World of His Own” with Keenan Wynn. Wynn played a writer with supernatural powers.
Keenan’s father Ed Wynn would appear in another episode “Ninety Years Without Slumbering” about an old man obsessed with maintaining an old Grandfather Clock. He assumes that he will die if it doesn’t keep proper time.
But who did the voice for the demonic “Talky Tiny”?