Twilight Zone trivia test

[F.U.Shakespeare]

June Foray, also the cartoon voice of Rocky the Flying Squirrel.

[Baldwin]

Note: there were lots of episodes that didn’t involve any supernatural phenomena. They were (mostly pretty bad) science fiction.

Originally Posted by Wolfian

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)?

It doesn’t matter because it was a dream. The world wasn’t turning into a cinder; the overheated world was a fever dream on the part of the female character who was actually suffering from pneumonia as the world got colder and colder.

Here are a couple more:

1. Name some actors seen on both “Twilight Zone” and Serling’s later series “Night Gallery”. I’ll start off with the ever-reliable William Windom.

2. Name two actors from “Lost in Space” who appeared on “Twilight Zone”.

[F.U.Shakespeare]

2. Bill “Will Robinson” Mumy (in “It’s a Good Life”) and Jonathan “Dr. Smith” Harris, who played a shrink in that episode about the stripper who has a premonition of her death (the recurring line, “Room for one more”, may have been the title).

[Baldwin]

2. Bill “Will Robinson” Mumy (in “It’s a Good Life”) and Jonathan “Dr. Smith” Harris, who played a shrink in that episode about the stripper who has a premonition of her death (the recurring line, “Room for one more”, may have been the title).

Excellent – I had forgotten about Jonathan Harris being in that episode. He was also in the one with the talkative man who took a bet about remaining silent for a year.

[Earl_Snake-Hips_Tucker]

What actor, best known as a supporting character in a long-running 1960s series, appeared in one TZ ep without his hairpiece, and later with it?

[Sir_Rhosis]

^^^Raymond Bailey?

[Earl_Snake-Hips_Tucker]

Yep. Without in “Escape Clause” and with in “From Agnes With Love.”

Also, Stanley Adams (best known as tribblemeister “Cyrano Jones” from “Star Trek”) appeared without his hairpiece in “Mr Garritty and the Graves” and with it in “Once Upon a Time”.

[Sir_Rhosis]

Cool, I didn’t know Adams was in “Mr. Garrity and The Graves,” or that he wore a hairpeice. I’ll look for him.

Any answers to the questions I posed toward the bottom of the first page, anybody?

Sir Rhosis

[Earl_Snake-Hips_Tucker]

@Sir Rhosis

Cool, I didn’t know Adams was in “Mr. Garrity and The Graves,” or that he wore a hairpeice. I’ll look for him.
Sir Rhosis

I think he played the bartender.

[Torgo]

@BobT

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.

Ed Wynn was also in “One for the Angels” which co-starred the criminally underrated Murray Hamilton as the grim reaper.

[Just_Ed]

@Sir Rhosis

Any answers to the questions I posed toward the bottom of the first page, anybody?

Let’s see . . .

Name eps in which Star Trek (original series) main cast alumni appeared (not counting the two Shatners and Takei ep already mentioned).

Leonard Nimoy appeared in “A Quality of Mercy.” I can’t think of any others.

Name the ep which had a walk-on part for Patrick Macnee (two or three years before he became John Steed).

“Judgment Night” as First Officer of the S.S. Queen of Glasgow en route from Liverpool to New York in 1942, carrying a decidedly confused and fearful German passenger . . .

Name The ep which had a day of the week in the title (I recall only one, but there may have been more).

“On Thursday We Leave for Home” - one of the hour-long fourth-season episodes; I think I may have seen it, but only once, and not recently.

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?

“The Odyssey of Flight 33” featuring the passenger jet that picks up a freak tail wind that sends it travelling through time. Rod’s brother was an aviation writer and he and a pilot buddy came up with the cockpit dialogue for the episode.

Here’s one that may or may not be relatively easy: Who was the only person to both star in an episode and direct one? (Not the same one). For meaningless bonus points, name the episodes in question.

[Earl_Snake-Hips_Tucker]

@Torgo

Ed Wynn was also in “One for the Angels” which co-starred the criminally underrated Murray Hamilton as the grim reaper.

And, tying things even tighter, Serling reworked the “writer with characters coming to life” (Keenan Wynn in "World of His Own) in the “Night Gallery” vignette “Midnight Never Ends.”

Similarly, he reworked the idea about the Angel of Death (“One for the Angels” with Ed Wynn) threatening to come for someone who was just not quite ready to go as the vignette “The Messiah on Mott Street” on “Night Gallery,” with Edward G. Robinson in one of his last roles, playing a dying grandpa who’s needs to stick around to take care of his son.

[JohnBckWLD]

@Earl Snake-Hips Tucker

…“Owl Creek Bridge” has never been part of the syndication package, although I believe both have been released on VHS…

I’m ignorant to what the ‘syndication package’ is - but “An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge” is available on DVD in the The Twilight Zone - Collection 5 9 disc series.

[Sir_Rhosis]

Correct, to all the questions I posted.

In addition, James “Scotty” Doohan was in one of the hour-long eps, the one where the travelers discover the valley where no one dies. Damn, the title escapes me at the moment.

Who starred in one and directed another? Damn, that’s a great question… no clue.

Sir Rhosis

[Just_Ed]

@Sir Rhosis

In addition, James “Scotty” Doohan was in one of the hour-long eps, the one where the travelers discover the valley where no one dies. Damn, the title escapes me at the moment.

Ah - “Valley of the Shadow,” apparently. I’m really looking forward to the fourth season set of DVD’s - I don’t think I’ve seen most of these.

Who starred in one and directed another? Damn, that’s a great question… no clue.

Ida Lupino - she starred in “The Sixteen-Millimeter Shrine” in season one and directed “The Masks” in season five.

[Sir_Rhosis]

The syndication package is the total number (package) of episodes the owners of a program send out to the various independant stations to be syndicated. A few shows, such as the TZ, which were plagued with lawsuits (Serling was actually sued a number of times) held episodes back which were in litigation and did not make them available. I’m pretty sure “Miniature” was in that category. Seems I recall “The Encounter” was held back due to the racism of the Neville Brand character. “Owl Creek” was probably just licensed for one showing to begin with.

Just my guesses. As noted, these eps became available for syndication in, iirc, the late-80s.

Harlan Ellison co-wrote (rewrote, actually) an episode of The Man From U.N.C.L.E called “The Pieces of Fate Affair,” and named many of the characters for SF writers, including a character called Judith Merle. Judith Merrill was not happy and sued. This episode was withheld from syndication until the 80s also.

Sir Rhosis