. . . Which is followed by “The Masks”, then “The Monsters Are Due on Maple Street”, then “The Eye of the Beholder” . . .
They’ve really saved some of the best for this “uncut” segment. 
And mine! Although the all-time favorite has to be “The Changing of the Guard” (that’s right, isn’t it?) about the old English teacher. Has that one played yet?
I just finished watching it. Interesting that the script had a mention of “the Bradbury account” – a tribute (backhanded or otherwise) to Ray? That story could easily be remade now, but with the America of 1960 being the idyllic paradise of yesteryear as opposed to the harried “push push push” world which Gart Williams sought to escape. And since the music of Stephen Foster (who died in 1864) was used as the soundtrack for Willoughby of 1888, some George Gershwin tunes could set the mood for the twenty-first-century writer’s vision of the tailend of the Eisenhower administration…
Yeah. Sorry. It was on at 9:30 this morning.
“The Changing of the Guard” has already been on, I’m afraid. The rest of the schedule:
9:11 The Monsters Are Due on Maple Street
9:46 The Eye of the Beholder
10:20 Will the Real Martian Please Stand Up
10:51 Time Enough at Last
11:29 Nightmare at 20,000 Feet
Sunday, 1/2/2005
12:03 To Serve Man
12:37 Night Call
1:05 Judgement Night
1:36 Dead Man’s Shoes
2:10 The Old Man in the Cave
2:36 The Jeopardy Room
3:06 The Fear
3:36 From Agnes with Love
4:06 What You Need
4:37 The Hunt
5:13 Dust
9:00 A Penny for Your Thoughts
9:30 Static
10:00 The Silence
In the commericials advertising the marathon, there’s a shot of a really creepy clown dancing in the middle of a street. Does anyone know what episode it’s from?
I’d also like to say that Clowns from The Twilight Zone are proving to be more interesting than the usual clown. Twilight Clown. Wouldn’t be a bad username either.
Okay, I have to say I thought the grandfather in “The Masks” was a horrible old wretch. Yes, his family may have been horrid people, but the apple doesn’t fall far from the tree, and he was giving as good as he got.
Boy, the people of Maple Street are stupid. All I can tell you is during the power outages of the four hurricanes and one tropical storm over the summer, I don’t think we had one neighborhood where the residents went lynching their friends because they thought they were monsters.
The Monsters Are Due on Maple Street was a keen episode. I was expecting a different ending, but the one it ended up with was fitting.
I read about how Eye of the Beholder ends a while back. Wish I hadn’t.
Well, maybe not in your perfect little neigbhorhood…
From what I’ve read from interviews with people who knew them both, Bradbury and Serling initially liked each other, but as time went on, Bradbury began to privately accuse Serling of ripping him off, and eventually, to some people’s eyes, became petty in his jealousy of Serling’s TV success.
In fact, Bradbury accused “The Walking Distance” as a rip-off of one of his stories, I forget which, maybe one called “The Ferris,” or one about a ferris wheel.
Never liked “The Masks” too keenly. I find “The Eye of The Beholder” to be somewhat overrated, but perhaps that is all the hype weighing on me. Hell, I don’t much care for “Time Enough At Last,” and woulda throttled Burgess in that one myself.
Sir Rhosis
Man, I knew how that one was going to end and it was still great. I’ve often wondered how I’d react to a world where traits that people usually find beautiful are considered ugly. Would I always find redheads with great figures attractive, or eventually crack and shun them and turn to gawking at woman with warts and greasy, unkept hair? How much influence would everything have on my tastes?
I deem The Eye of the Beholder my second favorite TZ episode.
For some reason, I thought the plot of this one was that the “pretty” girl was from “our world” and ended up in the “uglies’” world somehow. It wasn’t until a few years ago that I “got it”. :smack:
Of all TZ eps, “Eye of the Beholder” had probably the very easiest “twist” to predict. Come on, we’re not supposed to notice that we never see anyone’s face?
When I first saw “The Masks” you also saw the unmasking of the old man after he died (his face was unchanged). That seems to have been cut subsequently to make a bit more commercial time. Likewise “What You Need” lately plays without the classic line “A tip? sure, here’s a tip–don’t play with matches”!
From Will the Real Martian Stand Up
“It’s like one of them Science Fictions. A regular old “Ray Bradbury”!”.
Ha!
It may have been predictable, but I still thought the dialogue was great, and I could understand where the characters were coming from. Still made for a good story.
So, in Time Enough at Last, they used the old-fashioned H-bombs with no radiation?
Ivyboy saw it for the first time. He said “Oh, no!” at the end, and said he felt sorry for Mr. Bemis.
Proof again that classics never die…
It was clearly a 1950’s style “H-Bomb”, ivylass.
I recently read the Henry Kuttner short story that this ep was based on; it was very different from what ended up on the air.
[spoiler]Kuttner 's protagonist was a Park Avenue shopkeeper who had built a huge machine that allowed him to see into the future, and he sold wealthy people exactly what they needed (or would need in the next few hours or days) – a bus ticket to Scranton, a hard-boiled egg, a pair of sewing scissors, etc.
Serling changed him into a clairvoyant street peddler, and switched his antagonist from a tippling journalist into a cheap hoodlum. [/spoiler]
It was probably an improvement.
What time is TZ normally on the Sci Fi channel? I think I need to start catching up.
This shows the entire 2004 schedule as well, so you’ll have to scroll waaaaayyyyy down to the bottom.