New Year's Tradition: Twilight Zone Marathon

[HardyGirl]

Does anyone else follow this tradition? Do you have a favorite episode?

[Mikey]

The only problem with their marathon is every year they keep playing the same ones.

And if they ever do throw in a few rare ones, it's always in the wee hours of the morning.

I'm sooo tired of the fan favourite episodes.

How many times can someone watch the one with the old lady and the flying saucer crashes onto her roof ?
Or the pig face one.
Or Shatner on the plane.

I want some uncommon ones :)

Favourite episodes ?
My list is
On Thursday We Leave For Home
The Bard
I Shot An Arrow
The one with Jack Warden on the planet with the robot woman.

[The Toyroom]

I wish they wouldn't show the hour-long episodes....there are only a few good ones and it throws the timing and flow off IMO.


How many times can someone watch the one with the old lady and the flying saucer crashes onto her roof ?

By my count, I've seen "The Invaders" more times than any other episode during the Sci-Fi marathons and the ones that used to run on WPIX and WSBK years ago. I HATE the stupid thing.

My top 10 (something we were actually discussing tonight):

1) Time Enough at Last
2) Nick of Time
3) Nightmare at 20,000 Feet
4) To Serve Man
5) The Howling Man
6) A Thing About Machines
7) Will the Real Martian Please Stand Up?
8) The Monsters Are Due On Maple Street
9) What You Need
10) It's A Good Life

[toys2cool]

The only problem with their marathon is every year they keep playing the same ones.

And if they ever do throw in a few rare ones, it's always in the wee hours of the morning.

I'm sooo tired of the fan favourite episodes.

How many times can someone watch the one with the old lady and the flying saucer crashes onto her roof ?
Or the pig face one.
Or Shatner on the plane.

I want some uncommon ones :)

Favourite episodes ?
My list is
On Thursday We Leave For Home
The Bard
I Shot An Arrow
The one with Jack Warden on the planet with the robot woman.

I love the one with the robot woman in the planet
The one where they're toys
the hitchhiker one
and a few more I can't think of right now

[Hector]

I wish they wouldn't show the hour-long episodes....there are only a few good ones and it throws the timing and flow off IMO.



By my count, I've seen "The Invaders" more times than any other episode during the Sci-Fi marathons and the ones that used to run on WPIX and WSBK years ago. I HATE the stupid thing.

My top 10 (something we were actually discussing tonight):

1) Time Enough at Last
2) Nick of Time
3) Nightmare at 20,000 Feet
4) To Serve Man
5) The Howling Man
6) A Thing About Machines
7) Will the Real Martian Please Stand Up?
8) The Monsters Are Due On Maple Street
9) What You Need
10) It's A Good Life

No...The Eye of the Beholder???

That's the creepiest episode for me.

:googly:

[StrangeVisitor]

The one with Jack Warden on the planet with the robot woman.

The Lonely with Jean Marsh (who had one of the shortest stints as a Dr Who companion in what serial?) as the robot and Ted Knight in a bit part.


toys2cool
The one where they're toys

Five Characters in Search of an Exit with William Windom (Commodore Decker from ST Classic).

[kryptosmaster]

The one that bugs me (and I've only seen it a couple times) is the last episode (if I remember my TZ trivia) and I'm not up on the titles but it was the one where the kids jumped in their pool and then come up in a pond in another land where an old lady lives with a bunch of other kids.
What bugs me about it is the jarring voice dub by June Foray (Rocky the flying squirrel) due to recording problems they had when the episode was originally filmed.
Rich

[saucerful]

i've been doing this one since childhood
i don't really follow it and watch the whole thing. i mostly just pop in when i can. that's my tradition with this tradition.
although, it used to be during Thanksgiving and not New Years, back in the day....

[Bizarro Amy]

I love the TZ marathon. Five Characters in Search of an Exit is one of my favorites, mostly because after several years, I caught it for the first time and was blown away. Another on my list is A Game of Pool. And I know some of them are shown frequently, but I always like watching Eye of the Beholder, Of Late I Think of Cliffordville.

[HardyGirl]

The one that bugs me (and I've only seen it a couple times) is the last episode (if I remember my TZ trivia) and I'm not up on the titles but it was the one where the kids jumped in their pool and then come up in a pond in another land where an old lady lives with a bunch of other kids.
What bugs me about it is the jarring voice dub by June Foray (Rocky the flying squirrel) due to recording problems they had when the episode was originally filmed.
Rich

Yeah, that's always kinda bugged me too, even though The Bewitchin' Pool is one of my fave eps.

[kryptosmaster]

The only problem with their marathon is every year they keep playing the same ones.


How many times can someone watch the one with the old lady and the flying saucer crashes onto her roof ?


Hee,hee,hee...that one is on right now!!

Rich:smiley1:

[Earth 2 Chris]

I never saw TZ much as a kid. I pretty much discoverd it on Sci-Fi.

I saw "The Howling Man" for the first time a few years back. Whoa. That one was heavy.

The one about the toys is another great one. Actually the other one where people are toys (the couple stuck in the train set display) is another good one. I wonder which one came first?

I bought my Dad TZ season 1 for Christmas. He was talking about how he always liked it, but rarely gets to watch it, so I remedied that. I hope to borrow his set soon.

Chris

[The Toyroom]

No...The Eye of the Beholder???

That's the creepiest episode for me.

:googly:

I actually forgot about that one! So add that to my list for #11 and The Midnight Sun for #12 :smiley1:

[The Toyroom]

The one about the toys is another great one. Actually the other one where people are toys (the couple stuck in the train set display) is another good one. I wonder which one came first?

"Five Characters in Search of An Exit" is from Season 3 and "Stopover in A Quiet Town" from Season 5.

[The Toyroom]

The one that bugs me (and I've only seen it a couple times) is the last episode (if I remember my TZ trivia) and I'm not up on the titles but it was the one where the kids jumped in their pool and then come up in a pond in another land where an old lady lives with a bunch of other kids.
What bugs me about it is the jarring voice dub by June Foray (Rocky the flying squirrel) due to recording problems they had when the episode was originally filmed.
Rich

That's "The Bewitchin' Pool" and I think Foray only dubs the voice when the kids are in the real world. When they're in the other dimension or whatever with Aunt T the voice is that of the actual actress.

Something similar bugged me when I was watching "Little Girl Lost" last night....when she's trapped in the fourth dimension, the girl's voice is supplied by an adult...and it's sooooooooo obvious. And when the dog is growling, it's obviosuly supplied by an actor as well. It distracted from the entire episode.:muh: Which was cheesy to begin with.

[Mikey]

The worst one was that Frenchie "art" one that Serling purchased.

It's the one where the guy was in the Civil War and dreamed he was escaping and at the end he got hung.
It had no talking in it and was just plain horribly boring.

[The Toyroom]

^ "An Occurence at Owl Creek Bridge"....I think I've seen it only once....bleeech

[jwyblejr]

I've been more busy with the Looney Tunes marathon on Cartoon Network.

[The Toyroom]

^ Huh?! CN hasn't showed Looney Tunes in quite a while....what made them change their minds?

[The Toyroom]

^ Oh, wait...I meant Boomerang.....Nevermind.

[wayne foundation 07]

Been watcing it all day long,"Nick of time"is a favorite.Only a penny to ask the Mystic Seer a question.I guess by now it would cost almost a dollar."Oh Mystic Seer,is there a Batmoblie sticker in my future?"

[Mikey]

My name is talking Tina and i'm going to harrass Telly Savalas :smiley1:

[Bizarro Amy]

^ "An Occurence at Owl Creek Bridge"....I think I've seen it only once....bleeech

I've never seen that one, but it was based on a short story I remember reading in high school.

[apes3978]

It's not worth the trouble of watching the marathon, unless you want to sit thru an extra five minutes of commercials per episode...

[The Toyroom]

My name is talking Tina and i'm going to harrass Telly Savalas :smiley1:

"Threats from a doll?!" :smiley1:

[The Toyroom]

It's not worth the trouble of watching the marathon, unless you want to sit thru an extra five minutes of commercials per episode...

When they show episodes in "primetime", they also show the episodes uncut...because of the extra commercials as opposed to what original was alloted for during the original run back in the 50s-60s, the commerical breaks don't fall where they normally would and throw the whole timing of the episode off. :enraged:

[jwyblejr]

^ Oh, wait...I meant Boomerang.....Nevermind.

Boomerang has a Tom & Jerry marathon. I've been doing alot of flipping today. Going between there and CN and Sci-Fi.

[jayihdz]

I watched a few of them all day since I woke up, I do it every year....

[Bizarro Amy]

"Threats from a doll?!" :smiley1:

You know, even though Living Doll is one that they show all the time, I'm still not tired of it. I finally sat down and looked up the make of doll they used for that episode so I can get my own Talkie Tina. The name is Brikette and she was made by the Vogue. There are a few variations, but the one in Twilight Zone looks like either brunette or maybe a redhead. The doll came in 16" and 22" versions, but I think Talkie Tina was the 22". Another fun fact that I never realized before? Not only did June Foray voice Talkie Tina, she also provided the sayings for Chattie Cathy, the inspiration for Tina. Some of you probably knew that, but I thought it was pretty cool.

[HardyGirl]

I've been watching Twilight Zone since I was about 5. And I really too many eps to name faves. I was glad that this year, the Sci-Fi channel didn't run the episode loop, (i.e.: playing 12 hours of eps and just repeat the loop), as they've done in years prior. I pretty much leave it on all day and night (I fall asleep, wake up, watch a little, and go back to sleep). Sadly, this year I was in bed all of New Year's Day w/ a really BAD headache, and couldn't enjoy it like I wanted. I was disappointed that "It's A Good Life" was on so late (11:30PM) last night, b/c I fell asleep a little after 10 last night. I did enjoy the intros by Rod Serling and the old CBS station idents from back then. Cool stuff. :yes:

[kryptosmaster]

I caught one last night that I had never seen from beginning to end before. Although I still didn't catch the title, it was a star-studded episode. Had Lee Marvin, Lee Van Cleef, the guy that played Chief O'Hara on Batman, the guy that played Roscoe on Dukes of Hazzard and I know I've seen the other guy before too but couldn't place him.
Had to do with a town killing an outlaw and Lee Marvin was the bounty hunter that was after him. They bet Lee that he wouldn't visit the grave of the outlaw at midnight.
Rich

[The Toyroom]

^ "The Grave"....what I like about TZ is it's not just pure sci-fi...you get all types of genres...some they do better than others. The couple that were played more for laughs didn't fare very well. I dig the ones with the western slant though.

[mego73]

I caught an episode here and there. It basically served as an inducement to break out my Twilight Zone DVD's (have the entire series on DVD) and see a few episodes in a better way.

How many were jarred the first time they showed episodes like "Night Of The Meek" off the original video tape, instead of film?

For those that are unaware, as an experiment, Rod Serling did a few episodes on videotape and mostly in the same manor as if they had done them live (not completely).

For a long time, they were only seen on film made from the video. But now they show them from the video tape.

It was quite a shock to see these episodes I only thought were on film suddenly be on videotape.

One of the greats, "Night Of The Meek" is a videotape one.

It was something else on TV New Years day. Twilight Zone marathon on Sci-Fi, Honeymooners marathon on WGN (the classic 39 were shown uncut, although they were time compressed), TV Land marathoning Leave it To Beaver in the morning, Brady Bunch in the afternoon and Andy Griffith in the evening, Tom and Jerry marathon on boomerang and (although I didn't know about this) Looney Tunes marathon on Cartoon Network..

[The Toyroom]

For those that are unaware, as an experiment, Rod Serling did a few episodes on videotape and mostly in the same manor as if they had done them live (not completely).

It really wasn't an "experiment" but moreso a cost-cutting method enforced on Serling by the network, as the price tag per episode in the 2nd season was getting pretty high. In all, only 6 episodes were done this way:

"Night of the Meek"
"Static"
"Long Distance Call"
"Twenty-Two"
"Lateness of the Hour"
"The Whole Truth"

If things had worked out, they probably would have done more videotaped episodes as opposed to film, but as the technology was new it had limitations at the time that prohibited them carrying on the process further.

I actually enjoy the video-tape episodes as it gives the feel of a live stage production...also reminds me of old episodes of "Dark Shadows" :smiley1: (which were also video-taped).

I was trying to explain this to my kids when they were watching "Long Distance Call" and wondering why it looked different. But they didn't get it.
My comparision of "Happy Days" (film) vs. "Three's Company" (video) seemed to go over their heads :smiley1: but I used those two as an example because I still recall my brother and I noticing the difference between the two formats back in the day. :yes: Yeah, TV geeks even back then. :please_y:

[kingdom warrior]

I always loved this series but my two favs are the episode with Charles Bronson and Elizabeth Montgomery as two soldiers on opposite sides of a War....and of course The Episode with William Shatner who sees the gremlin outside the airplane. My Son watched it with me and it scared him he loved it!

[HardyGirl]

I was trying to explain this to my kids when they were watching "Long Distance Call" and wondering why it looked different. But they didn't get it.
My comparision of "Happy Days" (film) vs. "Three's Company" (video) seemed to go over their heads :smiley1: but I used those two as an example because I still recall my brother and I noticing the difference between the two formats back in the day. :yes: Yeah, TV geeks even back then. :please_y:

When I was a kid, I noticed stuff like that too. I used to think it was b/c the film was bigger (for video taped stuff). I dunno if someone told me that, or I worked it out in my own mind. That the frames and the space between them was a different size than standard film. One show changed format from film to video (Doc w/ Bernard Shaw on CBS), and I remember not liking it as much.