the one with william shatner on the plane is very good. i'm almost 60 and it still scares the shit out of me..the episode where everybody has to put on a mask. when the old man dies and they take the masks off and their faces look like the masks..greedy aholes got what they deserved.. what a fantastic show..in that genre only hitchcock can compete..
Its not the ole cliche of.."well your just gettin old, thats just typical..that was your generation.." but shows that you admire like The Honeymooners..The Andy Griffith Show..I Love Lucy were still before your time (mine). Its an appreciation of the writing and the respect of the intellect of the viewer..not condascending. The Family Guy is ..well 'clever' and smart..but.. if it did not push the buttons and a rapid fire pace and slowed down the hot buttons just a tad..80 percent of the people that watch it would quit watching it completely. Point is..the appreciation of literature, writing, art, just plain nuance..and PATIENCE (main reason folk music has never been 'palpable') has took a major hit in the last 15-20 years. If you had a graph chart from..i dunno say 1925 to now..there would be a somewhat level line..then starting about 1995ish or gradually even before, a major drop down to lowest common denominator wal mart no objective thinking desire or ability level. Whew..felt good to get this out. Im so glad for 'my' generation...and I was just born in 1973
This show was revolutionary in many things (serling was a respected writter before and now he was doing a "silly thing" like science fiction) , in an interview Mike Wallace asks him if he will be doing serious shows after twilight zone (something along those lines, dont recall the exact line)
In that interview Serling rants against the interference from the networks (and sponsors) on his creativity , asking him to change lines, subjects etc
Its a great interview where Serling shows he is a great writter with a great vision (this was after they filmed the episodes of the 1st season)
In that interview Serling rants against the interference from the networks (and sponsors) on his creativity , asking him to change lines, subjects etc
Its a great interview where Serling shows he is a great writter with a great vision (this was after they filmed the episodes of the 1st season)
In Memoriam
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The U.S. Postal Service will release 42-cent stamps featuring classic 1950s television shows, including The Twilight Zone (pictured) and other cool genre shows like Alfred Hitchcock Presents, Dragnet, The Lone Ranger and that horror classic, The Dinah Shore Show. The stamps are a limited-time release and arrive Aug. 11. If the USPS were thinking, they’d make them the old perforated-sheet variety that you had to lick. Sure, they never stuck to anything unless you nailed them to your letter, and they featured glue that tasted like Jack Webb’s armpit sweat. But that would be a real throwback to the ’50s, when men smoked and drank in their sleep, women were constantly making coffee and emotions were only for swarthy people.
Image courtesy USPS
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The U.S. Postal Service will release 42-cent stamps featuring classic 1950s television shows, including The Twilight Zone (pictured) and other cool genre shows like Alfred Hitchcock Presents, Dragnet, The Lone Ranger and that horror classic, The Dinah Shore Show. The stamps are a limited-time release and arrive Aug. 11. If the USPS were thinking, they’d make them the old perforated-sheet variety that you had to lick. Sure, they never stuck to anything unless you nailed them to your letter, and they featured glue that tasted like Jack Webb’s armpit sweat. But that would be a real throwback to the ’50s, when men smoked and drank in their sleep, women were constantly making coffee and emotions were only for swarthy people.
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the episode thats on right now has several of my favorite actors..james best,(roscoe p coltrain),edgar buchanan(uncle joe,judge roy bean)dub taylor(bonnie and clyde,cant remember characters name but he ratted on warren beatty and faye dunaway,and many many other parts)..twilight zone always had actors who were believable in their parts..another favorite episode is the one where the old man wants to take his dog to heaven with him..twilight zone and alfred hitchcock not only scared me but also made me think...
Serling said that in a boxing related episode, the sponsor forced him to remove references to a "match" because the sponsor made lighters
that one is of course , silly, but there is another instance when there was something related to jews and they made him change the episode in such a way that the message he was trying to convey was totally lost
all in all, twilight zone is a masterpiece that shows the mindset of the American society at the time (since I am not American.... it tells me about the issues at the time like fear of instant/nuclear war plus social issues )
I think its a great show , I am partial to the 80s revival of it...because that's the one I watched when I was growing up, the 80s version also had great stories
