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So last night I was laying in bed watching the TV, getting ready to fall asleep, when The Twilight Zone came onto the Sci Fi Channel. This one was about a former S.S. officer who came back to Dachau to remember the "Good" ol' days. Well when he gets to the camp he is confronted with the ghost of those he killed at the camp, is put on trail by the ghosts, and is rendered insane by the end of the Episode. I thought it was very realistic the way they did it, the way they described the horror of the Concentration camps. It was def. a good episode.

What are some of the Twilight Zone Episode that you guys like?

The one with Jack Klugman and Jonathan Winters. Jack is the "up and coming" pool shark, and challenges Jonathan Winters' ghost to a game of pool to see who is the best.

It made me want to learn how to shoot pool.

The Monsters Came to Maple Street, kind of classic (even if I may have gotten the title wrong).

That one where they're going to hang a guy who killed someone who was going to kill a black kid or something like that, and it keeps getting darker and darker. The best part is when the priest gives the hangee the chance for forgiveness and redemption and he tells him, "No, I hate them, too. It's mutual." It's a really disturbing episode.

I have a lot but the one that really stands out in my mind is one where a guys in on a train and the train stops in a perfect town. I forgot every detail because I haven't scene it a long time but the ending is that he dreamed it and walked out of a moving train.

In no particular order:

"The Masks"--dying old man invites his greedy heirs to New Orleans for Mardi Gras, where they have to wear masks until midnight or get nothing but train fare back home. They get a big surprise when the clock strikes twelve.

"One for the Angels"--Lou Bookman makes a pitch so big even Mr. Death is impressed.

"It's a Good Life"--Don't think any bad thoughts or that super-powered brat will send you to the cornfield.

"Time Enough At Last"--a bookish fellow survives nuclear war and thinks he'll get to read everything he wants. Not so fast, Burgess.

"Living Doll"--"My name is Talky Tina, and I'm going to kill you!"

Outer Limits was superior.

"There is nothing wrong with your television set. Do not attempt to adjust the picture. We are now controlling transmission. If we wish to make it louder, we will bring up the volume. If we wish to make it softer, we will tune it to a whisper. We will control the horizontal. We will control the vertical. We can roll the image, make it flutter. We can change the focus to a soft blur, or sharpen it to crystal clarity. For the next hour, sit quietly and we will control all that you see and hear. You are about to participate in a great adventure. You are about to experience the awe and mystery which reaches from the inner mind to... The Outer Limits."

oooOOoOooooooOOO...

I saw strings pulling props a few times in that series.

Outer Limits was superior.

There you're wrong. Outer Limits was to The Twilight Zone as Pepsi is to Coke.

I like the episode where a milquetoast man who loves to read is the only one who survives a nuclear explosion. He has all the time in the world to read, but then his glasses fall and break. He is unable to see the books, and can never read again.

There you're wrong. Outer Limits was to The Twilight Zone as Pepsi is to Coke.

I like the episode where a milquetoast man who loves to read is the only one who survives a nuclear explosion. He has all the time in the world to read, but then his glasses fall and break. He is unable to see the books, and can never read again.

He couldn't find another pair of glasses?

Anyway, I remember a twilight zone episode where a man could use a watch to freeze time, but it broke after he froze time the last time.. and.. well, he couldn't talk to anyone.

So last night I was laying in bed watching the TV, getting ready to fall asleep, when The Twilight Zone came onto the Sci Fi Channel. This one was about a former S.S. officer who came back to Dachau to remember the "Good" ol' days. Well when he gets to the camp he is confronted with the ghost of those he killed at the camp, is put on trail by the ghosts, and is rendered insane by the end of the Episode. I thought it was very realistic the way they did it, the way they described the horror of the Concentration camps. It was def. a good episode.

What are some of the Twilight Zone Episode that you guys like?

When's it on?

TO SERVE MANKIND

you know, the one where aliens come to earth in peace, and they give us a book on how to grow super crops and end world hunger. But then one guy finds out that the aliens are eating people and that the book "to serve mankind" is actually a cookbook. Classic;)

He couldn't find another pair of glasses?

Anyway, I remember a twilight zone episode where a man could use a watch to freeze time, but it broke after he froze time the last time.. and.. well, he couldn't talk to anyone.
I guess the nuclear bomb destroyed them. That's right, the explosion that leveled the town and miles around but kept the books intact.

When's it on?

1AM on SciFi Channel. Monday through Friday, though sometimes not. And then it angers me.

EDIT: Sorry, never on Friday, though I think Saturday morning at like 6...

I liked the one that had an ironic ending.

Just kidding, obviously.

My real favorite was the one wherein the guy woke up and he was the same and everyone else was different.

I guess the nuclear bomb destroyed them. That's right, the explosion that leveled the town and miles around but kept the books intact.

Makes perfect sense.

Being old enough to remember Twilight Zone when it originally aired.....

The one where the lights go out. Then some lights come on and others don't. Then some cars start and some don't. And the neighbors on this street start so think others are getting special favor. Start fighting each other.

I think they remade it for the new version.

Or the one where the kid was really ugly and everyone put him down. In the end he was getting on a spaceship to another planet for a student exchange and he meets the girl coming to earth in the exchange. She's beautiful by earth standards and tells him she's ugly on her planet but he's a great looker.

I never saw too many but I did enjoy one where the passengers on a plane continue to travel through time, so that they are always in the right place to land, but in the wrong time period. Not to mention the 1930's version king kong special effects for the "dinosaurs."

The one about the book reader, definitely.

I never saw too many but I did enjoy one where the passengers on a plane continue to travel through time, so that they are always in the right place to land, but in the wrong time period. Not to mention the 1930's version king kong special effects for the "dinosaurs."

That reminded me of the one where the WWI pilot lands on a modern (well, for then) airbase thinking that it was still WWI. He had run away from a dogfight thinking he left his friend for dead but when he finds out his friend is still alive he must have actually came back and saved him.

I like the one about the book "To Serve Humans", I thought it was awesome!

I can't really pick one though......

the one where it was normal to be ugly was good too.

One of my fav episodes was where there was this old lady living alone in a log cabin style house and heard a crash, grabbed a broom and went up into her attic to find a small flying saucer had crashed thru her roof into her attic. Miscommunication between her and the saucers occupants results in a series of lillyputian style attacks from the tiny saucer occupants and the old woman. Eventually the elderly woman wins the day, using things like shoving the aliens in a pillowcase, then tossing it into the fireplace and smushing them with various utensils in the house etc. As the woman begins the destruction of the remainder of the aliens in earnest, the camera pans onto the spaceship crashed in the attic and on the side of the craft is the US Flag and you hear the radio crackle and the astronauts yelling Mayday Mayday back to Earth as they are being destroyed by the giant.

the one where it was normal to be ugly was good too.

"Eye of the Beholder". Definitely one of the best. And featuring Donna Douglas before she was Ellie May on "Beverly Hillbillies".

I never caught the name, but (this was from the '80's version Zone) it was a short piece inserted to make up for a slightly short main episode.

A mathematician is struggling with a long, complex equation. Getting frustrated, he yells "I'd sell my soul to solve this!"

There's a bam! in the room, and a black man in stylish clothing is standing nearby. (The mathematician is also black, but professorish frumpy.) He reveals that he is a demon, and the mathematician has just created a contract for his soul. He has three questions he can ask, and then he must either ask the demon a question or set the demon a task. If the demon can't complete the task or answer the question, the mathematician goes free, the contract broken. But if the demon CAN fulfill the contract, the mathematician goes straight to hell...

I won't reveal the ending, but it's incredibly clever.

1AM on SciFi Channel. Monday through Friday, though sometimes not. And then it angers me.

EDIT: Sorry, never on Friday, though I think Saturday morning at like 6...

Damn. I'm never up at those times.

I always remember fondly the one where the man visiting a monastery releases the prisoner locked in it's dungeon who turns out to be Satan. I will admit, the one where Burgess Meredith breaks his glasses is probably the most parodied episode, but "The Screaming Man" will always have a warm spot in my childhood memories.

I like the episode where there's only one man left on earth.

"Terror at 30,000 Feet", where William Shatner plays a man afraid of airtravel who sees a gremlin on the wing of a plane he is on.