Marshaaaaa…

Yeah for sure.

And I suspect the episode was modeled after the very store I was in, herald square macys.

No creepy mannequins or thimbles for sale on the 9th floor now, just luggage and furniture.

Hardware? Children’s wear? Ladies lingerie?

On Thursday We Leave For Home

Underrated episode imho... a leader whose "better judgment" and desperation to maintain control in the face of returning his group to mainstream society suddenly makes him look like a cult leader... alone in the end.

Night Call

The Little People Claude akins

That was the syndicated Twilight Zone Silver Anniversary Special from '84 hosted by Patrick O'Neal (he did season 5's "A Short Drink From A Certain Fountain," also in that special). I still have a VHS of it in storage somewhere. And yes, the colorizing was terrible even back then...

Thanks for this. My goodness that’s not good. Shouldn’t it only have been in color when the guard sees them though?

My Hulu DVR captured over 100 episodes for the SyFy New Years Marathon. Recently watched "To Serve Man", featuring a young Richard "Jaws" Kiel. That's an all-time favorite for me. The twists are always the best part.

This thread got me thinking though. Hulu DVR eventually dumps your saved recordings, so I finally went ahead on Amazon & ordered the Complete Twilight Zone Blu-ray just to have them. Also ordered season 1 of The Outer Limits. Embarrassed to admit I've never seen any of those episodes, but really looking forward to diving in. Shame Season 2 was out of stock.

The Twilight Zone Complete series was 27% off for $56. The Outer Limits Season 1 was 47% off for $47. The unexpected surprise? Buying them both together gave a multibuy discount of $24. That's $86 for 188 episodes of timeless sci-fi classics

Now if they would just settle the long-running Crypt Keeper licensing rights dispute & remaster the complete HBO Tales From The Crypt series on Blu-ray.

Glamsters crypt on YouTube my friend.You’ll thank me later

You got the 90s outer limits? That’s a sweet show

Did the same last year! Keep an eye out for Outer Limits Season 2 - it’s worth it; there’s some great episodes on there.

Pretty damn amazing how good this show was; how we could get 4 pages in and no one mentions this masterpiece!

i thought the bard was the worst episode...

I loved the one when the kids swam through the pool to get away from their parents divorce!

Edit I just looked it up “the bewitching pool”.

That was the last episode. Due to technical issues, the young girl's voice had to be overdubbed with the voice of June Foray, who was a famous voice actress. She was the voice of the cartoon character, Rocky the Flying Squirrel (who was female, BTW).

so rocky had no nuts lol.........I just had to sorry lol.....

those cartoons were great back then.......

The 7th Is made up of Phantoms was a cool episode.

So what was the best one from the movie?

I have to go with Nightmare. It was done so well.

It's a Good Life was good - typical Dante.

I have trouble watching the Ric Morrow ep for obvious reasons

The Spielberg ep is a snoozer.

They were already dead and didn’t know it!!!

Donner & Dante showed out. Landis did what he could with what they shot and it's still pretty damn well.

In addition to many of those already mentioned, Living Doll ("My name's Talky Tina .... and I don't think I like you.") and The Fever ("Fraaaankliinnnnn....") also rank up near the top for me.

As an aviator, I always enjoy watching The Odyssey of Flight 33. Commercial jet stuck traveling through time trying to get back to their own time.

“You Drive” is mine!

Rocky is absolutely not a female squirrel. He's a teenager, which is part of the reason June Foray voiced him. I don't think Jay Ward ever said anything about this specifically, but there is an episode of the The Bullwinkle Show where Boris and Natasha send a very obviously female robot squirrel to distract Rocky, and he falls in love with "her". No chance they were doing something that progressive back then.

June was awesome, and played as many teenage boy characters as she did women. In a couple of scenes, she's the voice of the Brody kids in Jaws!

Dante's re-envisioning of It's a Good Life is a showstopper. You said "typical Dante", but there is NO other filmmaker who could marry horror, comedy and Tex Avery cartoons like he did and make it work

Hey guys, you'll NEVER guess the twist ending of The Hitch-Hiker!

A World of His Own has such a great ending, though, with the erasure of Rod Serling himself!

Also, not usually a big fan of the "comedy" episodes, but A Most Unusual Camera is one of the great "cursed item" episodes, with an over the top cast of characters that are fun to watch terrible stuff happen to due to them being terrible people. Also cool how the TZ machine implements the Camera, showing you a future bonus.

I stand corrected then. Someone told me this once, and I never really questioned it. After all, he is Rocket J. Squirrel!

Understood! June Foray was born in my hometown and my cousin lives near her grand-niece; met her when I was a little kid, she was an amazing lady !

Yeah I like Unusual Camera, because the folks getting screwed by the Twilight Zone actually deserve it. So often it's just like...welcome to the Twlight Zone. You are fucked. Tough titty!!

I also like how the Unusual Camera folks were all actually dead, they just didn't know it yet! That bitch got defenestrated!

There's also an impossible causal loop with the last guy since he only falls out the window (seriously, why did no one think to close that manslaughter-y window) because he sees his own dead body on the ground in the future-depicting photo!

I didn't mean it negatively, I like most of Dante's work. Both Nightmare and Life are well done upgrades. There was a sequel to Life that was done with a later series, and it was ok but once they get too far from an original story - hence why I don't like sequels that much.

So - anybody ride Twilight Zone - Tower of Terror at Walt Disney World? We just had a personal tour of the lobby (long story) and it was phenomenal. Most of the pieces in the Lobby are antiques; some are 400 years old.

I didn’t think you did, I’m just a huge Dante fan

Sooo spill the details on the lobby tour! There are some props from TZ episodes in there; I’ve always wondered if they were replicas or original

"Black leather jackets" not too much of a plot but I just like seeing the Alien's riding on the panhead Harley's.....lol

You know what I hate? When I'm stuck in a cave for 200 years after pulling some gold heist, but when I get out....

It turns out I'm already dead!!!

Ha no, but it actually turns out gold is now worthless.

No originals from the show - I asked. They are all replicas. There might have been some on the original ride at Disneyland - however when it was "re-imagined", the WDW staff tried to get some of the pieces but they were not successful. Apparently the two "teams" work "independtley".

The WDW staff is very, very proud of the attraction. They treat it like it's a museum, which it kind of is. The cast member who gave us the tour was there when the ride was opened, and he met Carol Serling and of course the imaginers who worked on it. The chairs are from Europe around the time of the 17th Century. They are not sure what they were used for but believe they were nobility furniture of some sort.

The lights were from a theater in Seattle, the luggage is vintage, the rugs, ornaments, etc, are all real. The books in the two rooms are real and they have some treasures in there including a first edition of a Charles Dickens, and other rare books. All these things were bought/sourced back in the early 90's from auctions/antique shops around the area. Each piece has a story of some sort and the attention to detail in that lobby is amazing. The staff was fantastic, I can't say enough about them.

Also - be sure to check out the props in the room below. Many pieces are off to the side that you need a light in order to view them.

very cool! The room below? You mean the boiler room? I've never noticed props down there, I'll have to look harder next time we visit.

Hey what if it turned out that none of us were actually typing on a pinball forum...

But we actually WERE a pinball forum!??! And our "posts" are actually predetermined by the aliens/children from another dimension who are actually writing the posts and we have no choice but to just do their bidding?!?!

or something like that!

Talky Tina was great because the twist is that she’s not a doll, and also not dead. However, if you stay until the after credits scene, the real twist is that she was really a doll, and dead.

No, not that one. After you get off the ride you walk forward and look at the tv screens. There is a room there beneath that with a wire cage over that has luggage in it. It is supposed to be a depot for the bellhops but there are a ton of things down there off to the side. It's dark so you have to use your cell light.

Hmm...I'll have to watch that one again.

I like the gold heist one too.Also are you still on the gas ?

Watched A Game of Pool last night. Young Johnathan Winters was an unexpected treat. I don't think Jack Klugman ever looked young though. haha Loved the ending.

Great twist in The Invaders as well. Now I realize who that little guy is during the TZ (and Jackbot!) match sequence.

Game of Pool would have been in my top 3; a classic with good speeches. Same with Klugman's 'A passage for Trumpet.'

Not quite up to Winters/Klugman level in redeux

No original TZ props were in Anaheim either.

DHS’s Tower of Terror is a masterpiece and hopefully will stay that way. It’s been going through a bit of a rough patch mechanically in recent years and could use an extended refurb to get some of the effects back to peak condition; but, I fear it going down as an excuse to remove the license. The one thing it has going for it is TDO is too damn cheap to close anything down for long as they simply can’t afford to keep capacity offline.

If we had to lose a TZ Tower, Anaheim’s inferior version was as good as any. The Guardians makeover is fun; but, man is it an eyesore. They had Cali Adventure almost turned around just before the Marvel quickly and cheaply anywhere mandate came down. Shame. For a brief period shortly after the Grizzly Peak airfield Soarin’ makeover, it was a worthy second fiddle with only Hollywood Land needing some serious TLC.

Another plug for the 80s Twilight Zone. I’ve been rewatching them recently and caught a few I missed the first time.

The Toys of Caliban hit really hard, and it’s not something they would make today. It’s about a boy with severe developmental disabilities who can create things at whim, but with no capability to understand the consequences. It’s tough to watch, and the ending is a gut punch.

Hated that one honestly, boring and kids in it usually ruined it like most movies today, the talking Tina is classic but kids in pool voices just annoying me to death