Occurence at Owl Creek Bridge? They didn't do anything other than slightly edit that film to fit the time slot. Pretty remarkable we never noticed the dialogue change!

For me:
"Nick of Time" (Shatner in the diner),
"time Enough at Last" (Burgess Meredith at the end of the world at the library),
"The Invaders" (space aliens attack Agnes Moorehead in a rustic house)
"Little Girl Lost" (basically the 2nd half of Poltergeist, amazingly creepy episode even if it's kind of clunky)
"Death Ship" (astronauts find a crashed, exact copy of their ship, with themselves inside - same ship as The Invaders! Same ship as Forbidden Planet. Also, my TZ topper)

Also, "Steel" is pretty good - I kind of like the episode better than that movie with Hugh Jackman. Basically all the TZ episodes come out better than the later films based on them.

That is outstanding! I have one of the DP Livingston heads but could never find a swami machine I was willing to pay for. I wonder if someone has modeled that thing finally.. hmm...

Anyway, looks really nice

Well said. Beaumont was some sort of savant, and such a tragic story. I'm more of a Matheson guy myself, but you are right - no one else could have written Beaumont's style

Ugh. Actually the first episode I ever saw, when I was 5. Took me 15 years to figure out WTF that black & white story was. Lots of weird cost-cutting in that one. Not the greatest story to start with, but an atrocious script, plus ALL the voices are dubbed! If the grandma had turned into a horrible witch or something, at least that would explain better why those kids would go back to the heinous monsters called their parents! LOL

It didn't air with the color originally. It was added as a "bonus" when the episode was re-aired "for the first time!" in the 80s. The color bit was part of the Ted Turner-type colorization starting out at that time. You remember it better than it actually was

That isn't the last episode aired - it's the final "thing" they put money into for the 5th season. The film needed to be cut down a bit to fit into a TV show time slot - this bit of editing and adding Rod's intro/outro was the last expense for the show. But "The Bewitchin' Pool" aired after it. Hadn't heard about Rod's being friends with the director; that's new info to me.

I think "The Invaders" still works though, because Agnes Moorehead is so amazing in that episode. AND there's not even any dialogue!

The videotape episodes were in the 2nd season. Desi Arnaz (yep, THAT one!) was doing the show under his DesiLu production company, and they decided in the first season to front load ALL the costs of every episode for that season into the first handful of S1 episodes. This meant that they had all their costs up front and all the heart attacks at the studio level were over and done with as soon as possible. And the remaining episodes looked like they were saving the studio a TON of money. In season 2, CBS figured this out pretty fast, and enforced the videotape. Everyone involved would rather pretend it never happened.. LOL. The dreamy quality of film was/is absolutely key to these stories working.

I think there's a possibility of re-engineering those 6 episodes using AI to more fold down the frame rate and make it look more like film. I tried doing this years ago using Avid MC , and it came out pretty decently - but the lighting quality is so dramatically different, you can still tell, and it wasn't worth it.

Great story! Horrible name for a kid. LOL

Must have been great working on the show. As much as I love the show I never got any real sense of how involved Rod was day to day. It makes total sense he was around 24/7, especially if you listen to some of his later lectures in the 70s, you can hear the passion is still there. I have to chuckle at the people who are getting all mad at how progressive the newer seasons were. This show was that, back then!

Here’s one possibly not everyone has seen:

“The Time Element”, which was aired as part of Westinghouse-Desilu Playhouse, prior to the series being picked up. Written by Rod; a little longer than the typical episode. Pretty damn great

Maybe not as realistic, but otherwise you get guys like the crew from Rocketship X-1, and they are BORING!

LOL! AND all those phone calls have been coming from her grandmother... who's been dead for years!

Hardware? Children’s wear? Ladies lingerie?

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!

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

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 !

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 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

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.