Twilight Zone; Amazing Stories; Outer Limits - Fav. Episodes

[Doramius]

Amazing Stories: The episode 'Thanksgiving' where a mean father and his daughter lived in the desert somewhere and discover some sort of beings in their well.

Twilight Zone: From the newer ones I like 'Button, Button' where this couple is offered a large some of money if they push a button. The catch is if they push the button, someone who they do not know will be killed. great twist on the show too.

Outer Limits: at least I think it was Outer Limits. Can't remember the episode name. A guy is being hanged, and the trap door is dropped. You see the rope break and the guy run off and being chased through a swamp. Later he comes to his home and sees his wife and begins to run to her. Just as he gets inches from her, you're back at the gallows with the door dropped and the rope was not broken. it was one of those things where I was shocked thinking, "the guy thought all of that in the brief moments of dropping? WOW!"

[Capmaster]

Twilight Zone - Where the guy gets the stopwatch that stops time for everyone all around him, but not him. After playing around and putting flowers in the boss' shirt pocket and taking bites out of other people's donuts, he decides to rob a bank.

Piece of cake ...he stops time, strolls into the bank with a push cart, starts filling it with money, but he had set the watch on the cart and hit a bump ...the watch falls off and breaks. Now he can't unfreeze everyone ...and goes slowly mad from the solitude. Classic

[Doramius]

There was another one with a lady who stops everything when she wears a necklace. She says shut up and everything except her stops. At one point she says shut up just seconds before impact of a nuclear missle, shown right above her town.

[housepig]

A guy is being hanged, and the trap door is dropped. ...

that was "Incident At Owl Creek Bridge", a French short film that was broadcast as a Twilight Zone episode. I saw the non-Serling-introduced version in one of my high-school classes.

there's a TZ rarities dvd that has the episode, Netflix has it.

[Doramius]

A guy is being hanged, and the trap door is dropped. ...

that was "Incident At Owl Creek Bridge", a French short film that was broadcast as a Twilight Zone episode. I saw the non-Serling-introduced version in one of my high-school classes.

there's a TZ rarities dvd that has the episode, Netflix has it.

Thanks. I've been wanting to see that episode again. Which rarities DVD is it? and do you have a link?

I'm also getting season 1 of "The New Twilight Zone" on DVD soon. That's the season that started in 1985. I have the 5 book series of Amazing stories on LD, but I want the whole series on DVD and it might be coming out this January or February. Outer Limits is going to have to wait a bit, because I've spent way too much money on DVDs, LDs, R2Rs, CEDs, VHS & BETA films over the last 3 months. I usually buy 1 LD, 6 DVDs, 2 VHS, maybe a BETA, and 1 or 2 R2Rs a month. I've gotten 3 times that amount for December and we're only at the middle of the month right now. I also splurged on that CED player. Well worth it though.

[Goober57]

I like these 2 Twilight Zone episodes...........

In a 1959 episode, "Time Enough at Last," Burgess Meredith plays Henry Bemis, a book-loving bank teller who becomes the last man on Earth after surviving a nuclear attack. But his glasses drop, smashing the lenses and leaving him unable to read.

Also, the episode with William Shatner, "Nightmare at 20,000 Feet".

Both of those were strange!

Don't really remember the Outer Limits.

A cool semi-SciFi show was Land of the Giants, in the '70s I think.

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[housepig]

Doramius -

HERE is a link to the Netflix description.

favorite TZ episodes: (links open description)

- "To Serve Man"
- "The Obsolete Man"
- "It's A Good Life"
- "The Midnight Sun"

[freestyler]

Anyone know the name of that episode where some lady is driving and she keeps seeing a hitch hiker on the side of the road?

nm found it "The Hitch Hiker" 1960

[mrtristan]

I don't think it was called the same thing when The Outer Limits did the story, but it was originally called "The Sandkings." I read the original science fiction short story in high school and it remains one of my favorites to date.

It was a story about an alien lifeform with an incredibly fast evolution scale. They started off as little bug-like things, and slowly grew larger and smarter. They instinctively formed colonies and had wars with each other. In the story there were four colors of them. In the show, there was only one. Anyway, they emulated their environment around them. I don't remember how the show ended, but the story was great. Their owner was sadistic to them and would often starve them to incite clan wars for food. As they grew more intelligent, he would sometimes smash the towers of the dominating clan, just to shift the balance of power and observe what would happen. He basically treated them like playthings, while understanding that they were an intelligent form of life. Anyway, one or two escaped from the tank and he wasn't able to catch it. It eventually evolved into a human-like creature and emulated his sadistic behavior. He came home one day and it killed and ate him. Or something of the sort. The details of the story aren't very fresh in my mind, as it's been over ten years since I read it.

[lordsmurf]

I've not watched all 45 DVDs yet. I like almost all of them, that I've seen so far.

One I hated was the one where the boss always said "push, push, push" ... cannot stand people in a rush like that, especially bosses.

[Capmaster]

I like these 2 Twilight Zone episodes...........

In a 1959 episode, "Time Enough at Last," Burgess Meredith plays Henry Bemis, a book-loving bank teller who becomes the last man on Earth after surviving a nuclear attack. But his glasses drop, smashing the lenses and leaving him unable to read.

Also, the episode with William Shatner, "Nightmare at 20,000 Feet".

Both of those were strange!

Don't really remember the Outer Limits.

A cool semi-SciFi show was Land of the Giants, in the '70s I think.

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Yeah those were excellent episodes. I clearly remember the Burgess Meredith one. Poor bastard :P

Another good one: Billy Mumy plays a kid with superhuman powers over time, space and matter. His whole family bows and scrapes to him. He can "will" people out of existence.

They did a remake of it in Twilight Zone, The Movie, along with the nightmare at 20,000 feet episode

[housepig]

Another good one: Billy Mumy plays a kid with superhuman powers over time, space and matter. His whole family bows and scrapes to him. He can "will" people out of existence.

yeah, Cap - that's "It's a Good Life".

"The Fever" is another good one - uptight guy and his wife win a trip to Vegas, he's totally against gambling, but he tries it and gets addicted... and then the slot machine starts chasing him around, gurgling "Franklin. Franklin. Franklin." in this inhuman croak.

[Doramius]

Don't remember the name of the episode, but there were these people at a diner and they are all worried about aliens coming. At the end they find out that one guy was a martian with 3 arms and he's hoping to colonize an area for martians. But the Diner owner tells him the place is perfect for aliens to visit, but the Venusians already thought of that and had already settled there while pulling off his hat to show his 3rd eye. Great episode. I love these shows.

[Capmaster]

yeah, Cap - that's "It's a Good Life".

Yeah. I forgot the title. Thanks

[yoda313]

Hello,

A little off topic here.

Anyone remember a show called "tales from the dark side" or something like that???? There was another one just like it too. I think they were both syndicated in the early 90s as they were on a local uhf station (before they were bought out by WB ).

There was one were two guys were in control of a nuclear missle remote station. One guy went out for a smoking break or something and the other guy stayed. He got the code lto launch (can't remember if it was real or a false code). Then it went and they were hit by an attack too.

Then the guy that launched it is in a protected shelter but the guy that went for a smoke comes back all mutated. He looks at the control pad and tries to get in. The poor guy inside watches in horror. Then the mutated guy says "I've got all the time in the world to get it right" so it ends with him punching in one code after another. Kinda creepy....

Kevin

[housepig]

there was another great one, "Darkroom", on ABC, hosted by James Coburn.

great episode - "Uncle George", with Claude Aikins- this older couple's Uncle George dies, and they've been taking care of him, so they are dependent on his pension checks.

so they go out, and find a homeless man, and bring him home, and make a deal - they'll give him food, shelter and a loving home, if he'll take Uncle George's identity, so they can keep recieving the checks.

only problem is, Uncle George wasn't retired - he was on disability from the railroad... for losing his legs. Uh oh... what's Claude doing with that chainsaw?

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that would be prime for reissue - lots of early star appearances (I remember a young Helen Hunt in a great episode about vampires), decent stories, Coburn made a good host - and there were only 7 episodes, perfect for a 2-dvd set.

[housepig]

just checked out an episode guide with story synopsis... looks like most of these were based on Robert Bloch (Psycho) short stories.

damn, now I have to dig these up....

[Doramius]

I love stories with a twist on them. Especially when they are well made and put together. In "The New Twilight Zone" from the 80's there was this guy who was a washed up writer that was trying to make decent scripts, but couldn't do it fast enough. He discovers his plant that practically grew from the light of his television was able to use a typwriter and turned out excellent scripts. He treated the plant extremely nice and named it. One day he sets the plant on a window sill. A cat knock the pot over and he buries the plant and visits the area constantly. Later he notices little chutes popping through the soil. You then see a bunch of plants at typewriters typing out scripts and the guy owns his own production company.