Twilight Zone episodes that broke your heart
-
agentjill79 — 18 years ago(May 22, 2007 11:42 AM)
Mine would have to be "Five Characters in Search of an Exit." It's the one where the toys are at the bottom of a barrel, and the soldier wakes up with feelings of wanting to get out. It breaks my heart when the ballerina says, "Maybe we're just unloved." Finally, the soldier makes it over the top of the barrel, only to land in snow, and then thrown back in. All the toys heap together, and you see the ballerina crying. Such a sad story. Makes you look at your toys differently, or yet, anything that inadamate or can't breathe.
Jill -
bkirk642 — 18 years ago(May 25, 2007 09:09 PM)
You are so right. That breaks my heart too. I forgot about the toys. I also feel sorry for the astronauts that land on the planet where they believe all the people are statues and come to find out that the man that's over the planet poisons them and turns them into statues.
Another one would be the one starring Roddy McDowell. He lands on a planet and thinks he's being treated like a God because they give him his own place to stay for him to find out later that he's a new exhibit on the planet called "Human in their own Habitat" -
eward196563112 — 18 years ago(July 23, 2007 11:59 AM)
"nothing in the dark" with gladys cooper and robert redford. i feel so sorry for the old lady when she continuously tried to avoid letting "mr. death" in and the young and handsome redford tricked her, posing as a wounded policeman and at the end she discovers that she was right all along and now that death was inside her home, she had to go with him. that was heart-breaking, but necessary.
-
xlove-me-not — 18 years ago(September 01, 2007 08:22 PM)
I think all his twilight zone episodes are great, but what twilight zone would you say is the one that broke your heart.
Mine would be the episode where all Burgess Meredith wants to do is read. When the world ends and he's finally able to read without anyone interrupting him, he ends up breaking his glasses. That episodes always breaks my heart cause I feel so sorry for Burgess Meredith.
<-..-..->
I WAS GONNA SAY THAT ONE!!! I felt so bad for himI wanted to cry!!! Well, okay, no I didn't. But still
It's just so sadd..!
I'M
IN
L
OVE WITH
Y
OU DARL
ING -
mrleadfoot — 18 years ago(December 25, 2007 10:59 AM)
I used to feel sorry for that character and I don't want to sound like an unsympathetic hardnose now, but all he wanted to do was to read and did not interact with anyone. To be a part of this world and ensure that it does continue a person cannot become so consumed by a hobby that they let other people destroy the world around them.
-
yrussell — 15 years ago(November 29, 2010 09:38 AM)
I disagree with you Mr. Leadfoot. Reading was his passion and he was portrayed trying to draw people into conversation about the books he was reading. His problem that he had absolutely nobody in his life who cared about the same things he did. Perhaps in an alternate universe, he might have married a woman who loved books too. Or, he might have a job where he needs to read books for a living. He was just in a situation where he didn't fit in. This happens to a lot of people!
I was once a bit like him. In my case, I changed my career and became an academic, where the ability to read is a virtue and you are surrounded by people who care about the same things you do. Not everyone has the same opportunities in life to do such a thing (I was lucky). YR -
-
Elzna — 18 years ago(September 05, 2007 07:09 PM)
Without a doubt "The Long Morrow".
I've seen prettymuch all the Twilight Zone episodes a few times and this is the one that always jerks my heart out the most.
http://www.imdb.com/board/10734657/ -
reignsong — 18 years ago(September 15, 2007 12:44 PM)
The episode where someone bets a talkative braggart a million dollars that he can't go a year without talking. I won't reveal the ending, but it breaks my heart just to think about it. Anyone out there know the name of that episode?
-
N00b — 18 years ago(October 10, 2007 03:35 PM)
SPOILERS: THE SILENCE
Colonel Archie Taylor, a member of an exclusive club, bets another member, a young talkative man named Jamie Tennyson, half a million dollars that he cant stay quiet for an entire year. He dislikes Tennyson's breeding and manners, saying, "Your voice has become intolerable to me. I sit here each night and the sound of it makes me wince." He knows the young man needs the money, because he talks about it so often.
The challenge is for Tennyson to be enclosed in a small room and be monitored by microphones to ensure that he doesn't speak. Any communication will be made in writing and any member may come to visit him. Tennyson agrees to the bet, but requests that Taylor have a check on deposit made in his name and a copy available for the members of the club to view. Taylor tells the young man his word will have to be good enough.
Archie is surprised at Tennyson's endurance, and after nine months, he offers the man $1,000 to leave immediately under the ruse of concern for the young man's welfare. When Tennyson refuses, The Colonel counters by bringing up questions about his wife. Tennyson had sent several notes to her, requesting she visit him, but received no response. Taylor then tries to incite the man's ire by commenting that he'd seen the young woman around town with other men. In spite of the continual gossip, and an offer of $5,000 to quit, Tennyson stays where he is.
On the evening the bet is to be finalized, Taylor admits to his friends that Tennyson is much stronger than they gave him credit for. Tennyson wins the bet, and all the members of the club congratulate him, but he cant collect because Archie confesses he has long since gone bankrupt and had been maintaining a charade before the other members. Tennyson is distraught in victory, and furiously scribbles out a note. Colonel Taylor reads it aloud, "I knew I would not be able to keep my part of the bargain, so one year ago I had my vocal chords severed." -
scvido — 17 years ago(December 22, 2008 05:19 PM)
for me "Night Of The Meek"
the guy playing Santa just nailed it when he confessed to the toy store owner that he drinks because of poverty and because he would like to see just 1 christmas where the meek inherits the earth.
epic. -
nafshani-1 — 18 years ago(October 03, 2007 07:48 AM)
I bought the definitive collection on DVD. His appearances on Mike Wallace and Groucho 1c84Marx (included as extras on the Season 2 set) are fantastic. What a cool, smart, generous, creative man.
But the episode that most breaks my heart is The Hitch-Hiker (Season 1, Episode 16).
I really wanted her to be okay, even though I knew. . .that phone call home in which she tried to talk to her mom was heart breaking.
