Twilight Zone episodes that broke your heart
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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.
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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?
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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.
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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. -
mikey_scars — 18 years ago(December 11, 2007 10:22 AM)
Death's-Head Revisited
A form Nazi leader goes to the ruins of his concentration camp to relive his "glory days." He's forced to instead relive the horrible things he did his victims. This episode is so heavy it did move me to tears.
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mexirishman — 18 years ago(December 19, 2007 04:59 PM)
I've been a huge fan of the Twilight Zone since I was around four or five. I'd have to watch every marathon that came on T.V. The one episode that moves me to actual tears would be "I Sing The Body Electric." If I'm watching it around people, I have to get up at the end scene when it's time for the "grandma" to leave. I just can't watch it without crying. I used to think, "I can't even imagine losing a grandparent." Now that I'm 26, three of my four grandparents are gone. The only one left is my grandma (my mom's mother).
These three children finally had a grandmother (though not real), and at the end it was time for her to go back to where she was created. What gets me everytime is that they make it sound like it's such a good thing, and it's a hopeful thing for her because there is a slight chance that she can become real within a few centuries or so, depending on what she learns every time around. Our grandmother's die.
I'm going to laugh if this is the next episode that comes on tonight (Channel 19 at 10:30 if you're in the San Fernando Valley). -
smileyking1975 — 11 years ago(January 27, 2015 09:00 AM)
Time Enough at Last, Nothing in the dark, Back There, and Mute. I just wondered what made the woman and Ilsa (played by Ann Jillian) cry like that!
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sage_rose2003 — 18 years ago(December 31, 2007 07:54 PM)
oh yeah that one! i don't know if break your heart is the words for most. intensely freak or creep you out, question the meaning of life, or become incredibly fearful of something like solitude or death might be the right terms for most episodes
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mjlwriter — 18 years ago(January 01, 2008 07:57 AM)
I think a lot of 'em really toy with your emotions. I saw part of the marathon yesterday, and "A Stop at Willoughby" (which did strike a chord when I saw it in my past) once again made me think I think we all can associate with the stresses of life he encounters and the fantasies we employ to relieve this stress. In this case, the fantasy went too far Not sure how to feel about the episode Should we feel good about it, in that the man now "lives" in Willougby or is it just a cautionary tale.
On another note, I think the Twilight Zone is to TV what the Beatles are to music. One winning episode after another! -
richardnixon38 — 18 years ago(January 01, 2008 02:52 PM)
I have been watching the twilight marathon since midnight
The one in particular that breaks my heart is "The Lonely" with Jack warden who plays James Corry whose is stranded on a asteroid as punishment for a crime he commited in self defence. Then he gets a female robot from captain allenby, named alicia who seems almost life like, then he falls in love, then she gets terminated because James gets a pardon, she is to heavy to take on the spaceship back to earth and gets blasted.
"She's not a robot! She's a woman!"