Whatu00b4s your favourite episode?
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doughdee222 — 21 years ago(June 07, 2004 09:51 PM)
It's been over a decade since I've seen any of this show but I can still remember some of the stories. My favorite is probably "A Message From Charity" about a teenage boy in modern time achieving a psychic link with a teenage girl in the 1600s. Back in the mid 90s I found a copy of the original short story in a collection and was amazed at how faithful the screenplay was.
I also liked the 5 minute shorts "A Small Talent For War" (aliens come to Earth and scold humanity) and (can't remember the name) the one about parents concerned over their son taking a test Oh and the one with Sherman Hemsley playing a mathematician who would sell his soul for the answer to a problem and poof a demon (Ron Glass) appears. I always loved that the demon's t-shirts kept changing ("Gehenna, not just a place a way of life.") and the line "I can go from here to the Andromeda galaxy and back in one-tenth of a second. Faster if I didn't stop for lunch!"
-Doughdee222
"I am a realist, not a pessimist. The real world is pessimistic by nature." -
LordRiff — 21 years ago(June 21, 2004 06:00 PM)
How could you guys forget, the one where all the guy wants to do is read, then everyone dies but him? i dont remeber the title but that ones great!
"This is your life and its ending one minute at a time" -Fight Club -
balkaster — 21 years ago(July 04, 2004 10:38 AM)
It's not that we forgot, it's that you're remembering an episode from the 1960's TZ, and this board is for the 1980's TZ. The episode is "Time Enough at Last," starring Burgess Meredith as Henry Bemis. It might have been remade as an episode of the 2002 TZ, but I've never seen that version (didn't get a UPN station in this market until after it had been cancelled) so I don't know for sure.
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balkaster — 21 years ago(July 04, 2004 10:32 AM)
(can't remember the name) the one about parents concerned over their son taking a test
The one about the test was one of my favorites, too. It was called "Examination Day", and I think it was based on a short story that I read later. I don't remember the author, unfortunately. -
harry_vest — 21 years ago(July 07, 2004 03:01 PM)
Why has no one mentioned "Palladin of the Lost Hour" with Danny Kaye. This was by far the best Twilight Zone episode of that 80's series. It's a beautiful story with exceptional acting. Another favorite is the one where a woman who is a worker in a future society escapes through a dream machine to her version of paradise (I think it may of been one of the first episodes ever broadcast). "A Message from Charity" was also great as was "Examination Day" and another one that was a take on the moral majority - a right wing preacher type is in charge of Hell and does not consult God before sending people there. Here in Canada it was considered the "lost episode" because of some interuption but I managed to tape it off someone's satelite.
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bflynn65 — 21 years ago(August 20, 2004 03:02 AM)
I never even knew "Paladin of the Lost" Hour was made into an episode. I remember reading the short story in Eng 101. It was a fantastic story and i wish i could see the episode.
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hallier23 — 21 years ago(July 14, 2004 02:05 PM)
Man, I remember watching this show all the time, but I don't remember any of the episode titles. Maybe you fellas here can help me with the titles, or if these were actually another show.
Spoilers!
My favorite: I think it was called "A Children's Zoo." In this episode, a family with two arguing parents took their little girl to the zoo. The catch was, the parents couldn't enter. The quiet, little girl enters, and in the zoo are, lo and behold, parents!! The little girl pushes a button to talk to the parents. Some threatened her, some begged of her, and finally, she selected an older, nicer couple to be her "new" parents. The episode ended with the little girl leaving with her new parents, and they walked right by her old parents, who were arguing. But then they panicked when they saw their daughter leaving with someone else.
Second fav: An episode where a man's life is lived based on what he reads on fortune cookies. Predictable, of course, but I liked it. He's rich and living well, but then his life starts falling apart. He finally reads a cookie that says, "You will die very soon." He gets mad, attacks the waiters, and eats a ton of cookies at once. He thn pulls out a slip of paper that reads "You are dead." End of show.
Also liked an episode where a mom discovers she can get quiet whenever she wants by saying "Shut up!" Everything freezes in life but her. If I'm not mistaken, the ending has the Soviet Union launching a nuclear missle that's about to land on America. She screams "Shut up!" over and over. Everything freezes, she walks outside, and there, among the many people that had gathered in the streets, sees the missle frozen in mid-air.
And I think this show was called "Kentucky Rye." Don't remember much, except some guy who killed a woman accidentally in a hit-and-run, ends up buying a bar. Problem is, it's $1,100, and all he has is $1,000. Then a mysterious man appears and forks over $100. It was the husband. That's about all I remember.
"When I left you I was but the learner. Now I am the master." - Darth Vader -
dubyah1 — 21 years ago(July 22, 2004 10:39 PM)
Twenty years, and it still resonates. Faves:
'A Message From Charity' {from quaint to chilling as a young man [Duncan McNeill from 'ST:Voyager'] telepathically experiences with her the attempted assault of a young woman accused of witchcraft}
'Rendezvous in a Dark Place' with the owner of one of the most beautiful male mouths on TV, Stephen McHattie [Seinfeld psychiatrist], as Death showing the ravaged Janet Leigh life is sometimes wasted on the living. "And I alone will never leave you."
Short and bittersweet, but liked the thought-provocation of 'The Star' [written by Arthur C. Clarke of '2001' fame]: a Jesuit's realisation that his star of Bethlehem heralded the loss of a great civilisation.
Honourable mention to:
'Palladin of the Lost Hour' with Danny Kaye [a big hit in France]
'Dead Run' [Brent Spiner ST:TNG alert] about raising the good from Hell, still topical in today's media climate where it is deemed acceptable prime time TV for children to see corpses [any CSI], airhead bulimics with plastic bags burrowed under their flesh [any 'reality' program] and beer commercials [any professional sporting event], but not a nipple, and
the score of 'Nightsong'; a DJ's lost love, with the late beefcake Antony Hamilton.
Worst?
I'm sure I'm repressing the worst episode ever. Worst I can recall? the campy 'I of Newton' with Ron Glass? The sappy 'Little Boy Lost'? hmm, guess I'll just have to await the DVD's. -
mcdoodad49 — 21 years ago(July 23, 2004 01:18 PM)
"Little Boy Lost'" with Season Hubley was my favorite episode even though dubyah1 thought it was sappy. It's a story about how coming to any decision can greatly alter the course of your life or someone elses.
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adam_douglas-1 — 21 years ago(July 31, 2004 05:45 PM)
Can anyone remember an episode from the 1980's version with Bruce Willis starring? He splits in to two versions of himself. One version never leaves his apartment, the other version goes out to work and takes over his life. The apartment version gradually becomes psychotic and reclusive while the exterior world version is more confident and together. I think it ended with the apartment version of Willis fading away and the exterior version stepping in to his life completely. It was transmitted in the UK by at least Central/Angla ITV stations in the late 1980's or early 1990's. This and the end scene of 'A Little Peace and Quiet' with the ICBM frozen in the night sky above a cinema showing 'Doctor Strangelove' are enduring TV images for me.
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dubyah1 — 21 years ago(August 05, 2004 09:28 PM)
Bruce Willis calls home and Bruce Willis answers in 'Shatterday'
written by Harlan Ellison, who also wrote 'Palladin of the Lost Hour', as well as 'Ther Terminator', 'Logan's Run', and the Star Trek classic 'City on the Edge of Forever'. -
Bargle77 — 15 years ago(September 19, 2010 07:19 PM)
Never mind, I see you started a separate thread and got an answer there.
I thought Bruce Willis in "ShatterDay" was about a guy sentenced to a year of invisibility??? What IS that one?
That's "To See The Invisible Man" with Cotter Smith.
It's all like some bad movie.