Whatu00b4s your favourite episode?
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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.
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Bargle77 — 15 years ago(September 19, 2010 07:36 PM)
My favorites, in no particular order.
Her Pilgrim Soul
To See the Invisible Man
A Message From Charity
Wordplay
I of Newton
The Once and Future King
Voices In the Earth
Wong's Lost and Found Emporium
A Small Talent for War
A Little Peace and Quiet
It's all like some bad movie.
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syphus — 21 years ago(August 16, 2004 04:51 PM)
Yeah I think I remember that one. She says "Shut up" and it stops time and then she says "Start talking" and it starts up again. I remember she used it at the supermarket when this lady took the last box of cereal and then at the end the Russians were bombing so she stopped time and saw the missle up in the air. That was one of my favorites and so many times I wish I had that amulet
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frog-34 — 21 years ago(August 19, 2004 01:07 PM)
I can vaguely recall the beginning of one episode that was set in London in 1986. All I can remember is
- The first shot we see (at night) is a teenager with a spiked punk haircut standing on a street corner listening to some heavy metal music and
- King Arthur and Merlin become involved with this kid one way or another (I think).
Does this ring any bells with anybody, or am I genuinely crazy? If this was in fact a 1980s "Twilight Zone" story, was it any goodor was this an episode of "Amazing Stories" or "Alfred Hitchcock Presents"? (As I recall, I was at my grandparents' house and the channel got changed on the TV.)
"That, my friends, was the minority vote."Daniel Day-Lewis, "Gangs of New York"
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xavrush89 — 21 years ago(August 20, 2004 12:40 PM)
This was not a creepy episode, nor did it have a surprise ending or anything, but I just loved it. I still talk about it!
Pam Dawber plays a put-upon secretary who goes to make a copy and suddenly winds up in a world where secretaries are in demand and treated like celebrities everywhere they go. She becomes a big hit at a party and commands a huge salary, only to find things back to normal shortly thereafter. Will she stay or find a way back to the parallel universe where she's like a supermodel? Dawber was great, and the episode is the ultimate fantasy fopr anyone who's ever had a sh*t job!
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l0bst3r — 21 years ago(August 23, 2004 11:34 AM)
whoa whoa.. what's all this talk about the 80s version of the Twilight Zone without any mention of the two classics THE BUTTON and A GAME OF POOL!
THE BUTTON was a brilliant concept.. a white trash couple are sittin' there arguing about their miserable lives when the doorbell rings.. It is, of course, some mysterious guy who hands them a box with a glass dome and a button inside. If they open the glass and hit the button they'll receive $100,000 the catch is if they do, someone they don't know somewhere in the world will be killed. They have one day to decide.
Most of the show is the hilarious arguments and justifications they go through throughout the night concerning if they should do it or not Of course, after hours of debate, they decide to do it .. hits the button.. and the next day the man reappears with a suitcase full of money. "I see you hit the button!" .. Gives them the money and takes the button back. When they asked who ended up dying because of it, he smiles and responds "Why, the person who had the button before you.." and walks away. Creeeeepy but thought-provoking and brilliant.
as for the "A Game of Pool" .. apparently (i didn't know this until i looked it up on the web just now) but apparently it was an adaptation of one of the 1950s TZ's of the same name read the summary here: http://www.tzworld.com/gameofpool.html .. "I'm the best player on Randolph Street!" .. it's a hilarious episode can't wait for the DVD!
L0bst3r