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Twilight Zone

Posted by Abaco 9 years, 10 months ago to Entertainment
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I just started recording the old Twilight Zone shows on SyFy. You know what?...That show was WAY better than almost anything on tv today. Sure, the effects were corny (per today's standards) but many of the story lines were pretty deep, though-provoking. I am really enjoying it. Some of the acting was also very, very good. Wow... And, the blessing...When I take the time to sit and watch one, my kids (5 and 10) will sit quietly and take the whole episode in - asking questions about it. You can look at them and see the wheels turning.

This weekend I watched the episode, "Walking Distance", about a man who's professional life is driving him nuts. He ends up walking back to his hometown (left the car at a roadside shop a mile away). He walks in and the town is in a timewarp, back when he was a kid. Really good stuff. I highly recommend you guys set your DVRs to this.

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  • Posted by Abaco 9 years, 10 months ago in reply to this comment.
    I saw the advertisement for that marathon and set the recorder. Good move on my part. The kids and I love the shows. SO much better than your modern shows, in general...
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  • Posted by Abaco 9 years, 10 months ago in reply to this comment.
    He was great. I remember that he just died 2 or 3 years ago. My brother and I mourned. We loved Gilligan's Island and watched it all the time. I just learned something trivial, yet meaningful to me. My wife is the spitting image of Jayne Mansfield (so I'm a fan...of both). Jayne was offered the role of Ginger but turned it down. That would have really tormented me in my youth!
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  • Posted by freedomforall 9 years, 10 months ago
    Very talented people took roles on Twilight Zone:
    Dana Andrews
    Martin Balsam
    Richard Basehart
    Orson Bean
    Shelley Berman
    Theodore Bikel
    Bill Bixby
    Joan Blondell
    Ann Blyth
    Lloyd Bochner
    Morgan Brittany (Suzanne Cupito)
    Charles Bronson
    Carol Burnett
    Sebastian Cabot
    Art Carney
    James Coburn
    Michael Conrad
    John Considine
    Michael Constantine
    Jackie Cooper
    Bob Crane
    Robert Cummings
    James Daly
    Richard Deacon
    William Demarest
    Andy Devine
    James Doohan
    Donna Douglas
    Dan Duryea
    Robert Duvall
    Buddy Ebsen
    Jack Elam
    Shelley Fabares
    Peter Falk
    Anne Francis
    James Franciscus
    John Galt
    Mariette Hartley
    Sterling Holloway
    Dennis Hopper
    Ron Howard
    Wilfrid Hyde-White
    Sherry Jackson
    Dean Jagger
    Ann Jillian
    Arte Johnson
    Buster Keaton
    Sally Kellerman
    Richard Kiel
    Jack Klugman
    Martin Landau
    Robert Lansing
    Cloris Leachman
    Ida Lupino
    Patrick Macnee
    Strother Martin
    Lee Marvin
    Kevin McCarthy
    Doug McClure
    Roddy McDowall
    John McIntire
    Burgess Meredith
    Vera Miles
    Martin Milner
    Elizabeth Montgomery
    Agnes Moorehead
    Greg Morris
    Billy Mumy
    Julie Newmar
    Leonard Nimoy
    Patrick O'Neal
    Susan Oliver
    Nehemiah Persoff
    Donald Pleasence
    Sydney Pollack
    Robert Redford
    Burt Reynolds
    Don Rickles
    Cliff Robertson
    Mickey Rooney
    Telly Savalas
    William Shatner
    Max Showalter
    Inger Stevens
    Dean Stockwell
    Harold J. Stone
    George Takei
    Rod Taylor
    Franchot Tone
    Lee Van Cleef
    Joyce Van Patten
    Jack Warden
    Dennis Weaver
    Jack Weston
    Jesse White
    James Whitmore
    Edy Williams
    William Windom
    Jonathan Winters
    Ed Wynn
    Keenan Wynn
    Dick York
    Gig Young
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  • Posted by richrobinson 9 years, 10 months ago
    Great show. I missed the New Year marathon. This year my brother said they aired them in the order they originally aired. I didn't start recording till that evening. Burgess Meredith was in a couple of classic episodes.
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