It's the Twilight Zone's fiftieth anniversary today. What's your favorite episode?
Twilight Zone turns golden today
by mrsjones5 29 Replies latest social entertainment
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blondie
Original or the ones from 1985?
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mrsjones5
Originals
One of my favs is "Four O'clock".
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blondie
It's a Good Life--creepy Billy Mumy (WT resonance)
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mrsjones5
"Night Call" is a good one
Loved "It's A Good Life", hated the remake in the Twilight Zone movie.
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Deputy Dog
What's your favorite episode?
I can't pick one. I loved them all! Anybody remember "a pitch for the ages"
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mrsjones5
"Anybody remember "a pitch for the ages"
Do you mean "One For The Angels"?
Twilight Zone First Season
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- Writer: Rod Serling
- Director: Robert Parrish
- Producer: Buck Houghton
- Director of Photography: George T. Clemens
- Music: stock
- Cast:
- Lew Bookman: Ed Wynn
- Mr. Death: Murray Hamilton
- Maggie: Dana Dillaway
"One For The Angels"
"Street scene: Summer. The present. Man on a sidewalk named Lew Bookman, age sixtyish. Occupation: pitchman. Lew Bookman, a fixture of the summer, a rather minor component to a hot July, a nondescript, commonplace little man whose life is a treadmill built out of sidewalks. And in just a moment, Lew Bookman will have to concern himself with survival - because as of three o'clock this hot July afternoon he'll be stalked by Mr. Death."
Lew Bookman, a sidewalk salesman, is informed by Mr. Death that he is to die at midnight. Bookman convinces Death to allow him to live until he has had a chance to do his masterpiece, the Big Pitch - "one for the angels." Death arranges for a truck to hit Maggie, a neighborhood child, to take Lew's place. Death has to be in Maggie's room at midnight to claim her.
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"Lewis J. Bookman, age sixtyish. Occupation: pitchman. Formerly a fixture of the summer, formerly a rather minor component to a hot July. But, throughout his life, a man beloved by the children, and therefore a most important man. Couldn't happen, you say? Probably not in most places - but it did happen in the Twilight Zone."
http://tzone.the-croc.com/original-twilight-zone-episode-guide.html
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Deputy Dog
mrsj
That's it! I think "a pitch for the ages" is one of the lines.
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Deputy Dog
Thanks for the link mrsj!
