Twilight Zone Marathon on Sci-Fi Channel!

I love these shows, not just for the stories, but for seeing famous actors before they were that well-known. The current episode features Robert Duvall, from 1963, just a year after his notable cameo in "To Kill A Mockingbird". Great stuff.

on the USA Network

one of the most creative things ever shown on TV Even after all of these years the stories are relevant Rod Serling was a freakin genius

The one with Art Carney as Santa is one of my favorites of all time!

Then there is Robert Redford's first role as "Death".

Donna Douglas is a raving beauty in the 'pig-faced' episode.

Ann Jillian as the telepathic 'mute' is a great story.

Elizabeth Montgomery and Charles Bronson as the only two survivors after nuclear holocaust, (God she was beautiful).

Agnes Moorehead said the hardest part she ever had was being the only actress and not having any lines in the 'alien' episode.

Tons of people got their start on Twilight Zone, as did many writers and producers. Serling is one of the great American treasures of film, TV, and even literature.

But my favorite episode of all times is the one where the UFO crashes in Mexico, and the Gift, in "the Gift" is the book, "The Cure to all Human Cancers"........burned beyond it's opening page, because of ignorance and fear.

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this is absolutely one of the best. Hope I can hold it together.. I always get a little misty for this one!

It is truly a great story, such eloquence. The whole drunken dept store scene is an unbelievable classic!

Art Carney did a wonderful job on that particular episode.

I always wanted to tape it on one of my Christmas tapes, but am always just a shade too late. Next time they have a marathon, I'm gonna go through what is coming up and be prepared.

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*smash*

That episode rules. So does Shatner's.

"There's... someTHING... ON... the WING!"

'famous' for being the original Penquin, he was one of the TOP stage actors of his time. seeing him on TZ reruns is a such a treat. managed to catch two during this marathon, inc. the classic TIME ENOUGH AT LAST

James Coburn staging an uprising against "The Old Man in the Cave"

Earl Hammner of "The Waltons" fame getting his start be writing a few episodes.

The very beautiful Inger Stevens in "The Hitchhiker". She died way, way too young.

I did get to see "Walking Distance" with Gig Young. This was one of my very favorite TZ episodes.

on one episode who had more heart than dancing talent. She showed us what was really important.

It's based on a short story by Robert Bloch (which was also scary)

The idea of a small child, who doesn't know right from wrong, having godlike powers...it's still a marvelously frightening premise.

1. the witch doctor's curse

2. the phantom airplane

3. the man who finds himself in a completely deserted town

4. Dennis Weaver as a man who has a recurring nightmare about being executed

5. the man who comes into the shrink's office afraid to go to sleep

In fact, I stayed up much later than I should because they kept starting unfamiliar Twilight Zone episodes.

(Excuse me while I yawn.)

and there were a few they didn't show, (at least as far as I know they didn't).

It is strange how 'timeless' TZ is; just goes to show me that the quality of Serling and those around him, goes far beyond much of what we call 'entertainment' today. He was extremely adept at using the viewers mind to actually become a part of the story. Excellence.

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from http://www.cubando.com/vhs/Genres/Horror/Series_Sequels/Twilight_Zone/P-0000000a000037646e33616a6c363569/The_Twilight_Zone_Walking_Distance_Kick_the_Can/

WALKING DISTANCE is probably the best episode ever produced. Gig Young acts out Serling's prose
so perfectly that he speaks for every man that ever wished he could go home again. It is a very
moving episode. Bernard Herrmann's score intuitively picks up the emotion and heartfelt sincerity
that Serling wrote into this story. This was Rod Serling's, Bernard Herrmann's and Gig Young's finest
work for any medium. I think it is the finest piece of work ever put on film. KICK THE CAN is
thematically similar and also very moving. It examines what it means to grow old and if one must give
up the very things that makes us who we really are. It too is a very heartfelt episode, sincere and
remains one of the best.

'One For the Angels'. Ed Wynn is a street vendor anmed Lou Bookman; when Death comes to call after him he refuses to go, so Death has to take someone else-in this case a little girl in the neighborhood. Bookman saves her by making death late for his midnight appointment to take her.

The last line is the one that always gets me..

Wynn: (packing his case) You never know when somebody will need something up there...Up There?

Death: Up there, Mr. Bookman. You made it..

On edit: check out this Danziger cartoon...

http://www.danzigercartoons.com/cmp/2003/danziger1854.html