[reply][reply]The little boy that could think for and get whatever he wanted. for example he sealed his sisters mouth shut cause he got mad at her… the only tale from the movie I saw.
No, that one is “It’s a Good Life” which is a remake. “Wish it into the cornfield, Anthony! Please! Wish it into the cornfield!”
And one of my favorite lines of all time, “Be dead! Gopher, You be DEAD!!!”[/reply]
Wow, perhaps there is an original I have not seen. I don’t think I’ve ever seen that one.
I’d love to pick up the whole series on blu ray but even used people want over a hundred bucks for it, so that’s out.
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I can’t believe you’ve not seen this one! Keep an eye open for it. I was taping them off MeTV for a while (they look like crap when they show 'em on SyFy for some reason) and usually they’ll give the title, so it shouldn’t be too hard to find.
But “It’s a Good Life” is a MUST SEE CLASSIC, so do what you can to knock it off your list.
One of the main reasons Twilight Zone was such a great show was the writers (which includes Serling himself, who wrote a number of episodes). They really went out of their way to find the cream of the crop. This is not to say there weren’t any clunker episodes, because there definitely were. But as far as batting percentage goes, TW was one of the most consistently good shows ever.
Any fan of the show should check out the recently-late Richard Matheson’s stuff. He wrote many of the best and most well-know episodes including “Nightmare at 20,000 Feet.” Here is a sample:
Many of Matheson’s other stories have been turned into movies, including The Incredible Shrinking Man, What Dreams May Come, Hollow Man, I Am Legend/Omega Man, Stir of Echoes and many others.
Most of the stuff he did was short stories. His collections get reprinted all the time, so they’re easy to find. You can of course find the original TW stories in many of these books.
the original TZ is really a testament to the art-form that television could be.
i donno where you stand on Blu-Ray, Gunney, but the blu-ray transfers of the show are mindblowingly clear and truly beautiful. all except a few episodes in (i think it was season 2, i cant remember off hand) because they were filled on a different stock and couldnt be transferred as brilliantly.
‘Monsters Come To Maple Street’, and ‘To Serve Man’ might be my faves, but there are some amazing pieces in there… i think ima have to break out the disks again…
Wow that’s good to know about matheson. the only other name I really recognize associated with TZ is beaumont.
Serling wrote well over half the stories for the first and second seasons (or wrote the script for a story that’d been adapted)
tremendous loss when he died…
and to go back on what gunnar said, night gallery wasn’t nearly as impressive as TZ. I only saw a few episodes. they ran it on channel 5ktla i think at midnight back when I was in junior high or so. I remember liking it well enough but it didn’t have the staying power that TZ had. If I remember right serling would walk around to various paintings on a set and then talk about what it meant until the story started
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The intro part to “Night Gallery” where Serling would talk about a painting and use it as the segue to the story was really great, and some of the stories were really good. It just doesn’t have the sexiness that Twilight Zone had and it was nowhere even close to the caliber of direction, writing, and cinematography. And it was shot in that late 60’s early 70’s saturated color film which made the cheap sets look even cheaper. The show aged really poorly. But, yes, I still like it.
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I just saw this one and the box is plain steel. Why does this dude paint his red? Is it to get over on copyrights or something?
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It’s a black and white show so it’s kind of hard to say for certainty what color the original was (unless we can get Shatner to join Prongs).
There has also been black and white versions of the same thing built, and actually officially licensed.
I do not know if the guy making the red ones did so because of a licensing agreement or if he just took some liberty. In all honesty, I think the red ones look better. The gray ones look kind of dull and lifeless and picturing these in an old diner I have an easier time thinking of the red one as something I would see on the counter or table.
I got the Blu-ray of the original series last year and it’s simply incredible. The audio is insanely clean and the picture quality looks like a million dollars. If you don’t own a Blu-ray player then the original Twilight Zone season box sets should spur you on to get one!
The episodes are great but the language and word imagery Rod uses before and after the episodes is simply genius.
"Was the real Mystic Seer black and white or red? And what color was the Devil’s head? Our sources don’t know for sure. CBS doesn’t have any color photography of this famous prop, and Mr. Shatner himself doesn’t remember what the color was when he starred in that famous episode back in 1960. Even the experts and Imagineers at The Walt Disney Company aren’t certain, as The Twilight Zone Tower of Terror ride at Disney’s California Adventure has a red Mystic Seer replica with a red head in the lobby, while the same ride at Walt Disney World features the replica with a cream colored head. "
After watching the episode today it looks like there is no paint on the box at all and the way the light sheens off of it makes it look Delorean colored.
I ain’t placing any bets on it or anything.
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After watching the episode today it looks like there is no paint on the box at all and the way the light sheens off of it makes it look Delorean colored.
I ain’t placing any bets on it or anything.
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I did think it was interesting that a bunch of people have put as much thought into it as I had . . . . and yet, anyone that COULD verify it can’t remember.
I do prefer the red version better, and wish they had used that color scheme for the official version. Oh, well. If I bought it I’d probably keep it in a vault, guarded by heavily armed Pakistani guards anyway, so I guess it doesn’t make a lot of difference.
Even the experts and Imagineers at The Walt Disney Company aren’t certain, as The Twilight Zone Tower of Terror ride at Disney’s California Adventure has a red Mystic Seer replica with a red head in the lobby, while the same ride at Walt Disney World features the replica with a cream colored head. "
One of my favorite topics!
Good time to bump it too, since a lot of episodes are really relevant to current times. Especially “THE MONSTERS ARE DUE ON MAPLE STREET” featuring one of my all time favorite actors… CLAUDE AKINS!
