Twilight Zone (1985)

[Daddy Todd]

I remember being blown away by the episode "Nightcrawlers" when it first aired. I was less blown away when I rewatched it about 5 years ago, but it's still pretty damn good.

 

[Jedi Marso]

The only one I remember from that version of the show is the one where someone has a watch or something that stops time. The rub is that a nuclear war starts, and the last frame of the episode is the character looking up at a falling, time-frozen ICBM probably a split seconds before it is set to detonate over the city. Pretty hard-hitting at the height of the Cold War.

 

[Set Harth]

I heard about that! I didn't remember where, or that it was from that show.

 

[Starkers]

The episode is A Little Peace and Quiet

 

[Roundabout]

"Profile in Silver" is another good one, and I can probably think of some others.

Kennedy was played by none other than Andrew Robinson. I recall he portrayed Kennedy with a really thick JFK accent.

I liked the '80s Twilight Zone. Plus it's fun to keep an eye out for the many Trek actors who show up in it.

Louise Fletcher as the archeologist in "The Hunters" and Terry Farrell in the remake of "The After Hours", (Marsha, Marsha, Marsha), immediately come to mind, of Trek actors appearing in the '80s Twilight Zone.


"Red Snow" and "The Cold Equations" are two other episodes that I remember.

 

[Set Harth]

I of Newton (silly but I love the ending)

I must have seen this, because I remember that ending!

 

[JD]

MeTV+ (their new second network) has been showing The New Twilight Zone. Is that this one or one of the others?

 

[JD]

I watched it for the first time last night on MeTV+, I can't remeber the episode's title, but it was about a Vietnam draft dodger who meets an alternate version of himself who fought. I thought it was really good, and I was shocked when I looked it up on Wikipedia and saw it was written by George RR Martin, I had no idea he wrote for this.
It's actually on right now too, it's about half way through Shelter Skelter.

 

[diankra]

One I recall is The Star, where they find a dead planet orbiting a sun that has gone nova at the right time to be the star of Bethlehemen. An atheist becomes a believer, but a believer can't accept that God eould wipe out a world and loses his fath.

 

[The Salt Umpire]

I watched it for the first time last night on MeTV+, I can't remeber the episode's title, but it was about a Vietnam draft dodger who meets an alternate version of himself who fought. I thought it was really good, and I was shocked when I looked it up on Wikipedia and saw it was written by George RR Martin, I had no idea he wrote for this.
It's actually on right now too, it's about half way through Shelter Skelter.

I wish my local MeTV would show MeTV+ instead of the insipid programing they have. I even deleted some OTA channels because they never show anything I'd care to watch, it sure makes surfing thru the few that do easier. Thank God for PBS.

 

[FredH]

One I recall is The Star, where they find a dead planet orbiting a sun that has gone nova at the right time to be the star of Bethlehemen. An atheist becomes a believer, but a believer can't accept that God eould wipe out a world and loses his fath.

That’s the short story version. As I recall, the TV version has the guy decide that the people on that planet had reached their time, and someday it’ll be our time, and isn’t that wonderful, hallelujah. Which made no sense at all.

 

[Guy Gardener]

That’s the short story version. As I recall, the TV version has the guy decide that the people on that planet had reached their time, and someday it’ll be our time, and isn’t that wonderful, hallelujah. Which made no sense at all.

I have no recollection of that ending, but I suppose if Intelligent design means that the intelligence is finished with this planet, then that world has "probably" gone through its version of Revelation, where after the wicked have been punished and the good have ascended to salvation, which confirms the existence of God, and that the path which the Earthican Christians are on, is good.

 

[JD]

I wish my local MeTV would show MeTV+ instead of the insipid programing they have. I even deleted some OTA channels because they never show anything I'd care to watch, it sure makes surfing thru the few that do easier. Thank God for PBS.

MeTV+ is a separate channel from MeTV, there are actually three of them now, they also have a MeTV Toons channel which cable service doesn't carry.

 

[The Salt Umpire]

MeTV+ is a separate channel from MeTV, there are actually three of them now, they also have a MeTV Toons channel which cable service doesn't carry.

The broadcaster's channel has four subchannels and MeTv is the only one I watch. They have a CW, MeTV and the Story Conspiracy Theory & Criptid Channel. The last shows Maury, Jerry Springer and Steve wilcos non-stop. I wish heartily someone had H&I here.

 

[DarrenTR1970]

I have a digital antenna that receives 65 channels over the air - so I get a lot of bad with the good.
I get CometTV, H&I, all four MeTV channels, Start, Bounce, Dabl, Story, etc.

 

[JD]

Four MeTVs? I know the original, +, and Toons, which we sadly don't get here, but I don't know of a fourth one.