The Twilight Zone

[Odo's_Bucket]

Here's a list I made of the Star Trek actors who appeared in The Twilight Zone.


TOS
William Shatner - "Nick of Time" 1960, "Nightmare at 20,000 Feet" 1963
Leonard Nimoy - "The Quality of Mercy" 1961
James Doohan - "Valley of the Shadow" 1963
George Takei - "The Encounter" 1964

TNG
Jonathan Frakes - "But Can She Type" 1985
Brent Spiner - "Dead Run" 1985
John DeLancie - "Dead Run" 1985
James Cromwell - "A Message From Charity" 1985

DS9
Terry Ferrell - "The After Hours" (remake of the original) 1986
Nana Visitor - "Dead Woman's Shoes" (remake of original "Dead Man's Shoes" ) 1985
Andrew Robinson - "Profile in Silver" 1985, "Private Channel" 1986
Louise Fletcher - "The Hunters" 1988
Jeffrey Combs - "Placebo Effect" 2003

VOYAGER
Robert Duncan McNeil - "A Message From Charity" 1985
Tim Russ - "Kentucky Rye" 1985, "Voices In The Earth" 1986
Ethan Phillips - "Devil's Alphabet" 1985
Gerrit Ghraham (Q / Quinn) - "Welcome to Winfield" 1985
Anthony De Longis ( First Maje Culluh) - "The Convict's Piano" 1986

 

[Mr. Laser Beam]

Louise Fletcher - "The Hunters" 1988

Also starring Michael "Saul Tigh" Hogan.

Also, you forgot another Trek actor from the "Devil's Alphabet" episode: Ben Cross (Sarek in ST XI).

 

[chrisspringob]

Favorite episode that hasn't been mentioned yet:

"On Thursday We Leave For Home"

I hated most of the 1 hour episodes, but this one was terrific.

 

[Greg Cox]

I don't have time to list fifty, but, off the top of my head:

Nightmare at 20,000 Feet
The Obsolete Man
Steel
The Howling Man
Time Enough at Last
It's a Good Life
Nothing in the Dark
To Serve Man

Hey are you the real Greg Cox?

I'm the Trek writer, if that's what you mean.

And, yeah, the 80's version is underrated.

 

[Mistral]

I don't have time to list fifty, but, off the top of my head:

Nightmare at 20,000 Feet
The Obsolete Man
Steel
The Howling Man
Time Enough at Last
It's a Good Life
Nothing in the Dark
To Serve Man

Hey are you the real Greg Cox?

*grin* real is a relative term. This particular Greg Cox is made of cotton candy and dust bunnies-so you'll have to decide for yourself.


I'm the Trek writer, if that's what you mean.

And, yeah, the 80's version is underrated.

I remember my amazement that "real authors" whose books I own were actually responding to posts here. It took a few days to get over. Reading some of Dayton's posts helped re-ground my feet, though.

 

[Greg Cox]

Hey, I feel the same way whenever I talk to Richard Matheson, who wrote many of the best TZ episodes, including "Nightmare at 20,000 Feet."

Richard is 83, but still writing.

 

[Mistral]

Hey, I feel the same way whenever I talk to Richard Matheson, who wrote many of the best TZ episodes, including "Nightmare at 20,000 Feet."

Richard is 83, but still writing.

OK, I'm impressed all over again. You talk to RM? *sits down, dazed* Wow.

 

[DarkHorse]

Hey, I feel the same way whenever I talk to Richard Matheson, who wrote many of the best TZ episodes, including "Nightmare at 20,000 Feet."

Richard is 83, but still writing.

Greg, please let Richard know that I think that he is a great writer and his stories are superb. In Spring 2008 when I wasn't working, I took to reading his books after seeing I Am Legend in the theatres and I was familiar with his name from TZ. That spring and summer I bought and read I am Legend, Duel, Noir, The Incredible Shrinking Man, Button, Button and Richard Matheson Twilight Zone scripts in my spare time and with the desire to soak up the genre of the short story and how it could be a great literary masterpiece without be a billion words.

Back to the best TZ, here are my suggestions:

To Serve Man - always must watch this episode
Old Man in the Cave - love the way James Coburn says "Old Man in the Cave"
Nightmare at 20,000 Feet - true Shatner
The Midnight Sun
Two -great acting w/ few words
Monsters are Due on Maple Street
I Shot An Arrow in the Sky
Steel
Nick of Time
And When The Sky Opened Up
What You Need
A World of His Own
The Rip Van Winkle Caper -good greed script
The Silence
Will the Real Martian Please Stand Up - one great story and twist at the end
The Shelter - loved those stories against the Cold War fear
The Little People - Another good astronaut story
The Trade-Ins
Death Ship

Sometimes, I can never go out on those holidays that the SyFy (sic Sci-Fi) channel has the TZ marathons.

 

[Greg Cox]

Hey, I feel the same way whenever I talk to Richard Matheson, who wrote many of the best TZ episodes, including "Nightmare at 20,000 Feet."

Richard is 83, but still writing.

Greg, please let Richard know that I think that he is a great writer and his stories are superb. In Spring 2008 when I wasn't working, I took to reading his books after seeing I Am Legend in the theatres and I was familiar with his name from TZ. That spring and summer I bought and read I am Legend, Duel, Noir, The Incredible Shrinking Man, Button, Button and Richard Matheson Twilight Zone scripts in my spare time and with the desire to soak up the genre of the short story and how it could be a great literary masterpiece without be a billion words.

Have you read the NIGHTMARE AT 20,000 FEET collection? There are some good stories in that one. Tor is going to be reissuing BUTTON, BUTTON in October, btw, to tie in with the new movie version, titled THE BOX. ("Button, Button" was, of course, previously filmed as a TZ episode, rendering this shameless plug perfectly on topic!)

Did I mention that I've been Richard's editor for over fifteen years?

 

[DarkHorse]

Hey, I feel the same way whenever I talk to Richard Matheson, who wrote many of the best TZ episodes, including "Nightmare at 20,000 Feet."

Richard is 83, but still writing.

Greg, please let Richard know that I think that he is a great writer and his stories are superb. In Spring 2008 when I wasn't working, I took to reading his books after seeing I Am Legend in the theatres and I was familiar with his name from TZ. That spring and summer I bought and read I am Legend, Duel, Noir, The Incredible Shrinking Man, Button, Button and Richard Matheson Twilight Zone scripts in my spare time and with the desire to soak up the genre of the short story and how it could be a great literary masterpiece without be a billion words.

Have you read the NIGHTMARE AT 20,000 FEET collection? There are some good stories in that one. Tor is going to be reissuing BUTTON, BUTTON in October, btw, to tie in with the new movie version, titled THE BOX. ("Button, Button" was, of course, previously filmed as a TZ episode, rendering this shameless plug perfectly on topic!)

Did I mention that I've been Richard's editor for over fifteen years?

I think I have it. I'll check when I get home. I only wrote that email off of memory.

When I was reading BUTTON, BUTTON, I thought it was going to be made into a movie, but I didn't see it on any future releases. Isn't Cameron Diaz or some other blond cast as one of the main characters?

 

[Random_Spock]

I hope no one minds a bump of this thread... since this year is the 50th anniversary of The Twilight Zone .

an article about the event

Congrats on reaching the big 5-0... and may there be many more anniversarys.

 

[DarthPipes]

Yep, it passed two days ago. I celebrated by watching the pilot, Where is Everybody? at ten o'clock, exactly fifty years to the minute it aired.

Where is Everybody? isn't a classic like later episodes but it set the tone for the series.

Happy 50th, Twilight Zone!

 

[sidious618]

50 years of TTZ! That's crazy.

 

[Greg Cox]

When I was reading BUTTON, BUTTON, I thought it was going to be made into a movie, but I didn't see it on any future releases. Isn't Cameron Diaz or some other blond cast as one of the main characters?

Yep, THE BOX stars Cameron Diaz, James Marsden, and Frank Langella.

And now they're talking about turning "Steel" (another of Richard's old TZ episodes) into a feature film as well.

 

[Ben Sisko3]

And now they're talking about turning "Steel" (another of Richard's old TZ episodes) into a feature film as well.

Indeed. Seems Hugh Jackman's attached.

A list of some of my favorites, in no real order...

- It's a Good Life
- The Obsolete Man
- The Howling Man
- The Monsters Are Due On Maple Street
- Time Enough At Last
- The Night of the Meek
- Nightmare at 20,000 Feet
- Probe 7, Over and Out

 

[Mr. Laser Beam]

And now they're talking about turning "Steel" (another of Richard's old TZ episodes) into a feature film as well.

Indeed. Seems Hugh Jackman's attached.

I hope he's not playing one of the robot boxers. That would be almost too obvious.

 

[RandyS]

50 years of TTZ! That's crazy.

Will you be saying that about Star Trek in seven years?

My favorite episodes of the Twilight Zone are:

Time Enough At Last
A Penny For Your Thoughts (At least I think that's the title, with Dick York flipping a coin, it lands on edge and he can hear eveybody's thoughts.)
And so many others, I can't possibly list them all here.

My favorite from the 1985 revival is A Profile in Silver, Lane Smith plays a Fitzgerald decendant coming back to Nov 22, 1963 and saves JFK in Dallas.

Every copy of the 2003 revival should be burned and the writers fined for writing shit.

 

[Random_Spock]

50 years of TTZ! That's crazy.

Yea it is. Time goes by so fast.

Some of my favorite eps:

Time Enough at Last
To Serve Man
The Monsters are Due on Maple Street
Eye of the Beholder

 

[John Picard]

"The Twilight Zone" The Thirty-Fathom Grave (1963)

In the early 1960's, as a U.S. Navy ship cruises near Guadalcanal in the South Pacific, its sonar detects muted hammering on metal undersea. The eerie sounds emanate from a submarine on the ocean floor, maybe there since World War II. A very nervous crew member (Mike Kellin) on the ship served aboard that sub - and he was its sole survivor

 

[Greg Cox]

And now they're talking about turning "Steel" (another of Richard's old TZ episodes) into a feature film as well.

Indeed. Seems Hugh Jackman's attached.

I hope he's not playing one of the robot boxers. That would be almost too obvious.

Nope, he's supposed to be playing the Lee Marvin part, the robot's manager.