Mine has and will always be "Death Ship."
Favorite Twilight Zone episode except these...
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(Also written by Matheson.)
FYI: there's talking of remaking that ep as a feature film.
^Matheson is the man, and I wouldn't mind seeing a big-screen version of "Death Ship."
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Me, too! (Although I feel obliged to point out that Richard is still very much alive and writing.)
Thanks! To be honest, I wasn't sure if you meant to imply that Richard was no longer with us, but you'd be surprised how many people I run into who don't realize he's still around!
A vastly underrated episode (IMO) is "The New Exhibit". I was just thinking of this episode to consider watching on halloween evening. The wax characters are very creepy as it is but the story is just as creepy. Did Martin really kill his wife, brother in law, and long time friend? This ep always leaves me pondering that.
Thanks! To be honest, I wasn't sure if you meant to imply that Richard was no longer with us, but you'd be surprised how many people I run into who don't realize he's still around!
I was referencing more his stories that were on The Twilight Zone; I wasn't sure he was still alive. Hence, he "was" the man on that show. After re-reading the sentence, I realized it wasn't all too clear and the edit made better sense anyway.
Thinking about "Death Ship" got me to thinking about "People Are Alike All Over", which is also a good one.
As an aside, I wanted to shout out to middy to say that I like your sig. You probably already knew this, but the original quote Ross refers to is Kurt Vonnegut from Mother Night - "We are who we pretend to be, so we must be very careful who we pretend to be." Very cool.
As an aside, I wanted to shout out to middy to say that I like your sig. You probably already knew this, but the original quote Ross refers to is Kurt Vonnegut from Mother Night - "We are who we pretend to be, so we must be very careful who we pretend to be." Very cool.
Imagine if 'I Am Legend' had ended up in Serling's lap, maybe for a one hour ep.
In retrospect, I wonder a bit if Nick Of Time was anti-religion, but I decided that, if it was, it was of a subtler and more thoughtful sort than, say, efforts of TNG with Picard snorting at any notion of religion. Since like as not I've been overly sensitized to the whole idea, I also considered it could just as much be anti-astrology or anti-talk-show-advice.
Since we're now just outside the season, let me ask again about 'Night Of The Meek' : Do you think Art Carney became the big guy, or always was and needed to be reminded of it?
My take on it was always that he became Santa . . . .
That's mine too.
I guess that is the obvious conclusion, the good side of TZ's famed unintended wish ending.
I know they prolly could never have afforded him, but I wonder if Jackie Gleason was ever up for that role. I can see him turning it down, but recommending Carney in his place. Mind you, I've never heard one thing to support this.
Also, IIRC, someone was actually going to make a musical out of NOTM. I've been tempted to YouTube the 86 version (Richard Mulligan) but I want nothing to interfere with the original in my head.
My take as well.
Oh, sorry. I hadn't been aware you were asking it as a question before. I agree with the others that he became Santa.
Thanks! To be honest, I wasn't sure if you meant to imply that Richard was no longer with us, but you'd be surprised how many people I run into who don't realize he's still around!
I think it's just easy to feel like all these people involved with these old black & white TV shows must surely be dead by now. Andy Griffith & Dick Van Dyke are still with us and still occasionally working, thankfully. But honestly, the old sitcom I was always most fond of was I Love Lucy, and the entire cast of that show was dead before I ever started watching it.
Similarly, Rod Serling has been dead for decades due to his trademark cigarettes. But Richard Matheson is still alive and that's good news. What about the other big Twilight Zone writers-- Charles Beaumont and... whatshisface?
Speaking of vintage literature, I've always thought that the best possible screen adaptation of Alfred Bester's The Demolished Man would have been as an hour-long Twilight Zone episode. I think it has the right pacing and the tone of the story feels irrevocably 1950s/early-'60s to me.
Similarly, Rod Serling has been dead for decades due to his trademark cigarettes. But Richard Matheson is still alive and that's good news. What about the other big Twilight Zone writers-- Charles Beaumont and... whatshisface?
Sadly, Beaumont died of Alzheimers many decades ago. But George Clayton Johnson and Earl Hammer Jr. are still alive.
Thanks, and yep I did. The quote of Pete Ross paraphrasing Vonnegut comes from one of the 70s "The Private Life of Clark Kent" stories, which focused on Clark rather than Superman and were featured in the defunct Superman Family books. This particular story showed how Clark really was much more than just a disguise for Superman--remember this was at a time when Clark was not the "real person". The story can be read in the trade Superman in the Seventies.
