Shatner Twilight Zone

[TGTheodore]

I find the Shatner episode involving the diner and the "fortune machine" to be one of THE worst episodes in ANY incarnation of The Twilight Zone.

It's greatest sin ... it's just plain boring. And the moral is essentially pointless, and the script incredibly padded.

--Ted

 

[gottacook]

Some episodes were shot Live I believe using studio video cameras. I believe they switched to film at a later point.

Not true. Switching to videotape was done during the middle of the show's run for budgetary reasons, but the results were unsatisfactory and the show switched back to film after only a handful of taped episodes. (One of them concerned an antiquated car whose owner, a used car salesman for most of the story, couldn't lie.) See Marc Scott Zicree's Twilight Zone Companion. No episodes were shot live on either film or tape.

 

[Greg Cox]

20,000 just started for those that might like to tune in.

Just watched it again. I'd forgotten that it was directed by Richard Donner, who later directed "Superman: The Motion Picture" and other classics.

These old TZ episodes are also fascinating as time capsules. Smoking on a plane? Cloth window curtains over the plane windows?

How times have changed . . . .

 

[Kryton]

Lithgow noticed that, too!