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Brant · Posted: Tue Feb 09, 2010 1:20 pm Post subject:

Agreed.
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OndinitaAKALibchit · Posted: Tue Feb 09, 2010 1:27 pm Post subject:

Oh, I agree, Free...We watched "Benji" or one of those movies when I was in elementary school & I almost needed therapy afterwards!
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freethinker · Posted: Tue Feb 09, 2010 1:57 pm Post subject:

Does anyone remember an old episode of Twilight Zone where a guy and his coon dog get killed, watch their own funeral taking place, then wander down the road, searching for a place to stay...
One side of the road has carnival rides and flashing lights, but the barker says dogs are not allowed inside...
So the old man politely refuses to enter, and walks on down the road with his dog...
The second gate is quiet and unassuming, but the gatekeeper says dogs are welcome, and they enter...

The first place was Hell, the second was Heaven
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dick · Journeyman Joined: 28 Jan 2009 Posts: 3134

I don't remember that one. It sounds awesome though. When ever the old Twilight Zones were on, I'd sit and watch them at my grandma's house. I probably didn't get half of them, but they were still great.
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OndinitaAKALibchit · Posted: Tue Feb 09, 2010 2:08 pm Post subject:

I loved the Twilight Zone...But I had to see it behind my mom's back. She didn't want me watching since many times it gave me nightmares!
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Brant · Posted: Tue Feb 09, 2010 2:16 pm Post subject:

Free, that's one of my favorite "Twilight Zone" episodes. In fact, some channel recently had a TZ marathon, and that was one of the ones I DVR'd. Still have it in my box so I can watch it whenever I want. The other one I really liked featured an elderly handicapped lady who kept getting strange calls. They finally traced them to the cemetery. She had somebody take her out to investigate, and there was a downed telephone line ... going directly into her late husband's grave. Shocked

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OndinitaAKALibchit · Posted: Tue Feb 09, 2010 2:18 pm Post subject:

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My favorite TZ was Eye of the Beholder.
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freethinker · Posted: Tue Feb 09, 2010 2:22 pm Post subject:

Another episode, not entirely irrelevant -- Burgess Meridith, hen-pecked husband who only wanted to read...Survives a holocaust while hiding in the basement of a library...He's the only living human left... He arranges all the books he's going to read, and then...

He breaks his own glasses, and can't see... Gotta make you cry
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Cylinsier · Master Joined: 29 Sep 2008 Posts: 13229 Location: Oh shi-

Yep, that one's a classic too. And of course, Shatner seeing something on the wing of the plane.
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freethinker · Posted: Tue Feb 09, 2010 2:34 pm Post subject:

Thanks, Cy... I had forgotten that one...Here's another -- A paper hanger convicted multiple times of forgery, receives a gift of a 10,000 dollar check from a millionaire philanthropist...But no-one will cash it.. He ends up using it as fuel to start a fire
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Brant · Posted: Tue Feb 09, 2010 2:47 pm Post subject:

A few that are my favorites:

- An early one with Ernest Truex as a peddler who has an ability to sell people what they "need" soon gets taken advantage of by a thug who keeps demanding more and threatens to kill Truex, who in turn tells him that he needs a pair of shoes. Turns out the shoes are slick, and when the thug tries to cross the street in front of a speeding car, he slips and is run down. Truex, at the end, says the slippery shoes "were what I needed."

- Another one with Truex (one of the greatest character actors of all time) called "Kick the Can," in which he finds the fountain of youth for a group of retirement home residents.

- "A Stop at Willoughby," in which a harried man on a train is transported back to the 1800s.
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freethinker · Posted: Tue Feb 09, 2010 2:52 pm Post subject:

I'm sorry...I'm just kind of tired of cops and lawyers and doctors and scripted "reality" TV....I miss Twilight Zone and Night Gallery and Outer Limits, where the story was unpredictable and the characters were always different
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