Path: ...!news.mixmin.net!eternal-september.org!feeder3.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Dimensional Traveler Newsgroups: rec.arts.tv Subject: What Did You Watch? 2024-03-31 (Sunday) Date: Mon, 1 Apr 2024 12:35:00 -0700 Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Lines: 278 Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Injection-Date: Mon, 01 Apr 2024 19:35:00 +0200 (CEST) Injection-Info: dont-email.me; posting-host="f9f554c8c8945c6b1ffd7470a5647743"; logging-data="2812050"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX19BE8Hwc5lXmWPMFCWlIMhK" User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird Cancel-Lock: sha1:7NsTiGiZZkURD31Lvuc35R2Kdt4= Content-Language: en-US Bytes: 15373 The Twilight Zone S5E18 'Black Leather Jackets' - DVR Tough aliens from outer space try to poison the population of earth. (Comcast) Three leather-jacket-wearing, motorcycle-riding men invade a peaceful neighborhood. (IMDb) Trivia: In an interview with the Archive of American Television in 2003, the writer Earl Hamner Jr. admitted that he thought that this episode was bad and that he was not as proud of it as most of the other episodes of The Twilight Zone (1959) that he wrote. In "The Twilight Zone Companion" (1983), Marc Scott Zicree described this episode as "It Came from Outer Space (1953) meets The Wild One (1953)." The motorcycles used are 1964 Harley Davidson panheads. The street is the same as the one in the season one episode "The Monsters are Due on Maple Street". The style of sunglasses/eye covers worn by the men in leather jackets were also worn by characters in The Old Man in the Cave (1963). All exteriors were shot in Universal's back lot. As the bikers enter town at the beginning of the episode, they drive right past the town square made famous in Back to the Future (1985). Plot Holes: Alien invaders try to blend into a quiet American town by posing as a motorcycle gang. Quotes: [opening narration] Narrator: Three strangers arrive in a small town, three men in black leather jackets in an empty rented house. We'll call them Steve, Scott and Fred, but their names are not important; their mission is, as three men on motorcycles lead us into The Twilight Zone. [closing narration] Narrator: Portrait of an American family on the eve of invasion from outer space. Of course, we know it's merely fiction - and yet, think twice when you drink your next glass of water. Find out if it's from your local reservoir, or possibly, it came direct to you - from The Twilight Zone. The Twilight Zone S5E19 'Night Call' - DVR Elva Keene, confined to her bed and wheelchair, is driven to distraction by mysterious telephone calls on a dead line. (Comcast) Telephone calls begin to haunt a disabled elderly woman. (IMDb) Trivia Elva's phone number is KL-5-2368. The K and the L are both the number 5 on the phone dial. "555" is an exchange number commonly thought to be reserved by the phone companies for use by TV and movies in order to prevent prank phone calls to real people. In fact, only 555-0100 through 555-0199 are now specifically reserved for fictional use, and the other numbers have been released for actual assignment. Originally scheduled to air on November 22, 1963, it was preempted by John F. Kennedy's assassination. In the alternate timeline featured in Profile in Silver/Button, Button (1986) in which JFK's assassination was prevented, a CBS television announcement is heard: "We will now return to our regular programming" and the theme of The Twilight Zone (1959) is played, a reference to the intended broadcast date of this episode. On the day that this episode was first aired (February 7, 1964), The Beatles arrived in the United States in preparation for their first appearance on The Ed Sullivan Show (1948): Meet The Beatles (1964). Elva's phone number - KL5 2368, or 555-2368 is the phone number in the movie Ghostbusters (1984). ROT'd spoiler trivia: Gur bevtvany Evpuneq Zngurfba fgbel "Ybat Qvfgnapr Pnyy" qbrfa'g pbagnva gur qrgnvy nobhg gur gryrcubar yvar erfgvat ba gur tenir bs Zvff Ryin'f svnapé. Vg zbirf sebz gur gryrcubar bcrengbe gryyvat Ryin gung gur qbjarq yvar vf ng gur przrgrel ng gur rqtr bs gbja, gb gur svany cubar pnyy. Nsgre gur bcrengbe ernqf Zvff Ryin'f nqqerff bire gur cubar, gur arkg pnyy fur erprvirf gung riravat fnlf "Uryyb, Zvff Ryin. V'yy or evtug bire." Quotes: [opening narration] Narrator: Miss Elva Keene lives alone on the outskirts of London Flats, a tiny rural community in Maine. Up until now, the pattern of Miss Keene's existence has been that of lying in her bed or sitting in her wheelchair, reading books, listening to a radio, eating, napping, taking medication and - waiting for something different to happen. Miss Keene doesn't know it yet, but her period of waiting has just ended. For something different is about to happen to her, has, in fact already begun to happen via two most unaccountable telephone calls in the middle of a stormy night. Telephone calls routed directly through - The Twilight Zone. [closing narration] Narrator: According to the Bible, God created the heavens and the Earth. It is man's prerogative and woman's, to create their own particular and private hell. Case in point, Miss Elva Keene, who in every sense has made her own bed and now must lie in it sadder, but wiser by dint of a rather painful lesson in responsibility transmitted from - The Twilight Zone. The Twilight Zone S5E20 'From Agnes - with Love' - DVR A computer expert is called in to work on the world's most advanced computer, which has the soul of a jealous woman. (Comcast) A computer technician begins to take advice for his love life from Agnes, the computer he works with. (IMDb) EST (Electronically Stored Trivia) This particular story about a lovelorn man and a computer was originally broadcast on St. Valentine's Day. The music heard early in the episode and in different variations throughout the episodes, is titled "The Cuckoo Song". Also known as "Dance Of The Cuckoos", it is perhaps best known as the theme music from the Laurel and Hardy comedy films of the early to mid 1900s. This episode included one of the first references in a TV series to "Cape Kennedy," renamed from Cape Canaveral in December 1963 only two months before this episode aired on February 14, 1964. At one point, Agnes is assigned to do calculations for an operation to the planet Venus. In keeping with the theme of romance, Venus was the Roman goddess of love. Quotes: [opening narration] Narrator: James Elwood, master programmer, in charge of Mark 502-741, commonly known as 'Agnes,' the world's most advanced electronic computer. Machines are made by men for man's benefit and progress, but when man ceases to control the products of his ingenuity and imagination, he not only risks losing the benefit, but he takes a long and unpredictable step into - the Twilight Zone. [closing narration] Narrator: Advice to all future male scientists: be sure you understand the opposite sex, especially if you intend being a computer expert. Otherwise, you may find yourself, like poor Elwood, defeated by a jealous machine, a most dangerous sort of female, whose victims are forever banished - to the Twilight Zone. The Twilight Zone S5E21 'Spur of the Moment' - DVR While horseback riding, a wealthy girl is nearly run down by another woman, who chases her. (Comcast) An engaged heiress is terrorized by a middle-aged woman on a horse pleading with her not to go through with her impending marriage. (IMDb) Spurious Trivia: Diana Hyland was 27 when she played Anne Henderson at ages 18 and 43. Quotes Narrator: [Opening Narration] This is the face of terror: Anne Marie Henderson, eighteen years of age, her young existence suddenly marred by a savage and wholly unanticipated pursuit by a strange, nightmarish figure of a woman in black, who has appeared as if from nowhere and now, at driving gallop, chases the terrified girl across the countryside, as if she means to ride her down and kill her - and then suddenly and inexplicably stops, to watch in malignant silence as her prey takes flight. Miss Henderson has no idea whatever as to the motive for this pursuit, worse, not the vaguest notion regarding the identity of her pursuer. Soon enough, she will be given the solution to this twofold mystery, but in a manner far beyond her present capacity to understand, a manner enigmatically bizarre in terms of time and space - which is to say, an answer from - The Twilight Zone. [closing narration] Narrator: This is the face of terror: Anne Marie Mitchell, forty-three years of age, her desolate existence once more afflicted by the hope of altering her past mistake - a hope which is, unfortunately, doomed to disappointment. For warnings from the future to the past must be taken in the past; today may change tomorrow but once today is gone, tomorrow can only look back in sorrow that the warning was ignored. Said warning as of now stamped 'not accepted' and stored away in the dead file in the recording office of the Twilight Zone. The Twilight Zone S5E22 'An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge' - DVR Ambrose Bierce relates the tale of a Confederate soldier's execution at the end of the Divil War. (Comcast) During the American Civil War in 1862, a condemned Confederate prisoner, Peyton Farquhar, is due to be hanged by Union troops. (IMDb) Trivia Rod Serling was getting ready to take his end-of-season break, with all but one of the shows for the fifth season already filmed or in production, when he decided to leave early and go to a French film festival. There he saw Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge (1961) and immediately hunted down the producers with an offer to buy it for a one-time showing for American TV. Serling reportedly picked it up for $20,000 and flew straight back to Los Angeles, filming a new intro the moment he got to the studio and plugging the show into that same week's time slot. Not only did Serling get what was considered a classic, he also saved nearly $100,000 in production costs and brought the season's ========== REMAINDER OF ARTICLE TRUNCATED ==========