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On 4/1/2024 12:35 PM, Dimensional Traveler wrote:
> 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.
> 

Now that you mention it!  LOL


> 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)
> 

I'm not sure I understood this one when I saw it.


> 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)
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