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: Re: What Did You Watch? 2024-03-31 (Sunday) Date: Mon, 1 Apr 2024 16:27:12 -0700 Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Lines: 154 Message-ID: References: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Injection-Date: Mon, 01 Apr 2024 23:27:10 +0200 (CEST) Injection-Info: dont-email.me; posting-host="32150cd9cccc1b27fcab672adf7d22c7"; logging-data="2916120"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX19hvgI/sVQ047bS0aPg9jLf" User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird Cancel-Lock: sha1:psXKH0rS+UaxBnnfeoPNTSV5n9E= In-Reply-To: Content-Language: en-US Bytes: 8977 On 4/1/2024 1:22 PM, Arthur Lipscomb wrote: > 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. > The "middle-aged" woman terrifying the teenager is the older version of the teenager come back to warn herself not to marry her high school sweetheart. -- I've done good in this world. Now I'm tired and just want to be a cranky dirty old man.