Path: ...!3.eu.feeder.erje.net!feeder.erje.net!eternal-september.org!feeder3.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Arthur Lipscomb Newsgroups: rec.arts.tv Subject: Re: What Did You Watch? 2024-03-27 (Wednesday) Date: Thu, 28 Mar 2024 22:57:12 -0700 Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Lines: 112 Message-ID: References: <5e52b722cb85ae85a53e6348004bf5d5@hamiltonhall.info> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Injection-Date: Fri, 29 Mar 2024 05:57:15 +0100 (CET) Injection-Info: dont-email.me; posting-host="010c57e881ee6a54cca1c338ca79b628"; logging-data="149544"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX19tzpKVEWRWdFUeJBZFKStDa/4I0PrOb3A=" User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird Cancel-Lock: sha1:1Wlf5YDYazmKYim2aZS31VgV+xk= Content-Language: en-US In-Reply-To: Bytes: 6637 On 3/28/2024 2:50 PM, Dimensional Traveler wrote: > The Twilight Zone S5E07 'The Old Man in the Cave' - DVR > An old man in a cave offers guidance to survivors of a nuclear-war > apocalypes, but their orderly world is shattered by the arrival of four > soldiers.  (Comcast) This is an hour long episode? This episode doesn't require more than 15 minutes! > In a post-apocalyptic settlement in 1974, the inhabitants' survival is > dependent on the advice of an unseen man living in a nearby cave. This > dependence is tested when a band of soldiers descends on their town. > (IMDb) > Radioactive Trivia: > Based upon the short story "The Old Man" by Henry Slesar. Though it was > copyrighted in 1962, the story went unpublished until 1980, when it > appeared in the anthology Microcosmic Tales from Taplinger Pub. Co. > Quotes: > Narrator: [Opening Narration] What you're looking at is a legacy that > man left to himself. A decade previous, he pushed his buttons and, a > nightmarish moment later, woke up to find that he had set the clock back > a thousand years. His engines, his medicines, his science were buried in > a mass tomb, covered over by the biggest gravedigger of them all: a > Bomb. And this is the Earth ten years later, a fragment of what was once > a whole, a remnant of what was once a race. The year is 1974, and this > is the Twilight Zone. > Narrator: [Closing Narration] Mr. Goldsmith, survivor, an eye witness to > man's imperfection, an observer of the very human trait of greed, and a > chronicler of the last chapter - the one reading 'suicide.' Not a > prediction of what is to be, just a projection of what could be. This > has been the Twilight Zone. > > > The Twilight Zone S5E08 'Uncle Simon' - DVR > A wealthy old man makes life difficult for his greedy niece even after > he dies.  (Comcast) > Caregiver Barbara Polk receives a surprise after her uncle's death.  (IMDb) > > Trivia: > Probe 7, Over and Out (1963), the next episode of The Twilight Zone > (1959), would not air for two weeks. The broadcast of the following > week's episode on November 22, 1963, which was to have been Night Call > (1964), was canceled due to the assassination of U.S. President John F. > Kennedy in Dallas, Texas that day. > Robby the Robot from Forbidden Planet (1956) is used in this episode. > However, the dome portion of his head has been altered. This is one of > many instalments to use props from "Forbidden Planet", since the series > was frequently filmed at MGM, which kept the film props in use for many > years. This also marks the last of Robby's three Twilight Zone > appearances, having previously featured in "One for the Angels" and "The > Brain Centre at Whipple's". > The living room and entry hall sets were previously used in the fourth > season episode Miniature (1963). > At one point Barbara calls the robot "Frankenstein". Two decades > earlier, Cedric Hardwicke had played Dr. Frankenstein in the Universal > film The Ghost of Frankenstein (1942). > > Cast: > Robby the Robot ... Robot (uncredited) > > > The Twilight Zone S5E09 'Probe 7, Over & Out' - DVR > An astronaut (Richard Basehart) learns was has killed his people. > (Comcast) > Colonel Adam Cook, stranded on a distant planet with no hope for rescue, > meets a woman who is the sole survivor from another planet.  (IMDb) > I keep thinking Elizabeth Montgomery was in this one, but I know she was in the other last two people on the planet episode. > Trivia: > This was the first episode of the series to air since Uncle Simon (1963) > two weeks earlier. Night Call (1964) was to have been shown on November > 22, 1963 but the broadcast was canceled due to the assassination of US > President John F. Kennedy in Dallas, Texas that day. It was eventually > shown on February 7, 1964. > ROT'd spoiler: Juvyr bar zvtug pbapyhqr gung Pbbx geniryrq gur 4.3 yvtug > lrnef sebz Rnegu gb Nycun Pragnhev, vg vf pyrne gung gur bccbfvgr gbbx > cynpr. 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However, they are still able to > communicate with the base commander via radio and the search party that > was sent out finds the tank that they left behind, very much in the > present. > Another plot hole, not from IMDb.  The Little Bighorn battlefield was > made a U.S. National Cemetery on January 29, 1879, transferred to the > Parks Service on July 1, 1940 and predesignated Custer Battlefield > National Monument on March 22, 1946.  There wouldn't be Army training > maneuvers on a National Monument. > > I don't remember this one. But sounds like they used this as a template when they did the Alamo episode of "Amazing Stories."