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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)
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copyrighted in 1962, the story went unpublished until 1980, when it 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)

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.
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The Twilight Zone S5E10 'The 7th Is Made Up of Phantoms' - DVR
Modern National Guardsmen maneuvering at Little Big Horn find ominous 
signs of an impending Indian attack.  (Comcast)
On June 25, 1964, three Army National Guard soldiers on maneuvers near 
the Little Big Horn battle site find themselves unwittingly involved in 
Custer's Last Stand.  (IMDb)

Trivia:
The tank used is an M3A3 Stuart light tank.

Plot Hole:
The three National Guardsmen are supposed to be caught in a time warp 
sending them back from 1963 to 1876. 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.



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