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 copyrighted in 1962, the story went unpublished until 1980, when it 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

I don't remember this one.  But sounds like they used this as a template 
when they did the Alamo episode of "Amazing Stories."