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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.

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I've done good in this world. Now I'm tired and just want to be a cranky 
dirty old man.