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Post by Ish Kabbible on Dec 4, 2014 12:20:31 GMT -5
I'm now watching Season 4 of the Definitve Twilight Zone DVD set. These are the rarely seen 1 hour episodes that ran all season. I thought I'd write up some notes as I complete each disk. My notes will include 60 year old spoilers ,so beware. Each disk contains 3 episodes. Interesting to note that the season began in January of 1963 instead of September
Ep 1-In His Image George Grizzard Writer-Charles Beaumont. In a subway station a man loses control and flings a woman into the path of an oncoming train. He then proceeds to his girlfriends house and he drives her to his hometown where he was last at a few weeks ago. But as they stroll around he discovers all his memories of the town was from 20 years ago. He gets dizzy and is struck by a car,injuring his arm. He sees mechanical gears under the skin of his arm. He arrives at his old home and finds a duplicate of himself there. The duplicate is actually the real him, a scientist that created a robot double who ran off and is emotionally unstable. The explanation seems to go on for 10 minutes. They fight, the human wins and gets the girl
As mentioned the explanation goes on and on so the episode would last an hour. 2 1/2 of 4 stars
Ep 2-The 30 Fathom Grave Simon Oakland,Mike Kellin,Bill Bixby Writer-Rod Serling in 1963 a U.S. naval destroyer discovers an American submarine that was sunk during WWII at the bottom of the ocean.There is a loud clanging emanating from within the sub. Meanwhile a sailor on the destroyer keeps getting dizzy is begins to see ghostly apparitions. A diver is sent down numerous to see if there is someone alive in the sub.
The haunted sailor claims he was the only survivor when that sub was sunk by the Japanese and the ghosts and clanking sounds mean they want him to come back.He jumps overboard and disappears. The divers enter the sub and find nothing but dead bodies with one of them holding a hammer
Another stretched out episode that would have made an excellent half hour.They had to show the diver visiting the sub 4 different times 2 1/2 of 4 stars
Ep 3-Valley Of The Shadow Ed Nelson Writer-Charles Beaumont Reporter Redmond is lost and running out of gas when he arrives at the small town of Happy Valley. The people seem anxious that he leaves right away. His dog vanishes in front of his eyes when chasing a cat.He starts asking lots of questions. His car hits an invisible wall as he drives away. The mayor of the town tells him he's seen too much and can't leave. He reveals that an alien visited the town decades earlier and gave the townsfolk the secret knowledge of teleportation,transmutation,force fields,time control and more but made them promise not to share the info with the world because humans are not ready for those secrets yet.Redmond tries to escape but can't. The mayor then takes his memory of his visit away and lets him go
The town is trusted with all this advanced knowledge and no one else? Watch for a young James (Scotty from Star Trek) Doohan appearence
2 of 4 stars
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Post by Ish Kabbible on Dec 8, 2014 21:29:50 GMT -5
The next disc of Season 4 Twilight Zone-the seldom seen 1 hour episodes. BEWARE SPOILERS AHEAD
Episode 4-He's Alive-Dennis Hopper Writer-Rod Serling
Peter Vollmer is the leader of a small neo-Nazi movement in a large American city. He's having trouble getting his message across and seems to alienate people every time he opens his mouth. After a particularly bad rally, he hears a voice and sees a man standing in the shadows. He begins to advise Peter on what to say and how he can structure his message to make it more appealing to his particular audience. Peter has success but his mentor begins pushing him to extremes such as sacrificing a fellow party member to be used as a martyr or killing a kindly old Jewish man who helped Peter Vollmer when he was a child. The shadowy mentor is soon revealed to be Hitler
Was this Stan Lee's inspiration when he wrote his FF Hatemonger story several months after this episode aired?. I would bet it was so. Anyway shame on anyone who doesn't guess the surprise reveal early in the show. Dennis Hopper did a great job as the punk nazi. 3 of 4 stars
Episode 5-Mute-Barbara Baxley, Frank Overton.Ann Jillian-Writer-Richard Matheson
A small group of people make a pact to develop their telepathic abilities as a means of communicating, foregoing any type of oral communication. One couple, the Nielsens, announce that they are migrating to a small town in the USA, German Corners, Pa. After a tragic fire at their house 10 years later, Sheriff Harry Wheeler and his wife Cora take in the only survivor, the now orphaned Ilsa Nielsen (Ann Jillian). The young girl has never learned to speak, always using telepathy to communicate with her parents. They don't quite understand why Ilsa won't speak to them and Cora sees her as a replacement for the daughter she lost in an accident some years ago. When they enroll Ilsa in school, her teacher is determined to make her act like all the other children.
Very interesting plotline and splendid performance from 12 year old Ann Jillian. The schoolteacher was terrifying. 3 of 4 stars
Episode 6-Death Ship-Jack Klugman, Ross Martin, Fred Beir-Writer-Richard Matheson
In 1997, the spaceship E81 arrives at the 13th planet in star system 51. Their mission is to collect plant samples to take back to an overpopulated Earth so it can be determined if the planet could be colonized. What they find however is a crashed spaceship of Earth design. Inside the ship there are three dead crew members - but the dead are their duplicates and the crashed vessel is the E81. The captain (Klugman)refuses to accept that they might be dead and explores several possibilities to explain what has happened including the theory that they may have time-traveled. The two crewmen hallucinate and come to believe they are already dead but the captain refuses to accept that and intends to prove that they are very much alive. His theory is they are being mind-controlled by the residents of the planet and are only seeing illusions.
Which theory is correct?
My fav episode so far although Klugman is not starship captain material and the episode conclusion is a bit thin. However it gets 4 of 4 stars
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Post by Ish Kabbible on Dec 10, 2014 14:45:19 GMT -5
Continuing the 1 hour TZ episodes from Season 4. BEWARE OF THE SPOILERS
Episode 7- Jessbelle-Anne Francis, James Best, Jeanette Nolan Writer-Earl Hamner Jr
Appalachian hillbilly Billy Ben is getting married but his old lover Jessbelle (Francis) is determined to make him her husband. She goes to the neighborhood witch and sells her soul for the proper spell. Billy Ben is now heads over heals for Jess. However the price Jess pays is steep. At midnight she turns into a leopard and eats the neighborhood chickens. The hillbillies band together to hunt and kill the rogue leopard and Billy Ben ironically helps shoots the beast which disappears in a puff of smoke. Jessbelle is not seen for many months as well. Billy Ben gets married to original intended. Their honeymoon home is haunted by the ghost of Jess who now inhabits different creatures like a rat and a black spider. Billy Bob permanently gets rid of Jess by stabbing a dress she once wore
I hate stories dealing with hillbillies. This story would suck even if it took place on the moon. Plus they have Anne Francis wearing a black wig for the whole episode. A negative -1 of 4 stars. Yuchh
Episode 8- Miniature- Robert Duvall Writer-Charles Beaumont
Momma's Boy Charles is over 30, lives at home, timid and a virgin, fired from his job for being "a square peg". He likes to go to a museum and look inside a dollhouse based on a Victorian upper-class household with a beautiful mistress at a piano. Charles talks to the tiny carven figure all day and imagines it moves. His family is finally convinced he's nuts and has him institutionalized. Released as cured, Charles is sent back home. Charles' sister sets up a date for Charles with a slutty blonde girl but Charles freaks out and disappears. They never find him but if you look in the dollhouse....
Duvall is so young and believable as the poor schmuck. Even if you know the obvious ending to the story it was still entertaining 3 of 4 stars
Episode 9- Printer's Devil- Burgess Meredith, Robert Sterling, Pat Crowley Writer- Charles Beaumont
Douglas Winter's small time newspaper is about to go bankrupt and he's ready to commit suicide. The mysterious Mr. Smith (Meredith) convinces Doug to try him out as a linotype operator/reporter to turn the fortunes of the newspaper around. And he does. Mr. Smith unearths fantastic investigative stories and has the printed and ready for delivery within minutes of their occurring. The newspaper's circulation skyrockets and all Mr. Smith asks for his continued services is for Doug to sell his soul. Will Doug turn into a leopard at midnight? So much soul-selling in the Twilight Zone. Never fear, this time the human outwits the devil
Burgess Meredith is constantly smoking in this episode and he comes awfully close to his famous Penguin performance a few years in the future. 2 1/2 stars of 4
This disc from Image's Definitive Twilight Zone DVD Box Set also includes a 10 minute Anne Francis interview which she recounts upon her TZ appearences
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Post by badwolf on Dec 10, 2014 15:46:43 GMT -5
"Miniature" was one of the first TZ episodes I remember seeing. The version they showed on TV had all the dollhouse scenes colorized.
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Post by Ish Kabbible on Dec 10, 2014 18:07:58 GMT -5
"Miniature" was one of the first TZ episodes I remember seeing. The version they showed on TV had all the dollhouse scenes colorized. Correct. The disc has, an an extra, the colorized dollhouse scenes. |
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Post by Ish Kabbible on Dec 20, 2014 14:22:11 GMT -5
More seldom seen 1 hour TZ episodes from Season 4 (1963). SPOILERS APLENTY
Episode 10-No Time Like The Past-Dana Andrews Writer-Rod Serling
Paul Driscoll does not like the way the 20th century is progressing so he jump back in time t5o make some corrections. First stop-Hiroshima to warn the Japanese to evacuate the city before the Atomic Bomb drops. They don't believe him and his mission fails. Next is 1939 Berlin and an opportunity to assassinate Hitler. That fails as well (Wouldn't it have been easier to kill Hitler as a baby?).Finally onboard the Lusitania to convince the captain to change course. Another failure. Paul returns to the present with the understanding that the past cannot be changed. Instead he'll travel to 1881 and live his life in idyllic Homeville, Indiana. President Garfield is due to be assassinated but Paul will not try to prevent that from happening. However he recalls reading about a fire in that towns public school that seriously injures a number of children and he is moved to prevent that tragedy from occurring. Another failure. Now, not even the peaceful lifestyle and the love of a good woman can keep Paul from returning to live in the present and working to build a better future
Decent episode. Always liked Dana Andrews
Episode 11-The Parallel-Steve Forrest Writer-Rod Serling
Major Robert Gaines, astronaut, is circling the earth on his 16th orbit when he blacks out and disappears from all contact with earth for 6 hours. Miraculously his ship lands and he returns home. But there's a fence around his house he never saw before. And his daughter is shocked that Daddy does not use sugar in his coffee like he used to. And his wife thinks he does not kiss her the same way he used to. And Robert Gaines is shocked to find he's a full colonel instead of a major. And how come he's the only one to remember that JFK is the President. Gaines is now convinced that somehow during his orbital voyage he passed through to a parallel Earth. He goes back to Cape Canaveral to visit his space capsule, passes out, and returns to his rightful earth
This could have been a much better story as a quicker half hour show and a different, more downbeat ending.
Episode 12-I Dream Of Genie-Howard Morris Writer-Howard Gist
Mild mannered loser George P Hanley finds Aladdin's lantern and a genie appears to grant him one wish. George fantasizes about being very rich, being very popular and being married to the love of his life. In each fantasy he is ultimately disappointed. George uses his one wish- he becomes a genie
A very worn story, done previously in TZ with an older couple running a curio shop. A "comedy" tale that almost put me to sleep
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Post by Ish Kabbible on Dec 26, 2014 13:20:58 GMT -5
Continuing the one man crusade of revealing the "surprise " endings for the 1 hour seldom seen Twilight Zone episodes from Season 4 1963. After 50 years, SPOILERS are forgiven
Episode 13-The New Exhibit-Martin Balsam Writer-Charles Beaumont
Martin is the curator of a wax museum that includes a rogues gallery of famous killers like Jack The Ripper, Albert Hicks et al. When the museum closes due to bankruptcy, Martin brings home 5 of the most notorious wax figures and stores them in his basement to the displeasure of his wife who now feels uncomfortable when doing the household laundry. Martin begins to talk to his wax figures, spends the family savings on air-conditioning for the basement , and just babbles on and on about his waxy friends. When his wife or other concerned friends of Martin go down into the basement to remove the creepy figures, they are killed via the murderous instruments each of the wax rogues display. Finally Martin has had enough and tells off his waxy friends that they had a lot of nerve killing his friends after all he has done for them like keeping them cool and mending their clothing. He threatens them with turning their air-conditioning off. The wax rogues come to life and descend on Martin. Later a new wax museum opens up displaying these wax rogues as well as a wax figure of Martin who is now notorious for the number of dead bodies they found buried in his basement.
Don't marry a man who keeps Jack The Ripper in your basement
Episode 14-Of Late I Think Of Cliffordville- Albert Salmi, Julie Newmar (MEEOWW) Writer-Malcom Jameson (from a short story)
Feathersmith (Salmi in a terribly cheap old man make-up job ) is a bastard of a millionaire who strikes a deal with the devil (Newmar) to travel back in time to his boyhood past. He'll look as young as he was 50 years ago and know all about the future events as well. He'll even know about the oil fields that are buried nearby the town that were discovered later. With all this future knowledge he'll make uncountable millions. Unfortunately, after buying the land which holds the oil, he discovers there's no way to drill for it until science progresses technology 30 years forward. And even though he knows about future inventions, he's not an engineer and cannot build the first prototypes to obtain a patent. He runs out of money and spends the rest of his life as a janitor in the office building he once owned
Salmi is always a great despicable villain and gets a chance to really ham it up on this show. Julie Newmar is also to be admired for other reasons. Otherwise, no surprises for this episode
Episode 15-The Incredible World Of Horace Ford-Pat Hingle Writer-Reginald Rose
Horace Ford is a toy designer who fixates on his childhood. To the consternation of his wife, mother and friends he goes on and on about his childhood pals and games they played. He visits his old neighborhood and swears he has seen his old friends playing in the street just the way they looked and acted 30 years prior. He keeps going back to his old street corner, witnessing the same events each time including dropping his pocket watch. And every night, one of the little street urchins returns the watch to his wife. Horace keeps ranting about his past to the point of getting fired from his job for being a lunatic. Finally his wife follows him on his nightly visits to his old haunts and finds Horace, now de-aged back to a young tyke, beaten up by his old pals and lying in the gutter. Even as a child Horace was annoying and deserved a beating. Revived by his wife, Horace realizes that his childhood was not all peaches and cream and that he buried from his memories all the bad things that occurred to him. He returns home in the arms of his wife
I think I'll always have an urge to take a poke at Horace myself for being a whiney self-centered jerk. His friend at the office, played by actor Philip Pine looks uncannily like Jack Kirby or at least to me
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Post by coke & comics on Dec 26, 2014 20:15:45 GMT -5
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Post by Ish Kabbible on Dec 29, 2014 15:11:32 GMT -5
Wrapping it up with the final one hour episodes from Season 4 Twilight Zone (1963)
Episode 16-On Thursday We Leave For Home-James Whitmore Writer-Rod Serling
Its been 30 years that the earth colonist have tried to live on an extremely hot, barren planet. William Benteen is the only person, who by sheer force of will and leadership, has kept the people from utter desperation. Known as The Captain, he is their spiritual advisor, father figure and chief bottle washer all rolled into one. He tells the settlers stories of Earth and motivates them to survive by promising that a spacecraft will someday come to their rescue. Through 120 degree temperatures and meteor showers, the colonists cling to Benteen's encouragement. And then it happens, an Earth ship arrives to take them all home. Benteen bristles a bit when the astronauts don't call him Captain. He gets a bit petulant as the settlers make ready to leave and ignore Benteen's advice. He gets downright angry when his suggestion that the colonists stay together even after they return to Earth is voted down. He pleads for the settlers to stay. He runs away rather then boarding the ship. The spacecraft takes off without him. Benteen talks to himself as if the settlers were still on the planetoid. He then realizes he'll forever be alone and breaks down and cries. D'Oh-what an arrogant fool
Whitmore is a great actor. But the sets for this episode were all shot on stage and look extremely cheap. Unlike past episodes calling for desert scenes that could be shot on location not too far from the Hollywood studios, they saved some bucks by using fake sets. Otherwise one of the better shows of the season
Episode 17-Passage On The Lady Anne-Gladys Cooper, Wilfred Hyde-White, Cecil Kellaway, Alan Napier Writer-Charles Beaumont
Eileen and Alan's marriage is in jeopardy and to save it they take a vacation in Europe. At the last moment they decide on a cruise ship instead of a plane ride. Their travel agent is hesitant on booking a last-minute pass onboard the Lady Anne. The elder passengers on the cruise ship all tell the couple they don't belong. No one else on the ship is under the age of 75. In the middle of the journey, the ship's captain forces the young couple onto a lifeboat to be rescued in a few hours. The Lady Anne sails away never to be found again
The most boring TZ episode I've ever scene. Absolutely nothing strange happens for the first 30 minutes. All shots on deck of the ship is smothered in fog, probably to hide the cheapness of the set. A cure for insomniacs
Episode 18-The Bard-Jack Weston, John McGiver, Burt Reynolds Writer-Rod Serling
Julius Moomer is a terrible writer trying to break into television. He obtains a book of black magic and calls up William Shakespeare to help him with the writing. Actually he takes credit for everything Shakespeare writes. However, the network and the sponsors change Shakespeare's TV plays for numerous reasons causing The Bard to storm out forever. Julius Moomer is still a popular writer and is given an assignment to write another TV drama about American history. So he calls up assorted historical icons like Washington, Franklin, Grant, Pocahontas etc. to help him on his new assignment
Burt Reynolds portrays a stage actor in the Marlon Brando mold. Does a good job with it too. Weston is another great character actor and helps save this humorous show. The background music for this episode however is extremely annoying
18 one hour shows of TZ were made instead of the customary 36 half hour episodes. So what happened to the quality of this series with this particular season and why did it take such a significant downturn. I would have to lay the blame on what seems to be extreme budget-cutting perpetrated by the network. Even with the extra time allotted for the show, more complex scripts could not be filmed because extra sets or locations would cost money. Therefore the lack of scene-changes made the one hour shows seem slow moving and repetitious. The first few shows of the year avoided this, but the second half of the season definitely suffered from cost-cutting. Also by this time, Rod Serling was most likely beginning to feel fatigued with his battles with the network and sponsors over the show's integrity. Those symptoms would come to a head with the next, final season of TZ
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Post by Ish Kabbible on Jan 2, 2015 13:23:05 GMT -5
Now watching the final season, #5 of TZ. Immediately I perceive an improvement in quality with its return to half hour shows-the format that was of more comfort to the storytelling and budget for this show. A quick summary of Disc 1 of Image's Definitive Collection in the order of broadcast:
In Praise Of Pip- Jack Klugman, Billy Mumy Heartwarming story with an outstanding job by Klugman. The amusement park hall of mirrors scene is a winner
Steel-Lee Marvin In the near future boxing is banned between humans and androids slug it out instead. Marvin's android is on the fritz, so Lee takes its place. A fun show and Lee Marvin is always a joy to watch
Nightmare At 20,000 Feet William Shatner An all time classic of TV Broadcasting-Nuff Said
A Kind Of A Stopwatch-Richard Erdman. 1st clunker of the season. Annoying man gets ahold of a stopwatch that freezes time. Finally dawns on him that he can rob a bank while everyone's frozen. Of course the stopwatch falls and breaks and leaves everyone immobile except Mr. Annoying. Very predictable
Last Night Of A Jockey-Mickey Rooney A 1-man show with Rooney as a jockey who's dismissed for fixing races. Alone in his hotel room he drinks and curses his fate. His self-conscious speaks to him via the mirrors in the room and asks him what's his one big wish. "To Be Big" says Rooney. When he wakes up, all the furniture in the room has been changed by Rod Serling to make it appear as if Rooney grew to 7 feet tall. Then a phone call with the news that he'll be given another chance to be a jockey again. Big Rooney starts to cry and also discovers he needs a new wardrobe too. A bit over the top, Mickey.
Living Doll-Telly Savalas A nasty stepfather does not like his stepdaughters new doll-Talking Tina. And Talking Tina, when no one else is around, tells Telly "My name is Talking Tina and I'm going to kill you". Another classic TZ show
The Old Man In The Cave- James Coburn 10 years after the A-bombs drop in a small town the survivors depend on the advice of an unseen man in a cave who councils them on what food and water is safe and other precautions to survive. James Coburn is an army major who arrives with a group of soldiers to take control of the village. They enter the cave to find not a man but a big UNIVAC computer. They swiftly destroy it and order everyone to start drinking the liquor and party hearty. The next morning everyone's dead of poisoning. But if the computer was telling these people for 10 years that the liquor was poison, why did they save it? Makes no sense
This disc comes with interviews with author Richard Mattheson, Billy Mumy and the greatest female animation voice actress of all time-June Forey, who played the voice of Talking Tina in Living Doll
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Post by Deleted on Jan 2, 2015 18:49:10 GMT -5
As a Twilight Zone Fan myself - I always prefer that show should be in a half hour format than a hour one. I agree with both Ish and Wesley Dodds views on this. Living Doll and Nightmare At 20,000 Feet are must see for all TZ Fans out there.  |
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Post by Deleted on Jan 3, 2015 2:02:26 GMT -5
Donna Douglas died yesterday, and though she is best known for being on The Beverly Hillbillies she was also in the iconic Twilight Zone episode "Eye of the Beholder", which ironically I was discussing yesterday. Donna was good in the Twilight Zone episode that you've mentioned here and I'm sorry that she died yesterday. Thanks for telling us about this. |
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Post by Ish Kabbible on Jan 3, 2015 2:14:02 GMT -5
Donna Douglas died yesterday, and though she is best known for being on The Beverly Hillbillies she was also in the iconic Twilight Zone episode "Eye of the Beholder", which ironically I was discussing yesterday. I watched Eye Of The Beholder a few weeks back. Most of the show her character was swarthed in facial bandages. That was most certainly not Donna Douglas' voice doing all that dialogue. Sounded like a much older actress. Who knows if that was Donna Douglas in the bandages? Could have been anyone.Only the last 3 or 4 minutes of the show did you see her |
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Post by spoon on Jan 3, 2015 16:46:53 GMT -5
Now watching the final season, #5 of TZ. Immediately I perceive an improvement in quality with its return to half hour shows-the format that was of more comfort to the storytelling and budget for this show. A quick summary of Disc 1 of Image's Definitive Collection in the order of broadcast: I too always felt the hour-long episodes were sub par of traditional Twilight Zone quality. Also, I too always thought it was "Talking Tina", but I noticed when I got my ReAction Twilight Zone action figures for Halloween and the package said "Talky Tina". Wikipedia also has it as Talky. But I like Talking Tina than Talky myself. Talky Tina is also the name used in The Twilight Zone Companion book. All the times I watched the show, it's always sounded like "Talky Tina" to me. I never even realize some folks heard it as "Talking Tina" until I saw that name used by some people on Twitter a year ago. I wonder if this is a matter of expectations shaping perception. "Talky" sounds colloquial, so if you don't use that word, maybe one expects to hear a more common word like "talking" instead. I grew having heard the term "Chatty Cathy", so "Talky Tina" doesn't sound odd to me. Chatty Cathy was a talking doll popular during the years TZ aired. I'm only in my thirties, but my mother (and other older relatives) used Chatty Cathy as a synonym for chatterbox. In fact, Chatty Cathy was the inspiration for Talky Tina, and June Foray provided the voice for both: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chatty_Cathy |
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Post by Ish Kabbible on Jan 6, 2015 13:51:48 GMT -5
The next 2 from Season 5 of The Twilight Zone-The Final Season
Uncle Simon-Cedric Hardwicke, Constance Ford, Robbie The Robot
My nomination for the most annoying Twilight Zone episode ever made. For 25 years, Barbara has acted as a caretaker for her old, cantankerous Uncle Simon. He uses every non-4 letter curse against her, whines all day long, insists the curtains stay drawn and the house dark and forbids her to enter his laboratory. And he constantly, insistently demands his hot chocolate all day long. Make sure its hot, Barbara. And use the bone china cup Barbara. 25 years of hot chocolate, hot chocolate. You would think Nestles was the sponsor for this show. Finally after calling Barbara a bovine cow, Uncle Simon slips down a flight of stairs and breaks his back. Barbara stands over him cackling in glee and asking if he wants some hot chocolate now. During the reading of Uncle Simons will, Barbara gets the house under the condition that she cares for what is in the laboratory. Lo and Behold-its Robbie The Robot programed by Uncle Simon to drink hot chocolate. I kid you not. He wants hot chocolate. Barbara pushes Robbie down the stairs but that won't kill this robot. Nope-Robbie now wears a leg brace, has a cane and wants his hot chocolate. He wants it hot. In the bone china cup. Barbara is resigned to the fact she'll spend the rest of her life fetching hot chocolate.
The next episode of Twilight Zone is pre-empted by the JFK assassination
Probe 7 Over And Out-Richard Basehart, Antoinette Bower
Colonel Cook crash lands his spaceship on a habitable planet. His ship is beyond repair. His last transmissions back home reveal a nuclear war has begun back home and everyone is dead. Then Colonel Cook finds another woman on the planet. She too is a space explorer who crash landed. Slowly they learn to understand each other and formally introduce each other. He's Cook-Adam Cook. She's Norda-Eve Norda. In her language dirt is called Earth. Why, lets name this planet with that word
Seriously, this "Shock" ending was so old even back in 1963. It was already done to death in EC comics, not to mention later DC or Marvel SF short stories. Antoinette Bower looks so much like Elisabeth Montgomery on this show and had me fooled the entire episode.
I always found with the Twilight Zone that the beginning of the seasons had a string of great shows but by episode # 6 or so the clunkers begin to arrive. They'll be some more clunkers later this season including the all-time worst TZ episode. But there are some good ones and some unusual ones to come as well
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