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[Matt H.]

Yes.  Strangely, our local PBS station usually sees this episode as festive fare to broadcast on Christmas Eve.  

How odd! Especially since there's that memorable Art Carney-Christmas themed episode "Night of the Meek."

[Ron Pulliam]

[move=left,scroll,6,transparent,100%]Happy Birthday, Mr. Birkeland![/move]

[move=right,scroll,6,transparent,100%]That means you, TCB![/move]

[move=up,scroll,6,transparent,100%]Bring out the cake w/candles![/move]

[move=left,scroll,6,transparent,100%]And don't forget the fire extinguisher![/move]

[Dan (the Man)]

A lot of my favorrite TZs have been mentioned, but one that has not was about a girl who lived with her scientist father and a household full of robots and in the end discovered--well, I don't want to give it away...

The Outer Limits scared the bejesus out of me when I was a kid.  It wasn't until they passed into syndication that I was able to relax and watch and appreciate the show.  Some favorites that come to mind are:

It Crawled Out of the Woodwork
The Galaxy Being (the scariest!)
The Zanti Misfits(or Attack of the Cooties!)
Demon With the Glass Hand
Controlled Experiment (a very funny episode)

I also remember an episode that I can't find the title of.  Something about a couple (Eddie Albert was the husband) who are stranded on an old abandoned farm (shades of Green Acres) and attacked by plagues of frogs and tumbleweeds.  Does this sound familiar to anyone?

[Stuart]

Thanks for the weekend posts re: PNW HHW gathering....it is always a delight to see what some of the DRs actually look like.  And -- no offense intended -- but, DR Jane, more and more, I see where your son's looks come from.  You are one hot mama!

And what a "small world" story about DR JMK (and Betsy's) rabbi being a cousin of DR DIT!

And, FYI, DR/DB Jay, there's a VERSE to that song too! It begins:
"It's a world of laughter, a world of fun..."  
But then I forget the lyrics.  However, I remember the chorus:
"It's a sm................"

No, I just can't do it to all you lovely readers out there in the dark.....

Twilight Zone?  Outer Limits?  I guess my favorite episodes would be the ones that DIDN'T give me nightmares!  But, never having been a fan of science fiction, I was never a big fan of either series, though the episodes I recall having seen are some of the classics, I guess.....and I think DR Panni mentioned them all.  Except for the Leg of Lamb episode.

[Dan-in-Toronto]

It's a sm ...

Funny,
you're a stranger who's come here,
come from another town.
Funny, I'm a stranger myself here.
Small world, isn't it?

Funny, you're a man who goes traveling
rather than settling down.
Funny, 'cause I'd love to go traveling.
Small world, isn't it?

We have so much in common,
it's a phenomenon.
We could pool our resources
by joining forces from now on.

Lucky, you're a man who likes children.
That's an important sign.
Lucky, I'm a woman with children.
Small world, isn't it?
Funny, isn't it small and funny and fine?

[bk]

Apparently, dear reader Matt H has never read a Kritzer book, for if he had he would know immediately that "22" and "Room for one more, honey" were a prominent part of one chapter in Kritzer Time.  

Walking Distance is my favorite Twilight Zone, for many reasons, including it's stunning original Bernard Herrmann score.  I'm also fond of The Fever with Everett Sloane (Fraaaanklin) and, well, they're all in Kritzerland and Kritzer Time.

Outer Limits has many fine and weird episodes - I especially like It Crawled Out of the Woodwork and The Zanti Misfits, both directed, I believe, by the strange Gerd Oswald.

[JMK]

TZ:  what about the wonderful episode with former DR Aura 18 and J. Pat O'Malley?  Or the creepy one where the kid (was it Billy Mumy) rolls under the bed into the alternate universe.  Or the other one with the creepy kid (definitely Billy Mumy) who terrorizes the town and turns the unfortunate man into a jack-in-the-box (I still have nightmares about that shadow image on the wall).

Since you guys are horror trivia buffs, can anyone identify two different episodes of something I saw when I was a kid.  These must have been TZ ripoffs, like Terror or One Step Beyond.  I only have very faint memories of them, but here goes:

1.  In this one, a guy finds a fortune teller like machine (it was a robotic looking sitting woman) who told his fortune.  I believe it ends with him touching her and getting electrocuted.

2.  In this one, it had something to do with flying aces--biplanes and such.  And all I remember is a big closeup at the end and one of the planes was being flown by a skeleton.

Ring any bells with anyone?

[Dan (the Man)]

There were a couple of segments from the new Twilight Zone that ran on CBS in the early 90s that I liked.  One with Bruce Willis as a man who discovers that his double is taking over his life--I thought it was very profound.  Another was about two brothers who were investigating their geneticist father's disappearance in a large warehouse littered with the dried, dead bodies of giant-sized animals.

[Dan (the Man)]

Twilight Zone?  Outer Limits?  I guess my favorite episodes would be the ones that DIDN'T give me nightmares!  But, never having been a fan of science fiction, I was never a big fan of either series, though the episodes I recall having seen are some of the classics, I guess.....and I think DR Panni mentioned them all.  Except for the Leg of Lamb episode.

I'm pretty sure that the Leg of Lamb episode was from Alfred Hitchcock Presents.

[bk]

there were several TZ-like shows, some before, some after.  They included Panic!, One Step Beyond, Science Fiction Theater, Way Out (hosted by Roald Dahl - some very good episodes on that one), and I'm sure there were a few others.

[Stuart]

I'm pretty sure that the Leg of Lamb episode was from Alfred Hitchcock Presents.

Mea culpa.  Mea maxima culpa.  (Ooh! A Stephen Sondheim reference!)

[JMK]

And Happy Birthday, TCB!

If you had come to the NW HHW gathering, you could have had a piece of Chocolate Zucchini Birthday Cake!

[Jay]

[move=left,scroll,6,transparent,100%]Happy Birthday to our own King of the double entendre, Dear Reader TCB!!![/move]

[Michael]

Here is a list of all the Twilight Zone Episodes from the original series. My favorites and there are quite a few are in various colors
Season 1 30 min.
1.   Where is Everybody?

2.   One for the Angels

3.   Mr. Denton on Doomsday

4.   The Sixteen-Millimeter Shrine

5.   Walking Distance

6.   Escape Clause

7.   The Lonely

8.   Time Enough at Last

9.   Perchance to Dream

10.   Judgment Night

11.   And When the Sky Was Opened

12.   What You Need

13.   The Four of Us are Dying

14.   Third From the Sun

15.   I Shot an Arrow into the Air

16.   The Hitch-Hiker

17.   The Fever

18.   The Last Flight

19.   The Purple Testament

20.   Elegy

21.   Mirror Image

22.   The Monsters are Due on Maple Street

23.   A World of Difference

24.   Long Live Walter Jameson

25.   People Are Alike All Over

26.   Execution

27.   The Big Tall Wish

28.   A Nice Place to Visit

29.   Nightmare as a Child

30.   A Stop at Willoughby

31.   The Chaser

32.   A Passage for Trumpet

33.   Mr. Bevis

34.   The After Hours
35.   The Mighty Casey

36.   A World of His Own

Season 2
37.   King Nine Will Not Return

38.   The Man in the Bottle

39.   Nervous Man in a Four Dollar Room

40.   A Thing About Machines

41.   The Howling Man

42.   The Eye of the Beholder

43.   Nick of Time
44.   The Lateness of the Hour

45.   The Trouble with Templeton

46.   A Most Unusual Camera

47.   Night of the Meek

48.   Dust

49.   Back There

50.   The Whole Truth

51.   The Invaders

52.   A Penny For Your Thoughts

53.   Twenty-Two

54.   The Odyssey of Flight 33

55.   Mr. Dingle, the Strong

56.   Static

57.   The Prime Mover

58.   Long Distance Call

59.   A Hundred Yards over the Rim

60.   The Rip Van Winkle Caper

61.   The Silence

62.   Shadow Play

63.   The Mind and the Matter

64.   Will the Real Martian Please Stand Up

65.   The Obsolete Man

Season 3
66.   Two

67.   The Arrival

68.   The Shelter

69.   The Passersby

70.   A Game of Pool

71.   The Mirror

72.   The Grave

73.   It's a Good Life

74.   Deaths-Head Revisited

75.   The Midnight Sun

76.   Still Valley

77.   The Jungle

78.   Once Upon a Time

79.   Five Characters in Search of an Exit
80.   A Quality of Mercy

81.   Nothing in the Dark

82.   One More Pallbearer

83.   Dead Man's Shoes

84.   The Hunt

85.   Showdown with Rance McGrew

86.   Kick the Can

87.   A Piano in the House

88.   The Last Rites of Jeff Myrtlebank

89.   To Serve Man

90.   The Fugitive

91.   Little Girl Lost

92.   Person or Persons Unknown

93.   The Little People

94.   Four O'Clock

95.   Hocus-Pocus and Frisby

96.   The Trade-Ins

97.   The Gift

98.   The Dummy

99.   Young Man's Fancy

100.   I Sing the Body Electric

101.   Cavender is Coming

102.   The Changing of the Guard

Season 4 60 min.
103.   In His Image

104.   The Thirty-Fathom Grave

105.   Valley of the Shadow

106.   He's Alive

107.   Mute

108.   Death Ship

109.   Jess-Belle

110.   Miniature

111.   Printer's Devil

112.   No Time Like the Past

113.   The Parallel

114.   I Dream of Genie

115.   The New Exhibit

116.   Of Late I Think of Cliffordville

117.   The Incredible World of Horace Ford

118.   On Thursday We Leave For Home

119.   Passage on the Lady Anne

120.   The Bard

Season 5 30 min.
121.   In Praise of Pip

122.   Steel

123.   Nightmare at 20,000 Feet

124.   A Kind of a Stopwatch

125.   The Last Night of a Jockey

126.   Living Doll

127.   The Old Man in the Cave

128.   Uncle Simon

129.   Probe 7 - Over and Out

130.   The 7th is Made Up of Phantoms

131.   A Short Drink from a Certain Fountain

132.   Ninety Years Without Slumbering

133.   Ring-A-Ding Girl

134.   You Drive

135.   The Long Morrow

136.   The Self-Improvement of Salvadore Ross

137.   Number Twelve Looks Just Like You

138.   Black Leather Jackets

139.   Night Call

140.   From Agnes - With Love

141.   Spur of the Moment

142.   An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge

143.   Queen of the Nile

144.   What's in the Box

145.   The Masks

146.   I Am the Night - Color Me Black

147.   Sounds and Silences

148.   Caesar and Me

149.   The Jeopardy Room

150.   Stopover in a Quiet Town

151.   The Encounter

152.   Mr. Garrity and the Graves

153.   The Brain Center at Whipple's

154.   Come Wander with Me

155.   The Fear

156.   The Bewitchin' Pool

[TCB]

Thank you, one and all, for the kind birthday greetings!  Is there a more perfect place on the internet to celebrate your big day than at HHW???

What an incredible day to be born!  Sharing my day of birth with Gene Kelly, Barbara Eden, River Phoenix, and of course, Queen Noor (don’t go there, td)?  And who else can claim, on their day in history, the death of Rudolph Valentino, the execution of Sacco and Vanzetti, and the defection of Alexander Godunov?

I took the day off work, my computer is working without a hitch, and I am being given “loves” by Angel and Nicky – life is good!

[Ron Pulliam]

Oh, happy, happy day!

Oh, Joy!

Oh, Rapture!

The postman has just delivered to me an original, mint-condition, gloriously vibrant ORIGINAL window card to "Mack and Mabel."

It cost me a "minor" fortune on eBay and is worth every cent I paid for it!

I won't be paying minor fortunes, much less pittances, for some time.  It's a combination birthday and Christmas present to myself.

I am overwhelmed and thrilled and excited and beside myself with glee!

Just thought I'd share that with ya, even if it's "too much."

[Ben]

TCB, Mr. Kelly was born on your birthday and he died on my birthday (February 2nd). Not to take anything away from your special day. Just wanted to share  

[TCB]

TCB, Mr. Kelly was born on your birthday and he died on my birthday (February 2nd). Not to take anything away from your special day. Just wanted to share  

Yes, Ben, but can you claim Valentino's birth on your day, since he died on mine?

[TCB]

Thank you, DR Noel for my Kerry / Gephardt New York Post.   A welcome, and unexpected, birthday surprise!  I will cherish it.

[George]

HAPPIEST OF BIRTHDAYS (to date, of course) TO DR TCB!!

[Jennifer]

HAPPY BIRTHDAY DR TCB!!!!!!!

Wow, I can't believe how long it has taken me to catch up on yesterday's posts.

And I love the pics from the HHW gathering.  OMG you guys have different tastes in fashion.

(from each other).

[George]

Favorite "Twilight Zone" episodes:
THE EYE OF THE BEHOLDER
KICK THE CAN
NICK OF TIME
NIGHTMARE AT 20,000 FEET

Another one that I really liked (but I don't know the title) is the one where Anne Francis goes to a department store, looking for a thimble for her mother (or someone) and it turns out that she's really a mannequin!

[Matt H.]

Yes, that leg of lamb was from ALFRED HITCHCOCK PRESENTS and was called "Lamb to the Slaughter."

I remember WAY OUT with nightmarish glee. I found it even scarier and creepier than THE TWILIGHT ZONE (sadly only lasted half a season). I remember one episode called "Button, Button, Who's Got the Button" that left me trembling.

[Matt H.]

Yes, the Anne Francis TZ episode was called "The After Hours." I really loved it, too.

[Matt H.]

Looking at Michael Shayne's list of all the episodes reminded me that there were several of these that I taught in my classes either in their teleplay form (THE MONSTERS ARE DUE ON MAPLE STREET) or in their original short story form. My students always loved "To Serve Man."

[Jane]

A very happy birthday to my dear friend and DR TCB. May your year ahead be one that is full of good health and happiness. May you also have a computer that works and one that is AOL problem free.

I second that!

HAPPY BIRTHDAY TCB!!

[Jane]

The “some homemade Jewish bread” MBarnum mentioned was a terrific hallah (egg bread) and I am waiting for the recipe.

If I had the ability to write as well as MBarnum I would say exactly the same things regarding George,  the Kaufman family and the evening.  I will return the compliment to Michael and add he has a smile that lights up a room-you should see those dimples up close.

Yes, the chocolate zucchini cake was very moist and delicious.  Surprise, surprise, I opted for a tofu dog instead of a Boca burger.

Yes George, Betsy’s mother did the artwork the photos don't do justice to.

It was a very exciting moment for me when I made the rabbi/cousin connection.

I didn’t expect to end the evening with party favors.   Once I wake up I will listen to them.  I am exhausted not having slept much over the weekend.  The overnight bus trip home was nice enough but I only dozed on and off.  I’m sure I will crash before the day is over.

Coming soon, my versions of the same NW group pose.

[Jane]

The NW HHW gang.

[Jane]

Gabe took thes group photo which includes our lovely hostess Betsy.  

[Jane]

BG (or is it Bee Gee?).  However you spell his name, I was in love.