There is a fifth dimension beyond that which is known to man. It is a dimension as vast as space, and as timeless as infinity. It is the middle ground between light and shadow, between science and superstition, and it lies between the pit of man’s fears and the summit of his knowledge. This is the dimension of imagination. It is an area which we call... the Twilight Zone.
Today is the fiftieth anniversary of the airing of the very first episode of The Twilight Zone. That episode, “Where Is Everybody?”, was one of the show’s best, an excellent beginning to an excellent series.
In commemoration of the day, here’s a list of my other favourite episodes, just for fun:
- “Time Enough at Last” (season 1, episode 8)
- “And When the Sky Was Opened” (season 1, episode 11)
- “What You Need” (season 1, episode 12)
- “The Hitch-Hiker” (season 1, episode 16)
- “People Are Alike All Over” (season 1, episode 25)
- “A Stop at Willoughby” (season 1, episode 30)
- “Eye of the Beholder” (season 2, episode 6)
- “A Most Unusual Camera” (season 2, episode 10)
- “A Penny for Your Thoughts” (season 2, episode 16)
- “Twenty Two” (season 2, episode 17)
- “Long Distance Call” (season 2, episode 22)
- “The Silence” (season 2, episode 25)
- “Two” (season 3, episode 1)
- “The Shelter” (season 3, episode 3)
- “Five Characters in Search of an Exit” (season 3, episode 14)
- “The Hunt” (season 3, episode 19)
- “To Serve Man” (season 3, episode 24)
- “Living Doll” (season 5, episode 6)
- “Ring-A-Ding Girl” (season 5, episode 13)
- “The Encounter” (season 5, episode 31)
- “The Bewitchin’ Pool” (season 5, episode 36)
4 comments:
There were a few other shows like the Twilight Zone, and I'm remembering an episode that could be from TTZ or one of the others. All I remember, really, is tumbleweeds. I think they were scary somehow. They sure made an impression...
One of my favorite Twilight Zone stories was "The Mind and the Matter" starring comedian Shelley Berman. Not only was it very funny: it also had a moral, which was that it can be a brutal revelation to see yourself as others actually see you, not as you imagine yourself to be.
Why does my laptop play the theme music for The Twilight Zone when challenge-sd spends days talking about weird items like using the Mirror concept from a Squared Up Set?
Charlie Young
He-he... Yeah. Indeed.
For the others reading this: a mailing list that Charlie and I both follow, set up for discussion of challenge-level square dancing, just had yet another one of its periodic endless and silly discussions, of the "angels on the head of a pin" type.
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