On a daft whim I ordered this - Blu-Ray box set of the "complete" Twilight Zone, available on a special deal - though opinions vary as to how complete it is. It's OK with me - I didn't see many of the original UK telecasts - we didn't have a TV for much of that period.
Another example of transplanted nostalgia - a wish to revisit something I never experienced in the first place!
You're looking for the episode related to the Slug of St. George, aren't you?
ReplyDeleteYes - that's right. It was that discussion that got me thinking about the series. I didn't see very many of these, as I say, but one I have seen subsequently is "It's a Good Life", which is terrific and has strong parallels in UK politics at present. I'm also excited to note that there was a sequel, "It's Still a Good Life", which is in this set.
ReplyDeleteIf I find there is a Slug of St George episode - even by analogy - I shall stay out of the attic for a while.
The only episode I can remember is Capt Kirk on the plane being frightened by that little gremlin thingy? Actually It may not have even been the Twilight Zone???
ReplyDeleteEnjoy!
I think I've read the short story of that one. U watched a couple of episodes last night - not bad at all - funny how the passage of time has made them quite "arty" - they are dated, but quirky presentation style works nicely.
Delete...of course, it wasn't U who watched them, it was moo.
DeleteFunny, although I loved these shows - and the Outer Limits - when I was a kid, almost none of them stay in my memory now except the gremlin on the plane wing one. If you have any tolerance for zany cartoons there was a very funny spoof of that story in a Johnny Bravo cartoon some years back.
ReplyDeleteNot only is the style of presentation a bit out of the ordinary, but some of the ideas of what is frightening are a bit left field too. 2nd episode was a fairly predictable story involving a man in a suit who is Mr Death. OK - next?
DeleteGood though.
Funny (peculiar). That gremlin episode with William Shatner is the one episode I can remember too. Wonder if it's because he was Capt Kirk too? I saw the series when it was repeated in the 70s, not first time round, so by then Shatner was already imprinted on my brain as Kirk, so I had another hook to remember that episode by.
ReplyDeleteI found an excerpt on YouTube - the guy on the wing with the knitted outfit didn't get much of a cameo, did he? That business about trying to make people understand when you know you're right is a recurrent theme in dreams for me - along with the doorknocker which makes no sound, the telephone buttons which do not press down. The frustration comes from knowing right at the start that this isn't going to work.
DeleteWe all get pretty blase about travel these days, but any problem on a flight is by definition a serious problem - maybe that's why the story is memorable.