“It’s A Good Life” was a short story written by Jerome Bixby in 1953 that was turned into one of the creepiest Twilight Zone episodes ever. (Click on the link to read the original. It’s worth it.)
Meanwhile, Dorian was tossing stuff at me in the Rec Room last night, so I lobbed this coolness at him:
Clever stuff, that, and it’s very appropriate for The Overnight Open Thread.
Originally broadcast Friday November 1, 1963 (three weeks to the day before JFK’s assassination in Dallas on 11/22/63) – this chilling thriller about a doll that talks “My name is Talky Tina and I’m going to kill you” starred a pre Kojak Telly Savalas, playing a stepfather from hell. Rod Serling’s final comment was classic. It shows you that a film can be frightening without a river of blood. I love the moody and foreboding background music. Doesn’t the actress Mary La Roche who plays Savalas’s wife in the episode look a bit like Shirley Jones of The Partridge Family?
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Though not the best Twilight Zone episode ever, I always felt that this episode had the most shocking punch line. Any way enjoy this classic 1962 episode (Season 3). By the way the “Kanamit” is Richard Kiel who in the 1980’s in two James Bond movies played the villain “Jaws”. Starring Lloyd Bochner, Susan Cummings, and Richard Kiel.
Egads. Before there was an Algore, Rod Serling totally throws himself on his sword for Gaia. I’m going to place this in the early ’70s, based on the cars and the doo. Especially notice around 6:38.
Stick to the weird, Rod. You do weird a lot better. To the cornfield! Or maybe there’s a deeper meaning. And you thought ManBearPig was painful to listen to:
Don’t burn your fingers on your million degree geothermal well, Al. I mean, that’s kinda hot. That was almost as painful as this:
Ow. It hurts, Dr. McCoy, it hurts! Agony! Agony! Beam me up!
He’s dead, Jim. It’s open thread time!
The Diary of Daedalus
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