twilight zone

[watab kid]

ive watched a few lately , im taken by how many are about getting old , there were a couple others .........

last one was a guy wanting to play kick the can with kids outsoiide the old folks home , tonight its an old console radio playing tommy dorrsey [live] after he was dead , its about starting over but we cant go back , 

 

im getting the sense this getting old deal is pretty much always been a thing we all realize , some of us want to be young again , some of us dont believe there is any reason to , but might like to give it a go , , i have an old atwater kent console - from the 20s , it works fine and i have a suitcase full of replacement tubes for it ........think ill fire it up tomorrow but tonight im just gonna sleep , 

[Subdeacon Joe]

Kick the Can is the first, and I see it as being about not letting others define you and what you can do.  

Static is the second one.  More a "seize the moment" story.  So you don't have regrets.

I hadn't really thought about how many were about going back, regrets, or growing old.  Or past sins catching up with you. 

[Okie Sawbones, SASS #77381]

Kick the can was one of the better ones.

[Forty Rod SASS 3935]

5 hours ago, Subdeacon Joe said:

Kick the Can is the first, and I see it as being about not letting others define you and what you can do.  

Static is the second one.  More a "seize the moment" story.  So you don't have regrets.

I hadn't really thought about how many were about going back, regrets, or growing old.  Or past sins catching up with you. 

Don't want to go back.  Did all that once and don't wish to do any of it again.

 

Very few regrets.

 

My past sins won't try to catch up to me because I'Il face them down or whup the bejabbers out of them.

[Chickasaw Bill SASS #70001]

given the state of the world , I am wondering , IF , we be in the TWLIGHT ZONE 

[Pat Riot]

Going by memory here; My most favorite and most impactful Twilight Zone was the one with Burgess Meredith where he loved reading books and lived through an atomic battle because he was in the bank vault reading. 
After the attack he was roaming and found the Library was mostly intact. He was elated and somehow dropped his glasses and stepped on them. Now he couldn’t see to read. 
I was just a little kid when I saw that. A little kid that couldn’t see worth a darn without glasses. 
I cried like a baby at his demise. My parents thought I was nuts. I guess they couldn’t understand as they both had perfect eyesight. 

[Cypress Sun]

 

I love the old episodes of Twilight Zone.

 

My favorites are Incident at Owl Creek, the one about Little Big Horn and the tank, the one where a street thinks that aliens have landed, the one that Pat mentioned and the one with Charles Bronson and Elisabeth Montgomery learn how to get along.

 

By the way, yelling "There's a man on the wing!" is not advisable these days.

[Sedalia Dave]

49 minutes ago, Pat Riot said:

Going by memory here; My most favorite and most impactful Twilight Zone was the one with Burgess Meredith where he loved reading books and lived through an atomic battle because he was in the bank vault reading. 
After the attack he was roaming and found the Library was mostly intact. He was elated and somehow dropped his glasses and stepped on them. Now he couldn’t see to read. 
I was just a little kid when I saw that. A little kid that couldn’t see worth a darn without glasses. 
I cried like a baby at his demise. My parents thought I was nuts. I guess they couldn’t understand as they both had perfect eyesight. 

I remember that episode. 

[Alpo]

1 hour ago, Pat Riot said:

 I guess they couldn’t understand as they both had perfect eyesight. 

I've heard it said that if you have never experienced combat you can't understand.

 

I've heard it said that unless you went to Catholic school for 12 years you can't understand.

 

But friends and neighbors, unless you have worn glasses since you were a small child, you can't understand. My brothers started wearing glasses in their twenties. My mother wore them as long as I can remember, but she was almost 30 when I met her. And my father was in his 40s.

 

Me --- third grade.

 

And they don't tell you. In fourth grade I got stronger glasses. In fifth grade I got stronger glasses. In 6th grade I got stronger glasses. Obviously I would be blind by the time I was in high school.

 

I used to practice. Shut my eyes and try to walk in a straight line. Climbing stairs with my eyes shut. I still count the stairs. Because I wanted to be ready when I went blind.

 

 

[Texas Joker]

Pouring drinks with a finger tip over the edge.  Folding money different ways for the different denoms. Walking the edge of the hall so you can feel the wall.

 

Ain't progressive myopia grand? Btdt.  Didn't go blind! From the other thing either!

[Will Kane]

One of my favorite TZs is another episode starring Burgess Meredith entitled The Obsolete Man.

[Red Gauntlet , SASS 60619]

"A Nice Place to Visit" is one of my favorites, with Sebastian Cabot as the....guide in the afterlife.

[Subdeacon Joe]

My favorites are The Hunt, Deaths Head Revisited, Nothing In the Dark, Two, and The Old Man In the Cave.

 

 

[watab kid]

i remember most of those from recent airings , i watch most nights here , i missed tonight because i was watching the convention , ill catch it tomorrow tho , 

[watab kid]

tonight its a party of settlers in 1847 crossing to California , leader crosses a dune looking for water and shade , finds himself in sept of 1961 , learns from the folks he meets of penicillin to fix his ill chides pneumonia and  of not just his sons survival but accreditations as a doctor from the encyclopedia .............huh , i learned a bunch from those massive tomes as a younger person in 1961 but never thought to look for ancestors , thats all been replaced by internet these days ,  

[Alpo]

Does he take penicillin back with him, or does he feed his kid moldy bread?

[Will Kane]

[watab kid]

15 hours ago, Alpo said:

Does he take penicillin back with him, or does he feed his kid moldy bread?

no bread - he has the pills , but crosses back in time and its a metrical , just as a lot of us in the 50s thought it was 

 

not on tonight - im gonna miss it but ill catch it when back on monday evening , 

[Texas Lizard]

To Serve Man.....It was cook book......

 

Texas Lizard