It is 3 am and Outer Limits time, that was a cool old show.

[texanwitch]

It used to scare me when I was little, don't know why.

It is on a tv channel called This, it is on cable or with a new digital box.

[Amerigo Vespucci]

1. I grew up with the triad...

Outer Limits / Twilight Zone / Alfred Hitchcock Hour. I loved all three equally.

The single greatest Alfred Hitchcock Hour show EVER...not yet available on DVD...IS available for online viewing at the Hulu.com Web Site:

"An Unlocked Window: Police believe that an insane medical student is responsible for the murders of three private-duty nurses."

http://www.hulu.com/watch/34689/alfred-hitchcock-hour-an-unlocked-window

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[texanwitch]

5. The shows being in Black and White only made it better.

Also sitting in a dark room.

[DeepBlueC]

7. Oh yeah

I liked Twilight Zone best, then Alfred Hitchcock, and then Outer Limits. Actually I wasn't too sure about OL...there were too many opportunities to question the logic of the narrative. Twilight Zone was pretty much impeccable in that regard. But I'd like to watch them all now, especially late late at night.

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[Amerigo Vespucci]

8. Same order of preference for me too, believe it or not...

...the stories, the actual essence that got under your skin and played tricks with your mind, ran deepest in "Twilight Zone." Think about the sheer number of threads you've seen on DU that began or ended with "IT'S A COOKBOOK!" (I know...I've authored a few of them myself). Then there's always Shatner with the thing on the wing...

Hitchcock was like a great dime novel or an old EC comic...especially that episode about the nurses I linked to above. Outer Limits was a tasty splash of "weird" in a world that had ABC, CBS, NBC and no HBO...no Showtime...no Cinemax...no NetFlix. Those three shows were the best game in town.

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[DeepBlueC]

9. remember your first Twilight Zone?

My friend Gloria told me it was a good show and we watched it together at my house. It was the one about the guy with the huge hunger for reading (I had never before seen a character on TV with that particular penchant...more densely populated with those who 'didn't hold with book larnin'), the bank vault retreat, the nuclear bomb, the discovery of the library (I was really feeling happy for him) and then...the broken glasses. I just sat there waiting and then THERE WAS NO MORE! I turned to Gloria and shrieked "No...it can't end like that!!!?" and she responded nonchalantly, "Yeah, it does. They all do". It really was a huge revolution in TV narrative.

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[Amerigo Vespucci]

11. I own 6 Twilight Zone DVDs, and my first episode is on one of them...

...my family was made up of creatures of habit. This show was watched in my home. I saw all of them, more than once. The ones that really grabbed me by the neck were:

Twilight Zone DVD Volume 2



"Time Enough At Last" (Episode 8-November 20, 1959): "A bookworm (Burgess Meredith) yearns for more time to read - then a nuclear holocaust leaves him alone in the world with lots of time, plenty to read, and one ironic twist!"

"The Monsters Are Due On Maple Street" (Episode 22-March 4, 1960): "Inexplicable events cause the residents of quiet Maple Street to erupt into rioting. The residents suspect an alien invasion has occurred. If so, where are the alien monsters?"

"Nightmare At 20,000 Feet" (Episode 123-October 11, 1963): "A salesman (William Shatner) recovering from a nervous breakdown spots a gremlin on the wing of his plane. When he attempts to alert others his nightmare truly begins!"

Twilight Zone DVD Volume 8



"To Serve Man" (Episode 89-March 2, 1962): "The Kanamits, 9 foot tall aliens, arrive on Earth with one lofty goal: To Serve Man. They end war. They end famine. Theymake the military wonder: What's the catch?"

Twilight Zone DVD Volume 11



"The Dummy" (Episode 98-May 4, 1962): "A ventriloquist (Cliff Robertson) is convinced that his dummy, Willie, is alive and evil. He makes plans for a new act with a new dummy. Plans that Willie does not support!"

Twilight Zone DVD Volume 15



"A Kind Of Stopwatch" (Episode 124-October 18, 1963): "The world's biggest bore and most avid talker gets a magical stopwatch that can stop everything except him. But when he misuses it, a wonderful conversation piece becomes a real party killer."

Twilight Zone DVD Volume 24



"People Are Alike All Over" (Episode 25-March 25, 1960): "When a space expedition crashes on Mars, passenger Sam Conrad (Roddy McDowall) is terrified when he encounters Martians. To his initial relief, they are human, extremely friendly and apparently just like us..."

"Valley Of The Shadow" (Episode 105-January 17, 1963): "Philip Redfield (Ed Nelson) finds himself trapped in a small town where people can reverse time and do many other amazing things. He is determined to escape and share the town's secrets with the outside world."

"Black Leather Jackets" (Episode 138-January 31, 1964): "Three tough-looking men on motorcycles disrupt a peaceful suburb when they move in. Yet the neighbors could never imagine just how dangerous these men are. One bit of advice: don't drink the water."

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[peekaloo]

2. The Patty Duke reruns that follow it are scarier.

don't know why but PD creeps me out.

I loved Outer Limits as a kid, they were in reruns at the time, but man are those monsters cheesy or what? Terrorizing tumbleweeds, angry ants, electromagnetic clouds up to no good.......I still love it. :D

[bikebloke]

6. Good stories

But the story telling is so good, you can overlook the bad special effects.

[nuxvomica]

3. It used to scare the bejeezus out of me

But I had to watch it every week. I was thankful the week they showed an episode about two aliens who manipulated time to study human behavior. There were no monsters that week and I slept okay that night. I now own all the episodes on DVD and that one just doesn't interest me.

[texanwitch]

4. There was another show call something like One Step Beyond.

There was a creepy guy who came on first to annouce the show.

That show really scared me.

The Twilight Zone opening screen with the floating eyeball and body really was really great.

[Hotler]

10. I would sit in a dark room with....

a blanket around me with just a little opening to watch from. The movie The Tingler freaked me out for a month.

[texanwitch]

12. Sitting in a dark room was important.

It wasn't the same with the lights on.