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The Bye-Bye Sky High I.Q. Murder Case.
In "An Exercise in Fatality" he lost his cool too.
I prefer Columbo when he maintains his composure (the small screen has too many volatile sleuths already). Still, I agree this is a strong episode with Nimoy and Columbo playing very well off one another. Nimoy should have made more appearances like Robert Culp and Jack Cassidy .
Horace Ford. Less evil and more on the plain insufferable side. Possibly the worst character you could revolve an hour long "Twilight Zone" episode around.
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What's with the ending? Was it real or all in Liz Powell's head? Serling keeps this unanswered in his outro.
Lynch actually giving a crap is what distinguishes his show from the dross.
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While the ending might be a little too pat for some I think it was refreshing to see in a horror movie black people still alive as the credits rolled.
Pretty gutsy of "The Twilight Zone" to have Hyder choose Rip over God. Must irk fundamentalists then and now.
Is that an episode of "The Twilight Zone"?
As much as I like shows like Columbo or Monk they're rather offensive in how they push the victim to the background and favor instead the sleuth's eccentric ways. I mean I get a kick out of Columbo saying "Oh, just one more thing ..." as much as the next person -- but does it have to come at the expense of deepening the victim's plight in any meaningful way?
Minimalism is Lynch's forte. He can do so much with so little.
When will TV again show me something as bizarre as the final fifteen minutes (or so) of "Beyond Life and Death"? Twenty six years have gone by and I'm still waiting.
So few police procedurals actually show the story from the victim's perspective -- at least not in the heart-rending way they do here. After watching "Fire Walk With Me" it's hard to view the TV show in quite the same way again; it actually furnishes the original series with dimensions totally absent before. There's not a whole hell of a lot of big-screen continuations of beloved TV properties you can say that about.
His penchant for offing raccoons notwithstanding Hyder strikes me as a decent man. I applaud Earl Hamner Junior for his depiction of heaven not as a place of orthodoxy but an inclusive final destination willing to admit a flawed figure like Hyder. While removed from God-fearing Hyder's deep love and devotion for his dog Rip exudes, if unconsciously, the best of Christian values. I find that moving.
I like what Mark Twain had to say about the school of thought that excludes dogs from any kind of afterlife: "The dog is a gentleman: I hope to go to his heaven not man's."
"Nervous Man" though has one of Mr. Serling's essential insults. He says of the titular "Nervous Man": " ... and where some men leave a mark of their lives ... this man leaves a blot, a dirty, discolored blemish to mark a cheap and undistinguished sojourn amongst his bettors."
"Where is Everybody" is a one-person show and it's a winner.
"I Sing The Body Electric," particularly since it was from the pen of Ray Bradbury.
"King Nine Will Not Return."
"Where is Everybody?" in a way too.
Dream Logic was definitely a specialty of Charles Beaumont's. "Person or Persons Unknown," "The Howling Man," and "Shadow Play," all had it in spades.
"The Case of Mr. Pelham" and "Mirror Image" would make a good pairing. So would "Waxwork" and "The New Exhibit."
Maybe it could have ended weeks later with Rod's investigation of his friend's disappearance leading him to the Armitrage's estate ... Rod pulls up in his car. He spies Chris working in the front yard. Rod calls out to him. Chris looks up, his expression blank. Rod smiles. Chris' blank expression remains. Rod calls out to him again. Chris opens his mouth and from it issues a piercing pod scream. Rod's reaction is one of horror. Chris continues screaming, pointing at Rod as he does so. Rod looks around. From every direction Armitrages and their allies spill. The camera zooms in on Chris' open maw until the screen goes black. Cue credits. No music.
I've seen it and "The Alfred Hitchcock Hour" on MeTV from time to time.
Why is "Alfred Hitchcock Presents"' popularity nowhere near that of "The Twilight Zone"'s? Alfred Hitchcock's films, after all, still enjoy enormous adulation. I know Hitchcock didn't direct every episode but many of those he didn't helm nevertheless retain that Hitchcock feel.
Fans of "The Twilight Zone" should check out "The Glass Eye" and "Waxwork" since they exude very much a "Twilight Zone" feel.