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You mean 'To Serve Mankind'. At one science fiction convention one of the dealers had a little booklet called that. Yes, it was a cookbook. I was too broke to get it or it would have made a wonderful keeper. Just imagine what someone would say if you said dinner came out the To Serve Mankind cookbook
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You mean 'To Serve Mankind'. At one science fiction convention one of the dealers had a little booklet called that. Yes, it was a cookbook. I was too broke to get it or it would have made a wonderful keeper. Just imagine what someone would say if you said dinner came out the To Serve Mankind cookbook
Thanks for the correction. I probably watched most all of the episodes when they were first aired (showing my age) and that one stuck with me the most. I also really like the one where the guy had the stop watch that stopped time and ended up breaking it while stealing money from a bank. I often fantasized about what I would do with a watch like that.......
Is this the one where Burgess Meridith worked in the bank? He was the only one left after a nuclear explosion. All he wanted to do was read, then broke his glasses at the end.
The other one with him I liked was where he was deemed obsolete. He was able to choose his method of execution. He locked in the gov't guy, telling him his method of choice was explosion. He let him out at the last minute, but then he (gov't guy) was then deemed obsolete.
...I also really like the one where the guy had the stop watch that stopped time and ended up breaking it while stealing money from a bank. I often fantasized about what I would do with a watch like that.......
That episode was "A Kind of a Stopwatch" and was one of my favorites too.
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Originally Posted by don6170
Is this the one where Burgess Meridith worked in the bank? He was the only one left after a nuclear explosion. All he wanted to do was read, then broke his glasses at the end.
The other one with him I liked was where he was deemed obsolete. He was able to choose his method of execution. He locked in the gov't guy, telling him his method of choice was explosion. He let him out at the last minute, but then he (gov't guy) was then deemed obsolete.
Yes, that was the episode where Burgess Meredith wanted time to read and then broke his glasses. And "The Obsolete Man" was the other show to which you referred. Both Meredith and the guy who condemned him to death for being obsolete were great actors.
I just watched one of the hour-long TZ episodes, "Printer's Devil, also starring Burgess Meredith. The hour-long shows werent as well-written (in my opinion) as the half-hour shows but this one was an exception and Burgess Meredith was great in it. He played the devil who came to a sleepy town to help the editor of a failing newspaper in exchange for his immortal soul.
"The Howling Man" is number one and in a class by itself IMO. "To Serve Man" was outstanding as well.
But you know what surprises me? I watched most of those Twilight Zones on their first showings when I was a kid and was a huge fan of the show. Back then, I thought I liked them all - or the vast majority, at least.
What surprises me is that watching them today, I find most episodes silly and not worth the time. I guess I was much easier to please in 1960 than I am today.
That said, there are a dozen or so episodes that are timeless quality, with the two you mention at the top of the list.
"The Howling Man" is number one and in a class by itself IMO. <snip>
What surprises me is that watching them today, I find most episodes silly and not worth the time. I guess I was much easier to please in 1960 than I am today.
I agree. I love the show overall, but some of the episodes are just outright silly and very dated. But yes, The Howling Man is in a class by itself. It's almost like a short horror film.
My favorite was "Judgment Night". The story of a German U-boat Captain condemned to be sunk on an ocean liner every night as his penalty for sinking ocean liners without warning.
I don't know the name of the other one. It had Donna Douglas (Ellie May Clampett) as a person so hideous that she had to go to some kind of secluded area with her own kind. Then at the end, the doctors and nurses were all revealed to have some kind of strange pig-like faces.
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