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A penny for your thoughts twilight zone6/23/2023 ![]() ![]() Serling penned this story about a plane, captained by Skipper Farver (John Anderson) that takes off from London on its way to New York.Įn route, a strange speed increase rockets them along, but they are stunned by what they see below them… Flight 33 has somehow travelled back in time. The Odyssey of Flight 33 took off on 24 February, 1961. The extras for this episode are an isolated score, sponsor billboards and an original production slate. Yes, most viewers can predict it, but the story works because of how it’s told and crafted. The reveal, of course, makes the whole episode that much more intense. The nightmare sequene is truly disturbing, its look and pacing, and its final moments truly frighten. When she finally leaves the hospital, to fly home, that she understands what is truly going on. Her doctor (Lost in Space‘s Jonathan Harris) tries to convince her she‘s fine, but the nightmare won’t let her be, every night the journey to the morgue causes her to wake in terror. Every night she is plagued with a nightmare of a visit to the morgue in the hospital basement. Liz Powel (Barbara Nichols) is in hospital, recovering from the stress of being overworked. Rod Serling adapts Bennett Cerf’s story and spooked viewers with it on 10 February, 1961. Twenty Two is another of the second season episodes, the fourth, to be shot on video tape which detracts from what could have been a top-drawer episode. The extras for this episode include a commentary by Johnson and Zone historian Marc Scott Zircee, a 1978 interview with Johnson, sponsor billboards and an isolated score. This one is a fun little tale plays up the whimsical side of the Zone. York is vastly entertaining.Īs he tries to do right by his job, tbings unfurl quickly, but when a chance to improve the lives of his co-workers and himself, he takes it, and then just as easily loses it again. There are moments of humour as well as dramatic ones, and it works out pretty well. He hears rude thoughts, romantic ones, devious plans and name-calling. ![]() The cause of his gift is a little silly, but York is a great performer who makes it work, and his realization of what he can do is fairly well played. Poole (Dick York) tosses a coin to a newspaper vendor it lands on its edge and he is imbued with the ability to hear other people’s thoughts, plans and fantasies, and he soon learns that this power isn’t as much a gift as he thought it would be. Written by George Clayton Johnson, the episode premiered on 3 February, 1961. Paramount Pictures plunges me further into The Twilight Zone: The Complete Series on blu-ray.įirst up is A Penny for Your Thoughts. ![]()
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