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Thread #46999   Message #700543
Posted By: Kim C
29-Apr-02 - 01:36 PM
Thread Name: BS: part II Forgotten TV series
Subject: RE: BS: part II Forgotten TV series
I remember Night Gallery being on, and enjoying it, but I don't remember specific episodes.

Twilight Zone... well, that's another story. I absolutely LOVED Twilight Zone, and it used to be, before we had all these inane late-night talk shows, one of our local stations would run Twilight Zone after the news. 'Course, they don't do that anymore, and there isn't a show on network television that's anything like it. They've tried to do some creepy shows but nothing seems to stick.

Let's see... there was Talky Tina... the one where the guy is in the abandoned town... and the one where the guy goes back in time and ends up with John Wilkes Booth's handkerchief... one where Buddy Ebsen is telekinetic and gets mixed up with a gambler... the one where Agnes Morehead was assaulted by some tiny astronauts... and of course, who can forget the immortal Gremlin on the Wing episode? Oh! And the one where the woman had plastic surgery and they took the bandages off her face - I think it was called The Eye of the Beholder.

Damn, but I miss that show. Maybe it's on cable somewhere, but I don't have cable.

I also miss the old Friday Night Frights - just about every town had a station that showed a scary movie on Friday night. And we had one that used to show the old Sherlock Holmes movies with Basil Rathbone. As far as I'm concerned, Rathbone WAS/IS Sherlock Holmes, and everyone else can go to grass.

Did anyone mention Dark Shadows?

Mister was a little kid when all the Western shows were on TV. I envy him that. I do still love Bonanza, though, as hokey as it is, and still think Adam Cartwright would be the perfect man, if only he were real. ;-)