How much Twilight Zone TV show is in TZ pinball
graham...@verizon.net
Series. I own a TZ pin and see many influences of the show in the
game, like talking Tina, the Invaders, the door etc.
It always amazes me that I see episodes that I never saw before even
though I have been watching them for years. Anybody know what episodes
are represented between the game playfield , translight and sounds and
game play
Ron Lyons
I can't help you out (I haven't played the game enough to know) but
I'm also a huge fan of the show. Have you seen the remade crap they
did in the 80's? Serling was long gone of course so they got some
moron to do the voice overs who is god awful. He says the same kind
of type Serling used to say, but with the inferior voice it just
sounds so horrible. Just god awful. Then all the shows are like
halmark movie of the weeks or something.
Anyways I taped the whole damn marathon, save for a few shows I just
saw within the last few weeks. I've found a bunch of them on there
I've never seen before, like for instance there's a second show (looks
earlier) with William Shatner starring in it. I also finally got to
see "To Serve Man" which I had heard was great, but had never seen.
Luckily nobody ever spoiled it for me, so it was great to finally
see.
I don't know what it is, something about that show is just great. I
guess Serling had a lot to do with that, I imagine he was very
involved with every aspect of it during it's initial run. I've seen a
few episodes that weren't very good but in general, a high percentage
of them are fantastic.
Oh what the hell. I went and looked at the pictures. On the
backglass I see the slot machine from an episode where a prudent man
and his wife won a trip to vegas, I think it was called "The
Fever".... There's a Calvary flag from the episode about modern U.S.
soldiers finding the battle site of Custer's Last Stand (It's called
something like "Ghosts walk among the 4th" or something like that)...
There's a boxing flyer on the wall behind Rod that's from the episode
about the robot boxers of the future, and how when one breaks down a
real retired boxer steps in to fight the other machine. OR it could
be about the episode where the old boxer has a little boy praying for
him while watching the show at home, and changes the outcome of the
match. GREAT episode. The mannequin is from that famous episode
"Caesar and Me". The Invaders of course are on the floor on the
right... I'm sure there's many many more.
beaver
some links that show which episodes are featured in the game. See
here:
http://www.edcheung.com/album/album08/pinball/tz2.htm#tv
Edward_Cheung CARGGPB26
ps, I still have several of these left.
Joe Jet
If you love the Twilight Zone shows... check out Night Gallery... most
were bad, but Rod hosts and if you can find the first episode, the
Pilot with Roddy Mcdowall (planet of the apes)... its FANTASTIC.
Theme is a wall painting that starts to change...
firepower
I think it's called "Time Enough." I won't ruin it for you if you
haven't seen it but it's the books/pocket watch/broken glasses reference.
There must be at least 100 references on that game, more than the number
of hitchikers I can pick up.
-Richard
freeman
nice list beaver.
I think the episode with Art Carney as Santa can be added.
There is a small Santa in the street.
Bryan Kelly
episode. It's also the only one I can remember and I grew up with all
of Serlings shows.
Bryan (CARGPB 14)
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On Jan 2, 6:41 am, Joe Jet <jdeceg...@gmail.com> wrote:
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> If you love the Twilight Zone shows... check out Night Gallery... most
> were bad, but Rod hosts and if you can find the first episode, the
> Pilot with Roddy Mcdowall (planet of the apes)... its FANTASTIC.
> Theme is a wall painting that starts to change...- Hide quoted text -
>
> - Show quoted text -
David Gersic
> During New Years, SYFY is running marathons of the Twilight Zone
> Series. I own a TZ pin and see many influences of the show in the
> game, like talking Tina, the Invaders, the door etc.
This was done many years ago:
http://www.pinball.org/rules/twilightzone-notes.html
but I doubt you'll find a more thoroughly researched list anywhere.
> It always amazes me that I see episodes that I never saw before even
> though I have been watching them for years.
http://tzone.the-croc.com/original-twilight-zone-episode-guide.html
I've been keeping track, and I've now seen them all except for the
original pilot.
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so
inadequate.
scott
cody chunn
ate her while she was running through the woods?
Or the one where the woman's dog ran into the mirror that led to Jurassic
times and she went in after it, then the painter painted over it so she
couldn't get back?
Or the one where the pilot was hypnotized so he could relate a crash and
actually exploded in his bed?
That was a great show. Just the intro was scary.
-cody
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Ron Lyons
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Thank you, I've heard that before but didn't realize he was involved
in it. I watch a lot of the campy ones they made in the 80's too like
Tales from the Darkside. That show was so hit or miss it's amazing.
Some were brilliant, 80% were horrible. Just god awful, sometimes
after I see them I can't even figure out what the point of the show
was. Just rediculously bad.
Ron
Ron Lyons
wrote:
> Always really liked the episode from the the Slot Plastic.
> I think it's called "Time Enough." I won't ruin it for you if you
> haven't seen it but it's the books/pocket watch/broken glasses reference.
>
> There must be at least 100 references on that game, more than the number
> of hitchikers I can pick up.
>
> -Richard
Yes i've never seen that one and it's featured prominently all over
the machine! There was another slot machine one too called "The Fever"
but if there's a slot machine in the 'time enough' episode it's
probably referencing that instead since it has the other stuff right
around it.
Ron
Ron Lyons
> nice list beaver.
>
> I think the episode with Art Carney as Santa can be added.
>
>
I saw that one right before Christmas. Great episode. I think I'd
seen it as a kid. Art Carney was a great actor.
Ron
Joe Jet
> Is that the one with the guy in the boat, Joe? If it is, it's a great
> episode. It's also the only one I can remember and I grew up with all
> of Serlings shows.
>
>
> On Jan 2, 6:41 am, Joe Jet <jdeceg...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>
>
> > If you love the Twilight Zone shows... check out Night Gallery... most
> > were bad, but Rod hosts and if you can find the first episode, the
> > Pilot with Roddy Mcdowall (planet of the apes)... its FANTASTIC.
> > Theme is a wall painting that starts to change...- Hide quoted text -
>
> > - Show quoted text -
You know.. i think i know which one you are talking about... but its
similar.. this one is called "The Cemetery".. I just found the whole
thing is on youtube in parts.. if you cant get your hands on the DVD's
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pL2MugYVUqo
It is a truly scary episode..one of my all time favorites.
lluvak9
"The Cemetery" aired as the first of three stories in a two hour pilot
episode/mvoie introducing the Night Gallery that led to the regular
series. All three were very well done, though "The Cemetery" was the
creepiest of the three.
Speaking of creepy Night Gallery episodes, check out "The Caterpillar"
which is on Youtube in 4 parts. Here's the link to part 1:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d4p_gg4KHu4
I remember watching this as a kid who was not too found of creepy,
crawly things. This episode, featuring an earwig, had me up all night
imaging that I was feeling something inside my ear. It still gets to
me every time I watch it and demonstrates what a great actor Lawrence
Harvey was and how adept Rod Serling was at building the tension,
suspense and horror without the need to show a single frame of gross-
out effects.
- Brian B.
lluvak9
Rod Serling before his passing away at 50. He also scripted some
renowned early live TV scripts including "Patterns" and the
aforementioned "Requiem for a Heavyweight". He also created a western
for TV called "The Loner" that lasted for only 1 season in the mid
60's because it took far too realistic a view of life and issues in
those times (e.g., one episode where a civil war hero returns to his
home town only to find that his father has been lynched by the Ku Klux
Klan because he was a man of color - not the kind of story lines that
60's TV audiences were used to).
Mr. Serling also managed to author or co-author some very influential
and successful movie scripts in the short time he moved from TV to the
larger screen. A Few examples would be "Seven Days in May" (academy
award winning cold war based movie), and "Doomsday Flight" (he
regretted this one as its storyline about a bomb set to detonate in a
plane if the plane landed without a ransom being paid led to a rash of
canceled flights and travel backlogs as several people called in with
false attempts to recreate the movie scenario).
Of greatest interest, though, is that Rod Serling wrote the original
version of the movie script which eventually became undoubtedly one of
the greatest Science Fiction Movies of All Time, the original "Planet
of the Apes". While the original script was rewritten, primarily to
change the ape culture from a highly advanced one to a more primitive
one to significantly cut costs, the Rod Serling, Twilight Zone style
twist landmark in the sand reveal remained as written. Of course,
this ending has since gone on to become one of the most famous film
endings of all time.
- Brian B.
Joe Jet
Yes... i mentioned it was in the pilot in the first post. Thanks for
mentioning the earwig episode.. that one was memorable also... the
ultimate DOH! moment.
Jonny O
Darn, this was on Amazon up until yesterday for $94. I sent the link
to myself to buy it today and the deal expired.
Drew Eckhardt
> game, like talking Tina, the Invaders, the door etc.
> It always amazes me that I see episodes that I never saw before even
> though I have been watching them for years. Anybody know what episodes
> are represented between the game playfield , translight and sounds and
> game play
Jack Wheeler
you will have to google, the whole translite is influenced by the
shows and a lot of the stuff on the playfied. best pinball machine
ever built.
On Jan 1, 11:48 pm, "grahamhar...@verizon.net"
coaster
I have put together all the original Twilight Zone episodes that tie-in
to the game.
I used the article by Brian A. Rudolph in the IPDB to reference which
episodes to include.
I have 42 episodes and listed the tie-in for each.
There may be others that I missed so would appreciate you letting me
know so that I can update.
If interested in downloading any of them let me know.
Either PM or email me.
I have them stored on Adrive and will be happy to send you the username
and password.
When using Adrive if you try to login and it asks you if you want to
close an open session, please just wait, that means someone else is
using it and you will stop their download.
Doug
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