What actors would you liked to have seen show up on the original series?
James Mason and Tom Ewell
shareRobert Culp. I have no doubt he would have been as natural a fit on "TZ" as he was on "The Outer Limits."
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Yvonne DeCarlo, Jimmy Stewart, Don Knotts... I can think of hundreds.
shareLee Remick, Steve McQueen, Kim Novak, Robert Mitchum, Anthony Quinn, Marilyn Monroe (would've been interesting). And many others.
sharePeter Cushing
Ava Garder
Vincent Price
Anthony Perkins
Paul Newman
shareWhile we are at it, let's add Paul's wife!
shareArguably a better thespian than Paul (who is great).
Joseph Cotton would have been ideal. He excelled in an episode of "Alfred Hitchcock Presents" called "Breakdown" that reminded me of those "just deserts" stories of "TZ."
I loved Breakdown! Could you imagine being in that situation? A single tear is your salvation!
Have you ever read Stephen King's story, Autopsy Room? Breakdown inspired it. It isn't a tear in Autopsy Room that leads them to believe that the man is still alive...... Let me just put it this way.... there is much "HARDER" evidence. If you haven't read it, you should! Better yet! Watch Autopsy Room on YouTube. It's a part of the series, Nightmares and Dreamscapes.
Intriguing to me was an episode during the recent 4th holiday marathon where a very young Robert Redford appeared as " Mr. Death ," the Grim Reaper, much as in Meet Joe Black.
share"The Hitch-hiker" and the Mr. Redford-starring "Nothing in the Dark" might just be "TZ"'s best takes on "Mr. Death." I wouldn't be surprised if William Goldman, who wrote "Meet Joe Black," wasn't influenced in some way by these episodes when he penned the Brad Pitt-vehicle.
It's downright eerie how much Pitt and Redford resemble one another in their younger days.
Exactly!
sharejack palance definitively, i can just imagine him being perfect for the twilight zone in some bizarre nervous situation with his often intense acting style, though one shouldn't feel too much of a loss about it really since he did appear in rod serling's "requiem for a heavyweight" (in the 1950's before twilight zone) and in one of the segments of the 1990's "twilight zone: rod serling's lost classics". i can also see palance playing one of the rough roles in one of the many twilight zone western episodes, a part he's probably played many times in western movies if i recall right. by the way, the 1967 episode movie "torture garden" is quite similar to a twilight zone story, some mentioned here also star in that as well as twilight zone actors. i like the idea of some of the other picks brought up here, but that's one of the blessings of twilight zone how its packed with actors from the greatest generation before they became movie stars.
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super blue in super moon,
lost earthling without you,
moon over roof tops youre so far away,
might as well be in space,
while space was bright,
wanted madeleine to travel in my spaceship through night,
moon was gone along came sunrise,
but im still superblue as she hardly anymore come around.
Christopher Lee, Peter Cushing, Vincent Price, Boris Karloff, James Stewart.My favorite guest star to ever appear on the show was Donald Pleasance.
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