We all have our favorites we watch when they're on and we all have the ones we skip for various reasons, but has anyone added a normally skipped one to their watch list?
In the last few years, I've become fond of The Trouble With Templeton. Sure, it retreads the same plot of a character who can't seem to let go of the past, but I've gotten to like this one.
I can't think of any particular episodes off the top of my head, but I am sure there are some.
I do know that there were some episodes that I was unable to appreciate as a child. They either scared me too much or I didn't understand the underlying message or theme. It took growing up and maturing (well okay, growing up!) to appreciate them.
I'll have to look through my Twilight Zone book tonight and I'm sure I'll come up with a few titles. I know there are some that I didn't care for when I was a child.
edit: I looked at my TZ Companion book last night. A Passage for Trumpet is one that I came to appreciate more when I got older. The theme just doesn't resonate with youngsters. Joey (Jack Klugman) sees his life as pointless and not worth living. The stranger who talks to him shows him that life is indeed worth the effort.
At the end when Joey asks the man his name and he says, "Call me Gabriel", I get a chill. He is standing under a light which looks like a halo. Joey had an angel looking out for him. Good stuff. It was lost on me when I was a kid. I thought there was "no action". It was too "talky".
Excellent example! I don't remember if I saw that one when I was young, but it definitely resonates with me today. Also, A Passage for Trumpet is probably the most "noir" TZ episode, and that atmosphere doesn't really resonate with younger people.
Also agree with OP's choice: The Trouble with Templeton.
The standout for me this year's marathon was "Static" where the grumpy old timer hauls up his old radio that somehow tunes back to when he took a wrong road in life. Always thought this was a real bore and rather pointless. I simply was too young to understand or appreciate the themes of it. It's also one of the really ugly episodes where they tried shooting on videotape. The writing is rather clever in the use of the song on the radio and how it ties to a shared past with this woman, and the social commentary on tv's effect on people is solid, and the characterization of the other people in the story felt true. There's even some fun built in triva on the nature of how broadcast radio used to work which really illustrated the nature of changing times. It's all about love and the road not taken and how such things change who we are. And the TZ offering second chances. Maybe i'll find a supernatural sony walkman one day.
shareI *have* that radio.. It's a 1928/29 RCA Radiola 62 - the first self contained AC powered console radio RCA offered and possibly the first self contained AC radio ever (before that, you would buy radio components and build a radio "set").
https://www.radiomuseum.org/r/rca_radiola_62_1.html
Mine is unrestored and still works very well although it does need some minor work (the speaker cone is rubbing and the IFs need to be aligned and neutralized), but we listened to Christmas Carols all day during Christmas dinner.
The radio in Static is missing the inlay maple doors and the grill cloth was replaced at some point as the original is dark brown with gold thread running through it. When they "de-aged" the radio, they sprayed the escutcheons with gold paint which the radio never had. Judging by how Ed easily lifts it, it's also clearly missing the two heavy lower power supply chassis and possibly the speaker assy which is also very heavy. The upper tuner chassis is still in place because the knobs are in place and correct and the tuner dial can be seen through the right side escutcheon.
I always laugh when Ed grabs the radio and runs upstairs with it - it weighs about 150lbs.
SPOILER ALERT
The one about the elderly couple who go to a place where they can have their brains put into young bodies. Only the husband does it, because that's all they can afford. After his initial excitement, he finds that he can't bear to stay young while his wife is old, so he goes back to his original old self again to live out the final years with her. When I was young, I always thought "Dude! How can you give up the chance to be young again?!". But after nearly half a century of marriage, I can now fully understand why he goes back.
Nicely said.
Nice, but I’d still keep the young hot bod. I AM that shallow😁. It would be hard to give it up.
In the episode I wondered why the man did not realize that in his young body he could get a job and raise enough money for a new body for his wife.
Gee, that actor who played the younger version, Edson Stroll, could have been a male model. He could have made the cash in no time.
Yep, same thought. There was no suggestion that this new pain-free youthful body would only have a few years of life in it or that it couldn't do some sort of useful work - just get the new bod and earn the money for honey to get hers.