So a secretly broke millionaire challenges a man not to speak for an entire year and offers him a half a million dollars for it. He teases and taunts him and with each passing month he makes up stories about his wife cheating and offers him a few measly thousand Continue Reading
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The Twilight Zone: Review: The Rip Van Winkle Caper
This was a very good episode and I have to admit that I wrote it off as boring before I heard talk about one hundred years into the future. Several men lead by a professor concocted a scheme to become rich in the future by sleeping off time so they Continue Reading
The Twilight Zone: Review: A Hundred Yards Over The Rim
A Hundred Yards over the Rim? More like a hundred years. This pioneer with a trip weary crew of families and a son dying of pneumonia is adamant that the group continue to their destination in the 1800s. He gets sent a hundred years forward into time to a diner Continue Reading
The Twilight Zone: Review: Long Distance Call
I remember this episode well. The young boy, Billly is having celebrated his sixth birthday and his grandmother who is ailing gave him a toy telephone which doesn’t work and when she passes she talks to him as if she were alive on the phone. He nearly diesĀ but she Continue Reading
The Twilight Zone: Review: The Prime Mover
Some people don’t know when to quit when they are ahead and that’s the case with Ace Larson, diner owner and gambler. His friend had the powerof telekenesis and helped him win at gambling but it all came to a head when the friend lost it and Ace lost millions. Continue Reading
The Twilight Zone: Review: Static
This was an awful episode. it features an old man and his mistress in a house full of neighbours and friends who come over in the 1960s to watch television while he pined over old times with his antique radio. It wasn’t scary. It didn’t have a unique story. It Continue Reading
The Twilight Zone: Review: Mr. Dingle, The Strong
Mr. Dingle has it rough. One minute he is endowed with special abilities by one set of aliens then they take it away because of its misuse. Then another set of invisible aliens give him their special set of abilities. Mr. Dingle is indecisive and incompetent. The woman whom he Continue Reading
The Twilight Zone: Review: The Odyssey of Flight 33
I’ve seen this episode before, on a local American channel. A flight goes back in time in a rare, impossible anomaly. It was very entertaining. They accidentally went back to prehistoric New York where dinosaurs roamed free, yes, still alive, back millions of years. Then they went forward but instead Continue Reading
The Twilight Zone: Review: Twenty Two
What a scary episode. I’m scared to sleep alone tonight. The stripper’s dreams and reality are intertwined. I still don’t know what parts were dreams and what parts were reality. It was scary. The flight that she was to board blew up in smoke after take-off and she just missed Continue Reading
The Twilight Zone: Review: Penny For Your Thoughts
Hector Poole does aone in a million track with a coin and gains the ability to read minds. This gets him into problems but out of them by extorting thoughts from his boss who is cheating on his wife. OPoole eventually turn the coin over andback to reality. This was Continue Reading