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Twilight Zone on Sci-Fi

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therealjm12

They ran one of the hour shows today. It starred Robert Duvall is a guy obsessed with what he thought was a woman living in a Victorian dollhouse. Several years ago someone, I think CBS, ran the episode which the scenes in the dollhouse had been "colorized". While I am no particular fan of colorizing B&W this worked. It added to the fantasy and made it much more interesting to watch. I was disappointed that Sci-Fi did not run that version. Wonder what happened to it?

And by the way, as a long time fan of the Twilight Zone, I agree with the critics when the show originally ran.
The hour shows would have worked much better as half hours, and several of the half hour shows could have worked as hour episodes.
 
Perhaps the "colorized" version was made special and that's why Sci-Fi didn't air it (no rights or whatever). Also, with all the plugs about the DVD set I would imagine the original episode is in black and white and to show the colorized version may possibly mislead people to believe that's the version on the DVD set.

I'm glad I didn't miss the marathon this time.
 
therealjm12 said:
And by the way, as a long time fan of the Twilight Zone, I agree with the critics when the show originally ran.
The hour shows would have worked much better as half hours, and several of the half hour shows could have worked as hour episodes.
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More the former than the latter. I've always felt that the half-hour format was best for TZ, and for Serling's writing skills. (Some of the best hour shows were not written by Serling.) Most of the hour-long shows in general move too slowly and have a lot of padding, although there are a few good ones.

I was also pleased to see that, contrary to what I claimed in an earlier thread, they do appear to have the original masters of the 6 videotape episodes. I've been busy and only caught one of them ("Twenty-Two") and it was clearly tape. You could even see a few specks of dropout now and then, and a few of the edit points seemed original (had that little one-frame "glitch" characteristic of early physical tape edits). I could swear that in the past I've seen these episodes as poor quality kinescopes of the original tape -- perhaps in an earlier syndication package, they didn't have the original materials or best copy always available.
 
I always wondered about those episodes. They appeared to be kinescopes of a live stage performance. You say they were early taped programs-makes sense. I didn't really care for them. Again very slow moving and just seemed to be shot on one stage set. The one that stands out to me is the one with Inger Stevens living in a house of robots. But Inger Stevens always stood out.
 
I believe the shows that are on video-tape were aired during the 1960-61 season. One of those during that season was "Night of the Meek" with Art Carney as a Santa-like character. One of my favorites came that same season, "Static" which stars Dean Jagger.
 
I had the same thought about having seen the segments of the dollhouse episode colorized. I think it was shown that way when WKNO PBS 10 showed it in the 90's before SciFi got exclusive rights. It's available again in syndication and WKNO now has it back. I'll try to watch to see what happens with this episode there.

One thing that has always bugged me about how SciFi lists the eposides in their online schedule is that they show the time rounded off to the nearest half hour, even when they run uncut episodes that last longer. That throws any chances to record favorite episodes WAY off. Thankfully this year the TV Guide for Charter has the correct times listed down to the minute.

One other thing: WHY did SciFi have to drop the time from 11PM to Midnight ET to show ECW Rasslin' instead?? :-\ ??? Actually though, The Twilight Zone is more realistic. ::) ;D
 
Its good that you posted this thread.

Its real good, its a fine thread.

Now, just don't wish it into the cornfield, that wouldn't be good.

But, its good whatever you do, that's right!


(With apologies to Billy Mumy)
 
Bill DeFelice said:
Perhaps the "colorized" version was made special and that's why Sci-Fi didn't air it (no rights or whatever). Also, with all the plugs about the DVD set I would imagine the original episode is in black and white and to show the colorized version may possibly mislead people to believe that's the version on the DVD set.

I'm glad I didn't miss the marathon this time.
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I recall that "Dollhouse" TZ episode. It was aired several years ago when Boston's WABU-TV (Channel 68) had the right to TZ. The color sections of it were actually originally produced in color. It wasn't "colorized". It was meant to be that way for "fantasy" purposes. In the early to mid-1960's, CBS was experimenting with color with some of their more popular programs at the time. Twilight Zone was one of those shows. One other show of special note was the one episode of "Perry Mason" filmed in glorious color, called "The Case Of Twice Told Twist", which aired in February, 1966 (during "Perry Mason's" last season).
 
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