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Title:Arcana Caelestia
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Created:Thu Dec 08 1983
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142.0. "Twilight Zone Marathon" by NACHO::LYNCH () Thu Oct 04 1984 16:16

For all you TWZ fans in the Boston area...

Channel 38 will be celebrating the show's 25th anniversary tomorrow night
by showing 3 episodes which have never before been seen in syndication at 8:00
and 14 half-hour episodes from 10:00 to 5:00 in the morning.

The new episodes are:

	"Miniature" starring Robert Duvall, written by Charles Beaumont. A
	bizarre story about a shy bachelor who visits a museum and falls in
	love with a beautiful figurine in a dollhouse.

	"A Short Drink from a Certain Fountain" starring Patrick O'Neal,
	written by Rod Serling. The story of an old man, desperate to keep
	up with a nasty wife 40 years his junior.

	"Sounds and Silences" starring John McGiver, written by Serling.
	The tale of the owner of a model-ship company who loves noise,
	*very* loud noise.

Crank up the VCRs, folks!

-- Bill
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142.1NACHO::CONLIFFEFri Oct 05 1984 18:233
rumor has it that there will be one episode of the Mary Tyler Moore
show braodcast at about 04:00, just to see if anyone is awake.

142.2HARE::STANTue Oct 09 1984 00:205
I sat through it all. (And there was no Mary Tyler Moore...)

I only wish they would have a marathon of the 1-hour episodes.
There are a large number of them that haven't been shown in
many years.
142.3WARLRD::JELICHWed Oct 10 1984 15:084
I think a local channel here in Atlanta is going to show more (either a repeat
of the marathon or more 'new' ones).  This might just be rumor, though.

Beth
142.4COGNAC::ADOERFERSat Oct 27 1984 22:122
38 (boston) is running the "new" episodes of .0 again Oct 31, Wed 12 Midnight.
_bill
142.5New Year's day marathon....NYTP07::LAMThu Jan 02 1992 14:037
    Did anyone catch the 13 hour Twilight Zone marathon on WPIX channel 11
    here in New York?  I was able to see only two episodes.  Both of which
    I'd never seen before.  The first one starring a very young Robert
    Duvall who falls in love with a miniature in a dollhouse.  The second
    starred James Whitmore who plays a megalomaniac in charge of a failed
    colony on another planet whose people are eventually rescued by a ship
    from EArth.
142.6CIVIC::FAHELAmalthea Celebras/Silver UnicornThu Jan 02 1992 14:387
    Oh, I LOVED "The Dollhouse"!  I only saw it once (when there was a
    local TZ marathon in the Nashua NH area) and even tho "they" decided to
    colorize part of it, it was STILL a wonderful episode...one of my
    favorites (right up there with "The Invaders" and "Occurrance at Owl
    Creek Bridge").
    
    K.C.
142.7DTIF::RUSTThu Jan 02 1992 15:277
    Re .5: The dollhouse story is "Miniature" (see also .0) - a very nice
    episode. The other episode you mention was called something like "We're
    Leaving on Thursday," or "Next Thursday We Go Home" (the mind is a
    terrible thing to lose); that one I remember seeing on its first run,
    back in <mumblety-mumble>...
    
    -b
142.8RUBY::BOYAJIANHistory is made at nightFri Jan 03 1992 03:095
    re:.7
    
    Close, Beth. It's "On Thursday We Leave for Home".
    
    --- jerry
142.9MILKWY::EDECKFri Jan 03 1992 10:355
    
    I recall hearing that _The Dollhouse_ was the only 1/2 hour 
    TZ that was (even partially) shot in color. (And remember the one 
    with Agnes Moorehead and the little flying saucer? Half hour with 
    no dialogue at all! Great acting!)
142.10RUBY::BOYAJIANHistory is made at nightFri Jan 03 1992 10:437
    re:.9
    
    First, as Beth mentioned, the title is "Miniature". Second, it was
    shot completely in black & white. When it was pulled out of limbo
    almost 10 years ago, the dollhouse segments were colorized.
    
    --- jerry
142.11NYTP07::LAMFri Jan 03 1992 11:293
    I noticed the colorized segments in "Miniature."  Does anyone know why
    they colorized just those segments and not the whole show?  Have they
    colorized any other TZ episodes?
142.12Dolls From Space!!CTHULU::YERAZUNISSnowstorm CanoeistFri Jan 03 1992 11:3112
    Angela Moorehead?  little flying saucer?  Ohhhh, that goes WAY back!
    
    Is the plot something like "little flying saucer, flown by aliens 4"
    tall, crash lands in attic of shack.  Shack is defended by grumpy old
    woman.   Alien weapons are of marginal use against grumpy old woman
    (they can burn her skin like a candle flame, but not do much more). 
    She gets mad and wastes the aliens with common household appliances"
    
    What was the _name_ of that episode???  And you're right, it's great
    writing AND great acting.  
    
    	-Bill
142.13RUBY::BOYAJIANHistory is made at nightFri Jan 03 1992 12:0619
142.14DDIF::RUSTFri Jan 03 1992 12:1011
    Re .11: Presumably, to highlight the enchanted unreality of the
    dollhouse scenes, and/or make "real life" drab by contrast. I found
    that it was distracting, but then I'm not a fan of the
    paint-by-number-on-film contingent...
    
    Re .12: Yes, what an episode that was! Funny thing is that, before the
    spacemen showed up, it was doing a bang-up job of depicting squalor,
    dejection, and ignorance, to a degree that I hadn't seen done on
    television before (and very seldom since)...
    
    -b
142.15HELIX::RUZICHVAXELN Realtime Software EngineeringFri Jan 03 1992 13:1711
    The local cable channel here in Maynard, Mass. runs WPIX, so we managed
    to see a good portion of the marathon.
    
    I walked into work yesterday, and changed the personal name for my mail
    to...
    
    	"From dust to dessert..."
    
    ... in honor of one episode, which I had heard of many times, but not seen.
    
    -Steve
142.16NYTP07::LAMFri Jan 03 1992 14:1010
    re: .12
    
    >Angela Moorehead?  little flying saucer?  Ohhhh, that goes WAY back!
    
    >Is the plot something like "little flying saucer, flown by aliens 4"
    >tall, crash lands in attic of shack.  Shack is defended by grumpy old
    >woman.   Alien weapons are of marginal use against grumpy old woman
    
    Is this the same Angela Moorehead who use to appear on "Bewitched" as
    the mother-in-law?
142.17SELL1::FAHELAmalthea Celebras/Silver UnicornFri Jan 03 1992 14:335
    Re: .12 - "Invaders"
    
    It's AGNES Moorehead...isn't it?
    
    K.C.
142.18RUBY::BOYAJIANHistory is made at nightSat Jan 04 1992 06:256
    Yes, it's Agnes Moorhead, and yes, she was the mother on BEWITCHED.
    She was also a member of Orson Welles' Mercury Theater group, and
    played in a number of classic films. For example, she plays Charles
    Foster Kane's mother in CITIZEN KANE.
    
    --- jerry