TV Show: The Twilight Zone - The_Hitch-Hiker

On 10/21/2020 6:20 AM, Nyssa wrote:
Whisper wrote:

On 21/10/2020 1:10 am, a425couple wrote:
TV Show: Twilight Zone
In my area with my TV package the SCY-FI channel
regularly shows this old 1959-64 TV series.

Old fashioned Sci-Fi with humans really doing
space travel. Each show is 1/2 hour.

You can read about them at:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Twilight_Zone
"TV Guide ranked the original TV series #5 in their
2013 list of the 60 greatest shows of all time and #4
in their list of the 60 greatest dramas. --
often concluding with a macabre or unexpected twist,
and usually with a moral. --"

This includes more info.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Tw...1959_TV_series)

And this tells about each episode:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Tw...ries,_season_1)
(The 36 episodes of 1959, short descriptions of each.)


https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Tw...ries,_season_2)
(Episodes 37 thru 65)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Tw...ries,_season_3)
(Episodes 66 thru 102)
(66-102)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Tw...ries,_season_4)
(103-120)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Tw...ries,_season_5)
(121-156)

And from those above, one can get more details on
each of them. For example:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Two_(The_Twilight_Zone)
Hubba hubba, how would you like to be the last
male left alive on earth, and find that Elizabeth
Montgomery is the last female!)


She'd be the most beautiful woman on earth - & the
ugliest.
: )

But Charles Bronson as the last man? Ugh!

Any port in a storm though, eh?

Nyssa, who never thought of Charles Bronson as attractive

Sounds reasonable. Thank goodness tastes vary.
I have that episode set to record later this week.

Meanwhile, an interesting one I recently viewed had
the very lovely but seriously troubled Inger Stevens.
She was on a road trip. And very gradually gets
introduced to the fact that she had died.

The Hitch-Hiker (The Twilight Zone) - Wikipedia
en.wikipedia.org › wiki › The_Hitch-Hiker_(The_Twili...
"The Hitch-Hiker" is episode sixteen of the American television
anthology series The Twilight ... The Twilight Zone episode. Inger
Stevens Twilight Zone 1960.jpg.
Episode no: Season 1; Episode 16
Based on: The Hitch-Hiker; by ‎Lucille Fletcher‎
Original air date: January 22, 1960
Teleplay by: Rod Serling
‎Inger Stevens · ‎The Fever · ‎Leonard Strong · ‎Adam Williams

"The Twilight Zone" The Hitch-Hiker (TV Episode 1960) - IMDb
www.imdb.com › title
The Hitch-hiker has an intriguing premise: while travelling
cross-country in her car, Nan Adams (tragic, striking blonde Inger
Stevens) keeps seeing the same man ...

Inger Stevens — inside Life and Mysterious Death of 'The ...
news.amomama.com › ✔ NEWS › ✔ PEOPLE
Jul 27, 2020 — Inger Stevens — inside Life and Mysterious Death of 'The
Twilight Zone' Actress · Mystery continues to surround her death,
however. · The book ...

and, from
https://twilightzone.fandom.com/wiki/The_Hitch-Hiker

"Episode Details
Opening Narration
"Her name is Nan Adams. She's twenty-seven years old. Her occupation:
buyer at a New York department store, at present of vacation, driving
cross-country to Los Angeles, California, from Manhattan.... Minor
incident on Highway 11 in Pennsylvania, perhaps to be filed away under
accidents you walk away from. But from this moment on, Nan Adam's
companion on a trip to California will be terror; her route--fear; her
destination--quite unknown."
Episode Summary
The story begins with Nan Adams, whose vehicle gets a flat tire on a
cross-country road trip from New York City to Los Angeles. A mechanic
puts a spare tire on her car and directs her to the nearest town to fix
it properly. Just before she leaves, Nan notices a strange-looking man
hitchhiking. Unnerved, she drives away quickly. As she continues her
trip, Nan sees the same hitchhiker thumbing for a ride at several other
points on her journey. She becomes increasingly frightened of him, and
when she is stuck on a railroad crossing and nearly hit by a train, she
becomes convinced that the hitchhiker is trying to kill her. She
continues to drive, becoming more and more afraid, stopping only when
necessary; but every time she does, the same hitchhiker is there. When
she ends up stranded in New Mexico, she meets a sailor on his way back
to San Diego from leave. Eager for protection from the hitchhiker she's
been seeing, she offers to drive the sailor to San Diego herself.
However, she is still paranoid about the hitchhiker, and when she sees
him on the road she tries to run him over. The sailor, who can't see
him, begins to fear for her sanity and leaves her. In Arizona, Nan stops
to call her mother. The woman who answers the phone, Mrs. Whitney, says
that Mrs. Adams is in the hospital; she had a nervous breakdown after
finding out that her daughter, Nan, was killed in an auto accident in
Pennsylvania six days ago, when the car she was driving blew a tire and
overturned. At this point, Nan realizes the truth: the hitchhiker is not
a man who wants her to die, but is rather the personification of death,
patiently and persistently waiting for her to realize that she has been
dead all along. Nan returns to the car and sees the hitchhiker sitting
in the back seat through the reflection of the vanity mirror on the
visor. "I believe you're going...my way?" he inquires, almost friendly.
As Nan accepts her fate, Rod Serling narrates the final lines.

Closing Narration
"Nan Adams, age twenty-seven. She was driving to California, to Los
Angeles. She didn't make it. There was a detour through the Twilight Zone."

Meanwhile
"Gasoline price at the first station was 32.9 cents/gallon
(equivalent to $2.60 in 2013 dollars.)"
Pretty good success for free enterprise!