Some Anthology TV Series
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Topic: Some Anthology TV Series
Posted By: Logan
Subject: Some Anthology TV Series
Date Posted: February 13 2019 at 12:30
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Sorry for not alphabetising this, and feel free to vote for more than one and to talk about your own favourites. If talking say the Twilight Zone or Outer Limits, when voting you can be voting for any iteration -- I'm a big fan of the original runs. I've focused on fiction. I usually make some mistakes when putting such things together. If you think there is an error or there are errors, I would appreciate it being pointed out. ------------- Watching while most appreciating a sunset in the moment need not diminish all the glorious sunsets I have observed before. It can be much like that with music for me. |
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Posted By: Logan
Date Posted: February 13 2019 at 15:41
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LOL, I do commonly manage to make the least popular polls. ------------- Watching while most appreciating a sunset in the moment need not diminish all the glorious sunsets I have observed before. It can be much like that with music for me. |
Posted By: Finnforest
Date Posted: February 13 2019 at 15:48
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We had one in the 70s, in the midwest, called "Horror Incorporated." I believe it played every Saturday at midnight, showing classic horror films from the 40s-60s. ------------- https://www.youtube.com/shorts/sQD8uhpWXCw" rel="nofollow - It's a beautiful day in the neighborhood...Road Rage Edition |
Posted By: Logan
Date Posted: February 13 2019 at 16:02
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Oh, would that be a show in the vein of, say, Mystery Science 3000 and Svengoolie (perhaps without the comedy), or even akin to the Masterpiece Theatre approach? I think of those as more showcase formats and that would be quite different to the kinds of shows that I'm highlighting. These TV series in my poll tend to rely on stand-alone episodes (or two-parters) where the stories are written and produced for the TV show rather than relying on material collected from other sources. Fargo is often counted as an anthology series because each season works as a stand-alone, but that wouldn't be what I was going for either. Inside No. 9 would be one of my particular favorites, and while very episode is different, they are all written by and featuring the same two people. It ranges from the tragic to the horrific to the very funny and is often classified as a dramedy. I'm a big fan of Steve Pemberton and Reece Shearsmith for the anthology series Inside No. 9, their horror-comedy serial Psychoville, as well as for the comedy series The League of Gentlemen. https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x6vk6f0" rel="nofollow - https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x6vk6f0 https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x498v8g" rel="nofollow - https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x498v8g ------------- Watching while most appreciating a sunset in the moment need not diminish all the glorious sunsets I have observed before. It can be much like that with music for me. |
Posted By: Icarium
Date Posted: February 14 2019 at 10:25
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I once bought the novella anthology of James Joyce "the Dubliners" and each of the short storries would in a serial format for TV be a brilliant antonological series. There is an animated anthology based on HC Andersens stiries that is in anthological form. Pretty good. -------------  
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Posted By: Finnforest
Date Posted: February 14 2019 at 10:48
Indeed, that show was basically just hosting old film and tv specials, so you are correct that it doesn't fit here. ------------- https://www.youtube.com/shorts/sQD8uhpWXCw" rel="nofollow - It's a beautiful day in the neighborhood...Road Rage Edition |
Logan wrote:Posted By: dr wu23
Date Posted: February 14 2019 at 11:12
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Some good ones up there...but my favorite are the old b&w Outer Limits.....with Zone coming in second. ------------- One does nothing yet nothing is left undone. Haquin |
Posted By: Logan
Date Posted: February 14 2019 at 11:46
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^ I was hoping you'd turn up soon, Doug. I knew you'd have some enthusiasm here. I love The Outer Limits and Twilight Zone (I'm more of an Outer Limits guy these days but love both). A few years ago I went back to it, re-watched all of them -- actually, I caught some I'd never seen. Some called it a poor man's Twilight Zone at the time, but I think it's so good in its own right. Finnforest: While it's a different approach, I don't mean to imply that I'm not interested in such things. I bet that I would have loved it had I caught it. And I am grateful to get responses. If it's archived somewhere, and it comes with good introductions to the horror films and thoughts at the end, I would really like to see it (I love classic horror films). Here in Canada, about twenty years ago, there was a program that my wife and I loved where they focused on international so-called art house cinema and Indies, and the hosts would introduce the film, then delve into the themes after the film. It was also nice because it got my wife and I talking about the films more. I've been looking to join some groups of cinephiles where we watch the films together then discuss them afterwards in a coffee shop or some such place. For too long forums became my deeper dive place, but it's no substitute for face-to-face conversation and the shared experience of watching something together with people who have similar passions. It's different, online fora are better for some things (I enjoy writing when it's not work, even if it's just the kind of rambling that I would do when speaking normally, and like that one can take more time to think about what others are saying before responding in fora and it can be easier to go deep on a subject in an online forum). Icarium: I loved Dubliners, and would like to see more anthology series that base themselves on great authors works (and even not so great ones). Okay, maybe no James Joyce, but I do love Philip K. Dick. That said, I felt that Electric Dreams did not bring his "feel" enough into the screenplays/ productions. That said, I thought Crazy Diamond (a Syd Barrett reference) with Steve Buscemi to be beautifully done. For those very few that know Utopia, a I think brilliant and very stylish British sci-fi show, you'll see that feel there. I have heard that we're experiencing something of a renaissance with such anthology series largely due to the success of Black Mirror, but I'm not sure about that (I think the serial is going really strong, sites like Netflix encourage binge-watching even if they do have Black Mirror and serials are more binge-inducing). I don't watch much TV or movies any more, or read much now except online, and when I do watch TV, I tend to go for documentaries and the news. Non-fiction podcasts, and some audio dramas and comedies courtesy of the BBC, have become my primary source of entertainment as I like that I can listen to something that interests me while getting things done (and I've had some eye issues). ------------- Watching while most appreciating a sunset in the moment need not diminish all the glorious sunsets I have observed before. It can be much like that with music for me. |
Posted By: verslibre
Date Posted: February 14 2019 at 15:56
It's not that.  I can't speak for others, but I generally only visit this site during the workday. ------------- https://www.ebay.com/sch/i.html?_ipg=50&_sop=1&_rdc=1&_ssn=musicosm" rel="nofollow - eBay |
Posted By: verslibre
Date Posted: February 14 2019 at 16:18
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At first I didn't see it, but there it is: Tales from the Darkside. I love that show. Yes, TZ and OL (and TftC) are oft-cited, but I have a real fondness for Darkside and Night Gallery. Harlan Ellison's "Djinn, No Chaser" was adapted for Darkside, too! (Of course, HE also had a number of stories adapted for the '80s iteration of TZ). ------------- https://www.ebay.com/sch/i.html?_ipg=50&_sop=1&_rdc=1&_ssn=musicosm" rel="nofollow - eBay |
Posted By: The Dark Elf
Date Posted: February 14 2019 at 16:39
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Twilight Zone. Given the once-in-a-lifetime cadre of writers like Matheson, Bradbury, Earl Hamner Jr., Charles Beaumont, George Clayton Johnson, Reginald Rose and Rod Serling himself, you couldn't ask for better story lines. And let's not forget the original theme music was composed by Bernard Herrmann. ------------- ...a vigorous circular motion hitherto unknown to the people of this area, but destined to take the place of the mud shark in your mythology... |
Posted By: Logan
Date Posted: February 15 2019 at 11:50
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While I love many of these, The Twilight Zone is the greatest of the list to my mind. Great writing, great direction, great acting, and a great production overall. And it was very consistently good. Most of the others in my list owe it a debt of gratitude. "It is a dimension as vast as space and as timeless as infinity. It is the middle ground between light and shadow, between science and superstition, and it lies between the pit of man's fears and the summit of his knowledge. This is the dimension of imagination. It is an area which we call the Twilight Zone." "You unlock this door with the key of imagination. Beyond it is another dimension: a dimension of sound, a dimension of sight, a dimension of mind. You're moving into a land of both shadow and substance, of things and ideas. You've just crossed over into… the Twilight Zone.”   ------------- Watching while most appreciating a sunset in the moment need not diminish all the glorious sunsets I have observed before. It can be much like that with music for me. |
Posted By: moshkito
Date Posted: February 16 2019 at 07:09
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Hi, Sadly, many of these were on and about when I did not speak any English and that has hurt my appreciation of many of them, and there were a couple of episodes of "Outer Limits" that I watched and then a couple of episodes of "Twilight Zone", but not really knowing what they were saying made it harder to appreciate. As DE mentioned about TZ, there were a lot of great things in it that I came to appreciate later, and Bernard Herrmann was one of them, that I was already familiar with some sci-fi films I had seen in Brazil (not that many!), and of course, even though I had not seen any of them yet, already had read a lot about Alfred Hitchcock and how BH's music enhanced a lot of his work! All in all, I went almost straight from "classical" (in all arts btw), direct to psych and such in the late 60's ... and TV in those days in America is probably the one thing that never really hit me, and excited me, as I was more into music, writing, reading and the bad/crappy stuff on TV did not do much for me. This led me to foreign film (in America), and then in the mid 70's to foreign music ... I didn't think the American stuff was better, but my sentiments and feelings aligned better with the European materials, than the cardboard colored stuff that American TV created, and still does. It's "reality" for me, is too fake. ------------- Music is not just for listening ... it is for LIVING ... you got to feel it to know what's it about! Not being told! www.pedrosena.com |
Posted By: Logan
Date Posted: February 16 2019 at 09:25
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I wasn't born when the The Twilight Zone (1959-1964), The Outer Limits (1963-1965), or Alfred Hitchcock Presents (1955-1965) were on, but I did see them as a child on TV. English is my first language, and where I lived we got lots of American and British shows and I gravitated towards sci-fi and fantasy as a child (shows such as The Twilight Zone, the Outer Limits, Doctor Who, Blake's 7, Star Trek, The Land of the Lost, The Tomorrow People, UFO, The Invaders, V, many Gerry Anderson shows etc.) Reading was always a big part of my life. It wasn't until my 20s that I became big on non-English language TV (I caught some TV stuff on the French channels but my French was never fluent), and especially really big on non-English language cinema. For quite some years I was pretty much all about international art house cinema. Except while working in Japan, I still hadn't seen much non-English language TV (be it British, American, Canadian, or Australian TV -- I tended to favour British TV and still do). It was later that I got back into sci-fi/ fantasy in a big way, and did manage to catch various modern and I think excellent non_English language shows such as Les Revenants (French supernatural TV show from 2012 which I find superb), and Äkta människor (aka Real Humans), a Swedish language sci-fi drama show from 2012. Both of those played on a national Sci-fi channel, but having the internet, and later Netflix, did help me to explore more international TV (lots of Scandinavian ones such as The Bridge). I love many sci-fi/ fantasy shows from the past decade. Some of my favourite modern shows include: -Black Mirror (Charlie Brooker's anthology series which is available on Netflix, started on Channel 4 England) -Inside No. 9 (a, I think brilliant Bristish anthology series which Charlie Brooker loves which is on dailymotion, but I subscribed to BritBox) Thought some Brits might give this a a vote -- Squonk, sadly, is not around. - Utopia (another Channel 4 series, which is very dark) - In the Flesh (a British zombie drama) - Dead Set (another Charlie Brooker series -- zombies meet Big Brother) - Real Humans (Swedish, as mentioned) - Les Revenants (French, bien sûr) - Psychoville (British serial by the makers of Inside No. 9) - Misfits (a black comedy-ish, dark and quite crude superpowers British drama) - Westworld - Stranger Things -Game of Thrones - And I adore Fargo and such shows, plus shows such as The Bridge. I think that it's a really great time for series. I would like to catch more from around the world (I watch the occasional Japanese and Korean one). That said, I am more likely to be listening to audio dramas and podcasts than watching TV or movies, and more likely to be doing that than listening to music, these days. A favourite of mine on the list that probably will not get any votes unless I vote is Michael Palin's Ripping Yarns (1976-1979). My favourite episode is Across the Andes by Frog (I only caught this show because they had the videos at the local library -- I was about 20 when I saw it and I don't think it would intrigue me as much now - ugh, those laugh tracks -- I thought my video version was without). The BBC, Doctor Terrible's House of Horrible with Steve Coogan is another fun one, featuring the episodes And Now the Fearing, Frenzy of Tongs, Curse of the Blood of the Lizard of Doom, Lesbian Vampire Lovers of Lust, Voodoo Feet of Death, and Scream Satan Scream! Another favourite of mine on the list, partially for nostalgia value is Tales From the Darkside. "Inside the Closet" had a particular impact on me when young. https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x6ltri0" rel="nofollow - https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x6ltri0 I loved various horrorish. supernatural ones in this list, such as Tales From the Crypt, Tales of the Unexpected... Anyway, I like all of this stuff, even the more kiddie fare such as the R.L Stine ones which I would watch with my young daughter. ------------- Watching while most appreciating a sunset in the moment need not diminish all the glorious sunsets I have observed before. It can be much like that with music for me. |
Posted By: Logan
Date Posted: April 06 2019 at 10:04
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Has anyone here seen the new Twilight Zone series? I guess in the US you need the CBS All Access, where I live in Canada (Vancouver) we get it on regular cable and on a free over-the-air channel (I've always subscribed to cable for some reason even though it's not something I need in this day and age). Anyway, I watched the first episode, the Comedian, and found it overlong, overly crude and predictable. It was very mediocre, and it just made me miss Rod Serling. The episode would have worked much better had they kept it to half an hour, I feel. As it was, it felt stretched very thin and too repetitive, it felt cliche and insubstantial, and lacked surprise and a sense of intriguing mystery or suspense for me. Also, I didn't feel like it had an interesting moral or ethical question as with many Twilight Zone episodes. I don't know why they feel the need to go so "adult" in language when the original is a show that unlocked the keys to my imagination as a child. Black Mirror is very adult in language and situation, but it has the benefit of being very good in my opinion and bringing up interesting notions of a technological, philosophical and psychological nature (I have watched various BM episodes with my kids). Anyway, I'll keep at the Twilight Zone. I expect they'll have some good episodes, but so far it's not looking to become one of my favourite modern anthology series, let alone one of my all-time favourites. Looking forward to the next series/season of Inside No. 9 and Black Mirror. ------------- Watching while most appreciating a sunset in the moment need not diminish all the glorious sunsets I have observed before. It can be much like that with music for me. |
Posted By: Jeffro
Date Posted: April 08 2019 at 06:01
| Don't know if it's been mentioned yet (didn't read the whole thread) but Amazing Stories was my favorite in the 80s. My all time favorite though is the original Twilight Zone |
Posted By: Logan
Date Posted: April 08 2019 at 09:05
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Amazing Stories definitely should have been on my list (I have seen it), and to be honest I thought it was (at least on my master list, but sometimes those get omitted by accident when making such long polls). ------------- Watching while most appreciating a sunset in the moment need not diminish all the glorious sunsets I have observed before. It can be much like that with music for me. |
Posted By: Argo2112
Date Posted: April 08 2019 at 09:13
| Voted for Twilight Zone but Black Mirror is close behind. |
Posted By: verslibre
Date Posted: April 08 2019 at 12:40
No, and I'm not paying to watch it. I heard it's not that hot. This is the fourth go. The '80s revamp was really good. The third round was not. So a fourth go...maybe if I hear something good. But I still won't pay for an additional service to watch it. ------------- https://www.ebay.com/sch/i.html?_ipg=50&_sop=1&_rdc=1&_ssn=musicosm" rel="nofollow - eBay |
Posted By: Logan
Date Posted: April 08 2019 at 13:28
As this is third revival, and fourth iteration, They should call it the New, New, New Twilight Zone, although so far I might call it the Toilet Zone. While the original series remains best (I feel confident saying best rather than best for me), I enjoyed the 80s series. I do rather vaguely remember catching the short-lived 2000's Forest Whitaker hosted Twilight Zone series. Then there was Rod Serling's Lost Classics in 1994 (looked it up), released as a TV movie. ------------- Watching while most appreciating a sunset in the moment need not diminish all the glorious sunsets I have observed before. It can be much like that with music for me. |
Posted By: kenethlevine
Date Posted: April 08 2019 at 19:13
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I recently watched almost all the Night Gallery episodes and really have a soft spot for that series that goes beyond nostalgia. One of the seasons has a superb bonus in which various people involved with the series, and some people who knew them, are interviewed. The stories could be quite simplistic at times and shot full of holes at other times but there was something about it that worked most of the time. Of the many of these I have not seen, I think I should definitely check out Black Mirror
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Posted By: verslibre
Date Posted: April 09 2019 at 10:16
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^Another NG fan! I love that show. ------------- https://www.ebay.com/sch/i.html?_ipg=50&_sop=1&_rdc=1&_ssn=musicosm" rel="nofollow - eBay |
Posted By: dr wu23
Date Posted: April 09 2019 at 14:13
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I'd watch the Twilight Zone if it was on reg cable but I'm not paying an xtra fee for online access....cable is already too expensive,. ------------- One does nothing yet nothing is left undone. Haquin |
Posted By: Logan
Date Posted: May 16 2019 at 12:23
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Black Mirror season/ series 5 is coming to Netflix on June 5, 2019 with three new stories. Here's the trailer for it: I'm looking forward to it, and I'm looking forward to Stranger Things on July 4th. ------------- Watching while most appreciating a sunset in the moment need not diminish all the glorious sunsets I have observed before. It can be much like that with music for me. |