#The Rip Van Winkle Caper

[nerds-yearbook]

In 1961, criminals pulled off a daring caper by stealing a million dollars worth of gold headed to Fort Knox. Knowing they were going to be wanted men and the gold too hot fence, they had themselves placed in suspended animation in a cave till the year 2061. ("The Rip Van Winkle Caper", The Twilight Zone, TV)

[fanofspooky]

The Twilight Zone S2E24

The Rip Van Winkle Caper

“Introducing, four experts in the questionable art of crime: Mr. Farwell, expert on noxious gases, former professor, with a doctorate in both chemistry and physics; Mr. Erbie, expert in mechanical engineering; Mr. Brooks, expert in the use of firearms and other weaponry; and Mr. De Cruz, expert in demolition and various forms of destruction. The time is now, and the place is a mountain cave in Death Valley, U.S.A. In just a moment, these four men will utilize the services of a truck placed in cosmoline, loaded with a hot heist cooled off by a century of sleep, and then take a drive into The Twilight Zone.”

[makaientjluvdaprince]

I just watched The Twilight Zone 2x24 "The Rip Van Winkle Caper"

[horror-n-m3tal]

The Twilight Zone: The Rip Van Winkle Caper Season 2 Episode 24 1961.

[writer59january13]

A meadow for Autumn

Forest, I lay me down to rest upon bed of moss.

Eternal sleep immediately overtakes me lichen kenning myself as Rip Van Winkle except being repurposed as oldest living species.

With an estimated age of 8,600 years,

Rhizocarpon geographicum,

also referred to as the Map lichen,

is the planet's oldest lichen.

Said complex life forms witness symbiotic partnership

of two separate organisms,

a fungus and an alga to equinoctial metaphor

at which the sun crosses the celestial equator,

when day and night

approximately equal length

(about September 22 and March 20).

When evening doth fall

'pon summers’ end,

a hint of splendor

bequeathed arose firmament changed scenery

(this soon third equinox act

since new year) bellows basses loaded and blasted

in sync with

pyrotechnic pizzazz,

while electric light orchestras

suites scored for cellos, thus quiet riot madrigal

of multitudinous notes swirl

from bronzed leaf like fellows dancing elliptically forsooth

greeting mother earth

with characteristic rills brawny sons and daughters

harvest September hellos before dawn's early light mellows.

Against backdrop sensational war

doth mother nature wage, how peachy keen, and grand to be seated

at plum lined tree center stage to behold colorful capering downward spiraling threnody quintessential silent rage chapter three nature alluded to

a tome poem, and first page

known to humans since…

way before indigenous tribes occupied North America

such as Osage and/or other natives,

whose keen scents foretold

the onset from flora and fauna sings they did gauge.

Now the regimentation

of existence commandeered by strict adherence affianced to the clock lest an employee arrive one second late –

her/his pay will go hickory dock which sequestration

to the twenty first century life analogous to men undergoing emasculation,

whereby he may as well be a eunuch without thick horn, where business

deals concluded as overhead

a flock of seagulls

migrate to southern climes,

which with global warming seems ad hoc

yet the multitudinous animals and plants

genetically under rubric of lifelock, which mucking around viz industrialization

humankind doth make a mock

‘ere re: and drive many miniscule species

to take safety and shelter under a rock

totally oblivious,

those bipedal hominids haphazardly scurry to work in order

to purchase schlock courtesy crypto currency redeemable at social media platforms especially one named TikTok.

Thus this pre dormant season,

where one must be vigilant and tread like angels heeding curtain call

draw wing summer to a close with damn the torpedoes salvo,

the cacophony kaleidoscope of color per fifty plus shades of red forecast thee onset

of cooler temperatures

with falun gong foliage natural compost

shelter burrowing creatures,

who stash goodies

at a later time to be fed thus each of us need be vigilant

with no misstep to tread upon feet lightly negotiating

whereat dwells busy itty-bitty bodies

well nigh invisible to the naked eye,

yet if ground swell of organisms once would behold

a micro/macroscopic

whirled wide web.

[ianslifegoeslikethis]

Whilst I knew about famous episodes and moments through pop culture osmosis, I’d never actually seen The Twilight Zone TV series before (watched the movie when I was a kid, scared the shit outta me) so I recently decided to watch the TV show. I’m currently at the start of the 3rd season and (mostly) having a good time.

Top 10 favourite episodes so far (I’ve attempted to put in order):

1. The Invaders

2. The Hitch-hiker

3. The Howling Man

4. Elegy

5. Third from the Sun

6. I shot an Arrow into the Air

7. Will the Real Martian Please Stand Up?

8. The Rip Van Winkle Caper

9. The After Hours

10. The Monsters are due on Maple Street

Six episodes I didn’t really care for (no particular order):

1. The Big Tall Wish

2. The Mighty Casey

3. The Night of the Meek

4. Mr Dingle, the strong

5. Static

6. The Mind and the Matter

my favorite twilight zone episodes if anyone who hasn't seen the show wants some reccs

Where is Everybody?

One for the Angels

Time Enough to Last

The Monsters are Due on Maple street

The Invaders

The Mind Over Matter

Will the Real Martian Please Stand Up?

The Obsolete Man

Five Characters In Search of an Exit

Black Leather Jackets

[twilightzonecloseup]

2.24 The Rip Van Winkle Caper

Director: Justus Addiss

Director of Photography: George T. Clemens

“The last of four Rip Van Winkles, who all died precisely the way they lived, chasing an idol across the sand to wind up bleached dry in the hot sun as so much desert flotsam, worthless as the gold bullion they built a shrine to.”

[proverbialschoolmarm]

[nattwatchestwilightzone]

S02 E24 - The Rip Van Winkle Caper

Ok these guys are bank robbers. What about them? I don't remember this one.

Oh I remember visually, the cave and all that... but I don't remember what happens.

What?? They are gonna be in a state of suspended animation to wake up in the future? What the fuck! I don't remember it!

There is no way I'd sleep for 100 years and not wake up with a virtualy useless spine. I call bullshit.

Weird to think I live in a year that is closer to 2061 then to 1961. What a concept.

Os this just like I Shot an Arrow Into the Air? I think so, they are gonna kill each other over water and gold.

I know on surface level it is a criticism on greed. But to me it's more clearly about the ethics of powerful people seizing the resources to sell them to the population. Fucking wild.

Damn, I wish in the future we just gave up gold.

[theselfcarezone]

self care is going into suspended animation so you can sell stolen gold

[lunalovegood296]

The Twilight Zone and its recycling mood

I like to think that they decided to re-use some of the stuff from “Forbidden planet” as a sort of tribute to that film, and not for budget-issue.

By the way, enjoy:

Forbidden Planet, 1956:

The Twilight Zone, 1959-1964

(season 1, episode 14, “Third from the sun”)

(season 5, episode 8, “Uncle Simon”)

(season 2, episode 15, “The Invaders”)

(season 2, episode 24, “The Rip Van Winkle Caper”)

[nerds-yearbook]

(2061 AD) In 1961, criminals pull off a daring caper by stealing a million dollars worth of gold headed to Fort Knox. Knowing they are going to be wanted men and the gold too hot to fence, they have themselves placed in suspended animation in a cave till the year 2061. One of the criminals dies before he is revived. The remaining criminals let greed get the best of them and in the end, all end up dead. The irony is that by the year 2061, gold is worthless. ("The Rip Van Winkle Caper" The Twilight Zone, TV)

[jemch]

The Twilight Zone

The Twilight Zone 阴阳魔界是我非常喜欢的一部系列剧集， 每集一个故事，每个蕴含深刻哲理，值得人们细细品味。

TV Series 1959-1964

http://rarbgmirror.org/tv/tt0052520/

TV Series 2019-2020

http://rarbgmirror.org/tv/tt2583620/

Season 1（1959-10-02~1960-07-01）

Episode 1   Where Is Everybody?

Episode 2   One for the Angels

Episode 3   Mr. Denton on Doomsday

Episode 4   The Sixteen-Millimeter Shrine

Episode 5   Walking Distance

Episode 6   Escape Clause

Episode 7   The Lonely

Episode 8   Time Enough at Last

Episode 9   Perchance to Dream

Episode 10   Judgment Night

Episode 11   And When the Sky Was Opened

Episode 12   What You Need

Episode 13   The Four of Us Are Dying

Episode 14   Third from the Sun

Episode 15   I Shot an Arrow into the Air

Episode 16   The Hitch-Hiker

Episode 17   The Fever

Episode 18   The Last Flight

Episode 19   The Purple Testament

Episode 20   Elegy

Episode 21   Mirror Image

Episode 22   The Monsters Are Due on Maple Street

Episode 23   A World of Difference

Episode 24   Long Live Walter Jameson

Episode 25   People Are Alike All Over

Episode 26   Execution

Episode 27   The Big Tall Wish

Episode 28   A Nice Place to Visit

Episode 29   Nightmare as a Child

Episode 30   A Stop at Willoughby

Episode 31   The Chaser

Episode 32   A Passage for Trumpet

Episode 33   Mr. Bevis

Episode 34   The After Hours

Episode 35   The Mighty Casey

Episode 36   A World of His Own

Season 2（1960-09-30~1961-06-02）

Episode 1   King Nine Will Not Return

Episode 2   The Man in the Bottle

Episode 3   Nervous Man in a Four Dollar Room

Episode 4   A Thing About Machines

Episode 5   The Howling Man

Episode 6   The Eye of the Beholder

Episode 7   Nick of Time

Episode 8   The Lateness of the Hour

Episode 9   The Trouble with Templeton

Episode 10   A Most Unusual Camera

Episode 11   The Night of the Meek

Episode 12   Dust

Episode 13   Back There

Episode 14   The Whole Truth

Episode 15   The Invaders

Episode 16   A Penny for Your Thoughts

Episode 17   Twenty Two

Episode 18   The Odyssey of Flight 33

Episode 19   Mr. Dingle, the Strong

Episode 20   Static

Episode 21   The Prime Mover

Episode 22   Long Distance Call

Episode 23   A Hundred Yards Over the Rim

Episode 24   The Rip Van Winkle Caper

Episode 25   The Silence

Episode 26   Shadow Play

Episode 27   The Mind and the Matter

Episode 28   Will the Real Martian Please Stand Up?

Episode 29   The Obsolete Man

Season 3（1961-09-15~1962-06-01）

Episode 1   Two

Episode 2   The Arrival

Episode 3   The Shelter

Episode 4   The Passersby

Episode 5   A Game of Pool

Episode 6   The Mirror

Episode 7   The Grave

Episode 8   It's a Good Life

Episode 9   Deaths-Head Revisited

Episode 10   The Midnight Sun

Episode 11   Still Valley

Episode 12   The Jungle

Episode 13   Once Upon a Time

Episode 14   Five Characters in Search of an Exit

Episode 15   A Quality of Mercy

Episode 16   Nothing in the Dark

Episode 17   One More Pallbearer

Episode 18   Dead Man's Shoes

Episode 19   The Hunt

Episode 20   Showdown with Rance McGrew

Episode 21   Kick the Can

Episode 22   A Piano in the House

Episode 23   The Last Rites of Jeff Myrtlebank

Episode 24   To Serve Man

Episode 25   The Fugitive

Episode 26   Little Girl Lost

Episode 27   Person or Persons Unknown

Episode 28   The Little People

Episode 29   Four O'Clock

Episode 30   Hocus Pocus and Frisby

Episode 31   The Trade-Ins

Episode 32   The Gift

Episode 33   The Dummy

Episode 34   Young Man's Fancy

Episode 35   I Sing the Body Electric

Episode 36   Cavender is Coming

Episode 37   The Changing of the Guard

Season 4（1963-01-03~1963-05-23）

Episode 1   In His Image

Episode 2   The Thirty-Fathom Grave

Episode 3   Valley of the Shadow

Episode 4   He's Alive

Episode 5   Mute

Episode 6   Death Ship

Episode 7   Jess-Belle

Episode 8   Miniature

Episode 9   Printer's Devil

Episode 10   No Time Like the Past

Episode 11   The Parallel

Episode 12   I Dream of Genie

Episode 13   The New Exhibit

Episode 14   Of Late I Think of Cliffordville

Episode 15   The Incredible World of Horace Ford

Episode 16   On Thursday We Leave For Home

Episode 17   Passage on the Lady Anne

Episode 18   The Bard

Season 5（1963-09-27~1964-06-19）

Episode 1   In Praise of Pip

Episode 2   Steel

Episode 3   Nightmare at 20,000 Feet

Episode 4   A Kind of a Stopwatch

Episode 5   The Last Night of a Jockey

Episode 6   Living Doll

Episode 7   The Old Man in the Cave

Episode 8   Uncle Simon

Episode 9   Probe 7, Over and Out

Episode 10   The 7th is Made Up of Phantoms

Episode 11   A Short Drink from a Certain Fountain

Episode 12   Ninety Years Without Slumbering

Episode 13   Ring-A-Ding Girl

Episode 14   You Drive

Episode 15   The Long Morrow

Episode 16   The Self-Improvement of Salvadore Ross

Episode 17   Number 12 Looks Just Like You

Episode 18   Black Leather Jackets

Episode 19   Night Call

Episode 20   From Agnes - with Love

Episode 21   Spur of the Moment

Episode 22   An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge

Episode 23   Queen of the Nile

Episode 24   What's in the Box

Episode 25   The Masks

Episode 26   I Am the Night - Color Me Black

Episode 27   Sounds and Silences

Episode 28   Caesar and Me

Episode 29   The Jeopardy Room

Episode 30   Stopover in a Quiet Town

Episode 31   The Encounter

Episode 32   Mr. Garrity and the Graves

Episode 33   The Brain Center at Whipple's

Episode 34   Come Wander with Me

Episode 35   The Fear

Episode 36   The Bewitchin' Pool

Season 1（2019-04-01~2019-05-30）

Episode 1   The Comedian

Episode 2   Nightmare at 30,000 Feet

Episode 3   Replay

Episode 4   A Traveler

Episode 5   The Wunderkind

Episode 6   Six Degrees of Freedom

Episode 7   Not All Men

Episode 8   Point of Origin

Episode 9   The Blue Scorpion

Episode 10   Blurryman

Season 2（2020-06-25）

Episode 1   Meet in the Middle

Episode 2   Downtime

Episode 3   The Who of You

Episode 4   Ovation

Episode 5   Among the Untrodden

Episode 6   8

Episode 7   A Human Face

Episode 8   A Small Town

Episode 9   Try, Try

Episode 10   You Might Also Like

[kwebtv]

Twilight Zone:  The Lonely -  CBS  -  November 13, 1959

Drama / Fantasy

Running Time:  30 minutes

Stars:

Jack Warden as James A. Corry

Jean Marsh as Alicia

John Dehner as Captain Allenby

Ted Knight as Adams

James Turley as Carstairs

Closing narration

On a microscopic piece of sand that floats through space is a fragment of a man's life. Left to rust is the place he lived in and the machines he used. Without use, they will disintegrate from the wind and the sand and the years that act upon them. All of Mr. Corry's machines, including the one made in his image, kept alive by love, but now obsolete—in The Twilight Zone.

Notes:

It was the first of several episodes (including "I Shot an Arrow into the Air", "A Hundred Yards Over the Rim" and "The Rip Van Winkle Caper") to be filmed on location in Death Valley.

The time frame of this episode occurs ca 2046.  The sociological implications are of a future governed by a society that has developed a rather severe method of penology, exiling their convicted criminals to places where there is no possibility of escape.  The episode explores the ability of a person to adapt to such circumstances aided by technology. 

Ted Knight portrays a particularly disgruntled member of the space crew that brings supplies to the prison asteroid. 

[garbagewhump]

Twilight Zone Whump

Buckle in, I’m getting nostalgic about my whump. The plan for this is a series, something easy and low key for my first real writing project of the year: shorts based, however loosely, on episodes of the Twilight Zone.

Some background, in case anyone cares, but every New Years Eve, far back as I can recall, my family watched a marathon of Twilight Zone up to and past midnight. I think we watched the ball drop maybe... what, four times in all my years. So, this show’s got a special, nostalgic place in my heart. 

Rod Sterling obviously knew the tragedy and horror lurking in mankind. So, there’s plenty right in your face, plenty of emotional anguish and physical stress, and all it’s truly missing is an in-depth exploration of the whumpy goodness that’s hinted at.

I’m no Rod Sterling, else I’d do them all that tickled my fancy, so I’m going to pick and choose. If anyone wants a specific episode, drop it in my inbox. This number, however, should set me up to write one per day.

1. Escape Clause 

2. I Shot an Arrow Into the Air

3. The Fever

4. People Are Alike All Over

5. Prime Mover

6. A Hundred Yards Over the Rim

7. The Rip Van Winkle Caper

8. The Silence

9. Shadow Play

10. The Shelter

11. The Grave

12. Death’s Head Revisited

13. The Midnight Sun

14. I Sing the Body Electric

15. In Praise of Pip

16. Steel

17. The Living Doll

[kagaintheskywithdiamonds]

every episode of the Twilight Zone season 2 summarized

King Nine Will Not Return: I could hardly focus on the plot because I was too busy trying to figure out whether or not the protag was a Nazi and therefore whether or not I should feel sorry for him (let’s just say there was some conflicting evidence)

The Man in the Bottle: a genie who grants FOUR wishes instead of just three?? now that’s a bargain!!

Nervous Man in a Four Dollar Room: lmao look at this fucking loser, can’t even work up the guts to kill a man. what a pussy.

A Thing About Machines: the most unlikable man in the world tries to “fix” his TV by throwing a chair through the screen (and then claims the repair man is trying to rip him off when he’s like “uhhh it’s broken because you fucking attacked it sir and that’s gonna be expensive to fix/replace”)

The Howling Man: they had me in the 2nd half not gonna lie

Eye of the Beholder: ugly people have no rights

Nick of Time: the meatball says no

The Lateness of the Hour: go to your room XJ-9

The Trouble with Templeton: imagine if you got the chance to go back in time and see your long-deceased wife and best friend but then both of them were like “fuck you go back to the present already”

A Most Unusual Camera: let the bodies hit the FLOOR

Night of the Meek: Santa Claus is a drunk and he said fuck capitalism (and the result is a surprisingly-heartwarming Christmas special)

Dust: lmao look at this fucking loser about to DIE better go insult him some more (also racism is real and it sucks)

Back There: I tried to go back in time to prevent Lincoln’s assassination but instead I made one of my friends rich via butterfly effect (oh and I accidentally stole John Wilkes Booth’s handkerchief and brought it back to the present with me)

The Whole Truth: ah, the old conman-gets-conned trick. classic.

The Invaders: fuck the US military. crush em like ants

Penny For Your Thoughts: a man gains mind-reading powers for only like a day which is good because I was afraid this story was headed in a “oh shit this is more of a curse than a blessing I don’t want to hear people’s thoughts all the time” direction. he had that power for just long enough that it was cool and useful and lost it before it became terrible (also I see that the title is trying to be punny because the protag gaining those powers was triggered by a coin landing on its side but that coin was clearly a QUARTER not a penny so nice try)

Twenty-Two: rip to the people who boarded that plane but I’m different

Odyssey of Flight 23: hello passengers this is your pilot speaking. I just wanted you to know that everything is fine and nothing weird is going on. we definitely did NOT travel back in time. please ignore the brontosaurus visible to your right.

Mr. Dingle, the Strong: talk about a stat buff

Static: FUCK this newfangled “television” thing I’m gonna go lock myself in my room and listen to radio stations that don’t exist anymore. at least nostalgic radio land doesn’t have commercials for GRASS CIGARETTES. I missed the good old days when kids played with SWITCHBLADES

The Prime Mover: oh hey my friend has telekinetic powers and I can exploit that to cheat at gambling!! the rest of the plot from here is very predictable

Long Distance Call: JESUS FUCK THAT’S DARK. I CANNOT BELIEVE THEY ACTUALLY WENT THERE. WHAT THE FUCK WHAT THE FUCK WHAT THE FUCK

A Hundred Yards over the Rim: imagine if you were a pioneer on the oregon trail and you and your whole party is on the brink of death and then suddenly you come across a modern-day 7-Eleven

The Rip Van Winkle Caper: money isn’t real we made it up!!! if you’re stranded in the middle of the desert then a block of gold has no use to you except perhaps as a murder weapon!

The Silence: i will pay you to shut up

Shadow Play: the death penalty (10 hour loop)

The Mind and the Matter: i will now commit genocide using the power of my mind

Will the Real Martial Please Stand Up: what’s harder than trying to find a needle in a haystack? trying to find a martian in a diner (no really that is Rod Serling’s introduction to this episode almost word-for-word)

The Obsolete Man: UNF this episode was so good I can hardly bring myself to write a witty joke summary for it. uhhhh authoritarianism bad. genocide bad. human lives have intrinsic value. this episode was good.