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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)
#nerds yearbook#1961#2061#tz#twilight zone#rod serling#cryogenic#suspended animation#thieves#justus addiss#simon oakland#fort knox#oscar beregi jr#lew gallo#john mitchum#wallace rooney#shirley o'hara#rip van winkle caper
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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.”
#horror#science fiction#sci fi#tv#tv shows#tv show#the twilight zone#twilight zone#twilightzoneedit#rod sterling#gif#gifs#my gif#my gifs#my gif edit#my gif post#my gif pack#gifset#tv show gif#tv show gifs#tvshowedit#tv show edit#tv series#tvedit#tv gif#tv gifs#60s#60s tv shows#60s tv#60s tv series
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I just watched The Twilight Zone 2x24 "The Rip Van Winkle Caper"
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The Twilight Zone: The Rip Van Winkle Caper Season 2 Episode 24 1961.
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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.
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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
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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.”
#Twilight Zone#the twilight zone#the rip van winkle caper#Justus Addiss#george t clemens#oscar beregi#simon oakland#Rod Serling#season 2#death valley#television#tv#retro tv#Classic TV#cinematography#photography#close up#close-up#1960s
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#the twilight zone#rod serling#night of the meek#the rip van winkle caper#silence#obsolete man#two#elizabeth montgomery#charles bronson#burgess meredith
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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.
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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”)
#the twilight zone#forbidden planet#retro scifi#robbie the robot#rod serling#recylcing#gosh i love this movie#and this serie
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(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)
#nerds yearbook#time travel#sci fi tv#2061#1961#robbery#the rip van winkle craper#tz#twilight zone#rod serling#justus addiss#simon oakland#oscar beregi jr#gold#lew gallo#john mitchum#suspended animation#wallace rooney#shirley o'hara
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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,��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
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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.
#The Lonely#TV#Twilight Zone#1959#Drama#Fantasy#Jack Warden#John Dehner#Jean Marsh#Ted Knight#James Turley
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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
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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.
#twilight zone#tz#seeing my own season 1 post for this in the twilight zone tag inspired me to finally finish this one tonight lol#ALSO I FORGOT THE FUCKING TITLE WHEN I FIRST POSTED THIS AND HAD TO EDIT IT IN LATER RIP ME
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self care is going into suspended animation so you can sell stolen gold
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