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<v Speaker 1>Day twenty one of the Twilight Zone podcast Advent Calendar,

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<v Speaker 1>and our friend George Stevens says what episodes from TZ

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<v Speaker 1>reboots would have made the best sixties TZ episodes? Now, Zach,

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<v Speaker 1>I know you're quite well viewed with the latest version.

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<v Speaker 1>I know you've seen probably those a couple of times

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<v Speaker 1>at least. How about the other versions? Have you dug

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<v Speaker 1>into those much?

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<v Speaker 2>I've seen a lot of the two thousand and two version.

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<v Speaker 2>I've seen a little of the nineteen eighty five version.

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<v Speaker 1>Okay, that's all right, I am all right. So what

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<v Speaker 1>are you choosing then? For George's question?

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<v Speaker 2>Well, how many answers do you have for this?

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<v Speaker 1>By the way, I've got two?

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<v Speaker 2>Okay, I'm going to pick one from the twenty two

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<v Speaker 2>version and one for the twenty nineteen version. Okay, I'm

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<v Speaker 2>going to go with Cradle Darkness for the two thousand

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<v Speaker 2>and two version, and that's the one where they Timeshovel

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<v Speaker 2>back to kill Baby Hitler. That feels like it could

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<v Speaker 2>absolutely be a show from the sixties, because there's no

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<v Speaker 2>we're in the far future. We're going back to the

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<v Speaker 2>thirties or whatever, right, I mean, that's you could easily

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<v Speaker 2>write that in the sixties and there, I mean, there

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<v Speaker 2>are episodes where they go back at time to kill

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<v Speaker 2>Hillar in the original show, So I'm like, you know,

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<v Speaker 2>a little darker to kill a baby, right, So maybe

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<v Speaker 2>that's maybe that's a little much, but I think that

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<v Speaker 2>would have fit in perfectly. And then from a twenty

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<v Speaker 2>nineteen I'm gonna go with my favorite episode of the

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<v Speaker 2>Jordan Bill, Twide's one Try Try with the time traveling

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<v Speaker 2>Twill for Grace. Like it's set in a museum, right,

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<v Speaker 2>it's a two hander. I just I think that was

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<v Speaker 2>just a brilliant episode about evil Groundhog Day. I think

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<v Speaker 2>as everybody decided to call it, and I totally agree. Yeah,

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<v Speaker 2>I mean obviously, you you know, if you make it

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<v Speaker 2>in the sixties, you changed the specifics about these things, right,

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<v Speaker 2>But because he got really dark, and I don't think of

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<v Speaker 2>gon go on that dark again, like killing babies, and

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<v Speaker 2>then the things that Tilver Grace imply dark stuff. But

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<v Speaker 2>I think both of those are kind of universally great

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<v Speaker 2>science fiction humanity stories and would fit in the original show.

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<v Speaker 1>Good Choices, Good Choices. So I'm going to go with

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<v Speaker 1>two from the eighties show.

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<v Speaker 2>Okay, because good representation for the eighties show Good Good.

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<v Speaker 1>I mean, it's always a tough sell because I think

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<v Speaker 1>people are always going to be even though I'm quite

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<v Speaker 1>open to it, there's always a part of you that

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<v Speaker 1>is very like, what are they going to do here?

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<v Speaker 1>Are they going to pull this off? But I think

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<v Speaker 1>the very first episode of the eighties show, I personally feel,

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<v Speaker 1>is as good as you know a lot of the

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<v Speaker 1>classic show. And of course there's like, well it looks

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<v Speaker 1>like an eighties show. It's not as crisp and clean,

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<v Speaker 1>and you know all those things that you have to

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<v Speaker 1>get over, And absolutely I agree that's the task here,

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<v Speaker 1>isn't it to see whether you can get past some

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<v Speaker 1>of these things. But it's an episode called Shatter Day

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<v Speaker 1>and it stars Bruce Willis and it's written by Harlan

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<v Speaker 1>Ellison and I think Alan Brennett did the screenplay. And

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<v Speaker 1>Bruce Willis accidentally calls his home phone number and Bruce

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<v Speaker 1>Willis answers the phone, so it's like, Okay, what's going

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<v Speaker 1>on here? So the way the story plays out, and

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<v Speaker 1>I won't ruin it, is he keeps making these calls

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<v Speaker 1>back to his house and he's like, what are you doing?

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<v Speaker 1>But then a very kind of specific thing happens between

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<v Speaker 1>these two versions of Bruce Willis, and I think it's

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<v Speaker 1>played really well and it's got a real tangible kind

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<v Speaker 1>of this is telling you a lesson about humanity, you know,

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<v Speaker 1>or people, the human experience, et cetera, et cetera. So

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<v Speaker 1>I really do think back in the eighties, when you're

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<v Speaker 1>sitting watching this the first Twilight's own reboot apart from

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<v Speaker 1>the movie, I guess, and this episode comes on, it

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<v Speaker 1>must have been like, oh my, they've cracked the code.

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<v Speaker 1>They've done it.

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<v Speaker 2>You know, you're so back.

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<v Speaker 1>Yeah. But then unfortunately it wasn't always plain sailing from

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<v Speaker 1>then on. But I do think that first episode is

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<v Speaker 1>pretty great, and there are flashes of brilliance throughout it.

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<v Speaker 1>You know, there was one called to See the Invisible Man,

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<v Speaker 1>and it was a sort of you know, alternate reality

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<v Speaker 1>or you know, slightly future reality or whatever. And a

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<v Speaker 1>guy called Mitchell Chaplain gets found guilty of the crime

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<v Speaker 1>of coldness, you know, not being friendly or open enough

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<v Speaker 1>with people around him, which is a bit weird. For

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<v Speaker 1>his punishment from the state is to be rendered invisible

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<v Speaker 1>for one year. Now, they don't actually make him invisible.

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<v Speaker 1>They put a kind of scar or implant or something

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<v Speaker 1>on his forehead. So if you this on another person,

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<v Speaker 1>you need to ignore them. You know, you can talk

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<v Speaker 1>a lot about that in our modern world, you know whatever,

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<v Speaker 1>you're likening that too. But there's a lot of good

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<v Speaker 1>stuff in it. Like there's a scene where so he's like, well,

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<v Speaker 1>if people can't see me, then I'll just run a mock.

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<v Speaker 1>You know. He's going into cafeterias, pushing things over. He

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<v Speaker 1>goes into a ladies' locker room and he's kind of laughing,

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<v Speaker 1>and he starts to see how actually horrified they are,

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<v Speaker 1>and he's making them feel terrible, and then he just

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<v Speaker 1>feels completely ashamed of himself and leaves the locker room.

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<v Speaker 1>And it's again, it's one of those things that you

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<v Speaker 1>could maybe they wouldn't have had that scene in the

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<v Speaker 1>nineteen sixties, but there's a lot of this that you

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<v Speaker 1>could actually see other actors doing in the nineteen sixties.

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<v Speaker 1>So it's really really good episode of the eighties Twilight Zone.

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<v Speaker 2>Yeah, and I think you know, we gravitate towards those

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<v Speaker 2>they remind us of the original show, right, I Mean,

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<v Speaker 2>we're we're not fans who says it has to be

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<v Speaker 2>four x three in black and white only or we're

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<v Speaker 2>not going to accept it. Right, But so much of

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<v Speaker 2>that DNA of the original show when you can find

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<v Speaker 2>it in these new episodes. I think that's why a

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<v Speaker 2>lot of my favorites are, like, you know what, I

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<v Speaker 2>really love those one and you know why because I

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<v Speaker 2>feel like it could have been part of the original show.

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<v Speaker 2>I know, and I've said that, you know, on on

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<v Speaker 2>microphone somewhere and even in just normal conversation. So there's

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<v Speaker 2>a lot to that, right, And that's uh, you know that,

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<v Speaker 2>and I have I've listened to your Aftermath show. But

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<v Speaker 2>there's so many of those eighty shows, probably like seventy

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<v Speaker 2>five percent of them I haven't seen. So one day,

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<v Speaker 2>one day, there's more talleads on am there for me

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<v Speaker 2>to revisit. So that's that's fun, so to know that's

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<v Speaker 2>out there one day for me to check out.