http://www.cbs.com/classics/the_twiligh ... =true&cc=2

 

I'll admit I'm far too young to have grown up with the Twilight Zone, though I did catch many of the episodes on TV (though, faint, faint memories). Here's an episode that was linked from JWR's Survivalblog. Interesting thing about this episode is that it was straightforward with its message, no subtlety or twists... just a message. The episode itself is titled "Shelter," and is about the reactions of people in a certain situation.

 

I don't want to ruin it, and will discuss after people have watched it, or start discussing it. All I have to say is damn the sheeple!

Back when my wife graduated high school, she went to work for CBS. she met Rod Serling, Alfred Hitchcock and many others from those years of TV and film. She worked for a show on Sunday mornings called Camera Three. The crew was small so you really got close to the guests. She was deathly afraid of Hitchcock because of his vast reputation in the industry. She found that he was like someone's Grandfather and couldn't have been nicer.

 

The Twilight Zone episodes were done on little to no budget but the story line carried the show. They stand up even today.

Every New Years Eve and day my father and I watch the marathon on the sci fi channel. I love this episode. Chilling story of how people loose their humanity when the SHTF.

I happen to have all 156 episodes of Twilight zone stuffed in a back corner of a hard drive, beyond the last sector of the last cylinder, in a place where time and imagination meet.

 

Because of your post, I visited that episode tonight.

 

It goes along very well with something that I've said before at TAA and other places we talk about survival issues. Security and preparations are need to know.

 

"Show me a man who has a year's worth of food and I'll show you a man who has a gun to his head 3 weeks after he starts using it."

 

You need to weather 3-4 weeks of interruption in food chain in a worst case SHTF event. Beyond that, if the supply chain doesn't start moving again and unless you have acres of land and an army to protect it, you're finished.

I also like Tales From The Dark Side, And Tales From The Crypt. I really want to buy the Twilight Zone DVD box set.