Unknown Twilight Zone episode

MedHeadMedHead Join Date: 2002-12-19 Member: 11115Members, Constellation
<div class="IPBDescription">At least, I think it's from The Twilight Zone.</div>I've been searching through old Twilight Zone episode recaps, yet I can't find the one for which I'm looking. I was hoping a reader here might be able to help me.

The plot, from what I can remember, is of a man having car trouble, who finds a hotel that appears to have a phone he can use to call for help. When he gets to the hotel, he learns that everyone in the house is doomed to stay there forever. He doesn't accept it, and attempts to leave. If memory serves, I believe he does make it out of the hotel, but ends up returning to the property again and again despite his best attempts.

Anyone here remember the episode, or if it's even from The Twilight Zone? Thanks for the help.

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  • NeonSpyderNeonSpyder &quot;Das est NTLDR?&quot; Join Date: 2003-07-03 Member: 17913Members
    Thank you for reminding me about how much I love The Twilight Zone and by association of interest, The Outer Limits.

    Both series being of the highest caliber entertainment.



    However, I know not of the episode of which you speak.
  • ComproxComprox *chortle* Canada Join Date: 2002-01-23 Member: 7Members, Super Administrators, Forum Admins, NS1 Playtester, NS2 Developer, Constellation, NS2 Playtester, Reinforced - Shadow, WC 2013 - Silver, Subnautica Developer, Subnautica Playtester, Pistachionauts
    sadly I do not know what episode you are talking about. Was it black or white?

    A similarish show that you might want to check is The Outer Limits (<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_The_Outer_Limits_episodes" target="_blank">episode list</a>). It ran back in the 60's and again in the late 90's.
  • FaskaliaFaskalia Wechsellichtzeichenanlage Join Date: 2004-09-12 Member: 31651Members, Constellation
    But outer limits has soo many episodes...

    Anyone remember the OL episode, where a woman was lying in a hospital with her face wrapped in bandages, mumbling that she hopes that she still is beautiful?
    After a while her bandages are removed and a mirror is given to her. Although she is a blonde goddess, she screams in disgust and throws the mirror away. Camera then shows the doctors and nurses, who all look like abominations. Then a beautiful man enters the room and tells the woman that she can live with him and the other outcasts in some kind of ghetto...

    Moral: Beauty is relative!

    Or the one episode where a looser is turned into a super healthy sex machine by nanobots...
    After he nearly drowned the bots give him gills. And so a horrible circle of survival starts ^^
    In the end the nanobots make him superresistant to everything, turning him into some kind of jellyfish creature.
  • ThansalThansal The New Scum Join Date: 2002-08-22 Member: 1215Members, Constellation
    HOTEL CALIFORNIA!

    (ok, not really, but still)

    And yes Faskalia, that first one is considered to be like the most classic OL there is.
  • DepotDepot The ModFather Join Date: 2002-11-09 Member: 7956Members
    edited October 2007
    MedHead, this wasn't the episode where everyone was watching cartoons all the time, was it?

    <a href="http://tzone.the-croc.com/" target="_blank">John's Twilight Zone Page</a>

    <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_The_Twilight_Zone_episodes" target="_blank">Wikipedia list of TZ episodes</a>.

    <a href="http://www.twilightzone.org/html/tzatv_ef.html" target="_blank">Twilight Zone Episode Finder</a>.
  • MedHeadMedHead Join Date: 2002-12-19 Member: 11115Members, Constellation
    It was a black and white episode, Comprox.

    Faskalia: <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Eye_of_the_Beholder" target="_blank">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Eye_of_the_Beholder</a>

    Depot, I've looked at those myself (that's what I was using to do my aforementioned searching), but wasn't able to find a description that matched the storyline. I'm wondering if perhaps it wasn't The Twilight Zone, considering the difficulty of finding the episode.

    There is a chance that everyone was watching cartoons, because I remember the main character getting upset at everyone for not doing anything, to which the rest replied that things were hopeless, and that it was better to just give up, as the rest of the people there were stuck at the hotel just as much as the main character. They stated that they too were once as headstrong to leave as the new arrival, but that eventually everyone loses hope and gives up, becoming content with the imprisonment.
  • NeonSpyderNeonSpyder &quot;Das est NTLDR?&quot; Join Date: 2003-07-03 Member: 17913Members
    <!--quoteo(post=1657655:date=Oct 25 2007, 07:04 AM:name=MedHead)--><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(MedHead @ Oct 25 2007, 07:04 AM) <a href="index.php?act=findpost&pid=1657655"><{POST_SNAPBACK}></a></div><div class='quotemain'><!--quotec-->It was a black and white episode, Comprox.

    Faskalia: <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Eye_of_the_Beholder" target="_blank">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Eye_of_the_Beholder</a>

    Depot, I've looked at those myself (that's what I was using to do my aforementioned searching), but wasn't able to find a description that matched the storyline. I'm wondering if perhaps it wasn't The Twilight Zone, considering the difficulty of finding the episode.

    There is a chance that everyone was watching cartoons, because I remember the main character getting upset at everyone for not doing anything, to which the rest replied that things were hopeless, and that it was better to just give up, as the rest of the people there were stuck at the hotel just as much as the main character. They stated that they too were once as headstrong to leave as the new arrival, but that eventually everyone loses hope and gives up, becoming content with the imprisonment.<!--QuoteEnd--></div><!--QuoteEEnd-->

    That sounds much more like the one with the kid with the massive psychic powers that turns people into things.

    The storyline for that one (the version I saw anyway)

    A woman accidentally hits this kid's bicycle, she drives him home to find his house and family acting like a classic 50's TV family. As the story develops it becomes clear that anything that the kid wants to happen, will happen, and the kid doesn't seem to have any moral guidance as to what he SHOULD make happen and what he makes happen anyway. More often then not some pretty disturbing/violent/###### things.

    It ends with the kid vaporizing the universe and the woman (who is a teacher) somehow convinces him to <i>un-vaporize</i> everything and she offers to teach him how to do good things with his powers.

    Or something.

    Oh, yeah, spoiler tagz lol.
  • locallyunscenelocallyunscene Feeder of Trolls Join Date: 2002-12-25 Member: 11528Members, Constellation
    <!--quoteo(post=1657661:date=Oct 25 2007, 08:52 AM:name=NeonSpyder)--><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(NeonSpyder @ Oct 25 2007, 08:52 AM) <a href="index.php?act=findpost&pid=1657661"><{POST_SNAPBACK}></a></div><div class='quotemain'><!--quotec-->Oh, yeah, spoiler tagz lol.<!--QuoteEnd--></div><!--QuoteEEnd-->
    You totally just ruined a 50 year old TV show episode for me. Thanks a lot.
  • MedHeadMedHead Join Date: 2002-12-19 Member: 11115Members, Constellation
    NeonSpyder, that's "It's a Good Life", which, while being a great episode, isn't the one for which I was searching. Thank you, though.
  • LikuLiku I, am the Somberlain. Join Date: 2003-01-10 Member: 12128Members
    I asked on the imdB forums for you:

    <a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0052520/board/post/tt0052520" target="_blank">http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0052520/board/post/tt0052520</a>

    They'll probably answer within a day or two.
  • MedHeadMedHead Join Date: 2002-12-19 Member: 11115Members, Constellation
  • LikuLiku I, am the Somberlain. Join Date: 2003-01-10 Member: 12128Members
    <a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0052520/board/nest/88476529" target="_blank">http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0052520/board/nest/88476529</a>

    One thinks it's a different show, another thinks you've mixed elements of several episodes. But his description of the episode "The Guests" seems to really fit.
  • MedHeadMedHead Join Date: 2002-12-19 Member: 11115Members, Constellation
    That was it! It was "The Guests"! Thanks to you and your IMDB posse. My search is over.
  • The_NemesisThe_Nemesis Join Date: 2002-11-23 Member: 9724Members
    JERRY: You know, this is like that Twilight Zone where the guy wakes up, and he's the same - but everyone else is different!
    KRAMER: Which one?
    JERRY: They were all like that!
    - Seinfeld 814 The Van Buren Boys

    Is this show available in Australia?
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