What show is this?
I'd post this in the TZ Sink, but it's closed, so this is the only place that's even slightly appropriate. With the first seasons of both the original and the 80s series series released today, someone really might want to open that.
Anyway, in the 80s there were several anthology series floating around. I have some stories I remember but I want to ask which show they originated on, if anyone knows.
One is a comedy which I remember my mother laughing hysterically at. It was about an actor playing a mummy in a movie, but leaving the set still in costume and everyone being scared and running away, like he was Herman Munster.
Another, far more serious, was about little flying probes that accompany prisoners. Jails were done away with, but convicts had to be accompanied everywhere by these probes, thus anyone they encountered would avoid them. One such convict finds a moment's relief when talking to a blind man, who can't see the probe and is unaware of the person's status..until someone passing by tells him. He shouts some angry curse at the convict who again finds himself alone.
A third memory is in a woman's prison, where a prisoner arranges with the coroner an escape plan, where she will hide in the casket of the next person who dies (along with the corpse), and be freed on the other side by the coroner. The plan goes well, but, after waiting in the casket for the coroner who never comes. Finally she rolls over and sees he's the person in the casket with her.
The first one was definitely an episode of Amazing Stories, and you might be able to catch it on the Scifi Channel at some point. The second one sounds familiar...I think it might have been an episode of the (old) new Twilight ZOne. The third I'm not sure about. Sorry!
The third one I definitely saw -- sounds like a "new" TZ ep (between 1981 and 1987). I thought Donna Mills played the escapee but can't find anything relevant on imdb.com.
The third one was an episode of the 1980's Alfred Hitchcock Presents revival in the mid-eighties. It was originally done on the Alfred Hitchcock Hour back in the sixties.
The 2nd one is "To See the Invisible Man" from the New Twilight Zone from the 80s. One of my favorite stories from that series.
See the new Mod note at the top of the page.
CBS All Access is gearing up to present another (the third) revival of The Twilight Zone. More here.
In Canada, the latest TZ airs Thursday nights at 10:00 on City TV (yep, we Canadians get it for free).
However, from what I've seen so far, I'm not impressed. I already gave my thoughts on one episode, but haven't bothered with any others, because none have blown me away. Two had "twist endings" that I saw coming a mile off, and one repeatedly whacked its message over my head (unlike the subtle way the great Rod Serling put messages in episodes of the original series).
Looks like the CBS Swindlers have dropped the ball on yet another franchise.