Twilight Zone "The Changing of the Guard" another Christmas episode

[Omaha Steve]

Marta and I have met Tom Lowell (Artie Beechcroft) from this episode on 3 different occasions. Great guy. And yes we got several great autographs from all through his acting career.

OS

Published on Sep 5, 2013
Professor Ellis Fowler is an elderly English literature teacher at a boys' prep school in Vermont, who is forced into retirement after teaching for more than 50 years at the school. Looking through his old yearbooks and reminiscing about his former students, he becomes convinced that all of his lessons have been in vain and that he has accomplished nothing with his life.

[Omaha Steve]

1. Our TZ links

Enjoy.


2002 TZCon: http://www.steveandmarta.com/graveyards/tzcon2002.htm


2004 TZCon: http://www.steveandmarta.com/tzcon2004.htm


The 80's series: http://www.steveandmarta.com/ntz1.htm

[misterhighwasted]

4. Oh wow Omaha Steve. Great links you have..will have a closer look at them tonight.

Very nice work. Thanks

[misterhighwasted]

6. Thanks..Good stuff Omaha. This is a definite Keeper..Ha Lithgow too. I am such a TZone fan.

Appreciate this DU mail.

[longship]

2. As always, a great thing from OS.

Bookmarked for later, when my download limit resets.
R&K

[misterhighwasted]

3. One of my favorite TwZ episodes was with young William Shatner.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0734600/

Twilight Zone: Season 5, Episode 3
Nightmare at 20,000 Feet

A man, newly recovered from a nervous breakdown, becomes convinced that a monster only he sees is damaging the plane he's flying in.

Director:
Richard Donner
Writers:
Richard Matheson, Rod Serling (created by)
Stars:
William Shatner, Christine White, Ed Kemmer
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regrets I'm not able to post the Video here

[PSPS]

9. A few years before that episode, he was in "Nick of Time"

He was about 28 in "Nick of Time"

[misterhighwasted]

10. Didn't know this. My, he's had quite the career hasn't he.

Great photo. What a legacy he's quietly built.
Thanks

[misterhighwasted]

5. 'Changing of the Guard' was a great story.

The writers always left ya thinking

[old guy]

7. One of my very favorite episodes.

[appalachiablue]

8. Beautiful in spirit, thanks. Recalls Mr. Chipps, Dead Poets Society.

[drynberg]

11. Thanks for posting, as a retired teacher of 5 yrs., this was meaningful

After 30 years of teaching, I can only imagine how I've touched the future.

[MrMickeysMom]

12. K&R...

The day after Christmas, going back to work before the week-end begins, this is a great episode.

I miss Rod Serling. I'm happy to say that he lived in Binghamton, NY, where I once lived. I hope someone can again present a show half as good as he did, especially with his writing.

It does matter.

[panfluteman]

13. My Favorite Twilight Zone Episode

was about the history professor whose history classes were so spellbinding that everyone thought that he was actually there. It turned out that he was. He was engaged to marry the young daughter of another professor when that professor was looking through old civil war photos and saw someone who looked just like the history professor. Upon showing him the photo, the history professor broke down and said that yes, that really was him in General Sherman's war camp in Georgia. He confessed that back in ancient Greece he had visited an old alchemist and sorcerer who had given him the elixir of immortality. He had lived forever, but it hadn't turned out to be as peachy keen as he had thought. All his friends kept on getting old and dying, and a deep loneliness fell over him as he realized he would live forever. Finally a decrepit old lady who had been one of his former wives, who had read the engagement announcements in the local paper cornered the history professor with a pistol and killed him, saying that she wouldn't let him keep on doing this to unsuspecting young women. As the history professor collapsed to the floor, he immediately changed into dust, which blew away in the wind, with the narrator reading the appropriate passage from the Bible.