TZ Advent Calendar – Day Three
The Twilight Zone Podcast
Tom Elliot
4.7 • 615 Ratings
🗓️ 3 December 2025
⏱️ 6 minutes
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Day three of the Twilight Zone Advent Calendar – play along in the comments…
“We all remember names of episodes from the original show, but can you name any from the reboots…”
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| 0:00.0 | Day three of the Twilight Zone Advent calendar, and it's a question from our friend Brian Griffin, |
| 0:14.4 | and he says, it's been said repetition is reputation. Can it be that we've seen the original Rod Sailing episode so many times |
| 0:23.6 | that the subsequent series can never become the same memory? |
| 0:28.0 | The original cannot be copied. |
| 0:30.5 | While the other series could be similar in themes and have everyday people |
| 0:34.7 | in extraordinary circumstances, |
| 0:41.7 | there is always something that reduces what they try to do, |
| 0:45.2 | cheap production values, copy of a copy. |
| 0:48.4 | Anyway, there is only one Mona Lisa. |
| 0:50.7 | There can be other art, of course, |
| 1:01.0 | but it's so easy to remember the original Twilight Zone episode's names and very hard to name episodes from the follow-on series discuss. |
| 1:07.1 | And he kind of adds then, name an episode from a follow-on series that you can remember. |
| 1:11.8 | Now, we should be quite good at this Emmy because we went through the whole 80s Twilight Zone. |
| 1:12.9 | We went through the whole 2000s Twilight Zone and then we kind of redid all of the 2019 |
| 1:20.0 | Twilight Zone. |
| 1:21.3 | That's right. |
| 1:21.9 | It's funny how these, um, the reboots are kind of rejected by so many but always are a discussion points as well. |
| 1:33.9 | Yeah. |
| 1:34.2 | You know? |
| 1:35.1 | It's kind of fascinating. |
| 1:36.7 | So let's go with the 80s show. |
| 1:40.0 | Any episodes that you can remember the name of? |
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