A short film about the sun

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It's a black and white one - perhaps it was an old Tales of the Unexpected if any of them were in black in white - it's about the sun shining non stop, it's never night. I think it was set in New York and featured people sitting sweltering in an apartment?

Can anyone help?

Rumpie, Wednesday, 26 October 2005 08:50 (twenty years ago)

that's a famous twilight zone episode.

-rainbow bum- (-rainbow bum-), Wednesday, 26 October 2005 09:57 (twenty years ago)

Fantastic! Thank you.

Rumpie, Wednesday, 26 October 2005 10:00 (twenty years ago)

It's just the opposite of a famous episode of The Simpsons, where Mr. Boo-urns permanently blocks the sun.

Aimless (Aimless), Wednesday, 26 October 2005 16:45 (twenty years ago)

i was hoping this would have something to do with daybreak express.

jagged little filly (Jody Beth Rosen), Wednesday, 26 October 2005 16:48 (twenty years ago)

It was a Serling-written episode... the sun is coming closer to the earth and everybody's running out of drinking water and it's too hot. Except... there's a twist.

andy --, Wednesday, 26 October 2005 16:49 (twenty years ago)

Is there a list of Twlight Zone premises somewhere?

knife (nordicskilla), Wednesday, 26 October 2005 16:50 (twenty years ago)

http://www.tv.com/the-twilight-zone/show/237/episode_guide.html

svend (svend), Wednesday, 26 October 2005 16:54 (twenty years ago)

Also the opposite of the new Forrest Whittaker-hosted Twilight Zone where the kids go camping and knock over the ancient Aztec bowl full of blood and then the sun disappears and everyone's dying and they're like "the bowl kept the sun in the sky, we need to refill it with the blood of a human sacrifice" and then eventually they draw straws and decide to kill this one girl and she's all like "haha I was just kidding" but her boyfriend kills her and then refill the bowl and then the sun comes back in the sky and the walk back outside thinking they saved the world and turn on their radio and the voice says "scientists theorize that the sun's disappearance was due to some weird think having to do with waves or rays or something" and then they all freak out, like they killed the girl for no reason, which to be honest I don't get, cause if you did remove and then replace the sun by fucking with ancient Aztec shit surely scientists would still "theorize" some shit having to do with waves or rays or gravity or something, what with that being their job to theorize about such things and not be all "we're fairly certain some kids went camping and spilled some Aztec blood, that seems like the kind of thing that would happen." So anyway they had no good reason to be plagued with eternal guilt and as such I'd rate this the #1 most poorly-written twist-doesn't-work episode of the three nu-Twilight Zones I've ever seen, as well as a far episodes of Nightman.

nabisco (nabisco), Wednesday, 26 October 2005 16:55 (twenty years ago)

By the way yesterday I came down with a spot of being retarded, it sucks, ok thanks bye.

nabisco (nabisco), Wednesday, 26 October 2005 16:57 (twenty years ago)

Say, we've probably had a thread about this very question elsewhere, but how many Twilight Zone eps actually had ANYTHING resembling a happy ending?

kingfish neopolitan sundae (kingfish 2.0), Wednesday, 26 October 2005 17:01 (twenty years ago)

the whittaker hosted twilight zone is a disgrace!!! did you see the eriq la salle written/directed/starring one about CIVIL RIGHTS TIME TRAVEL?! most of them dont even have twists

_, Wednesday, 26 October 2005 17:01 (twenty years ago)

though i was a big fan of the 80s series, and the 90s outer limit - so creepy!!!!!

_, Wednesday, 26 October 2005 17:02 (twenty years ago)


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