This "TZ" episode from season 2 titled "The Storyteller" is an entertaining one that's nothing fancy or scary, still it's a sentimental little tale told in a flashback form. And it's nice to see that a little gift of telling stories was picked and passed on to keep old loved ones alive! Starting with a now grown up retired school teacher who begins to tell a loved one her memory of a most different and special student. It dated back to the early days when she taught in a small rural country mountain town. One special young boy(David Faustino before his iconic days of Bud Bundy on "Married with Children")has the gift of writing stories and telling them each evening to his great great grandfather and this keeps him alive night after night! Oddly enough this trait is passed down as the teacher will pick up on this trait! Really nothing special still this segment is sentimental and it's a good story of magic proving that hope and stories can keep someone alive. Even though the tale is far out it's liked for it's magical touch.
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The Twilight Zone - The Storyteller
Scarecrow-885 September 2016
Warning: Spoilers
Glynnis O'Connor is an aging schoolteacher, Dorothy, who recollects to a colleague her experience on one of her first teaching assignments, reflecting on little Micah Frost (a hardly recognizable itty bitty David Faustino of Married
with Children fame) keeping his great-great-great grandfather alive through made-up stories. Dorothy doesn't quite believe the storytelling is what keeps him alive, but she humors Micah anyways. When he falls from a tree (them Frost males always liked to be "perched up high above everybody else" says the 143 year old grandpa), Dorothy will assume his place. Dorothy believes she saw Micah at an advanced age, opting to follow him to his apartment to verify. Sweet whimsy is a period piece for the most part, with the idea that the spirit of the written word, and how imagination contributes to a compelling story, has great power. Pretty O'Connor is extremely likable and photogenic in the lead with Faustino, as the gentle-hearted boy not wanting to lose his grandpa, doesn't show you a clue of the sleazy kid he'd become as Al Bundy's son.
A long lost love song from the dead!
blanbrn8 May 2011
Warning: Spoilers
This "TZ" episode from season 2 is touching and memorable it's a little sad and creepy too. Titled "Nightsong" it involves a long lost love message from the dead, proving that perhaps the message of love and communication may be possible with lost loved ones.
Lisa Eilbacher("An Officer and a Gentleman")is Andrea a late night California DJ who arrives at her local station one night to be asked out on a date from the off going DJ. Only she's not ready for love she still feels the pain of a big breakup. Now it gets interesting as we find out when Andrea plays a record from her long lost love who left, strange things start to happen. As the record plays he reappears! Slowly Andrea begins to fall for him all over again, along the way it's slow and a struggle as to why he left yet the answer is revealed over a California seaside cliff. This clearly was a good by love message from beyond the grave. Overall this is a touching and somewhat painful episode as it gives us hope of communicating with our long lost loved ones.
Lisa Eilbacher("An Officer and a Gentleman")is Andrea a late night California DJ who arrives at her local station one night to be asked out on a date from the off going DJ. Only she's not ready for love she still feels the pain of a big breakup. Now it gets interesting as we find out when Andrea plays a record from her long lost love who left, strange things start to happen. As the record plays he reappears! Slowly Andrea begins to fall for him all over again, along the way it's slow and a struggle as to why he left yet the answer is revealed over a California seaside cliff. This clearly was a good by love message from beyond the grave. Overall this is a touching and somewhat painful episode as it gives us hope of communicating with our long lost loved ones.
Locked in Time
sol121830 June 2010
Warning: Spoilers
(Some Spoilers) Eerie "New Twilight Zone" episode involving radio station KGRR graveyard shift disk jockey known as the station's "Midnight Queen" Andrea, or just Andie to her friends, Fields, Lisa Elkbacer, who's to soon experience something or someone from out her not far too distance past. Someone who's to change her life and what she thought of him forever.
As she's playing the record album "Nightsong" that her fellow KGRR employee and good friend Ace Campball, Kip Gilman, just happened to have bought for her at a local bazaar her long lost lover Simon Locke, Stephen Stills, suddenly materialized in the studio! Shocked and even happy at first to see Simon who speaks with a British accent, that he seems to try to hide, Andie's joy suddenly turns to rage! An angry and hurt Andie lets Simon have it, by smacking him across the face, for deserting her five years ago. That's when Simon was on the verge of making it big in the music industry as a Rock & Roll singer!
It seems that Simon just couldn't take the pressure of being a big star and just cracked up never to be seen or heard from again until tonight when Andie played his big hit "Nightsong". Acting like a first class wimp a very tortured and guilt ridden Simon goes into a long sob story about his strange behavior that lead him to drop out of sight and become a "hermit" over the last five years.
***SPOILERS*** As it turned out Simon takes Andie by car to the place where he was last seen alive on a cliff overlooking the Pacific Ocean. It's there that a tearful Simon, after him almost causing Andie to fall to her death, shows the remains of himself and his hot rod, or was it motorbike, that he plunged to his death with some five years ago. It's during all that time no one, this in the middle of a very populated seaside and vacation spot, even bothered to, in showing just "popular" he was, to find him!
Simon's guilt of leaving Andie all alone was far too much for him to bare even on the "Other Side" and it was a series of unusual coincidences, culminating with Andie playing his song "Nightsong", that brought him, as a ghost, back to life! Not to reunite with Andie but to assure her that he didn't leave her and that his last album "Nightsong" was his way of saying good-by to her as well as telling Andie that he always, even now in the world of the dead, loved her!
As she's playing the record album "Nightsong" that her fellow KGRR employee and good friend Ace Campball, Kip Gilman, just happened to have bought for her at a local bazaar her long lost lover Simon Locke, Stephen Stills, suddenly materialized in the studio! Shocked and even happy at first to see Simon who speaks with a British accent, that he seems to try to hide, Andie's joy suddenly turns to rage! An angry and hurt Andie lets Simon have it, by smacking him across the face, for deserting her five years ago. That's when Simon was on the verge of making it big in the music industry as a Rock & Roll singer!
It seems that Simon just couldn't take the pressure of being a big star and just cracked up never to be seen or heard from again until tonight when Andie played his big hit "Nightsong". Acting like a first class wimp a very tortured and guilt ridden Simon goes into a long sob story about his strange behavior that lead him to drop out of sight and become a "hermit" over the last five years.
***SPOILERS*** As it turned out Simon takes Andie by car to the place where he was last seen alive on a cliff overlooking the Pacific Ocean. It's there that a tearful Simon, after him almost causing Andie to fall to her death, shows the remains of himself and his hot rod, or was it motorbike, that he plunged to his death with some five years ago. It's during all that time no one, this in the middle of a very populated seaside and vacation spot, even bothered to, in showing just "popular" he was, to find him!
Simon's guilt of leaving Andie all alone was far too much for him to bare even on the "Other Side" and it was a series of unusual coincidences, culminating with Andie playing his song "Nightsong", that brought him, as a ghost, back to life! Not to reunite with Andie but to assure her that he didn't leave her and that his last album "Nightsong" was his way of saying good-by to her as well as telling Andie that he always, even now in the world of the dead, loved her!
Twee, sentimental
Leofwine_draca1 June 2015
THE STORYTELLER is a lacklustre, kid-friendly segment of THE NEW TWILIGHT ZONE, a story that manages to be twee and sentimental in equal measure. It's a shame that the talent of various writers and directors was wasted on this kind of material because the series could at times craft genuinely spooking, moving, or unsettling story lines instead of this filler nonsense.
The plot involves a kid who has a magic ability to captivate audiences thanks to his storytelling ability. In fact, his storytelling is enough to keep his grandfather alive, night after night, well beyond his span of years. That's all you're going to get here, alongside some poor acting and a general lack of effort all round.
The plot involves a kid who has a magic ability to captivate audiences thanks to his storytelling ability. In fact, his storytelling is enough to keep his grandfather alive, night after night, well beyond his span of years. That's all you're going to get here, alongside some poor acting and a general lack of effort all round.
Two Melancholy Tales
Hitchcoc29 June 2017
Life goes on. In the first episode, a boy, like Scheherazade, tells stories to an old man. By stopping in the middle, he must stay alive to hear the conclusion. A teacher who can't believe this is true, continues on a leap of faith, because she grows to love the spirit of the child. In the second one we have a ghost who appears to a woman he once loved. Because he departed, she is filled with anger. She is a late night disc jockey. There is a song called "Nightsong" that has never been played and it becomes an integral part of the story. In both these episodes, something either continues life or keeps a connection with a loved one who would otherwise be lost.
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