Anyone remember this TV series from the mid-80s? It's an anthology series in the spirit of THE TWILIGHT ZONE, executive produced by Steven Spielberg, with episodes directed by Spielberg himself, along with Martin Scorsese, Robert Zemeckis, Clint Eastwood, Danny DeVito, Joe Dante, Tobe Hooper, Irvin Kershner, and Bob Balaban with episodes starring Kiefer Sutherland, Kevin Costner, DeVito, Christopher Lloyd, Mary Stuart Masterson, Hector Elizondo, Gregory Hines, Charlie Sheen. Patrick Swayze, Milton Berle, Sid Caesar, and Sam Waterston?
I just picked up some cheap VHS copies of the five video collections, and I am digging them so far. Wondering if anyone remembers the show or has any opinion on it...
I still remember the one that had Luke Skywalker in it.
The guy had just bought a new car and was going to go to school to be a doctor when he meet this troll thing (or something I was a kid and can't really remember)
and the troll thinkg basicly tells him not to go to school and to keep all the things he loves.
So flash forward and he is a bearded old man and kinda mad he is poor and wondering why he lsitened to the troll and suddenly he realizes all his old comics (first batman and superman) and his old car and such are all worth a lot of money.
He sells them and gets a lot of money and meets some woman and falls in love-
but even as a kid I remember thinking- if he had been a doctor he would have probably had enough money to do all this anyway- and all before he was like 80 years old.
I would still like to see it again to see how well I remember it.
I remember this show, though I was so young that my memory fails me from remembering any of the specifics of any of the episodes. However, I do remember liking it, and I thought that it was 'so cool' that the guy who directed ET was doing a TV show.
I had no idea that the other directos that you'd mentioned had done episodes, mostly because I didn't know who directors were at the time that it ran on TV.
I also vaguly remember that it was 1/2 hr and that it aired on Sunday nights paired with some other show that I really liked ... that title escapes me though.
It had one really memorable story, the WW2 bomber where the belly gunner was trapped in his station and was going to be killed when they landed because the landing gear were damaged.
I loved that one. The rest... shrug
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But I do remember, and really enjoy, the story featuring Mark Hamill who was told to save everything he ever bought or owned because someday it would be worth millions. As the story goes, he saves and saves and saves, through decades of hardship and toil, only to almost give up on the dream that was offered him. As he's about to dump everything after years of faithful saving, someone offers him a large sum of money for an item they see in his collection. Quick cut to him at Sotheby's selling everything in his collection for millions.
A great story about faith and one I really enjoyed.
By far my favorite episode was the WWII cartoonist, but I also remember fondly the episode "Hell Toupee" about a guy whose rug turned him homicidal.
And IIRC, it shared an hour with the 80's version of Alfred Hitchcock Presents. That show, of course, featured a great episode where President Bartlett murders one of the Hardy Boys and Marilu Henner finds his head in an ice bucket.
But I do remember, and really enjoy, the story featuring Mark Hamill who was told to save everything he ever bought or owned because someday it would be worth millions. As the story goes, he saves and saves and saves, through decades of hardship and toil, only to almost give up on the dream that was offered him. As he's about to dump everything after years of faithful saving, someone offers him a large sum of money for an item they see in his collection. Quick cut to him at Sotheby's selling everything in his collection for millions.
A great story about faith and one I really enjoyed.
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I saw it as the story of a man who had a miserable, lonely life, ostracised by his friends and family, mocked by society, cut off from everyone he held dear, finally "vindicated" when he was too old to really do anything about it.
