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Feb 5 11 7:34 AM

Like, uh... how come?

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Elegy Year: 2185; Happy Glades opens 1973; Atomic War: 1985
The Rip Van Winkle Caper Year: 2061
Two Year: 2061
The Long Morrow Year: 2027; Year of departure: 1987
On Thursday We Leave for Home Year: 2021; Year colony established: 1991
Number Twelve Looks Just Like You Year: 2000
Death Ship Year: 1997
The Old Man in the Cave Year: 1974; Year of the bomb: 1964
Steel Year: 1974; Prize Fighting abolished: 1968
The Brain Center at Whipple's Year: 1967

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Feb 5 11 1:24 PM

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"On Thursday We Leave for Home": 2021; Year colony established: 1991
"The Brain Center at Whipple's": 1967 (year of stockholders' report)
"The Silence": 1962 for final scene, which was one year after the episode premiered (yes, this is a stretch)

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Feb 5 11 1:57 PM

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Thanks, ring and Dan!

QUOTE (Dan Hollis @ February 05, 2011 01:24 pm)

"The Silence": 1962 for final scene, which was one year after the episode premiered (yes, this is a stretch)

That reminds me:

"One for the Angels": 1960 in English language version (July 19 and 20, to be specific). The episode premiered on October 9, 1959.

Why do I bother to say "English language version"? Because the French overdub is different. In the English language version, Lew Bookman is born in 1890 and will be "70 in September." The French overdub keeps Lew's birth year as 1890, as far as I know, but it has him saying that he'll be 69 in September. Vive la France!

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Feb 5 11 2:42 PM

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"The 7th Is Made Up of Phantoms": Mostly takes place June 25, 1964; premiered December 6, 1963
"Back There": Beginning and end take place April 14, 1961; premiered January 13, 1961

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Feb 5 11 4:38 PM

QUOTE (ringading @ February 05, 2011 08:34 am)

Prize Fighting abolished: 1968

I wonder if this was a social commentary? Did Richard Matheson think prize fighting was barbaric and should be abolished "soon", or did he like prize fighting, but was worried that the emerging "political correctness" would see an end to it in the near future?

Or, maybe I'm reading too much into this.

What is this? Some kind of gag?

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Feb 5 11 4:48 PM

Like, uh... how come?

Thanks, Dan and Beev. I would like to only include episodes with a future year that does not fall into The Twilight Zone broadcast years—1959 to 1964.

I really appreciate your input, guys! Thanks, again.

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Mar 10 12 2:49 PM

Like, uh... how come?

In ascending order:

1961: The Rip Van Winkle Caper. (pre-freezing process)
1964: Year of the bomb. (The Old Man in the Cave)
1967: The Brain Center at Whipple's.
1968: Prize Fighting abolished. (Steel)
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1973: Happy Glades opens. (Elegy)
1974: Steel; The Old Man in the Cave.
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1985: Atomic War. (Elegy)
1987: Year of departure. (The Long Morrow)
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1991: Year colony established. (On Thursday We Leave for Home)
1997: Death Ship.
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2000: Number Twelve Looks Just Like You.
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2021: On Thursday We Leave for Home.
2027: Year of re-entry. (The Long Morrow)
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2061: The Rip Van Winkle Caper (post-freezing process); Two.
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2185: Elegy.

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Mar 10 12 3:22 PM

QUOTE (Dan Hollis @ February 05, 2011 02:24 pm)

"On Thursday We Leave for Home": 2021; Year colony established: 1991

In 9 more years, I'll land on that faraway planet, invite the sole inhabitant, to play a game of baseball, bid him a fond farewell and leave. twilightzonewor/banana.gif

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Mar 10 12 3:48 PM

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QUOTE (ringading @ March 10, 2012 02:49 pm)

In descending order:

It looks positively ascending to me.

I have to disagree about "Two," by the way. It's "perhaps a hundred years from now," but it might also be "sooner" or "two million years ago."

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Mar 10 12 6:25 PM

Like, uh... how come?

QUOTE (Dan Hollis @ March 10, 2012 03:48 pm)

QUOTE (ringading @ March 10, 2012 02:49 pm)

In descending order:

It looks positively ascending to me.

I have to disagree about "Two," by the way. It's "perhaps a hundred years from now," but it might also be "sooner" or "two million years ago."

Thanks, Dan. Fixed.

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