History Series / TheTwilightZone1985

* TheBlank: The faceless blue contruction workers in "A Matter of Minutes".

%%* TheBlank: "A Matter of Minutes".

* ClothesMakeTheManiac: In "Dead Woman's Shoes", a shy woman tries on a pair of haunted high heels at a thrift store that make her assertive, self-confident-—and send her on a murderous mission.

* ClothesMakeTheManiac: In "Dead Woman's Shoes", a shy woman tries on a pair of high heels at a thrift store that make her assertive, self-confident-—and send her on a murderous mission.

* DownerEnding: Happens fairly regularly. Examples mentioned elsewhere on this page include [[spoiler: "Examination Day", "A Small Talent For War", "Gramma", "Shadowman", "The Beacon" and "Need to Know."]]

* LighthousePoint: "The Beacon" Another episode concerned a lighthouse that was sort of a waypoint on the afterlife, where the newly dead arrived before being sent on their way.

%%* MirrorUniverse: "The World Next Door,” "The Road Less Traveled"

* EvilOldFolks[=/=]GrandTheftMe: "Gramma," where a young boy has to spend a night watching over his monstrous bed-ridden grandmother. Written by Creator/HarlanEllison and based on a Creator/StephenKing short story inspired by Creator/HPLovecraft.

* HenpeckedHusband[=/=]SchmuckBait: "Button, Button" has a shrewish wife and down-beaten husband being given a button, which if pressed with give them wealth at the cost of killing a complete stranger.

%%* HumanPopsicle: "Quarantine"
* InvisibleJerkass: In "To See the Invisible Man", Mitchell Chaplin is punished by being given a mark on his forehead that means others have to ignore him and act as if he was not there. He initially does things like walking into a women's change room, but then... see directly below.

%%* PassingTheTorch: [[spoiler:"Paladin of the Lost Hour"]]

* PluckyOfficeGirl: Karen Billings, played by Pam Dawber "But Can She Type" who stumbles on a way to switch to a parallel universe where secretaries are treated like supermodels.

%%* TanksForTheMemories: "The Mind of Simon Foster"

%%* TownWithADarkSecret / WrongTurnAtAlbuquerque: "The Beacon" depicts a doctor stumbling into a small town ruled over and protected by a sinister lighthouse.
%%* TrumanShowPlot: "Special Service"

%%* TheVietnamWar: "Nightcrawlers" and "The Road Less Travelled."
* WeirdnessSearchAndRescue: In the short "A Matter of Minutes", the foreman of a group of people (played by Adolph Caesar) takes time to explain to a couple who ended up 'outside time' how time really worked, even showing them an animated computer graphic prepared for such an event.

%%* YouWillBeBeethoven: "Profile in Silver" and "The Once and Future King"

* AliensAreBastards / HumanAliens / WellDoneSonGuy: "Small Talent for War" features a race who sowed humanity on Earth in the distant past, and so, yes, we look like punier versions of them. Humanity's desperate attempt to impress our "fathers" [[spoiler: end badly.]]

* BrownNote / GoMadFromTheRevelation / MindVirus: "Need to Know" features a Horrible Truth spreading through a small town via word of mouth, causing insanity in anyone who hears it.
* BystanderSyndrome: In several stories, warning of the dangers of not taking a more active role or interest in world affairs. One perfect example is "A Little Peace and Quiet", where a harried housewife also refuses to take note of the fact that the Soviet Union and United States are on the brink of war, and that she – thanks to an amulet that can get people to "Shut up!" and "Start talking!" – might just be wearing the thing that can bring world peace. Instead, she uses the amulet selfishly (when her family gets to her or wants to deal with annoying visitors) ... and the United States pays a dear price in the end, thanks to her disinterest in world affairs and her not realizing that she held a gift of world peace – leaving her to finally stop time just an instant before a nuclear bomb detonates and wipes out much of central and southern California.

* EvilOldFolks / GrandTheftMe: "Gramma," where a young boy has to spend a night watching over his monstrous bed-ridden grandmother. Written by Creator/HarlanEllison and based on a Creator/StephenKing short story inspired by Creator/HPLovecraft.

* TheRemake: Many episodes from the original series were remade, including "A Kind of Stopwatch" (as "A Little Peace and Quiet" and with elements of "Time Enough at Last" thrown in), "Dead Man's Shoes" ("Dead Women's Shoes"), "Night of the Meek," "Shadow Play," "The After Hours," "Miniature" (as "The Call"), "Penny for Your Thoughts" (as "Vision"), and "A Game of Pool" - in this case using George Clayton Johnson's original script [[spoiler: and its original ending, where the challenger loses]] without informing him, which [[BerserkButton Johnson did]] ''[[BerserkButton not]]'' [[BerserkButton appreciate]]. Also, "One Life, Furnished in Early Poverty" has obvious similarities to "Walking Distance" from the original.

* DownerEnding: Happens fairly regularly. Examples mentioned elsewhere on this page include [[spoiler: "A Small Talent For War", "Gramma", "Shadowman", "The Beacon" and "Need to Know."]]

* {{Dystopia}}: "Examination Day" has [[spoiler:people being killed for scoring too well on government tests.]]

* HenpeckedHusband / SchmuckBait: "Button, Button" has a shrewish wife and down-beaten husband being given a button, which if pressed with give them wealth at the cost of killing a complete stranger.

** Music/ElvisPresley is used as a character in "The Once and Future King"
** UsefulNotes/JohnFKennedy and Nikita Krushchev play important roles in "Profiles in Silver"

* LivingShadow / ThingsThatGoBumpInTheNight: In "The Shadow Man", the murderous titular entity takes up residence under a boy's bed and offers him immunity to his/its attacks. Only it turns out [[spoiler: there's more than one of them...]]

* NotSoImaginaryFriend: "What Are Friends For?", with a young boy meeting another youth in the woods, who turns out to be [[spoiler: an immortal being of light.]]

* TimeStandsStill / UnPaused: Among others, "A Little Peace and Quiet" in the 1985 premiere. Penny, a typical 80's frazzled housewife, finds an amulet that allows her to stop and re-start time with the commands "Shut up!" and "Start talking!"); she abuses this privilege until the next night, when nuclear war between the U.S. and the Soviet Union breaks out.[[labelnote:*]]It's never explicitly stated, but it's at this point that Penny realizes the true purpose of her amulet: Freezing time to get the government officials together and forcing them to "start talking" about nuclear disarmament.[[/labelnote]] Penny is able to freeze time just seconds before [[NightmareFuel her hometown is destroyed by a nuclear missile]].

* DownerEnding: Happens fairly regularly. Examples mentioned elsewhere on this page include [[spoiler: "Gramma", "Shadowman", "The Beacon" and "Need to Know."]]
%%* DreamApocalypse: The remake of "Shadow Play"

%%* {{Dystopia}}: [[spoiler:"Examination Day"]], "To See the Invisible Man"

* HumanAliens: "Small Talent for War" features a race who sowed humanity on Earth in the distant past, and so, yes, we look like punier version of them.

%%* BeCarefulWhatYouWishFor: "The Leprechaun-Artist," "The Library", "Cold Reading".

* DownerEnding: Happens fairly regularly. Examples mentioned elsewhere on this page include "Gramma", "Shadowman", "The Beacon" and "Need to Know."

* FromBadToWorse: The situation in the radio studio in "Cold Reading" as all the jungle-themed adventure-show perils come to actual life; the director has to desperately re-write the show while in progress to head off even worse disasters, including an elephant stampede and a plane crash.

%%* HauntedTechnology: "Her Pilgrim Soul"

* OhCrap: As noted above under FromBadToWorse, in "Cold Reading", when it's pointed out to the director what kind of things are still coming in the jungle-adventure script that his unintentional magic wish has brought to life. And then again at the very end, when he realizes what [[AlienInvasion kind of story]] the announcer is plugging for next week's show.

%%* DealWithTheDevil: "Dealer's Choice," "I of Newton," "Time and Teresa Golowitz," "Crazy As a Soup Sandwich"

%%* EvilOldFolks: "Gramma," written by Creator/HarlanEllison and based on a Creator/StephenKing story inspired by Creator/HPLovecraft.

%%* GrandTheftMe: The end of "[[spoiler:Gramma]]".

%%* HenpeckedHusband: "Button, Button"

* InvisibleJerkass: In "To See the Invisible Man", Mitchell Chaplin is punished by being given an implant that means others have to ignore him and act as if he was not there. He initally does things like walking into a women's change room.
* {{Irony}}: "To See The Invisible Man". The main character is sentenced to a year of invisibility(where others are to shun him or face being shunned themselves) for the crime of 'coldness', yet he and others are forced to be 'cold' towards the 'invisibles'; [[spoiler: In the end he defies this and comforts an 'invisible' woman with whom he had attempted to interact while under punishment.]]

* LivingShadow / ThingsThatGoBumpInTheNight: In "The Shadow Man", the murderous titular entity takes up residence under a boy's bed. Only it turns out [[spoiler: there's more than one of them...]]
* MessageInABottle: "A Saucer of Loneliness"; the eponymous saucer arrives on Earth and passes on its message to an equally-lonely human.

%%* NotSoImaginaryFriend: "What Are Friends For?"

%%* BaseballEpisode: "Extra Innings" .

%%* BrownNote: "Need to Know".

%%* DeadToBeginWith: "Take My Life...Please!"

%%* GoMadFromTheRevelation: "Need to Know".

%%* HumanAliens: "Small Talent for War"

* {{Irony}}: "To See The Invisible Man". The main character is sentenced to a year of invisibility(where others are to shun him or face being shunned themselves) for the crime of 'coldness', yet he and others are forced to be 'cold' towards the 'invisibles'.

* JungleJapes: "Cold Reading" features these coming to life inside a radio broadcast studio, including a native [[JungleDrums beating on a drum]]

%%* TheLittleShopThatWasntThereYesterday: "Wong's Lost and Found Emporium"
%%* LivingShadow: "The Shadow Man"
%%* MessageInABottle: "A Saucer of Loneliness"

%%* MurderousMannequin: The remake of the "The After Hours"

* PersecutedIntellectuals: In the '80s revival episode "Examination Day", the government exterminates anyone who scores too high on a mandatory examination at a young age.
%%* PluckyOfficeGirl: Karen Billings, played by Pam Dawber "But Can She Type".
* TheRemake: Many episodes from the original series were later remade, including "A Kind of Stopwatch" (as "A Little Peace and Quiet" and with elements of "Time Enough at Last" thrown in), "Dead Man's Shoes" ("Dead Women's Shoes"), "Night of the Meek," "Shadow Play," "The After Hours," "Miniature" (as "The Call"), "Penny for Your Thoughts" (as "Vision"), and "A Game of Pool" - in this case using George Clayton Johnson's original script [[spoiler: and its original ending, where the challenger loses]] without informing him, which [[BerserkButton Johnson did]] ''[[BerserkButton not]]'' [[BerserkButton appreciate]]. Also, "One Life, Furnished in Early Poverty" [1980s Revival] has obvious similarities to "Walking Distance" from the original.

%%* TalkingToThemself: "Shatterday"

%%* TimeStandsStill: "A Little Peace and Quiet"

%%* TomatoInTheMirror: [[spoiler:"The After Hours," like the original]]
%%* TownWithADarkSecret: "The Beacon"

* UnPaused: Among others, "A Little Peace and Quiet" in the 1985 premiere. Penny, a typical 80's henpecked housewife, finds an amulet that allows her to stop and re-start time with the commands "Shut up!" and "Start talking!"); she abuses this privilege until the next night, when nuclear war between the U.S. and the Soviet Union breaks out.[[labelnote:*]]It's never explicitly stated, but it's at this point that Penny realizes the true purpose of her amulet: Freezing time to get the government officials together and forcing them to "start talking" about nuclear disarmament.[[/labelnote]] Penny is able to freeze time just seconds before [[NightmareFuel her hometown is destroyed by a nuclear bomb]].

%%* WrongTurnAtAlbuquerque: "The Beacon".

The first revival of ''Series/TheTwilightZone1959'', informally known as ''The New Twilight Zone'', aired for two seasons on Creator/{{CBS}} from 1985-87, and aired a third season in first-run syndication from 1988-89. Although not as successful as the original., it was considered by many to be an often worthy successor.

Unlike the original, the show didn't have an on-camera host, having just a narrator instead. For its first two seasons the narrator was Charles Aidman (who acted in two episodes of the original), and Robin Ward narrated the third season.

* BalancingDeathsBooks: "Welcome to Winfield".
* BaseballEpisode: "Extra Innings" .
* BeCarefulWhatYouWishFor: "The Leprechaun-Artist," "The Library", "Cold Reading".
* TheBlank: "A Matter of Minutes".

* BrownNote: "Need to Know".

* CastFullOfGay: [[spoiler:"Dead Run".]]
* DarkIsNotEvil: "Rendezvous in a Dark Place"
* DeadAllAlong: [[spoiler:"Kentucky Rye"]]
* DeadToBeginWith: "Take My Life...Please!"
* DealWithTheDevil: "Dealer's Choice," "I of Newton," "Time and Teresa Golowitz," "Crazy As a Soup Sandwich"
* DontFearTheReaper: "Rendezvous in a Dark Place."
* DreamApocalypse: The remake of "Shadow Play"
* {{Doppelganger}}: "Shatterday," "The Once and Future King," "The World Next Door," "The Road Less Traveled," "Something in the Walls"
* {{Dystopia}}: [[spoiler:"Examination Day"]], "To See the Invisible Man"
* EvilOldFolks: "Gramma," written by Creator/HarlanEllison and based on a Creator/StephenKing story inspired by Creator/HPLovecraft.

* GoMadFromTheRevelation: "Need to Know".
* GrandTheftMe: The end of "[[spoiler:Gramma]]".
* TheGrimReaper: "Welcome to Winfield," "Rendezvous in a Dark Place"
* HauntedTechnology: "Her Pilgrim Soul"
* HenpeckedHusband: "Button, Button"
* HereWeGoAgain: "A Day in Beaumont," "The Curious Case of Edgar Witherspoon," "The Hellgrammite Method"d "Paladin of the Lost Hour"

* HumanAliens: "Small Talent for War"
* HumanPopsicle: "Quarantine"

* TheLittleShopThatWasntThereYesterday: "Wong's Lost and Found Emporium"
* LivingShadow: "The Shadow Man"
* MessageInABottle: "A Saucer of Loneliness"
* MirrorUniverse: "The World Next Door,” "The Road Less Traveled"
* MurderousMannequin: The remake of the "The After Hours"
* NotSoImaginaryFriend: "What Are Friends For?"
* OntologicalMystery: "Matter of Minutes"

* PassingTheTorch: [[spoiler:"Paladin of the Lost Hour"]]

* PluckyOfficeGirl: Karen Billings, played by Pam Dawber "But Can She Type".

* StableTimeLoop: "One Life, Furnished in Early Poverty," "The Once and Future King," "The Convict's Piano"

* TalkingToThemself: "Shatterday"
* TanksForTheMemories: "The Mind of Simon Foster"
* TimeStandsStill: "A Little Peace and Quiet"
* TimeTravel: "One Life, Furnished in Early Poverty," "Profile in Silver," "The Once and Future King," "Lost and Found," "The Convict's Piano," "Joy Ride," "Time and Teresa Golowitz"
* TomatoInTheMirror: [[spoiler:"The After Hours," like the original]]
* TownWithADarkSecret: "The Beacon"
* TrumanShowPlot: "Special Service"

* TheVietnamWar: "Nightcrawlers" and "The Road Less Travelled."

* {{Wishplosion}}: "The Wish Bank", "I of Newton"
* WrongTurnAtAlbuquerque: "The Beacon".
* YouWillBeBeethoven: "Profile in Silver" and "The Once and Future King"

The first revival of ''Series/TheTwilightZone'', titled ''The New Twilight Zone'' when it was on, aired for two seasons on Creator/{{CBS}} from 1985-87, and aired a third season in first-run syndication from 1988-89. Although not as successful as the original., it was considered by many to be an often worthy successor.

Unlike the original, the show didn't have an on-camera host, having just a narrator instead. For its first two seasons the narrator was Charles Aidman(who acted in two episodes of the original), and Robin Ward narrated the third season.

The first revival of ''TheTwilightZone'', titled ''The New Twilight Zone'' when it was on, aired for two seasons on Creator/{{CBS}} from 1985-87, and aired a third season in first-run syndication from 1988-89. Although not as successful as the original., it was considered by many to be an often worthy successor.

* CastFullOfGay: [[spoiler:"Dead Run".]]

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