49 episodes
Dreams for Sale: Twilight Zone '85 Weirding Way Media
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4.4 • 8 Ratings
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Dreams for Sale focuses on the revival of Rod Serling's The Twilight Zone in the mid-'80s. This anthology show brought together a host of diverse talent including Harlan Ellison, Wes Craven, William Friedkin, Rockne S. O'Bannon, and more. Episodes are hosted by Chris Stachiw (Kulture Shocked), Mike White (The Projection Booth), and Father Malone (Dark Destinations).
Dreams for Sale theme song courtesy of Roxi Drive and Neutron Dreams - learn more at https://soundcloud.com/roxidrive and https://soundcloud.com/user-381591616
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Episode 47: Crazy as a Soup Sandwich / Special Service / Father & Son Game
Crazy as a Soup Sandwich stars Tony Franciosa as a crime boss who seeks aid from the genuine underworld. Adapted by Harlan Ellison from his short story.
Special Service stars David Naughton as a man who discovers that his life is the subject of a popular television show.
Father & Son Game features a man seeking eternal life but must contend with the dilemma of when life ends: the mind or the heart. -
Episode 46: Many, Many Monkeys / Love is Blind
Many, Many Monkeys concerns a nurse investigating an outbreak of blindness and the horrifying cause. Love is Blind is a tale of second chances when a jealous husband stops in the wrong bar to drown his sorrows.
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Episode 45: Cat and Mouse / Rendezvous in a Dark Place
Cat and Mouse is a tale of a mousey spinster whose new cat might be the man of her dreams.
Rendezvous in a Dark Place stars legend Janet Leigh as a death obsessed woman who finds herself face to face with Death itself. -
Episode 44: The Mind of Simon Foster / The Wall
The Mind of Simon Foster features Bruce Weitz as a man with nothing to offer the world except his memories. Luckily for him, memories are a hot commodity.
The Wall is a tale of a test pilot who breaches a portal and finds himself in a utopian world. Or is it? -
Episode 43: A Game of Pool / Room 2426
A Game of Pool is a remake of a classic Twilight Zone by George Clayton Johnson and stars Esai Morales as a hustler whose wish to play the best opponent comes true.
Room 2426 stars Dean Stockwell as a scientist who finds himself in an unusual prison that can only be escaped by a bizarre method. -
Episode. 42: Street of Shadows / Something in the Walls
Street of Shadows stars Charles Haid as a desperate husband and how one wrong move can turn your life upside down. Something in the Walls is a riff on The Yellow Wallpaper and concerns an asylum patient who can see movement behind the walls.
Customer Reviews
Fun podcast
I love 80’s anthologies and grew up watching this one! I love how it’s a discussion around the show itself rather than trying to compare to the original TZ (of which I’m a huge fan). I recommend this podcast to TZ, anthology, and sci-fi fans!
Disappointed
I was so very excited to see a podcast about the much maligned 80’s Twilight Zone series. They expressed how much they like the show…then consistently tell us how they could write it better, direct it better, and, conceive it better. Mostly they complain about it’s length of story…the world did not live in 60 second snippets like it does today. They also dislike how “condescending” the show was as well. Odd for the condescending way they speak of the show. It seems to me that they could do with understanding its impact on the time period of when it was produced. It was not perfect for sure…but when it was coming out weekly it was so edgy it was pulled from it’s time slot (that was inappropriate for its material) because of the Nightcrawler (episode 4c) being too much for a family show. The show was ahead of its time for its time. I’ll do my own podcast on the series…less condescending, written better, directed better, and certainly conceived better.
So Negative. Not fun at all.
I really wanted to like this podcast. It inspired me to watch this series, which was great, and I had the idea that I would go back and forth watching the series then listening to the commentary for each episode. I had to stop listening after I watched A Message From Charity, which moved me. I thought, surely they’ll like this one! But nope. The criticism was so harsh. The hosts hate just about everything and it got so tiring to hear. Such a bummer because the project had so much potential. Adding a star because the hosts are very knowledgeable and inspired me to watch this classic series.