Twilight Zone Episode - The Shelter

[cosermann]

Anyone remember this episode? It's on YouTube. Interesting stuff. Fiction of course. Just one suggestion mind you. People have responded to various disasters in widely varying ways in the past; some pretty civilized, some pretty uncivilized.

Good old Jack Albertson.

 

[printcraft]

Anyone remember this episode? It's on YouTube. Interesting stuff. Fiction of course. Just one suggestion mind you. People have responded to various disasters in widely varying ways in the past; some pretty civilized, some pretty uncivilized.

Good old Jack Albertson.

I don't remember if that was the newer twilight zone series or outer limits
but is was something to the effect that the guy with the shelter was a
ass and there was accident at a close military base with a nuclear warhead.
Basically he sealed himself in and thought the people outside were trying to
get in to get his stuff. It was a rescue party. He was sealed inside of a dome
to encase the radioactive material, basically buried alive for all time.

 

[Scutter01]

I don't remember if that was the newer twilight zone series or outer limits
but is was something to the effect that the guy with the shelter was a
ass and there was accident at a close military base with a nuclear warhead.
Basically he sealed himself in and thought the people outside were trying to
get in to get his stuff. It was a rescue party. He was sealed inside of a dome
to encase the radioactive material, basically buried alive for all time.

I remember that one. That was a great episode. It was from the newer Twilight Zone.

 

[Colt556]

A lot of the Twilight Zone episodes had similar story lines. I liked the one that had Charles Bronson and Elizabeth Montgomery (Bewitched) as the only survivors of WWIII and from opposite sides. They tried to kill each other but in the end they went off in the sunset in coexistence. I believe neither one of them spoke during the episode or at least very little. There were so many good ones made. All had a moral to them. Rod Stirling was a genius.

 

[cosermann]

I'm thinking of the September 1961 episode. Here are the links for convenience (in 3 parts):

YouTube - Best Twilight Zone EVER made (1of3)
YouTube - The Twilight Zone-The Shelter-(2/3)
YouTube - The Twilight Zone-The Shelter-(3/3)

 

[WinChoke]

Not quite.

The family with a bomb shelter ca late 1950s was basically overrun and invaded eventually by neighbors who felt that they should be allowed in.

There are several TZ episodes with a similar theme.

There are also stories of WWII gas chambers where, instead of randomly spaced bodies of victims were found, they were piled in a heap with the strongest at the top who, allegedly, climbed their way up to the top in an effort to prolong their own lives. I cannot confirm these stories, however, they are compelling in regard to self-preservation.

I don't remember if that was the newer twilight zone series or outer limits
but is was something to the effect that the guy with the shelter was a
ass and there was accident at a close military base with a nuclear warhead.
Basically he sealed himself in and thought the people outside were trying to
get in to get his stuff. It was a rescue party. He was sealed inside of a dome
to encase the radioactive material, basically buried alive for all time.

 

[Scutter01]

Not quite.

The family with a bomb shelter ca late 1950s was basically overrun and invaded eventually by neighbors who felt that they should be allowed in.

There are several TZ episodes with a similar theme.

There are also stories of WWII gas chambers where, instead of randomly spaced bodies of victims were found, they were piled in a heap with the strongest at the top who, allegedly, climbed their way up to the top in an effort to prolong their own lives. I cannot confirm these stories, however, they are compelling in regard to self-preservation.

No, he's definitely talking about the newer Twilight Zone ep where they redid that script. It's true that the topic was redone several ways, but the way he described it fits exactly the one I'm thinking of.

 

[Scutter01]

Shelter Skelter - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

 

[WinChoke]

I seem to recall Jack Albertson, whom the OP mentioned, in the original.

No, he's definitely talking about the newer Twilight Zone ep where they redid that script. It's true that the topic was redone several ways, but the way he described it fits exactly the one I'm thinking of.

 

[Scutter01]

I seem to recall Jack Albertson, whom the OP mentioned, in the original.

I was responding to printcraft's comments.

 

[printcraft]

I was responding to printcraft's comments.

printcraft is always causing trouble. He's kind of an ass like that.
goes off half cocked.

 

[Scutter01]

printcraft is always causing trouble. He's kind of an ass like that.
goes off half cocked.

Too much cabbage.

 

[ar15_dude]

Cosermann,
Thanks for posting the actual videos. I rather enjoyed watching.

 

[cosermann]

You're welcome!