Episode list :
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SEASON 1 (1985./1986.)
- 1.01 --- Shatterday
- 1.02 --- A Little Peace and Quiet
- 1.03 --- Wordplay
- 1.04 --- Dreams for Sale
- 1.05 --- Chameleon
- 1.06 --- The Healer
- 1.07 --- Children's Zoo
- 1.08 --- Kentucky Rye
- 1.09 --- Little Boy Lost
- 1.10 --- Wish Bank
- 1.11 --- Nightcrawlers
- 1.12 --- If She Dies
- 1.13 --- Ye Gods
- 1.14 --- Examination Day
- 1.15 --- A Message from Charity
- 1.16 --- Teacher's Aide
- 1.17 --- Paladin of the Lost Hour
- 1.18 --- Act Break
- 1.19 --- The Burning Man
- 1.20 --- Dealer's Choice
- 1.21 --- Dead Woman's Shoes
- 1.22 --- Wong's Lost and Found Emporium
- 1.23 --- The Shadow Man
- 1.24 --- The Uncle Devil Show
- 1.25 --- Opening Day
- 1.26 --- The Beacon
- 1.27 --- One Life, Furnished in Early Poverty
- 1.28 --- Her Pilgrim Soul
- 1.29 --- I of Newton
- 1.30 --- Night of the Meek
- 1.31 --- But Can She Type ?
- 1.32 --- The Star
- 1.33 --- Still Life
- 1.34 --- The Little People of Killany Woods
- 1.35 --- The Misfortune Cookie
- 1.36 --- Monsters !
- 1.37 --- A Small Talent for War
- 1.38 --- A Matter of Minutes
- 1.39 --- The Elevator
- 1.40 --- To See the Invisible Man
- 1.41 --- Tooth and Consequences
- 1.42 --- Welcome to Winfield
- 1.43 --- Quarantine
- 1.44 --- Gramma
- 1.45 --- Personal Demons
- 1.46 --- Cold Reading
- 1.47 --- The Leprechaun-Artist
- 1.48 --- Dead Run
- 1.49 --- Profile in Silver
- 1.50 --- Button, Button
- 1.51 --- Need to Know
- 1.52 --- Red Snow
- 1.53 --- Take My Life...Please !
- 1.54 --- The Devil's Alphabet
- 1.55 --- The Library
- 1.56 --- Shadow Play
- 1.57 --- Grace Note
- 1.58 --- A Day in Beaumont
- 1.59 --- The Last Defender of Camelot
- Season 1 awards (1/4)
- Season 1 awards (2/4)
- Season 1 awards (3/4)
- Season 1 awards (4/4)
- 2.01 --- The Once and Future King
- 2.02 --- A Saucer of Loneliness
- 2.03 --- What are Friends For ?
- 2.04 --- Aqua Vita
- 2.05 --- The Storyteller
- 2.06 --- Nightsong
- 2.07 --- The After Hours
- 2.08 --- Lost and Found
- 2.09 --- The World Next Door
- 2.10 --- The Toys of Caliban
- 2.11 --- The Convict's Piano
- 2.12 --- The Road Less Traveled
- 2.13 --- The Card
- 2.14 --- The Junction
- 2.15 --- Joy Ride
- 2.16 --- Shelter Skelter
- 2.17 --- Private Channel
- 2.18 --- Time and Teresa Golowitz
- 2.19 --- Voices in the Earth
- 2.20 --- Song of the Younger World
- 2.21 --- The Girl I Married
- Season 2 awards
- 3.01 --- The Curious Case of Edgar Witherspoon
- 3.02 --- Extra Innings
- 3.03 --- The Crossing
- 3.04 --- The Hunters
- 3.05 --- Dream Me a Life
- 3.06 --- Memories
- 3.07 --- The Hellgramite Method
- 3.08 --- Our Selena is Dying
- 3.09 --- The Call
- 3.10 --- The Trance
- 3.11 --- Acts of Terror
- 3.12 --- 20/20 Vision
- 3.13 --- There was an Old Woman
- 3.14 --- The Trunk
- 3.15 --- Appointment on Route 17
- 3.16 --- The Cold Equations
- 3.17 --- Stranger in Possum Meadows
- 3.18 --- Street of Shadows
- 3.19 --- Something in the Walls
- 3.20 --- A Game of Pool
- 3.21 --- The Wall
- 3.22 --- Room 2426
- 3.23 --- The Mind of Simon Foster
- Season 3 awards (1/2)
SEASON 2 (1986./1987.)
SEASON 3 (1988./1989.)
Comments on "1.24 --- The Uncle Devil Show"
Anybody who has children and has worried about what they see on TV would appreciate this episode. Even though it is somewhat bizarre, it is one of the funnier stories in all of Twilight Zone.
It takes typical parental anxiety to an extreme. I didn't get the joke when I was a kid.
On revisiting the 1985 run of TZ, I found that this was actually one of my favorite episodes ever. It's short, snappy, and doesn't belabor its point (apart from the repeated lines about "parental supervision"). It comes out as a sort of surreal mix of Ray Bradbury's short story "The Veldt" and the Simpson's "Itchy and Scratchy Show."
This is one comedic episode that tickles the funny bone and is a humorous take on how television could be a bad influence of children and parents not giving a care.
It also funny on the irony of the parents taking about how some bad parents are when not realizing the mayhem their son is causing.
I watched much of the original 1985-1987 run of TZ live on CBS as a teenager, but must have missed this episode entirely -- looks like it aired around Thanksgiving in the US. So I'm seeing it now for the first time on the DVD re-release.
Man. That's trippy.
Also, watching these straight through, that's the Devil showing up in 3 of 6 segments (going back to Burning Man/Dealer's Choice, which aired back to back).
I now have a kid a little older than Little Joey, and, yeah. This is definitely a parent's-worst-nightmare in comedy format.
Not at the all-time-great level of "Dealer's Choice", but it's so over-the-top that you can't help but laugh at the end.
A solid silver with some interesting things to say in a funny way, could be better esp updated as a scathing critique of today's clueless parents.
Eeeehhhh. So-so. I'll give it a nod for the cool title!