Talk:Need to Know (The Twilight Zone)

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I know nothing about The Twilight Zone, but I rather suspect that this should be cleaned up somewhat - as it is unclear what the article refers to (it is presumably an episode summary, but I'm not sure), and in any case there is not a great deal of information here. I'd mark it as a stub - but I'm not even certain whether that would be appropriate, due to lack of knowledge. Angus Lepper 15:56, 1 November 2006 (UTC)

You are corrrect that this is a page dedicated to a particular episode of the Twilight Zone's first revival. The original series aired in the late 1950s-early 1960s. The first revival, as what this episode is from, aired in the mid to late 1980s. The difference between the original and the first revival is that all airtimes were dedicated to one episode in the original and the first revival, particularly the first season, sometimes had more than one story or episode per airtime. In other words, the airtime would be one hour, and they might have two or three stories, which they called segments. This particular episode, was the first segment of a particular episode during the first season. That is possibly why you think there isn't a lot to the page. However, most of the Twilight Zone individual episode pages are similar to this one. Some have chosen to include the opening and closing narration (if an episode had either, sometimes they didn't). Some pages are stubs, some episodes haven't even been given pages yet. I personally have been watching the episodes so that I can to try to flesh these pages out or correct any problems. Tmkeffer71 (talk) 08:15, 10 April 2009 (UTC)

Pontypool connection exaggerated
The prominent mention of the movie Pontypool implies a closer parallel to this episode than actually exists, in my opinion. In "Need to Know," the deadly element is the actual information (the meaning of life) that is whispered to the next victim. In Pontypool, the virus is contained in certain types of speech, such as terms of endearment. The former is philosophical humor, the latter is more typical of the viral-horror films that began with the 2004 remake of Dawn of the Dead. There are other uses of this type of spoken-virus storyline, for example Deep Space Nine: "Babel" from 1993, in which the first symptom of a spreading disease is aphasia, the inability to speak intelligibly. ProfessorAndro (talk) 19:46, 28 November 2011 (UTC)