more retro rewinds

“The Twilight Zone”

(MeTV, Sunday, Oct. 16): Speaking of Halloween season, this channel continues its all-month salute to it with a mini-marathon of Rod Serling’s classic series that made a deep dive into the supernatural. Ten notable episodes are presented, ending with one of the most famous – “Nightmare at 20,00 Feet,” with William Shatner as an airplane passenger understandably agitated to see a bizarre creature perched on the wing of the craft while it’s in flight. The story was remade for a 1983 movie and the “Twilight Zone” reboot done several TV seasons ago.

“Love Story”

(Paramount+, streaming): More than 50 years later, love still means never having to say you’re sorry. This enormously popular 1970 drama centers on the romance of wealthy college-hockey player Oliver (Ryan O’Neal) and “smart and poor” music student Jenny (Ali MacGraw, who didn’t make all that many movies after this). Erich Segal’s screenplay was turned into a bestselling novel first.

“Time Tunnel”

(Decades, Saturday, Oct. 22): One of several 1960s sci-fi series that Irwin Allen produced before he became the king of disaster movies, this adventure – getting all-weekend “Decades Binge” treatment – casts James Darren and Robert Colbert as scientists who travel through said tunnel, which thrusts them into major events in history. Among the situations they find themselves in: the first manned flight to Mars, the Eve of the Pearl Harbor attack, and Custer’s Last Stand.

“Dr. Goldfoot and the Bikini Machine”

(Turner Classic Movies, Saturday, Oct. 22): There’s something – actually, a lot – that’s wonderfully ridiculous about this 1965 spy satire, presented as part of TCM’s salute to films about robots. It mashes up the espionage genre and the American International studio’s teen movies that were so popular at the time, with Frankie Avalon as a secret agent out to stop the diabolical Dr. Goldfoot (an ideally cast Vincent Price) from dispatching attractive humanoids to upset the balance of the world’s wealth.