Timberline Lodge – Twilight Zone Death Connection
Let’s look at a few connections. We will start with…
The Shining
In the movie The Shining, Jack Torrance, played by Jack Nicholson, and his wife and son drive up to The Overlook Lodge for a peaceful winter rest. The Overlook Lodge is actually…
The Timberline Lodge
Exterior shots for The Shining were filmed at the real-life Timberline Lodge, Mt. Hood, Oregon.
World War III
The Timberline Lodge was used as a filming location for 1982’s World War III, starring Rock Hudson, David Soul, Brian Keith, and Cathy Lee Crosby. Initial filming of World War III was directed by veteran director Boris Sagal.
Here is Boris Sagal
Helicopter Crash
In 1981, while filming World War III, Boris Sagal was killed in a helicopter accident in the parking lot of the Timberline Lodge. He accidentally walked into the helicopter’s rear rotor.
Boris Sagal and Katey Sagal
As a side note, Boris Sagal was the father of the ever-lovely Katey Sagal.
Combat! and Vic Morrow
Boris Sagal began his directing career with the TV show Combat! which starred actor Vic Morrow.
Vic Morrow and The Twilight Zone Movie (released 1983)
Vic Morrow starred in the ill-fated Twilight Zone Movie, in which he was killed in a helicopter crash, along with two child actors.
Sagal and The Twilight Zone (1961)
Boris Sagal, some twenty years earlier, had directed a (real, Rod Serling-era) Twilight Zone episode…
“The Arrival”
The episode, aired in 1961, was called The Arrival. It was a genuinely creepy story about a plane lands at an airport without pilots, passengers or luggage.
- Timberline Twilight Zone Video (1.000)
- POM Juice and the Vietnam War (1.000)
- Kahn, Khan, and Thermonuclear War (1.000)