The original Twiight Zone had 156 episodes?

[Archae]

Yes! It did!

No wonder there are so many that are so memorable.

[Phoenix61]

1. It's amazing how many great

actors and actresses are in them. I remember one where Robert Redford plays death. He couldn't have been much over 20 years old.

[sarge43]

14. Indeed. A stellar collection

https://www.rottentomatoes.com/gallery/before-they-were-stars-24-actors-from-the-twilight-zone/editorial-10266499

[Irish_Dem]

2. I think I saw every episode. My favorite show growing up.

Next to I Love Lucy.

[left-of-center2012]

10. I did not like Lucy ...

Bawling all the time!

[Irish_Dem]

11. I know, but when I was 5 and 6 yrs old it was my favorite show.

I didn't have a sophisticated palette then.

[MustLoveBeagles]

3. This show is a true classic

Many of the story lines are still relevant today.

[RandomAccess]

9. Universality

In literary criticism (and life in general), the quality of involving or being shared by all people or things in the world or in a particular group.

The BEST literature, film, theater, etc. has this quality. If it doesn't, it doesn't last long.

[Skittles]

4. oh how I LOVE a Twilight (correct spelling!) Zone marathon

just a super treat

[wyldwolf]

5. Yet everytime I stumble across it I see the same two or three episodes! LOL!

[Cirque du So-What]

6. That could be an episode in itself

The Repeating Episodes

[Irish_Dem]

12. Yes, he has now entered the Twilight Zone.

Ground Hog Day loop.

[Hoyt]

7. Some of them still haunt me, and I learned a few things about life from a couple of episodes too.

The rest of them were something to anticipate and enjoy.

[Irish_Dem]

13. I screamed in horror at the end of the To Serve Man episode.

When we saw the alien cook book.
I was 9 yrs old.

Twilight Zone helped me think outside the box.
I learned basic reasoning as I always tried to guess the twist
at the end beforehand. And to look for things that are hidden
from view.

[First Speaker]

8. Yes, many are memorable...and many, to be honest, aren't...

...I think what helps is the black and white. It gives the series a noirish feel, and it ran at the end of the Noir Era--1959-64. The best shows are the ones that took place in the Then-and-Now, the "contemporary" episodes like Dead Man's Shoes, or What You Need. (Which was, by the way, based on a Henry Kuttner story. Many of the best episodes were based on, or written by, "modern" SF and fantasy writers, like Kuttner, Richard Matheson, and Charles Beaumont.) For the most part, the quality of the far out stories--alien planets, or the far future--weren't as good, though of course there are exceptions. And they were the ones most likely to depend on cheap surprise endings, which any experienced SF editor could see coming on the first page if it was a story. At one point, they even had the Adam-and-Eve-were-spacemen ending! Still, the series at its best was unforgettable...