Twilight Zone

[IrishEyes]

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Sometimes it feels a little like I'm living in the Twilight Zone. What is your favorite and least favorite episode?

My favorite episode Number 12 Looks Just Like You or Nervous man in a For Dollar Room.

My least favorite is I Sing the Body Electric.

It is really difficult to decide.

[Paladin]

1. I think "To Serve Man" is very well done. (nt)

[rurallib]

2. "Night of the Meek" with Art Carney as Santa is my favorite

just beating out "The Monsters are due on Maple Street"

I join you in saying "I sing the Body Electric" is my least favorite

[frogmarch]

3. "Nothing in the Dark" Robert Redford as Death

Not sure it's my very favorite, but he's sure nice to look at.

[pinboy3niner]

4. You done a good thing there, IrishEyes. A real good thing.

'It's a Good Life' is just one of many of my faves that I'm sure will be mentioned by others here.

One that probably won't be mentioned is an episode with Roddy McDowall. I think he was in several, but I was impressed with his performance in one in particular. All I remember is that he was one of a gang of teens that had a conflict with an adult.

That's all I remember. Please don't send me to the cornfield.

[pressbox69]

6. Wasn't Roddy

he ended up in a cage, a human on display in an alien zoo. His only episode.

[First Speaker]

5. My favorite?..."Dead Man's Shoes"...

...least favorite, the one with Richard Basehart as an astronaut who turns out to be Adam, as in Adam and Eve...a cheap tomato surprise ending that any self-respecting SF editor would have seen coming on the first page of a slush pile manuscript. Generally speaking, I prefer the nitty-gritty, mid-century noirish episodes. And thank God they're all in black-and-white...

[pressbox69]

7. My favorite is The Hitch-hiker.

Least favorite is Black Leather Jackets.

[CrawlingChaos]

10. Excellent choices

I love the Hitchhiker and Black Leather Jackets was one of the worst episodes, for sure.

[IcyPeas]

8. the one where the little girl

falls through the wall to another dimension. I don't know what it's called.

Also "To Serve Man".

[Paladin]

15. That's "Little Girl Lost."

Based on a short story by the great Richard Matheson. And I'm with you---it's one of the best shows in the series.

[Aristus]

9. All-time favorite: "Time Enough At Last" with Burgess Merideth.

Least favorite: I don't even know the title, but the antagonists were tiny, little pint-sized aliens who intimidated the Earthlings with giant inflatable 'alien' puppets. Truly stupid episode...

[CrawlingChaos]

12. HA! Was it called "The Fear"?

This one?

[Aristus]

16. That was it!

Thank you.

[greymouse]

13. another vote for Time Enough at Last

I can still see him sitting on those steps.

[Ron Obvious]

18. You reminded me of my least favourite

I didn't immediately know what my least favourite episode was, but your description reminded me, though it's a different episode.

It's the one where tiny "aliens" land near a humble shack and are immediately chased and struck with a broom by a simple, terrified country woman (Elizabeth Montgomery, I think). This goes on for a pointless 22.5 minutes until it is revealed at the end that the "aliens" are in fact earthlings in a NASA rocket who manage to transmit a warning back home to earth that this planet and its inhabitants are far too dangerous to visit.

My favourite? Eye of the beholder:

I loved Time Enough at Last ("No, that's not fair!&quot as well.

[TexasBushwhacker]

27. The actress in the tiny aliens was Agnes Moorhead

Who played Elizabeth Montgomery's mother on "Bewitched".

[Ron Obvious]

28. Duh!

I just realised that after posting... Well, I was 1/2 right about the Bewitched connection anyway, and Elizabeth Montgomery was in another Twilight Zone episode with Charles Bronson.

[CrawlingChaos]

11. I can't do one... I have to do a list

Favorites:

The Monsters are Due on Maple Street
Will the Real Martian Please Stand Up
The After Hours
Stopover in a Quiet Town
Night Call
The Hitch-Hiker
Nightmare as a Child
Nick of Time

Least Favorite:

Black Leather Jackets
In Praise of Pip
Cavender is Coming
The Incredible World of Horace Ford

[mucifer]

14. I like a lot of the ones mentioned also the Carol Burnett episode

was really good. They did the same episode with a male protagonist, too which I enjoyed. The theme is that it's better to be poor with lots of friends and happy than rich and lonely. Both episodes had lots of humor.

I think overall the one hour long episodes were tedious. Although the hitler one was interesting. It would have been better if it was a half hour long.

[My Good Babushka]

17. After Hours

with Anne Francis.
I would love to see the original scripts from the Twilight Zone done with a contemporary cast. It would be a sci-fi and a retro period piece at the same time!

[Ron Obvious]

19. Another favourite

There are almost too many to mention, but this is another favourite:

"Room for one more, honey"

[IrishEyes]

20. I love this one.

One time I fell asleep while watching a twilight zone marathon. I woke up just as the nurse said "Room for one more, honey". It was a little creepy.

[edbermac]

21. Agree with everyone, will add Deaths-Head Revisited

Very powerful.

[pressbox69]

22. Yes it was.

Are you the caretaker here Becker?

[Upthevibe]

23. A Stop At Willoughby is one of my very favorites. Also several ones mentioned here:

The maple street one, the good day one, the quiet town, and a lot more. Can't think of my least favorite right now.

[Upthevibe]

24. Twilight Zone on now and I forgot to mention another one of my favs.:

Walking Distance. Soooo good!

[IrishEyes]

25. I almost picked A Stop at Willoughby.

I really like that episode.

[pressbox69]

26. I Sometimes feel that Walking Distance is Willloughby without the train.

Both are from season one.

[cloudbase]

29. The Thirty Fathom Grave is one of my favorites.

I think what made the series so good is Serling's grasp of human nature, along with the ability to weave it into a story.