Favorite Twilightzone episode...

[Nazgul35]

mine has to be the one where Burgess Meridith suvives the atomic war and breaks his glasses...I love to read and felt that one....

the other was the one where Burgess was a libarian who was obsolete and could choose his method of execution....

[Jim Sagle]

1. "Little Girl Lost", in which a girl falls into another dimension

through a dining room wall. The story was stolen and put into "Poltergeist."

[Cat Atomic]

41. Good one- yep. Written by Richard Matheson (I Am Legend)

He also wrote Nightmare at 20,000 Feet, where William Shatner sees the thing tearing up the wing of the airliner he's riding in... and a bunch of other episodes. He's great.

[liberalmuse]

2. I haven't seen them all...

but my favorite is 'Eye of The Beholder'. I saw it when I was about 3 or 4 and didn't understand what it was, but it scared the crap out of me. For years I tried to figure out what that show was with the monstrous-looking doctors and nurses. When I saw it in a marathon a few years ago, I was so thrilled.

[Supply Side Jesus]

9. wasn't that from "The Outter Limits?"

I could be wrong.

[rasputin1952]

13. "Eye of the Beholder" is a classic TZ...

In fact, Donna Douglas, (Ellie Mae Clampett, is the one that is held as the "ugly one". She is downright gorgeous in that episode!

:bounce:

[Supply Side Jesus]

27. I stand corrected

she was hot!

killer episode though

[Catch22Dem]

3. When I saw the thread title

The "broken glasses" episode was the one I was going to reply with. Good call.

[CanuckAmok]

4. I like the one with...

the asshole guy who became wealthy and famous, and invited his personal enemies to a bunker to safely watch a (faked, known only to him) nuclear exchange between the US and USSR. His conditoon is that they had to admit they were wrong and he was right. They all decided they'd rather die in the war than be safe with him, and abandon him in his luxury bunker.

He goes stark raving ga-ga...

[mac56]

5. "Escape Clause"

David Wayne as a guy who makes a deal with the devil for immortality. He gets cocky and kills another guy, believing he can't be executed. But his attorney gets him life in prison!

Dee-dee-dee-dee, dee-dee-dee-deee......

[NoPasaran]

6. The one where

A scientist, alarmed as his world spirals toward destruction in a climate of war and hatred manages to get his family on a rocket ship. Of course, they are headed for Earth.

[booksenkatz]

7. To Serve Man: A Cookbook

Actually, I can't think of a bad TZ episode, they're all fantastic! I was a huge Serling fan even when I was just a little girl.

[JailBush]

12. VERY Republican!

Aliens visit Earth, claiming to be on a mission of friendship. They even bring with them a book titled "To Serve Man." They've already got a bunch of Earthlings rounded up for a friendly trip to their home planet when someone manages to interpret the book - it's a cookbook!

Don't the aliens remind you of Republicans?! There used to be a fabulous animation of To Serve Man on the Internet. I promoted the Hell out of it on one of my political sites. Maybe that's why it's no longer online.

[Vitruvius]

29. and it was written by Harlan Ellison,

the noted science fiction writer (and life-long Democrat).

[seventhson]

8. The guy with the hunting dog who drowns and the gatekeeper won't let

him into heaven with his dog.

He decides to go to the other place.

I have not seen that one in YEARS. I always look for it. It is the BEST.

Incident at Owl Creek Bridge (Ambrose Bearce) done by Serling is also an amazing piece - guy escapes a hanging AND RUNS TO HIS LOvER.

NO SPOILERS HERE - look for them

[ronzo]

15. Great episode. "The Hunt"

one of my favorites, too.

[goobergunch]

17. Never seen that one

:(

[xcentrik]

25. Unfortunately...

Occurence at Own Creek Bridge was actually a french film that they picked up (can't remember the name of the director). The director did another based on Bierce about a deag child at the battle of Chickamauga.

[BigMcLargehuge]

10. I like the one with the brotherhood who have the devil trapped in a closet

and the guy lets him out.

[Paul Hood]

39. The Howling Man

[Supply Side Jesus]

11. The soldier who forsee who dies next .

That one was great.

[neuvocat]

14. The one where that guy found out he was really Satan!

Ok, there never was a twilight zone like that.

:evilgrin:

[kyrasdad]

16. Agnes Moorhead fighting off the "alien"

And the alien turns out to be us....

[ronzo]

18. "Midnight sun"

Where the Earth is getting closer to the Sun... good one.

[THUNDER HANDS]

19. c'mon, the best one was...

WILLIAM SHATNER, terror at 30,000 feet.

:)

[Gman]

20. The guy on the small commuter plane that kept seeing the monster

peeking at him through the window.

I'd forgotten all about it until the first time I got on a small commuter plane that seated maybe 16 people with one window seat on each side of the aisle. The girl across from me, who was flying on a commuter plane also for the first time, mentioned that the whole scene reminded her of that episode. We laughed about it the whole trip.

[nuxvomica]

21. "It's a good life"

I think that was the title though I'm sure someone will happily correct me if I'm wrong. Billy Mumy was a kid with the power to create and destroy at will. He could read people's minds so they had to always think good thoughts. They rehashed it in the movie version but not as well. When our company was merged with a competitor and I was transferred to the installation out in the boonies, I told people I had been "banished to the cornfield."

[ronzo]

24. yeah.

Another great episode. Bastard, Will Robinson, Bastard!

[rasputin1952]

22. I loved all of the episodes of TZ...

many of them stand out but one has always been my favorite: "The Gift".

Guy shows up in a Mexican town after a crash in the desert. Couple of cops have been accidentally killed, and the stranger is wounded. Only person in town who trusts the stranger is a kid. Serious searching goes on for the stranger.

Near the end, the stranger gives the kid a booklet, and tells him to give it to the doctor, "He'll understand", the stranger says. Someone grabs the booklet and another shouts, "The Devil's words are in that book"! The booklet is set afire by a scared mob with a torch; all that survives is the front cover, and the title page. Dr opens book and reads, "Greetings to the people of earth we come in Peace, and offer you this Gift, 'The Cure to all Human Cancers' ". The following pages have since been burned by the mob.

Left an indelible mark on me when I saw that the first time.

O8)

[ronzo]

23. Did anybody ever see the one w/ Dennis Hopper as a neo-nazi?

I've only seen it once. It's one of the hour long episodes.

[xcentrik]

26. "My name is Talky Tina

and I don't like you..."

[goobergunch]

28. Talking Tina, IIRC (n/t)

[arwalden]

43. Definitely the Talky Tina episode. --- And the "Robot Nanny"...

... episode was good too.

[onebigbadwulf]

30. Rich men betting

These guys are sitting around in a country club type place. And the young guy does nothing but talk all day. Well the old guy gets frustrated and makes a bet with the young guy saying "I will give you 100,000 dollars" (probably the equivalent of 1-10mill today) if you don't say a word for another year. So they agree and the young guy goes into a chamber for a year.

The old guy keeps trying to sabatage the young guy by saying that his wife left him and so forth.

Anyway a year ends and the young guy comes out to claim his prize, when the old man tells him that he doesn't have the money to pay him.

Then the young guy starts crying when he says that he went to the doctor just before the bet start to have his vocal chords removed to win.

[CanuckAmok]

34. I loved that one...

it was all about the "honour" of old money, versus the crass neuveu riche. And in the end, old money welched on the bet (how crass!), and neuveau riche was so honourable he had himself scarred for life.

Great stuff, that!

[Skittles]

31. the astronauts

but there were THREE OF US !!!

[Nailzberg]

32. "Nothing in the Dark"

That's the one with Robert Redford and the old woman afraid of death.

[populistmom]

33. I adore the Twilight Zone

I kind of like the one with the old lady getting the weird phone calls and it turns out it was her dead fiance from when she was young. Thta was the first onethat jumped into my head, but I don't think there isn't any that I don't like.

[tom_paine]

35. "A Small Talent for War" -- 1980s Twilight Zone

This episode was amazingly good, with a fantastic twist ending

(it better have to vault it above the originals!)

The story takes place in the security council of the UN, where everyone is arguing about the alien ship that has materialized.

In the midst of the bickering an alien "beams down". He informs the Security Council that his race is responsible for life on Earth, having seeded it and many other worlds 2 million years ago.

But they've been watching us and are disappointed. You see, we have a "small talent for war". They have watched our petty border disputes, our wars and the nuclear balance of terror which precludes any real victory and they despair for they bred us for far finer things, says the alien ambassador.

As a result, the alien demolition crew is going to put an end to the experiment and thus the human race. The US ambassador begs for just 24 hours "to show the promise that you saw in us 2 million years ago."

The alien ambassador shrugs his shoulders and says, "I don't know what you could possibly do in that short a time, but you have your 24 hours."

So the UN works feverishly overnight, cobbling together old treaties and creating a blueprint for Total Peace on Earth. After a day of this, they have it done, and are congratulating themselves and shaking hands (this was during the Cold War, so there was plenty of US/Soviet comaraderie here).

The alien ambasaador reappears and the US ambassador happily hands him the big document, "The human race has finally made common cause against our primitive savagery."

The alien ambassador leafs through the document cursorily, then begins to laugh. The human ambassadors join him, happy they are going to live. Right up until the alien says, "I fear you have misunderstood me."

In the shocked and stunned silnece he continues, "My people breed WARRIORS, gentlemen, warriors to fight for us across the galaxy. You're pirmitive savagery is an issue here but it has not bred true.

"You fight erratically and clumsily. You're weapons are shcokingly crude and what's worst...you long for peace. But I thank you for a most amusing day. You people have a delightful sense of the absurd. As your fine Earth actor Edwin Wynn once said, 'Dying is easy; comedy is hard.'"

And darkness falls on humanity and the Earth.

Fantastic, eh?

[prolesunited]

36. Here's what this thread needs.

The Original Twilight Zone Episode List
http://tzone.the-croc.com/twilight1.html

Sample (One of my favorites, obviously a reflection of my childhood)

"The Bewitchin' Pool"

Writer: Earl Hamner, Jr.
Director: Joseph M. Newman
Producer: William Froug
Director of Photography: George T. Clemens
Music: stock
Cast:
Sport: Mary Badham
Jeb: Tim Stafford
Aunt T: Georgia Simmons

"A swimming pool not unlike any other pool, a structure built of tile and cement and money, a backyard toy for the affluent, wet entertainment for the well-to-do. But to Jeb and Sport Sharewood, this pool holds mysteries not dreamed of by the building contractor, not guaranteed in any sales brochure. For this pool has a secret exit that leads to a never-neverland, a place designed for junior citizens who need a long voyage away from reality, into the bottomless regions of the Twilight Zone."

Jeb and Sport follow a boy into their swimming pool. They emerge in a paradise of happy children, presided over by Aunt T, a loving old lady. She explains this is a haven for children who's parents don't love them. Sport objects, saying their parents love them. Believing there arrival was a mistake, she sends them back home. When they arrive, their parents tell them they are getting a divorce, and they must choose which parent to live with. Rather than choose, they dive back into the pool and return to Aunt T forever.

"A brief epilogue for concerned parents. Of course, there isn't any such place as the gingerbread house of Aunt T, and we grownups know there's no door at the bottom of a swimming pool that leads to a secret place. But who can say how real the fantasy world of lonely children can become? For Jeb and Sport Sharewood, the need for love turned fantasy into reality; they found a secret place - in the Twilight Zone."

[Lydia Leftcoast]

37. The ventriloquist's dummy

who takes on a life of his own.

The gangster who dies and to his surprise, ends up in a place of absolutely luxury.

The man who falls asleep on a train and wakes up to find the world deserted, except for the distant laughter of a child.

The man who tries to change history. After failing to prevent a couple of unfortunate world events, he goes back in time to a little Ohio town.

A young girl who has been raised to be telepathic but never taught how to speak, is orphaned.

A college professor objects to one of his colleagues marrying his daughter.

One of the classic TV series.

[Nailzberg]

38. The one with the button

The woman gets a box from a guy that tells her if she pushes the button on the box, he would bring her $1,000,000, but somebody she didn't know would die. She has one night to decide.

I know it was in the 80's New Twilight Zone, but I could have sworn it was a remake, cause I don't remember it being in color. Either way, it was written by one of the old-school TZ writers, the same guy who penned the monster on the wing of the plane story.

[mac56]

48. It was on the new Twilight Zone.

I loved the punchline for that one. (I won't spoil it for those who haven't seen it!)

he new show also had a version of Harlan Ellison's "Paladin Of The Lost Hour" that starred Danny Kaye and Glynn Turman. Possibly one of the best things I've ever seen on TV.

[ronzo]

40. "A Kind of Stopwatch"

A stopwatch that stops time around you.

A great premise that still gets rehashed over and over. Most recently on the Simpsons the other night.

[CanuckAmok]

42. The Simpsons parody made me sore from laughter... n/t

[arwalden]

44. Great Premise... but one of the SADDEST Episodes I Ever Saw

[ronzo]

45. What? Simpsons or TZ?

Whadaya think?

[terrya]

46. "It's a GOOD Day"

The TZ episode starring Billy Mumy as the little boy who could do anything with his mind. With Cloris Leachman as his mother. It was the scariest episode ever, IMO.

Terry

[Loonman]

47. The gambling one

The one where the guy spends all his money and life savings on the slot machine, and it breaks before letting him win.

[mac56]

49. One of the best from the "new" (1980s) Twilight Zone

was called "Wordplay", and starred Robert Klein and Annie Potts. Completely freaked me out!

Robert plays a a salesman who stays up all night to memorize a new product line. Annie, his wife, is worried about their son, who doesn’t feel well.

Robert goes off to work. He hears people say things that he doesn’t understand. At first it’s just a word or two, completely out of place and meaning something entirely different to him, but obviously not to the other person. Then over the next few days, everyone starts to speak gibberish to him, and he gets scared.

When he gets home, Annie is really upset about their son who’s got a very high fever. But Robert can’t understand a word she’s saying. None of the words mean what he understands them to mean.

He picks up the boy and they go to the emergency room. Annie has to explain everything to the doctors, while Robert doesn’t understand anything she’s saying. He’s completely distraught about his son. He sits in the waiting room with Annie, as people all around him speak a language he doesn’t know anymore.

When the doctors come out to say their son is okay, the only way he can tell is that Annie is smiling. As the episode closes, Robert sits in his son’s bedroom and picks up an alphabet book. He begins studying the basics of a language he needs to relearn.

[DifferentStrokes]

50. Spur of the Moment

Diana Hyland in another stunning performance.

http://tzone.the-croc.com/tzeplist/spur.html