What are your favorite Twilight Zone episodes of all time?

[Mr. Ected]

My favorites have always been Night Call, Terror at 30,000 Feet (with a very young William Shatner), Eye of the Beholder, and To Serve Man.

How 'bout you?

[bif]

1. Tons of them

The one where a guy comes back to warn a younger version of himself at a carnival. The one where the characters are in a big drum. It's Christmas and they're actually dolls. The guy on a train that circles around and takes him back to a fake town--he was abducted by aliens and he's in a model train. The spaceship that lands in an old lady's attic.

[rug]

2. A Nice Place to Visit.

[HERVEPA]

3. "Willoughby, the stop is Willoughby"

[Orsino]

16. "A Stop at Willoughby," for sure.

Also "Time Enough at Last" and "A Passage for Trumpet."

[Arkansas Granny]

4. I don't know the name of the episode and can recall seeing it only once

when the original series aired. There is an old woman chasing something around a cabin that is buzzing around and annoying her, like a fly or something. She finally swats it out of the air and it turns out to be a space ship of some kind with USA stenciled on the side.

I'm not even sure it was a Twilight Zone episode, but it has stuck in my mind for all these years. Another one that left an impression on me was the one about the boy who wished things into the corn field.

[Mr. Ected]

6. It was called "The Invaders"

The woman was Agnes Moorehead. There was no dialogue. She lived alone in the middle of nowhere. A tiny spaceship lands on her roof. She goes into self-preservation mode, and eventually destroys the wee visitors and their craft. In the end, it turns out tht the visitors were from the USA, and she was some sort of giant living in another galaxy.

[Arkansas Granny]

9. That's the one.

[mysuzuki2]

23. I remember hearing at the time that there was no dialogue

becaus the Hollywood script writers union was on strike so there was no one to write dialogue for the episode.

[sarge43]

27. There was a snippet of dialog.

The 'invader' spoke, warning his crew they were on a planet of giants, hostile giants.

[texanwitch]

7. This episode is the first one I can remember seeing.

I see it every once in awhile, great episode.

The actor was Agnes Moorehead from Bewitched.

[surrealAmerican]

5. I think it's called "The After Hours".

The woman is hearing voices when in a department store. The mannequins are talking to her. It turns out she has forgotten that she is a mannequin.

[texanwitch]

8. I remember seeing that episode when I was very young, maybe 5 years old.

Scared the hell out of me, couldn't look a manneguins the same again.

Even now.

[Lindsey]

10. I loved the Twilight Zone. There are many I thought were so

cool. The first ones that come to mind are the guy who loved to read and I think the world ended (or something) and he was all ready to engage in his passion of reading and then his glasses broke. The other one off the top of my head is when a young Billy Mummy had all those psychic powers and if he felt he was wronged he practically destroyed them. All of the adults were scared sh*tless of this kid. Man, the Twilight Zone broke ground like probably no other show in television....

[texanwitch]

11. Yeah, send them to the cornfield.

I could never understand that episode.

The kid had to sleep sometimes.

The little kid was monster.

[Mr. Ected]

12. They re-made that episode for Twilight Zone - The Movie

It wasn't nearly as chilling.

Billy Mumy was the original child actor. He made a cameo appearance in the movie.

He's better remembered as Will Robinson from Lost In Space.

[Gidney N Cloyd]

15. They did a sequel, too.

Billy Mumy is grown up and finds he has a daughter who's more powerful.
Cloris Leachman repeats her role as his mom.

[Rob H.]

13. The avid reader episode was "Time Enough at Last"

with Burgess Meredith. Great choice! :D

[Curmudgeoness]

18. My favorite too, thanks for naming it. I felt for him. Oh the irony. nt

[pokerfan]

14. The Hunt (1962)

Travellers to unknown regions would be well-advised to take along the family dog. He could just save you from entering the wrong gate. At least, it happened that way once—in a mountainous area of the Twilight Zone.

"You see Mr. Simpson, a man, well, he'll walk right into Hell with both eyes open. But even the Devil can't fool a dog!"

[Doc_Technical]

17. The Monsters are due on Maple Street.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Monsters_Are_Due_on_Maple_Street

[sarge43]

26. I saw the first run. Never forgot it.

And we see it replayed every day.

[Auggie]

19. "Little Girl Lost" -- freaked me out as a kid

[cherokeeprogressive]

20. Buddy Ebson moving things with his mind. "The Prime Mover"

[nolabear]

21. Talking Tina. It DESTROYED my relationship with my Chatty Cathy doll!

[rurallib]

22. Oh so many! I always say "Night of the Meek" the Art Carney Christmas show

but I could probably easily name 30. "Monsters due on Maple Street" was always a favorite.
The one with Dennis Hopper as a latter day Hitler wannabe ........

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

24. All of the above, and a few others:

There was one where a guy is madly in love with a woman who ignores him, so he goes to this creepy little shop and buys a love potion for $1. He gives it to her and all of a sudden she gets all cloying and lovey and won't leave him alone, and it drives him nuts -- so he has to go back to the shop for the poisonous $1,000 "antidote," but he loses his nerve when he find out she's pregnant -- and he's stuck with her.

There was another one about a haunted slot machine that was chasing a compulsive gambler, calling his name, "Fraaaannkliiiin," in this weird, creepy, rattly voice. That one really gave me the heebiejeebies. And there was the one about a woman who finds out to her horror that she's actually a robot.

I loved The Twilight Zone...

[texanwitch]

25. So many of us were so young watching this show, I had a few bad dreams..

I guess it didn't kill us.

[CrawlingChaos]

28. I'm a big fan - here's my list

The Hitch-Hiker (poor Inger Stevens keeps encountering the same hitchhiker everywhere she goes)

The Monsters are Due on Maple Street (my number one fave)

The After Hours (the mannequin one)

Nick of Time (William Shatner and his new bride become obsessed with a fortune telling machine in a small town diner)

Will the Real Martian Please Stand Up (brilliant episode about stranded bus passengers in yet another small town diner, with one extra person)

To Serve Man (...it's a cookbook)

The 7th is Made Up of Phantoms (underrated episode about strange events during war games at the site of Little Bighorn)

Night Call (a truly scary episode - arguably the scariest)

Stopover in a Quiet Town (a hungover party couple find themselves stranded in a town where everything is artificial)


Now, as good as Twilight Zone was, I think Alfred Hitchcock Presents was even better. IMO, there has been nothing on television, before or since, as scary as the episode titled "An Unlocked Window" (available for viewing on Hulu and elsewhere). Both shows had highs and lows, but AHP had more truly excellent episodes. Just my opinion, of course.

[Dr Morbius]

29. Right at the top: The Obsolete Man.

With the ever-present Burgess Meredith as the Librarian.