Favourite "Twilight Zone" episode?

[ailsagirl]

I'll never forget, "The Monsters are Due on Maple Street."
That was a mind-blower. A must-see. I won't attempt to
summarize the plot because I won't do it justice.

Serling's closing narration:

The tools of conquest do not necessarily come with bombs and
explosions and fallout. There are weapons that are simply thoughts.
Attitudes. Prejudices. To be found only in the minds of men. For the
record, prejudices can kill, and suspicion can destroy, and the
thoughtless, frightened search for a scapegoat has a fallout all its
own...

And another, "Third from the Sun"

Synopsis: Certain that a nuclear war is imminent, a scientist and a
pilot plot to steal an experimental spaceship and escape with their
families to a planet eleven million miles away. They are almost
stopped by a government agent, but manage to overpower him.
Once up in space, they wonder what their new home will be like --
from radio broadcasts, they know it is called Earth.

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

Serling was brilliant and is greatly missed.

[Erika]

1. I liked the one about the person

having a dream the earth's climate was becoming a nightmare to waken only to the fact it was a nightmare and life would be ending.

[ailsagirl]

2. Is that the one when the earth stopped orbiting the sun and half

of the earth was frozen and the other half hot as hell?

That was a good one.

[Erika]

3. Yes, that was the one

[NMMNG]

4. "The Midnight Sun"

That's my favorite too

[GreatCaesarsGhost]

52. that chick was hot!

[tibbir]

15. I think that was my favorite too.

As I remember it freaked me out.

[Bossy Monkey]

8. She was dreaming that it was incredibly hot, but that was because of her

fever. It was actually incredibly cold. The episode was The Midnight Sun.

[Erika]

11. I remember

and her father said he was headed to Florida to buy a few more days.

[Modem Butterfly]

21. I've been trying really hard not to think of that episode this week

It's been HOT here in the ATL.

[Erika]

5. Remember the one where all looked like pigs

and a beautiful human looking child was born, and they all felt so sorry for it because it was so grossly ugly?

[aint_no_life_nowhere]

6. Before I opened your post I was thinking of the same episode

Jack Weston and Claude Aikens were good in that episode. Jack Weston was also in another episode, that of a writer who couldn't sell his work and then conjured up Shakespeare. I also liked the episode "To Serve Man" - the cookbook.

[tmooses]

7. I remember watching "The Lonely" with Jack Warden when I was a kid

and having nightmares for weeks afterwards. That was the one where the convict is put on a planet where he is the only inhabitant. On one of the supply ship visits he his given a female robot to combat his loneliness and even though he resists the companionship he comes to fall in love with the lifelike robot. He is pardoned and told he must leave the robot behind but doesn't want to.

[Erika]

9. That was great also

Why don't we have that kind of creativity now?

[ailsagirl]

33. Good question. I think it's our educational system...

Movies used to be so much more creative too, IMO. I think
it's because the writers/directors were better educated.
The classics were studied-- Latin was required...

It's just not the same today, sadly.

[Bossy Monkey]

10. "Living Doll" (Talking Tina)

You bailed on the Monsters end narration too soon. The part I find unforgettable is: "And the pity of it is that these things cannot be confined to the Twlight Zone."

[flamingyouth]

57. YES

:scared:

[youthere]

60. I STILL get freaked out just thinking about that one.

"My name is Talking Tina...and I'm going to KILL you"

[flamingyouth]

62. Me too

:scared:

[evlbstrd]

12. "Time Enough at Last."

Burgess Meredith as a librarian, after a devastating war. He can read every book he wants to read, then he breaks his glasses.

[Erika]

13. Frustration and despair beyond belief

Was that the same episode that dealt with the cold war undeground bunkers where a nuclear attack was called and people were trying to break into undergound bunkers in NYC?

[evlbstrd]

14. Nope. But that was a good one, too.

Serling's stories always seemed to be focused on the most craven nature of the human race, though.

[Erika]

16. I think he played on the insecurites of our minds

and added our social culture into it. He was the Asimov of TV.

[evlbstrd]

17. Good analogy.

He saw the insecurities. The country had just come out of McCarthyism. But the anti-communist mindset kept on going. Science fiction is one of my favorite genres.

[AlienGirl]

41. I liked that one

As a kid, that was my idea of paradise--tons of books and no people. I was glad that I could read without my glasses...

Tucker

[evlbstrd]

42. Books are our friends.

[unsavedtrash]

18. "Death's Head Revisited"

Oscar Beregi stars as Capt. Lutze, the sadistic former commandant of the Dachau concentration camp. Traveling incognito, Lutze makes a "sentimental journey" to the camp, fondly recalling the misery he had wreaked in the final months of WWII. But Lutze is in for quite a few horrible surprises when one of his former prisoners, the emaciated Becker (Joseph Schildkraut), shows up to see that justice is finally done.

[ailsagirl]

40. Yes. I remember that one. Very intense.

[mac56]

19. "The Fever"

Frugal guy goes to Vegas with his wife. A drunk forces him to play a slot machine and it pays out. Soon his mind creates all kinds of excuses for him to go back and pop more silver dollars back into that machine.

"It's inhuman...the way it lets you win a little and then takes all back....It teases you! It holds out promises and wiggles you...it sucks you in and..."

[terrya]

20. "It's a GOOD Life"

Billy Mumy as the kid who could do anything with his mind.

[Dervill Crow]

65. The new Twilight Zone had an episode with Bill Mumy and Cloris Leachman

reprising their roles. His daughter has the same ability but has kept it secret from her dad. If you have a chance to watch it, do. I don't generally care too much for the new episodes, but this brought back the chills of the original.

[Modem Butterfly]

22. Willoughby, The Arrival, and The Hitch Hiker (three episodes)

In Willoughby, a stressed out executive with a mega-beast of a wife falls asleep on the train dreams of an idyllic 19th century town where it's summer. He's tempted to get off, and during the 3rd visit to Willoughby, he does.

In The Arrival, a flight arrives at an airport with the crew and passengers missing, no explanation for how it got there. VERY creepy and poignant.

In The Hitch Hiker, a woman who's driving cross country by herself keeps seeing a mysterious hitch hiker... This one still gets to me.

:scared:

[pinniped]

25. Don't think I've seen that Hitch Hiker one.

Until now, that mannequin one was the scariest I've seen- “After Hours.”

Did you see this one?

[Modem Butterfly]

30. Oh yeah

I think I've seen all of them at some point or another. After Hours was really, really good, and to this day, mannequins give me the wig.

[hfojvt]

46. except you left out the end of Willoughby

It shows an undertaker picking up the body of a guy who has jumped off a train and the name on the side of the hearse - Willoughby and sons.

It's a push, push, push business.

Or is that a spoiler.

[Modem Butterfly]

49. It's a spoiler

But it's a great ending anyway! I drove across country by myself after I graduated college. I thought of that episode every freaking time I saw a hitch hiker. For some reason, there were a lot of hikers outside Oklahoma City.

[Modem Butterfly]

23. Here's a neat TZ website, lots of detailed plot synopsises (synopses?)

http://www.tzworld.com/home.html

[pinniped]

24. Well, I'll tell you what the scariest one was.

“After Hours”

When the brunette mannequin popped into the screen after the elevator door opened it sent shivers down my spine.:scared:

There are many episodes I like, most are very well done, but the "The 7th is Made Up of Phantoms" is pretty good. That was the Custer's last stand episode.

"The Rip Van Winkle Caper"

The crooks stole gold bars and went into a long 100 year sleep.

And...

"A Game of Pool"

Dude has to play billiards forever until he lets someone else beat him.

[pinniped]

26. Twilight Zone-- "The Jungle" is on right now.

Sci-Fi- 5:00am PST

[LaurenG]

27. Not the best one but the one with William Shatner

on the airplane with that destructive green monster on the wing. I think of that every time I'm on a plane and we hit turbulence.

[hfojvt]

47. was that in the original show?

or the later version. I have never seen that one, but clearly they were doing a parody of that on SNL with Jesse Jackson and he said "this is ridiculous" and walked off (and I am sure it was designed that way)

[LaurenG]

48. It was an original but I think also it was re-made and that's the

only reason I can say the monster was green. The original was black and white.:)

[peekaloo]

28. 'One For The Angels"

:cry:

[Kingofalldems]

29. 'To Serve Man'

With Richard 'Jaws' Kiel, about aliens who come to earth with all kinds of goodies for mankind. But we soon find out they have other intentions. Reminds me of the modern GOP, who want to reshape our society to the detriment of us ordinary folk.

[ailsagirl]

31. OMG-- that was SUCH a trippy one!! Really scared me

"shudder"

[Modem Butterfly]

50. It's a cook book! It's a cook book!

[ailsagirl]

51. And that's exactly what would happen!! All the stupid sheep,

never questioning anything, going with the crowd, excitedly
queuing up to board the spacecraft...

Serling certainly had our number!!

[merh]

32. Green fingers.

The little old lady with a garden that was killed and chopped up and buried in her garden, only to come back because her fingers buried rooted and she came back to life. Bwwwwwahaaahhhhhhaaaaaaaaaa

[Greyhound]

61. Great episode, but I think it was Night Gallery n/t

[Kraklen]

34. "Little Girl Lost."

A little girl goes missing but she's still somewhere inside the house, the parents can hear her crying.

Turns out a portal to another dimension has opened in the wall of her bedroom and it's slowly closing.

Inspired "Poltergeist"

[arwalden]

35. Talkie Tina, Midnight Sun... And The One With The Stopwatch That Could...

... stop time.

[Commie Pinko Dirtbag]

55. Is that the one that ends with the main character looking at a (SPOILER)

Russian missile stopped in mid-air a few feet above the ground?

[Poll_Blind]

59. It's called "A Little Peace and Quiet". Chilling ending!

I loved/dreaded that episode. Right up there with "Button, button".

PB

[Reverend_Smitty]

36. The Eye of The Beholder

http://www.scifilm.org/tv/tz/twilightzone2-6.html

I really like that episode

[driver8]

37. The one where the earth was moving away from the sun, but the

girl was having a dream that the earth was moving closer to the sun.

-- The one where the jet airliner gradually goes back in time.

-- The one where the guy tosses the quarter in to a box for a newspaper and it stands on end. He can then read minds.

[ailsagirl]

38. Then there was the one about the guy who talked incessantly

who belonged to a private club. There was another member of
the club who couldn't stand the talker and one day offered him
a huge sum of $$ if he could go a year without saying a word.

The talker was confined to a glass cage, I believe, so that he
could be observed.

He kept his end of the bargain but the guy who offered the
money couldn't keep his.

After a year had passed and the talker put out his hand for
the money, the other guy had to tell him he didn't have it.

The talker then opened up the collar of his shirt to show the
scars... from the operation he had to have his vocal cords
severed.

Really creepy.

[ailsagirl]

39. One of my FAVOURITES (I just remembered)

Is about the two-bit thief who's killed by the cops. He
wakes up and he thinks he's in Heaven-- Sebastian Cabot
is there as sort of a guide to give this guy anything he
wants. So the guy has women, riches, everything-- but he's
bored to death. He wins every poker game; all the women
around him are beautiful; all his "friends" laugh at every
joke he makes; but he's miserable.

He tells Cabot, "This ain't no fun-- I may as well be in the
other place!!"

And Cabot laughs hugely and says, "You ARE in the other place!!"

Whoa!!!

[enigmatic]

43. "The Monsters..." and "The Shelter"

both classics, and just as vital today..

[I Know How To Do it]

44. I liked the one that was really really ironic.

[WHAT]

45. The Sins of the Sin Eater...

medieval

In this one the son inherits the sins of his father, so to speak...

[cmkramer]

54. Night Gallery

Actually, that was NIGHT GALLERY. The boy in the show was Richard Thomas of WALTONS fame.

I liked all the episodes, some more than others, of course. I think the one with Agnes Moorehead as a farmwoman trying to beat off a tiny spaceship is a classic.

[DemGirl7]

53. "You Drive" is my fave

In it, there is this guy who while coming home from work, runs over this kid, and drives away from the scene of the accident, where the kid dies sometime later. The guy comes home, and acts like nothing happened, when his wife ask him how was his day and everything, and continues to act like nothing happened, when they get a phone call from a friend who heard what happened to the kid. At this moment there starts to be weird noises coming from the garage, it is the car that is making these noises. The Car has a conscience, and it wants the guy to fess up. The guy continues to act as nothing has happened, and the noises from the car get louder and louder, making the guy feel guilty. So he takes a day off, because he claims to feel sick, but he is really starting feel more guilty, and so he goes into the garrage in order to try to destroy the car in some way, he breaks a few windows, and the tail lights, but the noises from the car get even more louder, so tells his wife something is wrong with the car, and it needs to get fixed, and he will call for it to be towed the next day after work. So the next day comes and he is walking to work, but the car drives itself out of the garage, onto the street, and catches up to the guy, who is running from the car at this point. The guy almost gets ran over by the car, which stops just short of hitting him, it than proceeds to open it's own passager side door for the guy to get in. After the guy has gotten in, the car drives him to the police station, and the guy goes inside to confess to running over the kid.

I love this episode, because the car has a mind of it's own, and it's not going let the guy get away, so it drives him crazy to the point he finally decides to confess.

[bridgit]

56. i like the one with: agnes moorehead...

when she hacks up the little spacecraft from what turns out to be earth :thumbsup:

[MidwestMomma]

58. The one with Agnes Moorehead-fighting the little tiny aliens

in her house out in the country. And then at the end, the shot of the ship shows the 'aliens' are USA astronauts...she was the alien after all.

I love that one and many others. :)

[hickman1937]

63. The one where the GI can tell by looking at someones face if

they will die soon. Maybe that was from One Step Beyond.

[trackfan]

64. I like The Trouble with Templeton

with the aging actor pining over his salad days.