The annual Twilight Zone marathon has come again, and I was wondering what some of your favorite episodes were personally?
Poor schlub Burgess Meredith’s glasses break just as he was savoring the thought of a lifetime of solitary reading.
A future historian saves JFK (this episide was in the Eighties revival of the series).
A simple phrase will drive you instantly mad… and someone’s headed for the radio station to tell everyone! (also from the Eighties revival).
The televised version of An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge. Haunting.
Yep, the Burgess Meredith one and the one where the dolls are trapped in the trashcan (uh, spoiler alert…)
My favorite is the one where everyone falls out of a window and dies.
Oh wait - that’s one third of the episodes!!
Seriously, watch a season or two of the original TZ, and upwards of 30% of the episodes will involve defenestration. It’s a smaller percentage of the classic episodes usually run during marathons, but episodes like the “camera that takes pictures of the future” average out the body count. :rolleyes:
My favorite TZ episode is the one where Keenan Wynn is a writer with quite a knack for describing characters. The epilogue is a hoot!
There are too many classic TZ episodes to list, but I’m looking forward to watching the TZ marathon, and getting my MDR of irony.
“And I have all the time in the world!” … “Oh, my. That’s not fair. That’s just not fair!”
I received the complete, unabridged, total, all-inclusive, grand Twilight Zone DVD set last year. We’ve been watching them, a few a night, every couple of days since then. There are too many good ones to mention then all, although the quality does go down during the third season.
Here’s a few:
A penny for your thoughts. Man gains mind-reading ability with odd coin flip.
Nick of Time. Shatner escapes clutches of evil fortune-telling machine.
In His Image. Who’s more real? The Man or the Machine?
The After Hours
To this day, manniquins creep me out.
Oh, what’s that one? The guy and his wife run some sort of second hand/antique store and he gets three wishes and turns into Hitler or something?
Anyway, the marathon has already begun, I believe. Enjoy!
Also, love the one with the parallel universe: girl in bus station “keeps” getting up to use the restroom, etc.
The most perfect episode: “Eye of the Beholder.”
SciFi must figure that everyone knows what “To Serve Man” means, because they totally spoil it in one of the commercials.
“Eye of the Beholder” is one of my favorites, too, though it creeped me out the first time I saw it as a kid. Also, “It’s a Good Life”: evil Billy Mumy!
Way too many to mention but the first two that come to mind:
The one where the nurse says “room for one more, honey” as she’s standing outside the morgue <shudder>
Also the one where the greedy family visits the grandfather one his deathbed and they must wear masks in order to keep from being disinherited.
I like the one where the man wants to live in an idyllic small town of the past.
I love a great number of the episodes of the original Twilight Zone. One that chills me that hasn’t been mentioned here is the one where the boy talks to his dead grandmother on his toy phone. Yikes!
To agree with WOOKINPANUB, way too many to have a favorite.
What I enjoy is seeing the now well-known stars when they were just bit actors.
Such as Robert Redford in Nothing in The Dark.
This was one I came in to mention–the other William Shatner episode, in which a grown man gets so caught up in his superstitions that he’s ready to let a card-dispensing bobble-head make life decisions for him.
Heh. Willoughby, Ohio is not far from here. I drove through it earlier this week. IIRC, the screenwriter or someone on the production staff was from Willoughby.
Any of the many with an airplane.
“The Odyssey of Flight 33”
“The Arrival”
“Nightmare at 30,000 Feet”
In a pinch, aliens and flying saucers will do. Psst … wasn’t the one in the Andy Devine episode the Jupiter 2 from Lost In Space?
Two of my favorites were from the 80’s revival - “A Small Talent for War”, with its end line from (I believe) Ed Wynn -
The first I could find with no spoiler.
And “I Of Newton”. The slogan on the devil’s T-shirt keeps changing.
As good as Serling ever did.
Regards,
Shodan
“Willoughby.” There’s a town near here named Willoughby; it’s nothing at all like the TZ one.