There’s a Twilight Zone marathon on sci-fi, at least in the States. So… fave eps? Cool eps? Anything… its just such a neat show.
Alas, I can’t think of my fave at this moment…
Oh, damnit! I wanted to make the Twilight Zone marathon thread.
Oh well. Let me see…I love “Eye of the Beholder,” “Spur of the Moment,” and “To Serve Man.” Also, I just saw one called “People Are Alike All Over” or something…with Roddy McDowall, which was quite good. (And Roddy was quite gorgeous!)
Come, come, LoN. Don’t be a Twilight Zone Tease- you must have a few favorites you can throw us off the top of your head!
Masks
The Fever
The Monsters are Due on Maple Street
Long Distance Call
The Invaders
Eye of the Beholder
The Obsolete Man
To Serve Man
Time Enough At Last
Death Ship (great “trapped in a loop” story)
Nightmare at 20,000 Feet
From “The Monsters Are Due On Maple Street”, Rod Serling’s oft-quoted epilogue:
God DAMMIT. I was cooking dinner and I COMPLETELY missed “It’s a Good Life” (which I’ve never seen, but I love the short story.)
I KNEW I should’ve just ordered out for pizza.
By far my favorite is “It’s a Good Life”.
Saw one earlier today called “Miniature” with a young Robert Duvall. That was good, although I kept thinking of Tom Hagen, especially when Charlie and his sister are eating in that Italian resteraunt.
I also like most of the episodes starring Burgess Meredith, especially “Time Enough At Last”. I mean, don’t you just want to cry for him at the end? “The Obsolete Man” is also good.
Oops…my favorite one is Time enough at last with Burgess Meredith and his broken glasses.
My favorite will always be “A Stop at Willoughby.” A close second would have to be the final episode of the series, “The Bewitchin’ Pool,” which featured a very similar plot.
The one with Mickey Rooney as a drunken ex-jockey who wishes he was “big.” Suddenly he’s huge, like 10 feet tall, when he gets a call offering him his jockey job back. Of course his career is over as he is now 10 feet tall.
Oppositely, the one with Theodore Bikel as the paranoid mental case who spies on everybody and declares that at 4:00 all the evil people in the world will be one-foot tall. Sure enough the clock strikes 4 and Theodore Bikel is one-foot tall.
nod… I like time enough at last…
And I like the one where a couple wakes up in a town, and hears no one and sees no one. All they hear is child’s laughter, actually. At the end they turn over a tree and it turns out to be fake. And then you see a huge hand come down and grab them. Turn’s out to be a child’s.
The mother comes in and tells her to stop playing with her new toys, the Earthlings.
/Shadez
…To See the Invisible Man…
Beautiful story, and being the Twilight Zone I wasn’t expecting the heartfelt conclusion to the story…
To Serve Mankind
I Shot An Arrow Into the Air
The Invaders
Long Distance Call
mc
Time Enough At Last. Hands down, this is my favourite. They could have left well-enough alone, leaving Burgess Merideth with his books. A happy ending. But they went the extra step. No matter how many times I see it, the very end always grabs me.
And now a follow-up question: I think I remember seeing this in “Time Enough At Last”. Burgess Merideth is at the end of his rope. He finds a gun, and we see his shadow on the ground as he raises the gun to his head. Then at the last moment, he sees his salvation and lowers the gun. But I have not seen this shot in the episode in years. Someone once told me that it was cut so as not to offend sensitive viewers. But now I’m no longer sure I ever actually saw it at all. So was there (or is there now, restored) such a shot?
Time Enough At Last is on SciFi tomorrow (1/1/03) at 9:39 PM EST.
Johnny - that ‘gun scene’ seems disingenuous to me, both for Serling and BM. What salvation does/could Bemis “see”?
Anyways, the ‘prime-time’ T-Zones are being shown uncut.
Closing: “The best laid plans of mice and men and Henry Bemis, the small man in the glasses who wanted nothing but time. Henry Bemis, now just a part of a smashed landscape, just a piece of the rubble, just a fragment of what man has deeded to himself. Mr. Henry Bemis in the Twilight Zone.”
Corbomite: As I seem to recall, you see the shadow as he’s about to kill himself; then he sees the library.
I don’t see what’s disingenuous about it; but while I’m sure I saw that shot somewhere, I’m not sure I saw it in the TZ episode.
I’ve seen that shot somewhere too. Maybe not this episode, but…maybe.
Bemis has broken his coke-bottle glasses and cannot read all his beloved books (which likely contain the Steinbeck catalogue). I guess that gun scene might work if it went unresolved (no gunshot or sounds) and faded out/panned into the stars.
One of my favourite T-zones where the happy couple drive on out of the Twilight Zone with Rod’s happy approval, is A Penny For Your Thoughts with William Shatner. It’s on tomorr-today at 7:30 PM EST.
HNY 
A Stop At Willoughby
Talking Tina
Oh… and I forget the title, I think it’s Will The Real Martian Please Stand Up… the one with the bus and the diner…
My new year smack on head :smack:
The Shatner episode is Nick of Time and it was aired already (in the Sci-fi marathon).