# Favorite Twilight Zone episodes? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [December 31, 2002, 11:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-twilight-zone-episodes/145961 "2002-12-31T23:40:52Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Johnny\_L.A](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_l.a/32/1084_2.png) [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\ **Post date:** [January 1, 2003, 6:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-twilight-zone-episodes/145961/21 "2003-01-01T06:23:51Z")
The way I remember it, Bemis has lost all hope. Everyone is dead, his world is destroyed. He’s wandering aimlessly. He’s about to shoot himself (the shot I remember), then he sees the library. Salvation! “January, February, March… This year, next year… And the best part… The very best part, is that there’s _time_ now! Time enough at last!” They really could have ended it there. Serling would say, “Henry Bemis. Bookworm. The world may have ended for humanity, but forHenry Bemis, his world has just begun… in The Twilight Zone.” But _nooooo!!!_ They couldn’t leave it there! They had to stick in the knife and give it a good twist! It’s so… _mean!_ I think the utter heartlessness of the ending is what makes this episode my favourite. ---
**Author:** ![Freudian\_Slit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/5daacb/32.png) [@Freudian\_Slit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Freudian_Slit)\ **Post date:** [January 1, 2003, 6:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-twilight-zone-episodes/145961/22 "2003-01-01T06:38:44Z")
“It’s not fair…it’s not fair!” Poor guy. Wouldn’t that make a great commercial for contact lenses, though? “Don’t make the mistake of wearing breakable glasses like our friend Henry Bemis- Twilight Zone watchers always wear [insert brand here] contact lenses- they’re the brand you’ll want in a post Armageddon world.” Also, I love “Spur of the Moment.” Absolutely wonderful episode…I adored how it was all in a loop, everything would repeating, no matter how hard the older woman tried to stop it. So sad, too. ---
**Author:** ![Coriolanus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/coriolanus/32/18769_2.png) [@Coriolanus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Coriolanus)\ **Post date:** [January 1, 2003, 6:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-twilight-zone-episodes/145961/23 "2003-01-01T06:42:12Z")
I dunno **Johnny**. As part of SciFi’s montage of scenes they keep showing Burgess Meredith as Bemis, sitting amidst the rubble on the library steps - Sun glancing off his n^th degree coke-bottle glasses and he’s loving it all! Argh, but I know nothing as SciFi is now showing that Shatner episode with the fortune telling devil. ---
**Author:** ![NotWithoutRage](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/22d042/32.png) [@NotWithoutRage](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NotWithoutRage)\ **Post date:** [January 1, 2003, 6:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-twilight-zone-episodes/145961/24 "2003-01-01T06:47:31Z")
FWIW, the episode about the astronaut in the parallel universe was terrible, IMHO. One episode that I saw for the first time was the one with Anthony and the cornfield. Brilliant. Anyone have a title on that one? ---
**Author:** ![vivalostwages](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/d07c76/32.png) [@vivalostwages](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/vivalostwages)\ **Post date:** [January 1, 2003, 6:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-twilight-zone-episodes/145961/25 "2003-01-01T06:52:57Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by NotWithoutRage \* > \*\*FWIW, the episode about the astronaut in the parallel universe was terrible, IMHO. > > One episode that I saw for the first time was the one with Anthony and the cornfield. Brilliant. Anyone have a title on that one? \*\* * * * “It’s A Good Life.” (“Oh, it’s good that you did that, it’s real good. And tomorrow’s gonna be a real good day!”) ---
**Author:** ![Coriolanus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/coriolanus/32/18769_2.png) [@Coriolanus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Coriolanus)\ **Post date:** [January 1, 2003, 6:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-twilight-zone-episodes/145961/26 "2003-01-01T06:57:03Z")
That was **It’s a good life** with Billy Mumy (Lost in Space). **Uke Ike** hasn’t seen it. That episode was part of the _Twilight Zone_ movie. That remake was less evil and more ‘zany’ with the cartoons. One cool bit of trivia about the remake is Nancy Cartwright (famous as the voice of Bart Simpson) is sucked into a cartoon and chased by an evil beast who devours her (and the boy says Th-th-that’s all folks…). The Simpsons often use TZ eps as the basis of their Halloween episodes. In one of them, Bart and Lisa are sucked into the TV and are chased by that exact same beast… ---
**Author:** ![lokij](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/5e9695/32.png) [@lokij](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lokij)\ **Post date:** [January 1, 2003, 7:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-twilight-zone-episodes/145961/27 "2003-01-01T07:23:31Z")
Some of my favorites, “A Stop at Willoughby” “The Invaders” “It’s a good life” “The Shelter” “The Midnight Sun” “Five Characters in Search of an Exit” “To Serve Man” “Miniature” Twilight Zone was and is still some of the best television out there IMO. ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_L.A](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_l.a/32/1084_2.png) [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\ **Post date:** [January 1, 2003, 7:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-twilight-zone-episodes/145961/28 "2003-01-01T07:37:42Z")
Was there an episode where the last scene was colourized? ---
**Author:** ![Joe\_Cool](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ecb155/32.png) [@Joe\_Cool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Joe_Cool)\ **Post date:** [January 1, 2003, 7:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-twilight-zone-episodes/145961/29 "2003-01-01T07:45:57Z")
Has anybody seen “Death’s Head Revisited”? I’ve never seen it, and they never show it on the marathons or in the two nightly episodes, but I’m searching for it diligently. I haven’t seen it for sale on a tape or even on Kazaa. It’s a Holocaust episode, where a former concentration camp soldier is tried over and over (a loop, kind of like Death Ship) by the ghosts of the Jews he torturred and killed. The other reason I want to see it is that it’s supposedly the source of the dialog sample from the beginning of Anthrax’s “Intro To Reality”: “We did as we were told.” “We just heard you offer the apology for all the monsters of our times.” “Is that correct? ha. aha. ahahahahahahaha!” (cue guitar and bass) Of the ones they show regularly (the traditional favorites), the ones I like best are “Time Enough At Last” and “People Are The Same All Over”, “Mr. Denton On Doomsday”, and especially “To Serve Man.” plus a whole bunch more. I recorded the entire marathon last year. 🙂 But forgot to buy tapes this year. ☹ Of the New Twilight Zone, hosted by Burges Meredith, my favorite is “Examination Day” where kids in an egalitarian society are tested for intelligence at a certain age. Any who are too smart are executed or lobotomized (I only saw it once, on its first run, so I can’t remember). ---
**Author:** ![Coriolanus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/coriolanus/32/18769_2.png) [@Coriolanus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Coriolanus)\ **Post date:** [January 1, 2003, 8:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-twilight-zone-episodes/145961/30 "2003-01-01T08:01:14Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Johnny L.A. \* > \*\*Was there an episode where the last scene was colourized? \*\* The Robert Duvall episode with the doll-house (in hour-long format) was shot in colour at the end. ---
**Author:** ![neutron\_star](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/51bf81/32.png) [@neutron\_star](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/neutron_star)\ **Post date:** [January 1, 2003, 12:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-twilight-zone-episodes/145961/31 "2003-01-01T12:04:03Z")
> [@](#): > > Has anybody seen “Death’s Head Revisited”? I’ve never seen it, and they never show it on the marathons Yes they do. I saw in during a marathon either last year, or the year before. It might have been during a July 4th marathon, but I’m sure it was within the past two years, and I’m sure it was on the Sci-Fi Channel. ---
**Author:** ![Miss\_Mapp](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/miss_mapp/32/369_2.png) [@Miss\_Mapp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Miss_Mapp)\ **Post date:** [January 1, 2003, 2:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-twilight-zone-episodes/145961/32 "2003-01-01T14:05:43Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Corbomite \* > \*\*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. \*\* This is one of my favorites too, since it’s very much in line with own feelings about people who actually believe and make life decisions based on astrology or tarot cards, etc. What I like so much about it is that ending, where Shatner’s character takes control of his own life, and escapes… and then we see the other frightened couple, who let their fates be controlled by a little noddy-headed novelty toy. Others: Eye of the Beholder I Sing the Body Electric The Midnight Sun Spur of the Moment I’ll have to look at the episode guide to find out the names of a couple of others. I can’t watch “It’s A Good Life.” It creeps me out too much. ---
**Author:** ![Coriolanus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/coriolanus/32/18769_2.png) [@Coriolanus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Coriolanus)\ **Post date:** [January 1, 2003, 2:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-twilight-zone-episodes/145961/33 "2003-01-01T14:58:10Z")
The Shatner episode described is called **Nick of Time**. Shatner’s character, it turns out, is newleywed and he loves his wife. They barely escape the Twilight Zone. Yet Rod is rather cheerful for them. ---
**Author:** ![Coriolanus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/coriolanus/32/18769_2.png) [@Coriolanus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Coriolanus)\ **Post date:** [January 1, 2003, 3:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-twilight-zone-episodes/145961/34 "2003-01-01T15:05:21Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Miss Mapp \* > This is one of my favorites too, since it’s very much in line with own feelings about people who actually believe and make life decisions based on astrology or tarot cards, etc. > > What I like so much about it is that ending, where Shatner’s character takes control of his own life, and escapes… and then we see the other frightened couple, who let their fates be controlled by a little noddy-headed novelty toy. I guess Shatner’s character - inspired by his wife - was enough to release the happy couple. And then that other couple… ---
**Author:** ![Baker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bb73d2/32.png) [@Baker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baker)\ **Post date:** [January 1, 2003, 3:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-twilight-zone-episodes/145961/35 "2003-01-01T15:31:15Z")
Guess I’m the only one who likes the corny stuff. For me it’s “One For the Angels” I thought the end was funny as the guy hesitates a moment, asking which direction they are going, and Mister Death incidates it will be “up” ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_L.A](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_l.a/32/1084_2.png) [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\ **Post date:** [January 1, 2003, 4:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-twilight-zone-episodes/145961/36 "2003-01-01T16:22:40Z")
> [@](#): > > The Robert Duvall episode with the doll-house (in hour-long format) was shot in colour at the end. _Miniature_ was shown yesterday, and I was pretty sure that was the one; but I didn’t see any colourisation at the end. I might have looked away for a moment, but I _was_ looking for it. ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_L.A](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_l.a/32/1084_2.png) [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\ **Post date:** [January 1, 2003, 4:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-twilight-zone-episodes/145961/37 "2003-01-01T16:46:35Z")
I’ve only been talking about _Time Enought at Last_, since the OP is "what is your _favourite_ episode\* and that’s the one. But several others have been mentioned that are virtually my favourites. _In Praise of Pip_. I think that’s the earliest Vietnam reference I’ve seen in old shows. _The Monsters are Due on Maple Street_. Bradbury. What can you say beyond that? _An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge_ did not go into syndication, and it was not made by Serling & Co., but by Frenchman Robert Enrico. _King Nine Will Not Return_ harkens back to the disappearance of the _Lady Be Good_, which was discovered just a year before this episode was broadcast. _A Hundred Yards over the Rim_. I like time-travel stories. This was a good one, and it’s not shown often enough. Phrases from TZ have made it into “everyday use” (Alice Walker reference unintended) with me and my friends. If one of us is trying to entice the other to, say, buy a lottery ticket, we’ll say, “Franklin!” (_The Fever_); or if one asks for a drink, the other will say “One drink, one bar of gold. That’s the going rate today. Tomorrow it may go up. But today it’s one drink, one bar of gold.” (_The Rip Van Winkle Caper_). So many episodes, and many of them absolute gems! ---
**Author:** ![LoN](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/cab0a1/32.png) [@LoN](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LoN)\ **Post date:** [January 1, 2003, 5:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-twilight-zone-episodes/145961/38 "2003-01-01T17:35:51Z")
Guys-- SPOILER TAGS! Especially when talking about a series that relies partly on twist endings. I haven’t read most of the posts because I don’t want to ruin the eps I haven’t see… ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_L.A](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_l.a/32/1084_2.png) [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\ **Post date:** [January 1, 2003, 5:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-twilight-zone-episodes/145961/39 "2003-01-01T17:37:53Z")
**LoN** : Since this is about people’s favourite episodes, I think it’s assumed that the posters have seen the episodes. IMO ---
**Author:** ![Biggirl](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/biggirl/32/3294_2.png) [@Biggirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biggirl)\ **Post date:** [January 1, 2003, 5:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-twilight-zone-episodes/145961/40 "2003-01-01T17:47:37Z")
According to the episode guide **Reeder** linked to, the near suicide scene appears in the middle of the episode, before he breaks his glasses. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-twilight-zone-episodes/145961.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-twilight-zone-episodes/145961.md?page=3)