# 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:** 3
**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, 5:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-twilight-zone-episodes/145961/41 "2003-01-01T17:50:05Z")
Aha! I _thought_ I remembered it! Thanks, **BG**! ---
**Author:** ![EasyPhil](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/e47c2d/32.png) [@EasyPhil](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EasyPhil)\ **Post date:** [January 1, 2003, 6:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-twilight-zone-episodes/145961/42 "2003-01-01T18:09:44Z")
I don’t know what the name of this episode is, but it has to do with the guy that becomes haunted by a slot machine, it taunts him by calling out his name “Franklin” and it ultimately lures hm to his death. ---
**Author:** ![EasyPhil](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/e47c2d/32.png) [@EasyPhil](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EasyPhil)\ **Post date:** [January 1, 2003, 6:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-twilight-zone-episodes/145961/43 "2003-01-01T18:13:27Z")
It’s called “The Fever” ---
**Author:** ![Zap\_Rowsdower](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/3da27b/32.png) [@Zap\_Rowsdower](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zap_Rowsdower)\ **Post date:** [January 1, 2003, 7:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-twilight-zone-episodes/145961/44 "2003-01-01T19:04:16Z")
“Long Live Walter Jameson” ---
**Author:** ![Ukulele\_Ike](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/df788c/32.png) [@Ukulele\_Ike](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ukulele_Ike)\ **Post date:** [January 1, 2003, 10:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-twilight-zone-episodes/145961/45 "2003-01-01T22:08:02Z")
I was under the impression that the fourth season (the hour-long episodes) were all really awful, but I’ve been catching some of them for the first time. “The Parallel” and “Valley of the Shadows” ARE tedious, but “Jess-Belle” was a wonderful back-country witchcraft story, and Jeanette Nolan made a delightfully randy old conjure-woman in it. And “Printer’s Devil” is one of the best eps I’ve ever seen! Burgess Meredith was a FANTASTIC Lucifer, with that twisty see-gar and those arched eyebrows! What a performance! ---
**Author:** ![Mockingbird](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/c68b51/32.png) [@Mockingbird](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mockingbird)\ **Post date:** [January 1, 2003, 10:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-twilight-zone-episodes/145961/46 "2003-01-01T22:53:12Z")
To pick one episode is hard. Though the creepiest was when the episode with Burgess Meredith ended and he broke his glasses. That is scary. VERY scary. ---
**Author:** ![clayton\_e](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/c57346/32.png) [@clayton\_e](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/clayton_e)\ **Post date:** [January 1, 2003, 11:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-twilight-zone-episodes/145961/47 "2003-01-01T23:19:16Z")
The Obsolete Man… Amazing… Just amazing. ---
**Author:** ![Archergal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/c89c15/32.png) [@Archergal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Archergal)\ **Post date:** [January 2, 2003, 12:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-twilight-zone-episodes/145961/48 "2003-01-02T00:00:13Z")
The Hunt (a dog lover’s favorite) One for the Angels The Monsters are Due on Maple Street The Midnight Sun ---
**Author:** ![Agrippina](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/8797f3/32.png) [@Agrippina](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Agrippina)\ **Post date:** [January 2, 2003, 12:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-twilight-zone-episodes/145961/49 "2003-01-02T00:31:40Z")
I’m wondering what relatively known actor has been in the most episodes. My guess would be Burgess Meredith who has been in four: The Printers Devil, Time Enough At Last, Mr. Dingle the Strong, and The Obsolete Man. Although, Jack Klugman has been in three: A Passage for Trumpet, A Game of Pool, and In Praise of Pip. ---
**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 2, 2003, 1:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-twilight-zone-episodes/145961/50 "2003-01-02T01:00:54Z")
Ross Martin was in: _The Four of us are Dying Death Ship Will the Real Martian Please Stand Up?_ Simon Oakland was in _The Rip Van Winkle Caper The Thirty-Fathom Grave_ Claude Akens was in _The Little People The Monsters are Due on Maple Street_ I wonder if they were in any that I don’t remember? ( **Reeder** ’s link didn’t list Ross Martin as having been in _Will the Real Martian Please Stand Up?_ – he was the Soda Jerk.) ---
**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 2, 2003, 1:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-twilight-zone-episodes/145961/51 "2003-01-02T01:03:35Z")
Erm – Claude _Akins_. ---
**Author:** ![Coldfire](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/a587f6/32.png) [@Coldfire](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Coldfire)\ **Post date:** [January 2, 2003, 1:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-twilight-zone-episodes/145961/52 "2003-01-02T01:06:04Z")
Heh! I’m the first to mention this one: “A matter of minutes”. Remember them, the Minute Men? The blue faceless guys that reconstruct the world every minute, and sometimes forget your car keys for a minute or two? 🙂 ---
**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 2, 2003, 1:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-twilight-zone-episodes/145961/53 "2003-01-02T01:23:30Z")
That episode was not from the original run of Twilight Zone, **Coldie**. I believe that was from The New Twilight Zone done in the eighties. My favorite of that bunch was the guy who studied really hard for a test, then in the morning the language had changed and he didn’t understand the idioms anymore. ---
**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 2, 2003, 1:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-twilight-zone-episodes/145961/54 "2003-01-02T01:28:22Z")
[Episode guide for The New Twilight Zone.](http://tzone.the-croc.com/tzonenew.html) ---
**Author:** ![Coldfire](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/a587f6/32.png) [@Coldfire](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Coldfire)\ **Post date:** [January 2, 2003, 2:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-twilight-zone-episodes/145961/55 "2003-01-02T02:18:37Z")
Wow, I got the wrong series! FWIW, I don’t think the original series was ever aired here. The NTZ was. ---
**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 2, 2003, 3:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-twilight-zone-episodes/145961/56 "2003-01-02T03:17:57Z")
**Time enough at last** (just on SciFi marathon) is über-zone. Burgess Meredith is practically synonymous with the series for his role as Henry Bemis, besides his three other episodes (and narration of the Movie and the 1980’s TV series). I laughed every time they did a close-up on Bemis gazing off with those n-th degree Coke Bottle glasses on! I also like “The Hunt” (the ol’ dog lovers favorite) **Archergal**. Sci-Fi’s marathon has been swell, especially when the episodes are un-cut with Rod doing the ‘next week’ tease (I never knew he did that!). ---
**Author:** ![Ukulele\_Ike](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/df788c/32.png) [@Ukulele\_Ike](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ukulele_Ike)\ **Post date:** [January 2, 2003, 3:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-twilight-zone-episodes/145961/57 "2003-01-02T03:24:12Z")
…Well, I just watched “Time Enough at Last” again for the first time since I was about seven years old, and it hit me about he same way it did back then. This is a NASTY little episode. Usually the Evil are punished and the Good rewarded on _The Twilight Zone_, as in most popular culture. But here you’ve got a poor little put-upon shitbird who’s suffered under his creepy boss and bitchy wife and who finally got a chance to, NOT be happy but to stave off unhappiness, the hellishness of solitude on a dead world filled with wreckage and corpses, through the solace of literature. And even that miserable balm is snatched away from him. I’m sorry, I can’t see why people list this one as a favorite. It’s just nasty, nasty, nasty. Meredith does a good acting job, though. ---
**Author:** ![Zap\_Rowsdower](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/3da27b/32.png) [@Zap\_Rowsdower](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zap_Rowsdower)\ **Post date:** [January 2, 2003, 3:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-twilight-zone-episodes/145961/58 "2003-01-02T03:51:00Z")
Thats why I like “Time Enough at Last”, it did not tack on the usual happy ending. Even after he gets out of his unpleasant situation, life still throws him a curve, just like real life often does. It is also why I like the Billy Mumy episode where he wishes people into the corn field, forget the name. It just shows a day in the life, then leaves with no resolution. Unfortunately the movie version had to tack on a “happy” ending where the kid decides not to use his power for evil, I think, haven’t seen that on since it was in the theater. ---
**Author:** ![BioHazard](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/3bc359/32.png) [@BioHazard](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BioHazard)\ **Post date:** [January 2, 2003, 8:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-twilight-zone-episodes/145961/59 "2003-01-02T08:55:26Z")
On the Sci-Fi channel’s TWZ marathon about an hour ago. The Most Stunning TWZ I’ve ever seen. A hillbilly type guy goes out into the woods. He finds some guys burying something on his property. He yells at them, until he realizes that they are burying a dog. He understands that burying a dog is a very solemn occasion and lets them continue. He goes back to his house and can’t figure out why everyone cant hear him and why everyone is so sad. Later he goes walkin again down the road. He comes to a gate and a gate guard. The guard asks for his name and the hillbilly tells him. The guard says that the HB cant bring his dog with him B/C there is a separate “Heaven” for dogs, and the Guard (who claims to be St. Peter IIRC) offers to take the dog to the dog heaven. The HB says he does not want to enter a heaven were a man would be separated from his dog and decides to continue walking down the road “Eternia” with his dog. The guard says that the road is really long and insinuates that he will be walking forever. A little while down the road the HB runs into another man that says that the gate he passed was actually the entrance to hell, and that they are always trying to snag whatever traveler’s they can. The HB says that he doesn’t care just as long as his dog is with him. The HB follows the man to what is assumed to be heaven and asks if his wife will find the way OK to which the man says she won’t have a problem, and she will be around shortly. The reasons I think this is my fav is b/c I had one REALLY bad experience with LSD where I though I was walking on the road to heaven and hell and had to make the correct decisions to get there, and was getting tested along the way (An extremely fundi raised person should NEVER EVER take LSD IMHO). Also I have always disagreed with my teachers about the “souls” of non-human entities, I’ve always thought that if you are in heaven and you want your dog to be there his “Soul” (his spark of life/essence/consciousness) Will be there. And also I sensed sinister elements of the episode. Which was the correct decision? The gated path or the wide open path? The path with what YOU want or the path that the (Apparent) God wants? ---
**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 2, 2003, 1:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-twilight-zone-episodes/145961/60 "2003-01-02T13:45:45Z")
I watched _Time Enough at Last_ last night. They showed the gun scene, which seems to have been removed from broadcasts of this episodes that I’ve watched over the past many years; but it was different from how I remembered it. I remembered it as a _shadow_ of Bemis putting the gun to his head; in actuallity, it’s a frontal shot of him raising the gun to his temple. Well, if they _have_ been deleting the shot, I’m glad it’s back. > [@](#): > > I’m sorry, I can’t see why people list this one as a favorite. It’s just nasty, nasty, nasty. I agree. As I said before, the ending is just plain _mean_. That’s what makes it memorable. Many episodes leave me chuckling at the fate which befalls the person who deserves it. Some of them have me saying, “Wow.” Others leave me with different emotions ranging from “Oh, that was stupid.” to heartstrings being tugged. But _Time Enough at Last_ is the only episode I can think of that hits me in the gut. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-twilight-zone-episodes/145961.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-twilight-zone-episodes/145961.md?page=4)