This is not a thread for ‘Which was the best The Twilight Zone episode?’. The question is, which was the first episode of The Twilight Zone you ever saw, or at least the first one you remember seeing.
The first episode I remember seeing was ‘I Shot An Arrow Into The Air’.
Time Enough at Last.
It still breaks my heart when poor Burgess Meredith breaks his glasses. (I was an 11 year old, 4-eyed bookworm at the time, myself.)
Murdstone.
I don’t know, but it was sometime @1984. Some cable outlet was going to show three(?) TZ eps that had not been seen for some reason or another. Those were “Sounds and Silences”, “Miniature”, and “A Short Drink From a Certain Fountain.” Those were the first ones I ever saw, although I couldn’t say which was first.
I was much more familiar with “Night Gallery” at this time. Where I lived, we never saw any TZ reruns on broadcast tv (which was all we had back then), but “Night Gallery” showed up quite a bit.
Impossible to say. I’ve watched so many over and over since childhood, there is no timeline to reference them with my life.
I can’t say, since I was more an Outer Limits fan (the first of that I saw was “The Galaxy Being”) and didn’t watch TZ during its original run.
I started seeing it in reruns when I was in college in 1971 or so, but don’t recall the first one I’d seen. I had heard of many of them beforehand, though.
My first was Eye of the Beholder and my 10 year old self did not see the twist coming. Blew me away.
I watched a lot of Twilight Zone when I was too young to really remember a timeline. Plus, I usually watched while home sick from school, so I wasn’t always paying a lot of attention.
Anyway, the one truly memorable episode from that time period is the little boy with virtually omnipotent powers who terrorizes the farming town around him. At the end, he turns someone into a jack-in-the-box. I don’t know the title or episode number, but I’ll never forget that one.
It’s a Good Life, with Billy Mumy as Anthony, the all-powerful kid. (“It’s good, what you did, Anthony. REAL good.”)
Same as the others - I watched them and Star Wars and Indiana Jones so much as a very young child that I have absolutely no context.
I do remember coming across them again in college after not having seen them since I was very young, and the first one I remember seeing then (and remember remembering) was the one with the creepy-headed fortune telling machine that google dutifully tells me is Nick of Time.
+1
I think the earliest was the one where the crew of the Stuart tank ends up at the Battle of the Little Bighorn. I must have been in second grade, because I already knew what an M3 was.
The episode where David McCallum’s evolution was accelerated was one from The Outer Limits, right? Or was that TZ too?
If it was, that may be the first one I remember.
I honestly don’t remember. I do know I used to rush to my Twilight Zone Companion after each episode to reread the entry.
The episode with the two kids swimming to the bottom of the pool and emerging in a new world.
Not my favorite, just the first I remember seeing. TZone had been of the air many years before I was born.
ETA: <i>The Bewitchin’ Pool </i>according to google.
The name isn’t coming to me but the first I remember is the one with the dieing man, the shitty relatives and the masks that transform their faces.
‘The Masks’.
“A Stop At Willoughby” was the first complete episode I ever saw, and when I was in my mid-teens. Good, GOOD episode to be one’s first…and still one of my utmost favorites to this day. IIRC, Rod Serling has been reputed to say that ‘Willoughby’ was neck and neck with “Walking Distance” for his personal most favorite episode.
Whenever I’d drive to Hollywood, I couldn’t resist saying ‘Willoughby! Next stop, Willoughby!’ whenever I came to that intersection.
I remeber that one too and the one with the weird monster on the airplane wind
William Shatner was in it. The one with the dollhouse, I watched it with my family and I knew how it was going to end and I thought everyone figured it out too and I spoiled it for everyone.
Spur of the Moment, not one of the better episodes. That didn’t hook me on the show, but sometime later I saw One for the Angelswhich was one of the better episodes and I wanted to see more.