# The FIRST Twilight Zone episode you saw **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [February 12, 2015, 8:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-first-twilight-zone-episode-you-saw/712503 "2015-02-12T20:07:56Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**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:** [February 12, 2015, 8:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-first-twilight-zone-episode-you-saw/712503/1 "2015-02-12T20:07:56Z")
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’. ---
**Author:** ![astorian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ad7895/32.png) [@astorian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astorian)\ **Post date:** [February 12, 2015, 8:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-first-twilight-zone-episode-you-saw/712503/2 "2015-02-12T20:09:20Z")
_ **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.) ---
**Author:** ![Lucas\_Jackson](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lucas_jackson/32/303_2.png) [@Lucas\_Jackson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lucas_Jackson)\ **Post date:** [February 12, 2015, 8:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-first-twilight-zone-episode-you-saw/712503/3 "2015-02-12T20:12:22Z")
> [@astorian](#): > > _ **Time Enough at Last.** _ > It still breaks my heart when poor Burgess Meredith breaks his glasses. Murdstone. ---
**Author:** ![Earl\_Snake-Hips\_Tucker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/earl_snake-hips_tucker/32/3269_2.png) [@Earl\_Snake-Hips\_Tucker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Earl_Snake-Hips_Tucker)\ **Post date:** [February 12, 2015, 8:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-first-twilight-zone-episode-you-saw/712503/4 "2015-02-12T20:35:36Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![MovieMogul](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f08c70/32.png) [@MovieMogul](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MovieMogul)\ **Post date:** [February 12, 2015, 8:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-first-twilight-zone-episode-you-saw/712503/5 "2015-02-12T20:35:40Z")
Impossible to say. I’ve watched so many over and over since childhood, there is no timeline to reference them with my life. ---
**Author:** ![RealityChuck](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/realitychuck/32/195_2.png) [@RealityChuck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RealityChuck)\ **Post date:** [February 12, 2015, 9:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-first-twilight-zone-episode-you-saw/712503/6 "2015-02-12T21:10:10Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![xizor](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/xizor/32/102_2.png) [@xizor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/xizor)\ **Post date:** [February 12, 2015, 10:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-first-twilight-zone-episode-you-saw/712503/7 "2015-02-12T22:35:46Z")
My first was _Eye of the Beholder_ and my 10 year old self did not see the twist coming. Blew me away. ---
**Author:** ![dracoi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/90db22/32.png) [@dracoi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dracoi)\ **Post date:** [February 12, 2015, 10:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-first-twilight-zone-episode-you-saw/712503/8 "2015-02-12T22:39:11Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![astorian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ad7895/32.png) [@astorian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astorian)\ **Post date:** [February 12, 2015, 10:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-first-twilight-zone-episode-you-saw/712503/9 "2015-02-12T22:52:05Z")
> [@dracoi](#): > > 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.”) ---
**Author:** ![Lasciel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/e79b87/32.png) [@Lasciel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lasciel)\ **Post date:** [February 12, 2015, 10:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-first-twilight-zone-episode-you-saw/712503/10 "2015-02-12T22:52:47Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![Baker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bb73d2/32.png) [@Baker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baker)\ **Post date:** [February 12, 2015, 11:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-first-twilight-zone-episode-you-saw/712503/11 "2015-02-12T23:03:09Z")
> [@MovieMogul](#): > > Impossible to say. I’ve watched so many over and over since childhood, there is no timeline to reference them with my life. +1 ---
**Author:** ![terentii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/terentii/32/212_2.png) [@terentii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/terentii)\ **Post date:** [February 12, 2015, 11:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-first-twilight-zone-episode-you-saw/712503/12 "2015-02-12T23:08:29Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![Quimby](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/22d042/32.png) [@Quimby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Quimby)\ **Post date:** [February 12, 2015, 11:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-first-twilight-zone-episode-you-saw/712503/13 "2015-02-12T23:25:35Z")
I honestly don’t remember. I do know I used to rush to my Twilight Zone Companion after each episode to reread the entry. ---
**Author:** ![G0sp3l](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/c68b51/32.png) [@G0sp3l](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/G0sp3l)\ **Post date:** [February 12, 2015, 11:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-first-twilight-zone-episode-you-saw/712503/14 "2015-02-12T23:49:28Z")
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: \The Bewitchin’ Pool \according to google. ---
**Author:** ![kopek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kopek/32/337_2.png) [@kopek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kopek)\ **Post date:** [February 13, 2015, 1:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-first-twilight-zone-episode-you-saw/712503/15 "2015-02-13T01:26:31Z")
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. ---
**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:** [February 13, 2015, 1:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-first-twilight-zone-episode-you-saw/712503/16 "2015-02-13T01:39:09Z")
> [@kopek](#): > > 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’. ---
**Author:** ![TheInimitableMaven](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/b19c9b/32.png) [@TheInimitableMaven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TheInimitableMaven)\ **Post date:** [February 13, 2015, 1:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-first-twilight-zone-episode-you-saw/712503/17 "2015-02-13T01:47:35Z")
“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. ---
**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:** [February 13, 2015, 1:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-first-twilight-zone-episode-you-saw/712503/18 "2015-02-13T01:50:06Z")
Whenever I’d drive to Hollywood, I couldn’t resist saying ‘Willoughby! Next stop, Willoughby!’ whenever I came to that intersection. ---
**Author:** ![purplehearingaid](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/7bcc69/32.png) [@purplehearingaid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/purplehearingaid)\ **Post date:** [February 13, 2015, 3:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-first-twilight-zone-episode-you-saw/712503/19 "2015-02-13T03:51:24Z")
> [@xizor](#): > > My first was _Eye of the Beholder_ and my 10 year old self did not see the twist coming. Blew me away. 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. ---
**Author:** ![TriPolar](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tripolar/32/3008_2.png) [@TriPolar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TriPolar)\ **Post date:** [February 13, 2015, 4:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-first-twilight-zone-episode-you-saw/712503/20 "2015-02-13T04:58:02Z")
[Spur of the Moment](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0734621/?ref_=ttep_ep8), not one of the better episodes. That didn’t hook me on the show, but sometime later I saw [One for the Angels](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0734609/?ref_=ttep_ep2)which was one of the better episodes and I wanted to see more. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-first-twilight-zone-episode-you-saw/712503.md?page=2)