I did see the very first TZ episode, “Where Is Everybody?” in its original broadcast when I was 8. I distinctly remember my shock when Ferris crashes into the mirror.
I started watching TZ when it first aired, on October 2, 1959, and was immediately hooked. The first episode was *Where is Everybody?
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I can’t say for certain, but the first one I remember seeing is the Talky Tina one, which was kind of unnerving when I was 9 or so.
Me too. I saw it when I was little and a few years ago when I embarked on a mission to watch every single episode I couldn’t bring myself to watch that one again.
I think this was the first one I saw.
Also the one with William Shatner and the “gremlin” on the airplane wing.
If it counts - the movie.
If not…well, the first I remember seeing is The Eye of the Beholder, but I’m pretty sure I saw some before that.
The first one I remember seeing all of was the salesman trying to cheat death in “One for the Angels”. I was an adult at the time.
However, in junior high my class read out loud the script from the episode “The Monsters Are Due on Maple Street”.
Definitely Outer Limits. It (“The Sixth Finger”) stuck with me, and I watched it again years later (with my daughter, who was the same age as I was when I first saw it). It turned out to be have far more going on than I realized at first.
The first one I remember was The Invaders with Agnes Moorehead fighting off what appears to be an attack of little spacemen.
I was too young to immediately pick up on the big reveal at the end (the Spacemen were USA astronauts in a world where the people were giants)
Even after my older sister somewhat explained it to me I was fearful for weeks that little men in spacesuits where hiding under my bed.
I didn’t know what The Twilight Zone was at the time, or that what I’d seen was an episode of it, but the one with the morgue & the nurse who always has “room for one more, honey” FREAKED me out.
I am now a HUGE fan of TZ & have a well-worn dog-eared copy of the first printing of The Twilight Zone Companion.
I believe it was “To Serve Man”. Yeah, my parents knew what they were doing.
“A Game of Pool”, starring Jack Klugman and Jonathan Winters.
That was ONE of my first… I think the second was another one with Burgess Meredith- “The Obsolete Man.”
WPIX, channel 11 in New York, used to run them almost every night when I was a kid.
Around the same time as the episode with the tank, I recall watching the one where the astronauts land in a desert they think is on another planet, but they’re actually on Earth. I remember the telephone poles scratched in the sand by the guy who died. That must also have been in the winter of 1962 (or maybe '61).
Were they doing Braised Octarine on a bed of lemongrass? I’ve heard that’s a tough recipe.
The only one I remember watching when it was first aired was Mute. I would have been four at the time. I caught up on all the rest when I was in my teens and the show was in syndication. I think there are still about a half dozen episodes that I’ve never seen.
I remember seeing one where somebody makes a bet that he won’t speak for an entire year. When the year ends and he wins his bet, he reveals that he had had his tongue removed to ensure that he’d win. We watched it in my high school English class after reading a short story that the episode was based on.
I also watched them on WPIX. They aired them nightly and would also do marathons on the holidays. Somewhere I have a VHS tape with 8 hours of one of their New Years Eve Marathons.
“We now join ‘The Twilight Zone’…already in progress” was a catch-phrase among my crowd in the early 80’s (ok, we weren’t quite a “crowd”). WPIX-11, NYC. Whenever the Yankees game ran over its allotted 2:30 (in other words, nearly every night), PIX would shows the news and then a couple of old sitcoms (Odd Couple? Honeymooners?) in full, and finally catch up at Twilight Zone time.
So my first (partial) TZ episode, I believe: Six Characters in Search of an Exit.
I was born in 1961, and have seen them so often that I honestly could not tell you the first one I ever saw. There were so many good ones, and so many replayed so frequently - I suppose it could have been the one with Burgess Meredith - Time Enough At Last maybe? I know they would replay that one lots.
This is the very episode , some stations did not want to air the show b/c they thought it too weird and would not do good. Boy they were wrong !