# What is your favourite episode of the original Twilight Zone? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [November 15, 2017, 12:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-favourite-episode-of-the-original-twilight-zone/801646 "2017-11-15T00:03:38Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![purplehearingaid](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/7bcc69/32.png) [@purplehearingaid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/purplehearingaid)\ **Post date:** [November 15, 2017, 10:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-favourite-episode-of-the-original-twilight-zone/801646/41 "2017-11-15T22:48:54Z")
Eye of the Beholder , episode 42 this one had a surprise ending ! ---
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> [@Rick\_Kitchen](#): > > My favorite is “The Invaders”, starring Agnes Moorehead. Virtually no dialogue, about a woman living alone who is terrorized by tiny men from outer space. Written by Richard Matheson, score by Jerry Goldsmith. > > Also, “Nothing in the Dark” about an old woman who lives behind locked doors and is afraid to open the door till a young man played by a very young Robert Redford comes knocking on the door asking for her help. Those were the two I was going to mention. ---
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> [@WOOKINPANUB](#): > > I think the one I look forward to most during the yearly marathon is the one with the mannequins. A young woman shops in a dept. store and ends up on an empty floor with a bunch of mannequins. > [@cormac262](#): > > Lot’s of favorites, but this one is the first one that comes to mind. I don’t know the title, though. It’s called _The After Hours._ I like _Nick of Time_ and _A Penny for Your Thoughts_ (the one mentioned by **harmonicamoon** , in which Dick York is the coin tosser). I’ll add _A Hundred Yards Over the Rim_, a time-travel story starring Cliff Robertson. ---
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My favorite was always ‘[The Four of Us are Dying](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0734640/)’ > [@](#): > > Arch Hammer (Harry Townes) is a con man who can change his face to make it look like anyone he chooses. Love the jazz soundtrack. ---
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[Number 12 Looks Just Like You](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0734604/?ref_=ttep_ep17) ---
**Author:** ![What\_Exit](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/what_exit/32/10652_2.png) [@What\_Exit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/What_Exit)\ **Post date:** [November 16, 2017, 2:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-favourite-episode-of-the-original-twilight-zone/801646/46 "2017-11-16T02:46:56Z")
I just watched 5 episodes thanks to this thread. I was feeling sick today and this is excellent comfort viewing. I listed one of the ones I skipped as it came up earlier. All are season 1 episodes. 28 “[A Nice Place to Visit](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Nice_Place_to_Visit)” By Charles Beaumont April 15, 1960 \* This might be the inspiration for \*\*The Good Place.\*\*Mr French of Family Affair was excellent as Pip. \* 29 “[Nightmare as a Child](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nightmare_as_a_Child)” By Rod Serling April 29, 1960 _excellent episode I forgot about. \* [del]30 “[A Stop at Willoughby](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Stop_at_Willoughby)” By Rod Serling May 6, 1960[/del]_ I know this one too well one of the best.Serling’s favorite as mentioned above. \* 32 “[A Passage for Trumpet](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Passage_for_Trumpet)” By Rod Serling May 20, 1960 \*Great episode, Jack Klugman’s best of 4 on the Twilight Zone. \* 34 “[The After Hours](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_After_Hours)” By Rod Serling June 10, 1960 _Good episode with Anne Francis_ 35 “[The Mighty Casey](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Mighty_Casey)” By Rod Serling June 17, 1960 _The Baseball episode with a twist of course._ ---
**Author:** ![Rick\_Kitchen](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rick_kitchen/32/522_2.png) [@Rick\_Kitchen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rick_Kitchen)\ **Post date:** [November 16, 2017, 3:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-favourite-episode-of-the-original-twilight-zone/801646/47 "2017-11-16T03:16:00Z")
Oh, yeah, I forgot A Stop at Willoughby. A classic. ---
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> [@WOOKINPANUB](#): > > Both great choices. I believe the actress in _Night Call_ is Gladys Cooper. Boyfriend had a friend called Brian. I would always say his name like the old woman . . . BrIIIne!! and neither of them had a clue why I did it:p Yes, you’re right, Gladys Cooper. She played Bette Davis’ mother in ‘Now Voyager’. (she was astonishingly beautiful when young!) There’s an episode with an astronaut who lands on a planet and is all alone till another spaceship delivers him a ‘female companion’ - a robot - played by Jean Marsh (of Upstairs Downstairs). That one has always stuck with me. ---
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There are so many great ones that it’s almost impossible to pick a fave, but I’ve long had an enduring fascination with “A Stop at Willoughby”. ---
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I’ve seen (and loved) many of the ones mentioned above. One episode that I only saw once and has stuck with me involves a couple of nice parents and their daughter, who if I recall, seemed to be in her young 20s. Nice normal family, until the daughter realizes something about herself and the parents turn out to be not so nice after all. Again, going from memory, the last lines spoken by the daughter are “No, pain, Dad!..No pain!” and then the parents look at each other–and make their chilling decision. I swear I need to get the complete DVD boxset. ---
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> [@salinqmind](#): > > But I got you all beat, my very favorite is Charles Bronson and Elizabeth Montgomery in ‘Two’. They are both lone soldiers of opposing armies in a deserted town, suspicious of each other, not speaking a common language. (American and Russian? Liz is the Russian.) He eventually tames her a bit, and I swear, the ending is iconic and amazing. I would watch a whole tv series based on these two. Just wonderful! The basic story was redone (but not nearly as well) in the fifth season’s “Probe 7, Over and Out.” Richard Basehart and Antoinette Bowers were the couple in that one. Another episode I like is “The Jeopardy Room,” in which Martin Landau is a Communist defector who has to figure out how his hotel room has been booby-trapped by his former masters. Shades of _ **Mission: Impossible** _! ---
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> [@What\_Exit](#): > > “_Time Enough at Last_” Season 1 Episode 8. One of several appearance by Burgess Meredith and a classic episode. A bank teller who likes to read but never has enough time for his reading. He sneaks into the vault at lunch to read and thus he is the only survivor of a nuclear exchange, but at last he has enough time to read. … I hate that one. Taking aside the argument of him (maybe) getting another pair of glasses, Henry Bemis didnt deserve the twist ending. The tW has always done best when a person got their just desserts. I would have liked the Time Enough far better if it ended without the twist. Indeed it “wasn’t fair”. One of my faves is #1: \*Where Is Everybody? \* It really set the pace and the mood, and I have had that very dream. ---
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Two more that made a lasting impression on me when I saw them for the first time back in the '80s: “The Purple Testament,” with William Reynolds and Dick York. An Army officer can tell who’s going to die next just by looking in his men’s faces. “A Hundred Yards over the Rim,” with Cliff Robertson as a pioneer in the Old West. My favorite “divine intervention time-warp” story. As an aside: If the crew of the Stuart in “The 7th Is Made of Phantoms” really wanted to help Custer at the Little Big Horn, why the hell didn’t they walk back over the hill and get their tank? :dubious: 😕 ---
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> [@divemaster](#): > > I’ve seen (and loved) many of the ones mentioned above. One episode that I only saw once and has stuck with me involves a couple of nice parents and their daughter, who if I recall, seemed to be in her young 20s. Nice normal family, until the daughter realizes something about herself and the parents turn out to be not so nice after all. Again, going from memory, the last lines spoken by the daughter are “No, pain, Dad!..No pain!” and then the parents look at each other–and make their chilling decision. > > I swear I need to get the complete DVD boxset. Sounds like the episode ‘The lateness of the hour’ The series is on netflix. However it is missing season 4, which was the hour long season. ---
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Inger Stevens was in two episodes, I think. All I can say is, ‘The Hitchhiker’ is a ‘10’ among episodes. Creepy, no, downright frightening! ---
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> [@salinqmind](#): > > Inger Stevens was in two episodes, I think. All I can say is, ‘The Hitchhiker’ is a ‘10’ among episodes. Creepy, no, downright frightening! “The Thirty Fathom Grave” scared the hell out of me when I saw it back in second grade! _“He was holding a hammer.”_ :eek: ---
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> [@terentii](#): > > The basic story was redone (but not nearly as well) in the fifth season’s “Probe 7, Over and Out.” Richard Basehart and Antoinette Bowers were the couple in that one. When I was a kid that episode blew my mind the first time I saw it. Yeah it’s a sci fi cliche but if it’s the first time you see it, it’s not a cliche. I thought the ending was the coolest thing ever. The same with “I Shot an Arrow in the Air”. ---
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> [@Mavic\_Chen](#): > > Having just checked the wiki entries for some of the episodes mentioned, I now know the source for several Simpsons Halloween specials! And Stephen King short tales. **Insomnia** ends the same way as **One For the Angels** , and he has a short story similar to **A World of His Own**. ---
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There’s one I remember, Spur of the Moment. A woman is being chased and terrified by a mysterious figure on a horse. The twist is She was being wooed by two men. She ditched one to marry the other. The mysterious figure on the horse is herself from the future, trying to tell the younger self to stay with the original man, because the one she ran off with was lazy and shiftless and she has a miserable life. ---
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And another one no one’s mentioned yet “Perchance to Dream”. The man who’s afraid that if he falls asleep his dreams will kill him. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-favourite-episode-of-the-original-twilight-zone/801646.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-favourite-episode-of-the-original-twilight-zone/801646.md?page=4)