Every time someone mentions another one I mentally shout “me too!” and I can recall pretty much the whole episode, scene for scene, but this one has me stumped. I’m pretty sure it’s not Lateness of the Hour. Part of your description matches it, but IIRC it ends with the parents of the “daughter” ,who is actually a robot, reprogramming her to be a servant, as she was not happy with her life. I don’t recall her having been in pain(?) . Of course, I could be mistaken. I feel like I do remember the “No pain” line but my mind’s eye is not associating it with LotH. Hopefully someone can give us the definitive answer.
The Lateness of the Hour. Season 2 episode 8
From here:
:smack: I can sort of picture it now. My mind was going in a totally different direction.
Thanks, Doug K. And sorry, **Wesley Clark ** , and anyone else who already told us that.
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I never really got into Twilight Zone that much, but this is an episode that I’ve always remembered fondly. I thought I was all mature and grown up (13 in '63) but that last line gave me the creeps.
But the Rod Serling piece that I’ve always considered his best was from the Night Gallery series a few years after TZ. John Carradine in a little ten minute masterpiece: “Big Surprise.”
I saw that at 1:00 am while overnighting at a truck stop on the A1M outside of Leeds, England, in July 1976. Creeped the hell out of me, too!
“Hee, hee, hee! SURPRISE!”
“Little Girl Lost” written by Richard Matheson. Reminds me of a part of ‘Poltergeist’ made years later…How convenient it is to have a physicist friend you can call on to rush over to help!
The one where the ending was a surprise? I’m still waiting for that one.
The shows were a lot more fun when I was kid, because I was just a kid. The ones I saw later in life didn’t impress me plot-wise, and often no better in terms of acting, direction, and production quality. Very few of the episodes are real gems but for it’s time it was quite good and it’s been a huge cultural influence. The Zone wasn’t well defined in it’s genre, a mix of science fiction, horror, fantasy, and morality tales, but it shone next to the cookie-cutter fare it competed with on television in it’s day.
I was there as a tot. I know. It was a signifier of something back then. But when I have seen reruns as an adult it just reminded me how tv waters everything down. Very few shows can live up to imagination. TZ had a big rep to live up to. Not fair in a way.
Also it always looks like they had this idea to do an episode with no effects, just to save money on the budget, because you can “suggest” things.
In reruns it looks like that was the whole game on that show. It wasn’t a novelty, and almost all the episodes were that way.
Thanks for your reply.
One I can’t rewatch because it is so sad, is the one with Robert Lansing as the astronaut about to leave for Jupiter or someplace light years away and a few days before his departure, he meets a woman and falls in love. Like the Burgess Meredith/breaking eyeglasses episode listed above, it’s punishing someone whom we don’t feel deserves it.
My favorite one is called the Ring-A-Ding Girl. An actress decides to return to her hometown for a reunion even though she’s due to film a movie elsewhere. I think the entire episode takes place in her family’s living room and it’s such a tour de force for the actress; she’s so happy to see everyone again, wants to catch up with their lives, etc. She loves her hometown, it was with their help that she was able to go to Hollywood and become a success and she wants to repay them somehow.
“Mr. Bevis” and “The Hunt” (Arthur Hunnicutt as the backwoods hunter who drowns along with his dog, and is greeted by a personage who claims to be the angel at the gate to Heaven but won’t let him in with his dog).These episodes illustrate personal choice and dignity. 
While these episodes are the zenith, “It’s a Good Life” is the nadir!
Those two are very good, i agree.
Let’s also consider “An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge”, which was originally a stand alone short film and subsumed into TZ for showing on US television (even set during the American Civil War, it was a French production)
I’m gonna toss a couple of the neglected hour-long eps into the mix: “The Parallel” and “Of Late I Dream of Cliffordville”. (Julie Newmar, mmmmm)
That’a why I love the episode. Henry Bemis did not deserve that fate, but life doesn’t give a flip. It’s great when the ex-concentration camp commander or the robber gets what’s coming to them. But the fickle finger of fate often doesn’t care about what is fair. Often the person who does everything right, still gets screwed in the end.
For my favorites other than the above probably would be Nick of Time, though ask me tomorrow and it will probably change.
Living Doll
They actually showed us that film in school and I had no idea it was aired as part of the Twilight Zone until I got the Twilight Zone companion a few years after.