# What was your favorite Twilight Zone episode? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Tags:** tv-shows-scripted\ **Created:** [October 12, 2005, 10:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-your-favorite-twilight-zone-episode/325971 "2005-10-12T22:04:41Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 7\ **Page:** 6
**Author:** ![Just\_Asking\_Questions](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ba9def/32.png) [@Just\_Asking\_Questions](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Just_Asking_Questions)\ **Post date:** [July 21, 2024, 2:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-your-favorite-twilight-zone-episode/325971/101 "2024-07-21T14:19:53Z")
> [@WOOKINPANUBv.2](#): > > and any where Jack Klugman gets preachy. Don’t watch Quincy ME then. Because that’s every episode. 🙂 There weren’t too many good hour-long episodes, but I like Miniature (another Beaumont episode), especially as the first time i saw it, they had colorized the miniature scenes only. it made an interesting effec. ---
**Author:** ![DrDeth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b487fb/32.png) [@DrDeth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DrDeth)\ **Post date:** [July 21, 2024, 9:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-your-favorite-twilight-zone-episode/325971/102 "2024-07-21T21:06:53Z")
> [@Just\_Asking\_Questions](#): > > Don’t watch Quincy ME then. Because that’s every episode. Not the first season, but yep- after that it got so bad I stopped watching it. ---
**Author:** ![carrps](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carrps/32/2957_2.png) [@carrps](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carrps)\ **Post date:** [July 21, 2024, 10:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-your-favorite-twilight-zone-episode/325971/103 "2024-07-21T22:00:15Z")
> [@GrahamWellington](#): > > The episode I like the best so far is called “The Lonely.” It’s about a guy that’s been exiled as punishment to a planet where there are no people – just himself living in a trailor in a vast, empty desert. My sister had a book of old TZ trivia, and it said this episode was filmed in Death Valley. They ran out of things to drink by the end of one day except for chocolate milk. Everybody got sick. I haven’t been able to verify this (and she no longer has the book), but it _was_ extremely hot. Sweat would evaporate immediately so they had to use glycerin to simuate the sweat. ---
**Author:** ![carrps](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carrps/32/2957_2.png) [@carrps](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carrps)\ **Post date:** [July 21, 2024, 10:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-your-favorite-twilight-zone-episode/325971/104 "2024-07-21T22:22:31Z")
> [@Cat\_Fight](#): > > The one where the woman keeps seeing faces in patterns creeped the hell out of me as a kid and has haunted me ever since, even though there’s no real point to it (that I recall). I didn’t recognize this one at all. It’s from the **New** Twilight Zone. Sounds like an update of the classic short story _The Yellow Wallpaper._ > [@Batsinma\_Belfry](#): > > One of my favorites has rarely been shown. And when I describe it, nobody remembers it. > > It takes place during Mardi Gras. The patriarch of a wealthy family is on his deathbed. I remember that one well, because his daughter? niece? had the same first name as me. I felt insulted! ---
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I remember that one well, because his daughter? niece? had the same first name as me. I felt insulted! Just remembered _Long Live Walter Jameson_ about a college professor (played by Kevin McCarthy – no, not _that_ one) who is suspiciously youthful, and who is undone by an old flame. ---
**Author:** ![Briny\_Deep](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/briny_deep/32/17188_2.png) [@Briny\_Deep](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Briny_Deep)\ **Post date:** [July 22, 2024, 1:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-your-favorite-twilight-zone-episode/325971/106 "2024-07-22T01:31:00Z")
> [@carrps](#): > > They ran out of things to drink by the end of one day except for chocolate milk. Everybody got sick. [A book I have](https://www.amazon.com/Twilight-Zone-Companion-Scott-Zicree/dp/1935247174/ref=sr_1_1) might be that one. > “We had a nurse with us and she kept pushing lukewarm water,” Buck Houghton recalls. “And once in a while a guy would say ‘Well, don’t worry about _me_,’ and put down a quart of nice, cold chocolate milk. In about a half hour, he’d turn green and have to lie down in the truck.” > …“Everybody was filling in for somebody else because people were just dropping off like flies.” Buck Houghton: “One time, Jean Marsh lay down in the shot that’s the tag of the picture. We put a thermometer down beside her. It was 140 degrees where she was lying.” > …After two days of shooting, Houghton and Smight decided – to the relief of cast and crew alike – to return to MGM, reconstruct the interior of the metal shack in which the convict in the story lives, and shoot the final day’s scenes under comparatively cool klieg lights. ---
**Author:** ![salinqmind1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/958977/32.png) [@salinqmind1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/salinqmind1)\ **Post date:** [August 1, 2024, 3:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-your-favorite-twilight-zone-episode/325971/107 "2024-08-01T15:37:27Z")
“Two”. Charles Bronson and Elizabeth Montgomery are soldiers of opposing armies in a deserted trashed town - after a war?. There is little dialogue as they stalk each other. The ending is …well, sweet. It’s not so much scary, but I love watching this little 2-character play. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-your-favorite-twilight-zone-episode/325971.md?page=5)