The Twilight Zone

The Invaders episode was very good, and so was the many times Shatner was on.

"Scotty...there is a thing on the wing."

"I'm doin all I can Capt'n. She won't hold much longer"

I guess Eye of the Beholder would be my favorite.

Nightmare at 20, 000 Ft (both the Richard Donner episode and the George Miller movie episode) have always been my favourite.

That and Monsters on Maple Street.

I saw Monsters On Maple Street again a few weeks ago. Clever, intelligent, though-provoking sci-fi television. What ever happened to that?

What, don't they get Cleopatra 2525 in the UK?

Yeah, but they must cut out all the philosophy and post-modern intertextual deconstructionism, just leaving us with thirty minutes of out-of-context cleavage and explosions. Still, it's better than Enterprise...

That's a VERY tough call.

OK, I am going through a list and pulling out the ones I remember as being great:

*All of the Jack Klugman episodes. He was just the perfect Twilight Zone guy, including In Praise of Pip, A Passage For Trumpet, and A Game of Pool
*The old west one with the penicillin
*The Invaders, just a classic
*The hour-long Robert Duvall ep., Miniature
*To Serve Man (how can you not love this one?)
*The old Mexico one with the peacable space man who gets gunned down, The Gift
*The To Kill A Mockingbird one, with the two kids, The Bewitching Pool
*the Elizabeth Montgomery and Charles Bronson Adam & Eve one, Two
*One For the Angels, i get chills just thinking about it
*The Robert Redford as death episode, Nothing in the Dark
*Shatner with the fortune teller machine (this one is so unvelievably awesome); also Nightmare at 20,000 Feet. Shatner was a Twilight Zone god!
*The Lonely, with Jack Warden alone on a planet with a robot; what a shocking ending for the '50s
*The Four of Us are Dying, another ep. that gives me chills
*The Big Tall Wish (chills)
*The Howling Man (scared me when I was a kid)
*Billy Mumy and his grannie, Long Distance Call
*The Mirror, with Peter Falk
*The Grave, with Lee Marvin
*Once Upon a Time, with Buster Keaton
*Five Characters in Search of an Exit, with the five people trapped together in a circular room
*The Fugitive, with the old man from space. Love that one...
*Little Girl Lost - with the portal in the bedroom - CHILLING!
*The Monsters have Landed on Maple Street
*The Dummy, with Cliff Robertson
*Living Doll, "I'm Talking Tina and I'm going to KILL YOU"
*Uncle Simon, with the robot who is just like the lady's uncle
*Number Twelve Looks Just Like You, one of my all-time faves
*Night Call, with Gladys Cooper as the old lady getting calls from the cemetary. Spooky.
*Ocurrence at Owl Creek Bridge, what a cool one.
*Nan Adams on the highway, The Hitch-Hiker, "I believe you're ... going my way?"

There is nothing on par with the old Twilight Zone these days.

Agreed. He was an awesome TZ-er. I loved the one in which his glasses break. Just a brilliant actor, and perfect for the TZ!

This is my all-time classic Twilight Zone episode ever. It's almost like a chapter in Ray Bradbury's "The Martian Chronicles" (one of my favorite books as a child).

Probably my favorite show of all time (after The Simpsons, of course). Twilight Zone has it all - scares, poignancy, satire, philosophy and of course the unforgettable voice of Rod Serling ("Submitted for your approval...").

It's impossible for me to pick a favorite but a few that I really love are the classic ventriloquist dummy episode with Cliff Robertson, the "Mirror Image" episode with Vera Miles, the "Hitchhiker" episode, and an episode that I think was called "22" - about the woman with the recurring nightmare about going down into the morgue of a hospital and being told "...Room for one more, honey!".

Oh, and of course "Nick of Time" with William Shatner in the thrall of a fortune telling machine.

One episode I could never enjoy was "Time Enough At Last" where Burgess Merideth's glasses shatter just has he finally has enough time to read all the books he ever wanted. As a glasses wearer, that one always hit too close to home!

I'm sure I'm not the only person who bought a spare pair of glasses just because of that TZ episode.

Time Enough at Last, hands down...and most of the Matheson episdoes.

Anyone else heard about Twilight Zone being resurrected AGAIN for TV? I would love to see some of the old scripts that were never produced get dusted off and shot. Anybody else reminded of Serling by Colin Ferrel in Minority Report?

Just wondering...

Gotta be "To Serve Man." Something about the look of the aliens in that just scared(scares) me. Is it faulty remembrance, or didn't they look like Jaws from the James Bond flicks?

The Simpsons halloween parody of this was fabulously funny, too.

Speaking of 'Twilight Zone', in case you didn't notice we're giving away Sideshow's first line of toys from the series. Go to the CONTEST section to enter. If you're cool.

I'm not cool, but did you know yesterday was the 20th "anniversary" of the accident involving Vic Morrow and the two children on the set of Twilight Zone: The Movie?

Thanks for that link, R. Just when I thought the nightmares would finally leave me at peace.

I knew he was the same creepy-lookin' mutha. Why wasn't Kiel in more horror movies? Just looking at him and listening to him without any makeup at all gives me chills.

I like the episode that takes place in the department store, and the female shopper is actually a manniquin, returning from her one month in the real world ...

Also, the hour-long episode with Burgess Meredith as the Devil ... He bails out the failing newspaper, and he pulls out a performace better IMHO than any of his other roles ..

The one where Burgess Meredith was the last man on earth and he loved to read. So now with all the people gone he had all the time in the world to read, but at the end he broke his glasses.