Twilight Zone Fans

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What was your favorite episode?

My favorite episode was when the kid went back into the walls.

[Jim Sagle]

1. "Little Girl Lost" - my favorite too.

[brainshrub]

2. This one:

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[Lostmessage]

4. Thank You

I just laughed my ass off!

[populistmom]

3. The older women with the mysterious phone calls

And it turns out the line goes to a grave, but it's her old fiance, so it ends up being kind of sweet, in a cryptically weird sort of way. It's the hopeless romantic in me I think (in a cryptically weird sort of way).

[The Zanti Regent]

5. William Shatner in the plane

HE just got out of a mental hospital, looks out the window and sees a "gremlin" sabotaging the plane engines. Nobody beleives him. Scared the living daylights out of me when I first saw it as an 7 year old!

[trackfan]

6. The Trouble With Templeton

is one of my favorites. Also the Christmas one with Art Carney.

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7. The Santa one made me cry when I was a kid

:shrug:

[DonP]

15. "Night of the Meek" is the title

Art Carney as a drunken Santa who gets his own Christmas wish fulfilled. Still gets me all misty eyed after seeing it a hundred times.

To me it's not Christmas unless I see that episode, and of course "It's a Bundyful Life" on MWC with Sam Kinnison as Al's guardian angel Clarence.

[rasputin1952]

8. The Christmas one w/Art Carney is one of the best...

But my all time favorite is: "The Gift".

A UFO crashes in the Mexican desert, and the alien, who looks human, is befriended by a little boy after being shot by the police. Eventually, he gives the boy a book, is shot again, out of fear. Someone in the crowd yells, "It's the devils work", and the book gets torched, only the cover and first page remain. The cover says "The Gift", the first page reads, "The cures to all types of human cancers".

I rarely see it, but it breaks my heart every time. Then again, there are so many good ones, and so many careers launched, who's to say which is the best?

O8)

[WillParkinson]

9. Death of a Salesman...

The one where Death comes for a salesman who said he wanted to make a "BIG" pitch. One that would open up the heavens. When Death agrees to let him make his big pitch before he takes him the guy says he will never sell again. Death instead decides to take a little girl and the guy does everything he can to sell Death stuff until the hour of the girls death passes.

[rasputin1952]

10. That was one that is seen rather rarely as well...

truly a classic though.

Funny how the ones that pulled heartstrings seem to be the best. Like the one with Robert Redford as Death, trying to ease the little old lady into transition. She won't leave her basement apt out of fear of death coming to her door, and getting in. I hardly ever see that one either, but it is a great philosophical/theological/morality play.

O8)

[gator_in_Ontario]

11. An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge....n/t

[skypilot]

12. "Shadowplay"

The episode with Dennis Weaver as the man being convicted of murder and sentenced to die in the electric chair who then starts warning everyone that if he dies they will all cease to exist. That episode threw me off kilter right from the beginning and when everything was finally explained I was just blown away. I've never seen another Twilight Zone episode that impressed and unsettled me as much as this one.

[Loonman]

13. The one with the slot machine addict

Where the machine breaks before letting the guy win.

[FunBobbyMucha]

14. The one about aliens coming to a suburban street

Title? It was all about Cold War paranoia. I remember a great one with Elizabeth Montgomery also, but time has faded it in my mind.

[GalleryGod]

16. #1 !!! "The Monsters Are Coming to Maple Street"

Claude Akins!

[GalleryGod]

17. Sorry! "The Monsters Are DUE on Maple Street"

AIRDATE: March 4th, 1960 !

I'm a Serling aficionado:smoke:

[Solomon]

18. Jeff Myrtlebank. The one where this guy wakes up in his coffin during

his funeral. The whole town thinks he's an evil spirit, so he takes advantage of it and threatens them if they don't leave him alone.

[Lostmessage]

19. I haven't seen that one

Sounds like its a good one to me.

[terrya]

20. "It's a GOOD Life"

Billy Mumy as Anthony, the little boy who could do anything with his mind.

Still my favorite...

Terry

[Aristus]

21. "Time Enough At Last" with Burgess Merideth.

As a voracious reader with never enough time, I can really identify with this one. I don't have a shrewish wife (she loves to read as much as I do), but the denoument of the episode made me cry. Poor Burgess.

Another good one is the small time crook who is shot and killed. He goes to Hell but thinks at first that it is Heaven. Great one.

[mac56]

23. Aristus, see below!

GMTA!

[mac56]

22. One old, one new

My favorite of the original episodes is “Time Enough at Last”. It starred Burgess Meredith as a wimpy bank teller who could never find enough time to read. One day during lunch, he was inside a heavy bank vault, enjoying a good book, when a nuclear attack killed the populace outside. Now, he had all the time to read that he would ever want. But he tripped over some debris and broke his glasses.

My favorite of the “new” (1980s) episodes is “Wordplay”. It starred Robert Klein as a salesman who’s company has switched to a medical supply product line, stays up all night studying the new catalog to memorize the hundreds of pages of new medical terminology, in order to be ready to sell it in a weeks time. His wife is worried about their son, who doesn’t feel well. He goes off to work, but hears his neighbor call his dog an “encyclopedia” and shrugs it off. He puts in a full day of trying to cope with the new words, and the jibes from the younger salesmen about teaching old dogs new “trumpets”. He’s surprised when he begins to hear people say things that he doesn’t understand but doesn’t question it till later. At first it’s just a word or two, completely out of place and meaning something entirely different, to him, but obviously not to the other person. Then, as the next few days go by, everyone starts to speak gibberish to him, and he gets scared. When he gets home, his wife is really upset about their son, who’s got a very high fever now. But he can’t understand a word she’s saying. He picks up the little boy and they go to the emergency room. His wife has to explain everything to the doctors, because he doesn’t understand what she’s saying. He’s truly worried about his son. He sits in the waiting room with his wife, as people all around him speak a language he doesn’t know anymore. When the doctor’s come out to tell them that their son is okay, the only way he can tell is that his wife begins smiling. As the episode closes, he sits down in his son’s bedroom, and picks up one of the ABC books. He begins studying the basics of a language he needs to relearn.

[mac56]

24. Does anyone remember this episode?

As I recall it's a "new" 1980s episode. Featured a woman, down on her luck, who is visited by a mysterious stranger with a lockbox. Stranger tells her there's a million dollars in the box and she can have it if she wants it. The catch is, if she opens the box, someone else is going to die. But the stranger assures her, "Don't worry - it's no one that you know." Woman has a dark night of the soul, argues with her husband. Then the next morning she tells the stranger she'll take the money: opens up the box. The stranger excuses himself, says he's off to his next stop. Woman asks who he's going to visit. Stranger replies - "Don't worry, it's no one who knows you."

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