The Twilight Zone : Favorite episodes

Favorite episodes

Mine are "Walking Distance," "A Stop at Willoughby" and "The Changing of the Guard." Those episodes are as true now as they were then (if not more so).

What about you folks?

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Mine has always been The Midnight Sun.

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That is an awesome episode!

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Two
What You Need
Will the Real Martian please stand up

I forgot:
The Hunt
Obsolete Man







GET HIM A BODYBAG...YEAH!!!!

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Love the setting in Will The Real Martian please stand up.

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Long Live Walter Jameson
Shadow Play
The Howling Man
And When The Sky WasOpened ( love Rod Taylor)

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It's on right now, Will the Real Martian Please Stand Up? One of my faves, anyway...it's one I never seem to get tired of...

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In no particular order:
Midnight Sun
Will the Real Martian Please Stand Up
Obsolete Man
Time Enough at Last
To Serve Man
It's a Good Life
Living Doll
Back There
A Penny for Your Thoughts
Odyssey of Flight 33

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All great eps

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To Serve Man is my favorite. Those aliens make me chuckle

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Lots of great ones listed already here. I'd also like to add: Mirror Image, the Purple Testament, the After Hours, and Deathshead Revisited

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The Trade Ins
Jess Belle
People are Alike all Over
Mr Dingle

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Good thread!

Mine are;

Nightmare at 20,000 Feet

The Hitchhiker

The After Hours

Where is Everybody?

A Most Unusual Camera

Person or Persons Unknown

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In no particular order -

Perchance to Dream
Nick of Time
Two
Mirror Image
After Hours
And When the Sky Was Opened
Will the Real Martian Please Stand Up?
Walking Distance
The Four of us Are Dying
Where is Everybody?
A World of Difference
A Penny for Your Thoughts
Twenty-Two
The Monsters Are Due on Maple Street


I can watch these over and over and never get tired of them.


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Mine in no order
Two
time enough at last
the purple testament
3rd from the sun
Rip van winkle caper
One for the angels
the silence
will the real martian please stand up
the obsolete man
the hunt
to serve man
the trade ins
On Thursday we leave for home night of the meek
the lonely
An occurrence at owl creek bridge

Plus most of the rest, very few I disliked

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My favorite episodes are: A World of Difference, The After Hours and The Midnight Sun

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Perchance to Dream
The After Hours
Will the Real Martian Please Stand Up
Nightmare at 20,000 Feet
The Arrival

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22
The Lonely
It's a Good Life
Midnight Sun
A Penny For Your Thoughts

Walking Distance is also excellent. All of the best episodes ring true today.

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Totally. I think The Twilight Zone is at the same par as any great American novel. Great literature stands the test of time.

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Oh boy...too many to choose. It would be easier to list the ones I DON'T like.

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I know what you mean. I'm not a fan of "Ring-a-Ding Girl" from season 5. For me, that was the low point for the entire series and for Earl Hamner, Jr.'s television writing career. Hamner must have been drunk and in a hurry when he wrote that episode -- it was just truly awful, and I'm surprised that that script ever got past Rod Serling, who otherwise had very high standards for quality writing. Last year, other posters on here tried to convince me otherwise, that there was a hidden meaning in the episode or something, but I'm still not convinced.

I think, though, that everyone recognizes that "Come Wander with Me" was bad -- I don't blame it on the writing or Gary Crosby's acting abilities -- I blame it on the editing room. I think they chopped it up to the point where the story didn't make sense anymore. I'd love to see an unedited version, and then reevaluate it.

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I thought The Bewitchin' Pool was way worse than Ring a Ding Girl.

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fleurfairy! How's it going? We've talked over on The Wonder Years board, and I see that you're also a fan of The Goldbergs! You have excellent taste...

I thought "The Bewitchin' Pool" was a fun episode. What didn't you like about it?

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Eye of the Beholder (my personal favorite)
To Serve Man
Little Girl Lost
A Stop at Willoughby
Midnight Sun
Stopover in a Quiet Town
Living Doll
The Invaders
22
The After Hours
Will the Real Martian Please Stand Up?
The Hitchhiker
The Howling Man
Long Distance Call
The Dummy
The Bewitchin' Pool (doesn't seem to be a popular episode, but I like it)
Mirror Image (forgot this one, added it after other people listed it and I remembered how much I like it!)

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I love "A Stop at Willoughby." They just showed it. I was really excited when I saw they were going to air it, but then saw that they cut up some scenes to make room for MORE commercials. They'll never learn! Apparently, the people at Syfy never watched TZ themselves because there's some lessons in there that they never cared to learn (greed, etc.)...For me, the TZ episodes are works of literature (I compare the writing style to that of O. Henry). Would it be right to cut out pages from books and replace that text with ads? No! Of course not! Oops...I might have given them their next (bad) idea.

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The commercials are annoying for sure, but at least they added viewer's choice this time which I really enjoyed even though only a couple of my choices won.

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I didn't get to vote (I'm not on Twitter), but I had a post on here about what I would have chosen had I been able to vote. Basically, they ended up showing all the episodes I didn't choose -- still great episodes, though.

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Everyone has their favorite(s).
To each his own:)
But to me the single most memorable episode--the one that epitomizes what the show "is" to me--is "Eye of the Beholder".
It has the great build up of suspense to the mind blowing "reveal" that just--at least when u first see it--Just takes your breath away :)

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Eye of the Beholder is my #1 favorite too. When I was a little kid my older brothers told me how great it was and to make sure I watched it, so when it was on again I watched it by myself. I remember screaming my head off at the end and them laughing at me from the other room lol (being an only girl with 3 older brothers was loads of fun - not! lol).

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In addition to a bunch already mentioned, a couple more I like:

The Shelter
The Little People

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From another favorite episodes thread

Short list

The Monsters are Due on Maple Street
The Masks
Deaths-Head Revisited
The Grave
Night Call
The Obsolete Man

The Hitch-Hiker
Mirror Image
A World of Difference
The After Hours
Nick of Time

Not in exact order but ten that are my personal favorites

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It's not one of the episodes with a moral, but The Dummy is my favorite. I'm a horror movie/tv nut, and this TZ episode is one of the creepiest things ever aired on television. I had nightmares about it as a child!

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It's definitely creepy even as an adult!

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My favorites are, in no particular order:

Number 12 Looks Just Like You
Big Tall Wish
Jess Belle
The Midnight Sun
Where is Everybody?

*eta: The Monsters are Due on Maple Street (the closing narrative is amazing)

What's so terrible about being beautiful?

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It was the US Air Force. And, if she was on her own planet, then it would have been the Air Force that would have been the aliens. That episode is called "The Invaders," from season 2. They showed it last night.

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NASA was brand new at time, having been established by the Eisenhower administration in 1958. There are several episodes where the Air Force functions as the NASA, including episode #1, "Where Is Everybody?" Of course, we know that early astronauts, like John Glenn, Alan Shepard, Scott Carpenter, Gus Grissom and Gordon Cooper, all came from distinguished military fighter pilot backgrounds and I believe all those guys were still in the military when they were astronauts. Additionally, many of the technologies used for the space program had originally been implemented for defense, so it makes sense that people at the time would have thought space travel would be a function of the military, rather than a civilian agency.

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Tough to name them all off the top of my head. And When the Sky Was Opened, Eye of the Beholder, Night Call, Deaths-Head Revisited, The Howling Man, Living Doll, Nick of Time, Nightmare at 20,000 Feet, Nightmare As A Child, Uncle Simon, Dead Man's Shoes, A Penny For Your Thoughts, Number 12 Looks Just Like You and The After Hours I would say is a favorite, though not a great episode IMO but for some reason I find it interesting whenever I watch it.

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Awfully tough to come up with a top ten, but here goes:

1. Walking Distance- Beautiful episode touching on that desire to go home again.
2. Time Enough at Last- So sad- Burgess Meredith is awesome in this show
3. Living Doll- Terrifying and creepy with a great ending
4. Death's Head Revisited- Very underrated, well acted, most horrifying episode
5. The Hitchhiker- Very creepy:("Heading west??"), + Inger Stevens was gorgeous.
6. Eye of the Beholder- Great story with a moral about our fixation with looks
7. To Serve Man- Impressive episode with an iconic tagline at the end
8. The Masks- Well crafted episode about greed and selfishness
9. A Game of Pool- Very tense episode; Jack Klugman is excellent
10.A Stop at Willoughby- Very sentimental show about escaping life's pressures

And those just outside the top ten:

11. The Monsters are Due on Maple Street
12. Nightmare at 20,000 Feet
13. The Obsolete Man
14. The Silence
15. In Praise of Pip
16. The Invaders
17. The Lonely
18. The Last Rites of Jeff Myrtlebank
19. The Rip Van Winkle Caper
20. Long Live Walter Jameson

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In "Living Doll," they cut out the part where Telly Savalas was trying to use the table saw on Talky Tina. So disappointing!

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Ditto!



“Willoughby, sir? That’s Willoughby right outside. It’s July. It’s summer. It’s 1888.”

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Nobody said "King Nine Will Not Return"? I thought that was a really great episode. Very atmospheric.

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I'll agree with you there. "King Nine Will Not Return" is a marvellous episode.
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