Twilight Zone Fans: Top 5 Twlight Zone Episodes

[Justice wanted]

I know everyone have their own favorite. It would be interesting to see how many episodes are repeated.



My 5: (No real order)


Monsters are Due on Maple Street

Number 12 looks just like You.

Time Enough at Last

It's a good Life

I Am the Night—Color Me Black


I forgot honorable mention-- Eye of the Beholder--I prefer Donna Douglas' version

[cyberswede]

1. TZ marathon today! (on SyFy)

I can't remember ep titles...

I like the one with Burgess Meredith and the books, the one with Elizabeth Montgomery & Charles Bronson as wartime enemies in post apocalyptic setting, the one with Joan Hackett & the piano that makes everyone show their true selves...Monsters are Due on Maple St is fantastic, and of course the one with Shatner on the plane!

[HopeHoops]

2. My favorite one is where the guy has an underground bunker.

He invites all the people he has a grudge against and offers them survival from the impending nuclear war. They all leave and would rather die than spend their lives with him.

[Kingofalldems]

3. To Serve Man

With the great Richard Kiel.

[Bossy Monkey]

4. "Living Doll" "One for the Angels"

That's the Talking Tina one with Telly Savalas, and Ed Wynn making a pitch for the angels, respectively. Don't know what the other three would be, but "Monsters Are Due" is certainly awesome, mainly for Rod's stunning epilog. "And the pity of it is..."

[Lasher]

11. "My name is Talking Tina...and I'm going to kill you."

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Still gives me chills to remember that line.

[Bossy Monkey]

12. "... and you'd better be nice to me." n/t

[mrmpa]

13. Right after seeing that show.........

my brother cut the string off my Chatty Cathy doll

[nolabear]

19. Mine went straight to the bottom of the toy box

where it stayed until I was thirteen and discovered the horror that was Little Miss No Name and reconfirmed that I'm really, really not a doll person.

[Lasher]

20. I guess that was the only defense besides cutting the pull string.

She was impervious to saws and torches, yanno.

Insofar as this particular genre is concerned, I have rarely seen the art form equaled during the decades that have ensued. One notable exception is Steven Spielberg's masterpiece, Duel from 1971. You must see this made-for-TV movie if you have not already.



Happy New Year BTW, to you and yours!

[mrmpa]

24. Duel is great!!eom

[pokerfan]

5. in no particular order

The Eye of the Beholder (just finished airing here on the left coast)

Time Enough At Last (Burgess Meredith!)

Long Distance Call (boy talks to his dead grandmother over a toy phone)

Nightmare at 20,000 Feet (a young neurotic Shatner)

Will the Real Martian Please Stand Up? (a very cosmopolitan roadside diner)


Just checked the schedule and we've got another nine hours (18 episodes) to go!

[EastTennesseeDem]

6. More or less in order

I would have to say "Probe 7, Over and Out" is my favorite. It's got probably the most gut-punching twist of an ending I've ever seen.

2-5:
The Hitch-Hiker
Night Call
Time Enough at Last
Monsters Are Due on Maple Street. I remember watching that in my high school government class. Quite an allegory, that episode is.

It's really hard coming up with five. I'm only 21, but I used to watch the hell out of TZ with my dad.

[Frank Cannon]

7. Here's my list:

1. Eye of the Beholder (I didn't know there was another version besides Ms. Douglas')
2. It's a Good Life
3. A Stop at Willoughby
4. Walking Distance
5. Living Doll

[Lionel Mandrake]

8. "Time Enough at Last" wins hands down.

It's on everyone's short list. The twist at the end is inspired.

"That's not fair. That's not fair at all."

[Frank Cannon]

9. Strangely, that episode never did much for me.

Maybe because I knew about the twist going into it. On the other hand, I know about the twists for "To Serve Man" and "Eye of the Beholder", and I can still watch those episodes repeatedly and enjoy them.

[murielm99]

10. A Stop at Willoughby,

To Serve Man, Eye of the Beholder and the one in the diner, where there is a martian and another type of extraterrestial, and the one with the mannequin.

That show used to scare the crap out of me when I was a kid. I have three DVDs at home right now, that have Twilight Zone episodes on them. They are great to watch.

Did you ever notice how simply they are done? Often, there are only one or two actors. The sets are simple. And yet, it is some of the most effective television ever done. Notice how we remember episodes, forty years later.

[ChazII]

16. Those episodes still scare the crap out me.

I am embarrassed to admit that. I came across one of my old dolls that is 3 feet tall and very lifelike. I let my aunt borrow her as combining several different Twilight Zones and I can truly imagine her coming to life. I don't know why it is the episodes with toys that can still give me the jitters.

My favorite episodes are pretty much the same as others and like you, I also like the mannequin one.

[Justice wanted]

18. It shows what strong writting and acting can do.

[Denninmi]

14. The Invaders.

I was impressed by the fact that there was absolutely NO dialogue in this episode until the reveal at the very end. Interesting juxtaposition of who is the good guy and who is the bad guy. Plus a chance to see Agnes Moorehead looking very different from her heavily made up look on Bewitched.

[surrealAmerican]

15. There are so many great episodes.

Other than the ones already mentioned, I'd have to include "The After Hours".

[Xicano]

17. Here's mine

The Obsolete Man:

The Howling Man:

The Fever:

Escape Clause:

Living Doll:

[pink-o]

21. I was about 10 when I first started watching Twilight Zone in 1965..

Scared the effin' BEJESUS outta me!!! I think Eye of the Beholder caused me to sleep under the bed for a month.

The Eps are all so bloody good because there's a visceral morality behind them, and the great protagonists are conflicted and portray it so well. Sometimes Rod was ham-fisted over the top, (especially his monologues in the beginning--great bombastic vocabulary!) but above all, he was a playwright and the Eps come off as self-contained theatre pieces.

Those were the days, when real writers controlled the content of TV. Now it all plays to marketing. Shame.

[Justice wanted]

23. It is. The sad part is I have to sit there and explain the events on the episode to some of my

friends because they don't have logic and reasoning skills. Reality TV for the majority as a whole is the worse thing that could have happened to American TV.

[undeterred]

22. The one where the Wax Museum caretaker takes home all the wax figures of Serial Killers

from the museum so he can store them in the basement and they kill his wife and then her brother and then him before the owner comes back to get them.

Creepy.

[tjwash]

25. 22 was the creepiest...the eyes of that lady haunted me when I was a kid

"22" --room for one more honey

"The Howling Man"

"Midnight Sun"

"The Obsolete Man" --just a flat out bone chilling message

"The Bomb Shelter" --how well do you think you know your neighbors?