The Best Twilight Zone Episode

[Timmy D for MVP]

Well it's that time of year again. When they show a marathon of one of the greatest shows to have ever been made. And it has such a deep library, every year there will be an episode that I don't remember. And I remember... a LOT of them.

So I pose the question, of all the great episodes this show has produces, which is the best in your opinion?

For me the top 3 are as follows:

3. Time Enough At Last. (Absolutely iconic. Even if you don't know the show you know the famous ending).

2. The Monsters Are Due on Maple Street (Sterling at his finest satirizing ability).

1. A Stop At Whiloughby

HM: The Hitchhiker, The Invaders, and The Eye of the Beholder (Often a top pick but for me it's a bit played out and you lose a bit since everyone knows the twist).

[NotYetGreat]

Never actually watched them, coz I was always freaked out just listening to the theme song. We watched Eye of the Beholder for a Life Skills class back in high school though and the class was pretty awestruck. I kinda saw it coming, but nonetheless was a pretty good story for me. If it was one of the better ones then I'd wanna watch those other ones you named.

[Timmy D for MVP]

I completely forgot about 3rd Planet From the Sun which should be coming on SyFy in a few minutes for all you on the West Coast. :banana:

I also forgot about the one where the guy is dreaming and he creates this big old world in it but he's put on trial and when they execute him the world ends because he wakes up. And it happens every night. I forget the name...

[Lebron23]

1. Time Element (Unofficial Twilight Zone episode)
2. The Four of Us Are Dying
3. The Purple Testament
4. Long Live Walter Jameson
5. Execution
6. A Stop at Willoughby
7. The Last Flight
8. In Praise of Pip
9. The Big Tall Wish
10. The Rip Van Winkle Caper
11. A Quality of Mercy
12. Walking Distance

Rod Sterling was genius, and he's was way ahead of his time.

[KG215]

This thread prompted me to see if Netflix had it streaming, which they do. Every episode from the original series is available. I've never cared for movies and TV shows in the Science-Fiction genre but have heard about this show and hhow good it was. So, even for someone that doesn't like Science-Fiction, would I be able to get into this show?

[upside24]

I always liked Nightmare at 20,000 Feet. The old Shatner version is good but I really like the remake.

[KG215]

Yeah, it's more of a show that makes you think. There's usually a crazy twist or a metaphor for life, and evil usually gets punished... Kind of like a twisted fairy tale.

I watched the first episode. Have to admit, I can see myself getting hooked if they've all got similar endings that you didn't see coming. I mean throughout the episode you knew it was going to have a twist ending (and the fact that you also know that's what the show has been known for all these years) but I couldn't figure out what it was going to be. A bunch of different thoughts ran through my head but not what ended up being the actual ending.

[upside24]

Do you mean the one with John Lithgow from the movie?
Yeah. The original is from the 60s and stars William Shatner but the remake is creepier imo because of the monster design. Lithgow was great.

[IBeeLeave9482]

I really enjoyed The Obsolete Man.

[KG215]

Watched the first 10 or so shows of the first season last night and this morning. Even though I've never been a SciFi person this show is pretty damn good.

Outside of the obvious (and I've only seen the first 11) Time Enough at Last, I also liked "One for the Angels", "Walking Distance", and "Escape Clause", and really liked the premise of "Judgement Night". I couldn't get into the actors/acting of "Judgement Night" very much, though.

And just because I've seen it over and over the last 24 hours on my TV screen, it's Rod Serling...not Sterling. I know it's a little thing but it just caught my eye after awhile.

[Gundress]

There are too many like I love Howling Man, The Good Life, etc too many.

Twilight Zone is one of my favorite show but f*ck the 80's view.


Rod Sterling :bowdown: :bowdown:

[KG215]

Rod Serling :bowdown: :bowdown:

Fixed.

[goldenryan]

my all-time favorite show, here are my picks

Time Enough at Last
A Stop at Willoughby
The Mighty Casey
The Howling Man
The Obsolete Man
A Game of Pool
Deaths-Head Revisited
Hocus-Pocus and Frisby
To Serve Man
Nightmare at 20,000 Feet
Of Late I Think of Cliffordville
Printer's Devil
The Changing of the Guard


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[Lebron23]

Leonardo Dicaprio is planning to revive this show. Who do you think will be the perfect host?

[Solidape]

Twilight Zone, my favorite tv show of all time GOAT.

The show was way ahead of its time!

In Rod Serling We Trust!

[Timmy D for MVP]

Leonardo Dicaprio is planning to revive this show. Who do you think will be the perfect host?

I don't know of anybody that could fill that hole.

Morgan Freeman does a nice Serling impression on his Through the Wormhole show.

But I'm not so sure this show would work today. The market seems to be geared toward faster paced shows. This is a slow show, with episodes unfolding intricately. The satire would be tough to recapture without being heavy handed. I guess if they got the right writers and such they'd be good. But I still have a hard time seeing that last long on a major network.

[-p.tiddy-]

I am fan

I don't know all the show titles though...


a couple that stick out in my memory are the one where they are all stuck in the white trash basket outside...and the one where all the workers have to design every minute of time, and the people stumble upon a section that wasn't done.

I should buy a DVD set and rewatch them all...

[ROCSteady]

Bump.

Got some Season sets for Christmas, watching Season 2 today.

Anybody seen any Twilight Zone episodes lately or ones that still peremate your mental to this day?

Besides a lot of the famous ones already mentioned, the episode 'Dust' set in the Old West dealing with execution was pretty profound.

Also, 'Nervous Man in the 4 Dollar Room' about a two bit criminal and the duality of his conscience before a crime, really hit a note with me.

I like how some episodes are really about the human spirit and others are just creepy Sci-Fi concepts like with 'The Trouble With Machines' (actually deals with both) and 'The Lateness of the Hour' with the recluse inventor and his family with his 'creations' serving as the servants of his home.

[Vaniiiia]

I am fan

I don't know all the show titles though...


a couple that stick out in my memory are the one where they are all stuck in the white trash basket outside...and the one where all the workers have to design every minute of time, and the people stumble upon a section that wasn't done.

I should buy a DVD set and rewatch them all...
5 characters in search of an exit... one of my all-time faves.

[senelcoolidge]

An episode that I only saw once and remember really liking a lot that hasn't been mentioned is "The Midnight Sun". That was a good one. Another cool twist at the end. It's actually kinda scary the whole situation that these people are going through.
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