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Favorite Twilight Zone episode???

My favorite one is where the little fell in to the 4th (or whatever) dimension through her wall behind her bed. It was one of the things I was afraid of when I was a kid - that I would fall through the wall into another dimension.
 
LibraryLady said:
My favorite: The Obsolete Man.
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Nice one. Ending narration:

The chancellor, the late chancellor, was only partly correct. He was obsolete, but so is the State, the entity he worshipped. Any state, any entity, any ideology that fails to recognize the worth, the dignity, the rights of man, that state is obsolete. A case to be filed under "M" for mankind—in the Twilight Zone.
 
"One More Pallbearer"

The episode that unintentionally backfired. The Joseph Wiseman character is the sympathetic one while the reverend, Colonel and teacher are obduarte and pompous.

"The Old Man In The Cave"

The scene where James Coburn is writhing on the ground pretending to be dying from poisoned canned food is truly startling, but is always edited out from TV reruns.


"Nick Of Time"

Shatner is even better in this one than "Nightmare At 20,000 Feet."

"Two"

Bronson and Montgomery. The only show or movie where the co-star actually speaks less than Charlie.
 
applecorped said:
Nice one. Ending narration:

The chancellor, the late chancellor, was only partly correct. He was obsolete, but so is the State, the entity he worshipped. Any state, any entity, any ideology that fails to recognize the worth, the dignity, the rights of man, that state is obsolete. A case to be filed under "M" for mankind—in the Twilight Zone.
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The hero, played by Burgess Meredith, is a librarian. :)

My brother, the retired optician, loves Time Enough at Last.
 
"It's a Good Life" - partly because there wasn't a happy ending, or even a moral.

The Twilight Zone franchise has seemed to feel the need to rehabilitate this one, first in the movie and then in the remake series in the early 2000s, but I like the original better.

Honorable mention to:
Little Girl Lost
The Hitch-Hiker
A World Of His Own has a great ending
The Invaders
A Game of Pool
 
Honorable mention to Mr. Jack Klugman. All of his episodes were wonderful.

Death Ship - A Game of Pool - In Praise of Pip - A Passage for Trumpet
 
Gotta be Time Enough at Last. The wife is so overbearing, anyone who'd do that to a book oughtta be put in jail!
 
dasmiller said:
"It's a Good Life" - partly because there wasn't a happy ending, or even a moral.

The Twilight Zone franchise has seemed to feel the need to rehabilitate this one, first in the movie and then in the remake series in the early 2000s, but I like the original better.

Honorable mention to:
Little Girl Lost
The Hitch-Hiker
A World Of His Own has a great ending
The Invaders
A Game of Pool
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Oh, there was indeed a moral to the "It's A Good Life." It is just that the accepted behavior of treating out of control children as if they were hot house plants was ahead of its time.
 
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Cicero said:
Oh, there was indeed a moral to the "It's A Good Life." It is just that the accepted behavior of treating out of control children as if they were hot house plants was ahead of its time.
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I'm just waiting for A. L. to show up and explain it all in Libertarian terms.

The story stuck with me when I first read it in the early '60s (it was published in 1953). One of the nice things about Serling was that he understood Science Fiction and his transfer to TV of stories such as this was usually spot on.

The Monsters Are Due on Maple Street is one of my favs.
 
applecorped said:
What was that episode called?
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Sorry, no way on earth I would remember that. The thing about the Twilight Zone that really made it special (if sometimes ham fisted) was it's use of science fiction and horror as analogs for social issues which could not be addressed flat out on TV at the time. Rod Serling was quite good at that - creating fantastic parables to illustrate social issues. He was a clever writer. My only issue with him is he often put the same sort of dialog in different characters mouths - that you were listening to Rod the writer instead of whatever character is was who was speaking.
 
One of my favorites, "The Invaders" stars the great Agnes Moorehead. No dialogue in the whole episode.
She was great, and IMHO underated actress.
 
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