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Favorite Twilight Zone episode???

"To Serve Man" is my favorite episode. A close second would be "The Arrival".

There were just so many good episodes in the original series that it makes it almost impossible to choose a single great one. I also love the episode, "The Monsters are due on Maple Street" so it also ties into my favorites. Like I wrote, there are too many classic one to really have a favorite for me.

"Shelter Skelter" is my favorite episode from the 1980's series.
 
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There was one where there were giant wood louse alien things that went onto your back and merged into your body. They were taking over the world...


or was that Pinky and the Brain?
 
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My favorite was "Judgment Night", followed closely by one whose title, I think, was "One For The Angels".
 
Gord_in_Toronto said:
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.
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Serling's only Achilles Heel as a writer was comedy. His attempts at humor fell flat in the Zone.

I don't know how Serling could have made the moral of "It's A Good Life" any more obvious. When Anthony makes it snow, his father momentarily forgets about the unexplained "power" of his tyke, and was about to treat his son to an object lesson. The notion that it takes courage to refrain from using discipline on your child is stood on its head in this episode.

"Seven Days In May" was perhaps the best example of Serling's talent.
 
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LibraryLady said:
The hero, played by Burgess Meredith, is a librarian. :)

My brother, the retired optician, loves Time Enough at Last.
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LibraryLady said:
Time enough at last=Bank teller

Obsolete Man=Librarian
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Having read only your post (skimming over the one you quoted) and with my not recalling that Meredith was in The Obsolete Man, you can see why I might have misunderstood. But thank you for that clarification.
 
I don't know if I ever watched the original series- just the new version from the 1980s. And I get that mixed up with the Outer Limits and Amazing Stories.
 
talking tina - cause it scared the Sh8 out of my boys where they ran to bed -
Yea I am sadistic like that :) But now any time I need them to go to bed I just threaten to hit play on TIVO
 
Björn Toulouse said:
Although technically it was not a true "Twilight Zone", it was featured as an episode on TZ. An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge is still my favorite.
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Not technically, but I feel if it was judged to be of enough quality to be screened as a Twilight Zone than you should feel free to include it here. Heck, I included an 80's Zone as one of mine, at least your pick is in the original era.
 
When I used to watch the original series, some of the stories looked familiar - like "To Serve Man" - which taught me to watch the credits more carefully. However, Ray Bradbury felt that he was not credited for at least one episode.
 
I just went through the list of episodes on Wikipedia, and I well remember a lot of them from Season 1 of the New Twilight Zone (1985-1986), but not a single one of any other season. Odd. I can't see why I would have watched the ones in Grade 10 but not the ones in Grade 11.
 
I can't really narrow it down. Most of them are good,some are great. Used to stay up late and watch Night Gallery when I was a kid ,too sometimes.
 
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