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Favorite Twilight Zone episode???

I remember all the original episodes you've described above, but I never really knew the episode titles. The two that stand out in my mind are William Shatner (20,000ft.) and the one where a modern guy with a time machine rescues a 19th century outlaw that was about to be hung. I loved the original TZ but it terrified me every time I watched it.
 
I have many. Here are some that haven't been mentioned.

"The Prime Mover", featuring Buddy Ebson as a meek telekinetic broompusher recruited into service by a enterprising, but greedy friend.

"What's In The Box", William Demarest, Joan Blondell, and their TV have a strange relationship.

"The Masks", about a dying man saying his final farewell to a rather nasty group of heirs.

"Hocus-Pocus And Frisby", Andy Devine is a bumpkin fond of spinning tall tales.

"From Agnes - With Love", a computer brings torment to the romantic life of Wally Cox.

"The Fugitive", man from space seeks the simple life on Earth.

"Eye of the Beholder", a woman faces a desperate last chance to conform with the rigid Orwellian universe she lives in.

"22", one in more of the horror genre, about recurring nightmares.

"Long Distance Call", another creepy Bill Mumy episode about a boy with a clinging grandma.

"People Are Alike All Over", Roddy McDowall finds people just like himself.

"A World Of His Own", Keenan Wynn has some neat, god-like powers via tape recorder.

"The Lonely", Jack Warden is imprisoned alone on an asteroid, gets a companion.

"The Silence", about a wager between snobs that goes too far.

"Will The Real Martian Please Stand Up", aliens do their best to blend in before invasion.

"Once Upon A Time", Buster Keaton goes from moving pictures to talkies by turning a knob on a funny hat.

"You Drive", Edward Andrews does a bad thing with a car, and cannot let it go.

"The Long Morrow", and astronaut falls in love before going away for many years in suspended animation.

There was a season of hour long episodes with which I am completely unfamiliar, since they were never shown as reruns around here when I was a kid. One of these days, I'll have to rent them.
 
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Springfork said:
I remember all the original episodes you've described above, but I never really knew the episode titles. The two that stand out in my mind are William Shatner (20,000 ft.) and the one where a modern guy with a time machine rescues a 19th century outlaw that was about to be hung. I loved the original TZ but it terrified me every time I watched it.
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Thanks, Springfork, for your post here. It prompted me to finally do enough research to find the title to one of the two episodes you mention above. It's the one with the time machine and it's called "Execution." The other one you mentioned (with William Shatner) is called "Nightmare at 20,000 Feet." I rarely have seen the time machine one, even though most of the other episodes have appeared somewhat often in those Twilight Zone marathon weekends when they sometimes broadcast an entire holiday weekend of re-runs on the Sci-Fi channel. Well, I finally got enough information, thanks to your prompting, that I went ahead and ordered the entire box set "Twilight Zone: The Complete Definitive Collection (1959)" from Amazon for just about $135, including shipping. Thanks again, from the Twin Cities.
 
This is from the new (in the 80s) Twilight Zone:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Little_Peace_and_Quiet

I only ever saw it once, and it left my jaw on the floor. Our heroine finds a magical chochki that allows her to stop time. She uses (and eventually abuses) it to avoid annoying people, reposition solicitors (away from her door), etc.

One night, driven to distraction by the kids, hubby and some blaring news (about a war...) on the TV, she stops time, and walks outside, only to see ICBMs frozen in the air a second before impact on her town...
 
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One of my favorites, not yet mentioned (I don't remember the title), concerns several characters (soldier, clown, ballerina, maybe) who awake in a circular room with an open ceiling and a light shining above them. None of the characters knows how they got there. Eventually they climb on each others shoulders until one is able to clear the top of the room.

We find out they are toys in a Salvation Army (like) barrel.
 
"To Serve Mankind" or "It's a good life"

Both of these are pure gold.

When I used to carry a PDA, I had the e-book version of "It's a good life" (short story) - and read it a couple of times while travelling...
 
BTMO said:
"To Serve Mankind" or "It's a good life"

Both of these are pure gold.

When I used to carry a PDA, I had the e-book version of "It's a good life" (short story) - and read it a couple of times while travelling...
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And both were real SF. Written by Real SF authors in, ISTR, real science fiction magazines and translated with little change to TV.

Would that some one would do this again.
 
The one where the mute lady fights the little alien ship..and then it turns out its really an American spaceship fighting a giant martian lady!!

=)
 
The newer Twilight Zone had a few good ones, but they are not rerun as much as the "classics" so are probably not remembered as much.

I liked "Button, Button".

A smartly-dressed stranger who introduces himself as Steward comes to their door. He explains that if they press the button on a box he gives them, two things will happen: they will receive $200,000, and someone "whom you don't know" will die.

After much turmoil, they press the button, to no apparent effect. The next day the stranger returns, takes back the box, and gives them a briefcase with the $200,000. The Lewises are in shock and ask what will happen next. The stranger ominously replies that the button will be "reprogrammed" and offered to someone else with the same terms and conditions, adding as he focuses on Norma, "I can assure you it will be offered to someone whom you don't know." A horrified, knowing expression crosses Norma's face...
 
Checkmite said:
My favorite was "Judgment Night", followed closely by one whose title, I think, was "One For The Angels".
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"One for the Angels," starring the incomparable Ed Wynn (in what I believe may have been his last role). The scene where he tries to distract Death long enough to save the life of a little girl (at the inevitable cost of his own) is one of the most heart-rending I've ever seen on television. But for sheer drama, acting, intelligence, and make-you-think-about-the human-condition-ness, nothing tops the hour-long episode, "On Thursday We Leave for Home." That show works for me on so many dimensions it's hard to even adequately describe.
 
Stellafane said:
"One for the Angels," starring the incomparable Ed Wynn (in what I believe may have been his last role). The scene where he tries to distract Death long enough to save the life of a little girl (at the inevitable cost of his own) is one of the most heart-rending I've ever seen on television. But for sheer drama, acting, intelligence, and make-you-think-about-the human-condition-ness, nothing tops the hour-long episode, "On Thursday We Leave for Home." That show works for me on so many dimensions it's hard to even adequately describe.
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