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Title: Favorite episode of THE TWILIGHT ZONE?
Post by: KYGOTC on October 01, 2007, 11:06:36 PM
Believe it or not i had never seen twilight zone before last Thursday, and lemmie tell ya, its GREAT. It prooves that something doesnt need to be bloody to be scary and interesting. So far my favorite episode is the one with William Shatner and that fortune telling machine. I wish i had one of those things in my house! Whats your favorite episode?


Title: Re: Favorite episode of THE TWILIGHT ZONE?
Post by: PSlugworth on October 02, 2007, 12:25:44 AM
Midnight Sun, where the earth veers off course and day by day inches closer and closer toward the sun.

Here's some good (and surprising) news: Apparently, Twilight Zone: The Movie is finally coming to DVD--next week!


Title: Re: Favorite episode of THE TWILIGHT ZONE?
Post by: Khaz on October 02, 2007, 11:17:49 AM
Great show! A couple of my favourates were:
To Serve Man. Where those frendly aliens "help" the eathlings
Nightmare at 20,000 Feet. A man sees gremlins during his flight. There's something on the wing! Some... Thing..
And one that I cant remember the title, about astronaunts that crash on an asteroid or moon..


Title: Re: Favorite episode of THE TWILIGHT ZONE?
Post by: Mr_Vindictive on October 02, 2007, 12:12:25 PM
Some of my favorites, each of which I do not recall the names:

An episode with Jack Warden where he is put on a planet by himself as punishment for a crime.  A space crew brings him supplies a few times each year and at one point they bring him a female robot which he falls in love with.  He is finally pardoned a while later but is unable to bring his love back to Earth with him.

The classic episode with Burgess Meredith where he is a loner who prefers books to humans.  After a nuclear explosion, he is the only human left alive which is perfect for him since it's only him and his books.  At the end of the episode he breaks his glasses and is unable to read.

The episode with a woman in what appears to be Wild West times being attacked by small robots in her shack.  I won't give away the big twist in this one but I will say it is fantastic.

I really need to get around to picking up some of those DVD sets of The Twilight Zone that were released a while back.  If I recall, they were quite pricey but maybe they've gone down in price.


Title: Re: Favorite episode of THE TWILIGHT ZONE?
Post by: RapscallionJones on October 02, 2007, 12:31:43 PM
I love this show!  My brother and I put the brakes on every time Sci-Fi has a maraton.  I think by this point I've seen them all.  I'm also related to Rod Serling in a distant manner which is sweet.

My favorite episode is called He's Alive starring Dennis Hopper as a neo-nazi provocateur who does these town hall revivals that draw no crowd.  He is guided, however, by a shadowy figure in the audience who teaches him how to capture the audience and shape their opinions.  Turns out it's Hitler!

Futurama spoof it on one of their episodes.  It has great writing and it should because it was one of Serling's scripts.

I also think that The Monsters Are Due On Maple Street is one of the top episodes.  It's absolutely fantastic.  A neighborhood is stricken with fear when all of their electrical equipment ceases to work and no information comes in as to why it's happening.  Things worsen when an object is seen flying over the neighborhood and people fear the worst when a young boy's imagination leads them to think that they're under attack from space.

It has a s**t resolution at the end, but the events leading up to the complete breakdown of order on Maple Street are nothing short of awesome.  Serling really knew how to write unsettling television.  If only he could have figured out how to end his episodes.  It seemed like a lot of them spent so much time building tension and atmosphere and when he was down to the last page it was, "Oh yeah, by the way, it's an alien.  The End."

I still love it, though.


Title: Re: Favorite episode of THE TWILIGHT ZONE?
Post by: flackbait on October 02, 2007, 01:00:54 PM
My favorite one was where the old man on his death bed made the kids and his wife wear the masks. That was kinda creepy but funny at the same time.


Title: Re: Favorite episode of THE TWILIGHT ZONE?
Post by: JaseSF on October 02, 2007, 01:27:00 PM
I have written quite a few Scifilm TV File reviews for "The Twilight Zone". My buddy Dr. Abner Mality made some contributions to the site too. Sadly they may well go the way of history as Scifilm eventually disappears and I have little desire anymore to continue with the TV Files at present (as to the future, who knows?). 

If you're interested, check it out while it still lasts:

http://www.scifilm.org/tv/ (http://www.scifilm.org/tv/)

This link is to the Scifilm archive as it stands at present.

http://www.scifilm.org/tv/tz/ (http://www.scifilm.org/tv/tz/)

This one is for the Twilight Zone section.


Title: Re: Favorite episode of THE TWILIGHT ZONE?
Post by: sideorderofninjas on October 05, 2007, 03:43:58 PM


"The Obsolete Man" where Burgess Meredith plays the librarian in the future oppressive society that eliminates anyone who is judged obsolete. 



Title: Re: Favorite episode of THE TWILIGHT ZONE?
Post by: BoyScoutKevin on October 07, 2007, 05:42:09 PM
So many episodes. So little time. But I'm surprised no one has yet to mention the one that scared the crap out of me, when I first saw it and put me off of watching "The Twilight Zone" for years, "Will the Real Martian Please Stand Up?" A lot of good B-movie actors in that one: John Hoyt, Jack Elam, Barney Phillips, etc.


Title: Re: Favorite episode of THE TWILIGHT ZONE?
Post by: nada on October 08, 2007, 12:18:12 AM
A few of my favourites have already been mentioned from the old series. Not the best one but "The Howling Man" had an interesting plot. The devil is trapped in a monestary until a hiker releases him. This causes WWII.

The best Twilight Zone ever has to be from the 80s series. I can't remember the name of it but it has a young boy alone caring for his evil grandmother.


Title: Re: Favorite episode of THE TWILIGHT ZONE?
Post by: indianasmith on October 08, 2007, 08:12:28 AM
Actually, I saw one episode of the new Twilight Zone (80's version) where a physics professor was trying to solve an enormous quantum equation . . . and the devil offered him the answer in exchange for his soul.  Great little twist on that one.


Title: Re: Favorite episode of THE TWILIGHT ZONE?
Post by: Fausto on October 08, 2007, 06:20:28 PM
One of my all time favorite episodes...a criminal is killed in a shoot-out with police, and in the afterlife, finds himself in a swanky apartment with a servant who grants his every wish. Unfortunately, he gets very bored fast, and his conscience starts to bother him...


Title: Re: Favorite episode of THE TWILIGHT ZONE?
Post by: KYGOTC on October 08, 2007, 11:31:18 PM
One of my all time favorite episodes...a criminal is killed in a shoot-out with police, and in the afterlife, finds himself in a swanky apartment with a servant who grants his every wish. Unfortunately, he gets very bored fast, and his conscience starts to bother him...


Ooo! that sounds good!


Title: Re: Favorite episode of THE TWILIGHT ZONE?
Post by: Raffine on October 10, 2007, 12:21:23 PM
Many great classic episodes have been mentioned. "The Living Doll" is a favorite of mine. Telly Savalas is the unlovable step-father of a little girl, who's mother buys her a new talking doll named 'Talky Tina'. It seems Talky Tina has some rather disturbing things to say to Savalas...


(http://i161.photobucket.com/albums/t214/morrisawilliams/tina2.jpg)
"My name is Talky Tina and I'm beginning to hate you..."

Another great episode is "It's a Good Life" with lil' Billy Mumy as Anthony, a little boy with unlimited powers who holds a town in fear by threats of wishing them to the cornfield. This was really badly and wrong-headly remade for THE TWILIGHT ZONE MOVIE, making Anthony a simpering brat who just needed an adult's guiding hand. The main point of the film version seemed to be to show off some goofy, cartoonish effects. About the only 'special effect' in the original is a shadow on the wall of someone who has displeased Anthony, and it's definitely nightmare material.

Of course, in the original that kid is such a rotten little terror you'll be tempted to kick him right in...
(http://i161.photobucket.com/albums/t214/morrisawilliams/TwilightZoneMall.jpg)
I mean, uh, Anthony, it's real good you did all them things.

It's real good!


Title: Re: Favorite episode of THE TWILIGHT ZONE?
Post by: Allhallowsday on October 10, 2007, 08:54:53 PM
What's the one with the little girl who falls out of bed and rolls into another dimension...? 

Believe it or not i had never seen twilight zone before last Thursday...
Better late than never!   :smile:

..."My name is Talky Tina and I'm beginning to hate you..." 
:thumbup:
Another great episode is "It's a Good Life" with lil' Billy Mumy as Anthony, ...I mean, uh, Anthony, it's real good you did all them things.  It's real good!
That episode is based on Jerome Bixby's superb story "It's A Good Life" (italics original to author). 

...Nightmare at 20,000 Feet. A man sees gremlins during his flight. There's something on the wing! Some... Thing..
That man is WILLIAM SHATNER...


Title: Re: Favorite episode of THE TWILIGHT ZONE?
Post by: Raffine on October 11, 2007, 12:11:38 AM
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What's the one with the little girl who falls out of bed and rolls into another dimension...? 

That would be "Little Girl Lost", musical score by Bernard Herrmann.  :smile:

Another classic Herrmann-scored episode is "Eye of the Beholder". That's the one where the woman's face is covered in bandages until the very very end. Seems she's horribly deformed and this latest surgery is her last opportunity to look normal...
 



Title: Re: Favorite episode of THE TWILIGHT ZONE?
Post by: VenominOhio on October 12, 2007, 12:37:50 PM
min`es when a couple is driving and their car breaks down in a town,they go to a mechanic and while waiting they go into a restraunt and find this penny machine(you drop a penny in and ask it a question,it`ll give you the answer) the man starts believing in the machine and it does save their lives in one instance,but says they will never leave the town.


Title: Re: Favorite episode of THE TWILIGHT ZONE?
Post by: Allhallowsday on October 12, 2007, 01:48:48 PM
min`es when a couple is driving and their car breaks down in a town,they go to a mechanic and while waiting they go into a restraunt and find this penny machine(you drop a penny in and ask it a question,it`ll give you the answer) the man starts believing in the machine and it does save their lives in one instance,but says they will never leave the town.
That is the very first episode mentioned by KYGOTC, who started the thread...

I thought of one I don't think has been mentioned, don't remember the title, but Inger Stevens has a little car trouble and the same hitchhiker keeps appearing along the road...


Title: Re: Favorite episode of THE TWILIGHT ZONE?
Post by: Raffine on October 12, 2007, 02:11:42 PM
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I thought of one I don't think has been mentioned, don't remember the title, but Inger Stevens has a little car trouble and the same hitchhiker keeps appearing along the road...


This is some sort of trick to get me started on Benny Herrmann again, right?   :teddyr:

That episode is 'The Hitch-Hiker'. Herrmann's wife Lucille Fletcher wrote the original radio play, which starred Orson Welles (the main character was originally a man). Fletcher is best known as the author of Sorry, Wrong Number. Herrmann wrote the score. The TZ episode reuses Herrmann's radio score but he's not credited. 


Title: Re: Favorite episode of THE TWILIGHT ZONE?
Post by: Oldskool138 on November 23, 2007, 12:37:14 PM
I like "The Shelter" about a doctor who is the only one on his block to build a bomb shelter (this was the Cold War after all) and his neighbors try to get him to let them in...but there's only room and supplies for the doctor and his family.

I love the twist ending TZ's but this one stands out because it's told in a very matter-of-fact way.  It's sort of a more realistic version of "Monsters Are Due on Maple Street" (another one of my all-time favs).


Title: Re: Favorite episode of THE TWILIGHT ZONE?
Post by: lester1/2jr on November 23, 2007, 03:01:18 PM
nightmare at 20,000 feet.  I also liked a less famous one where the mannequins at a department store come to life


Title: Re: Favorite episode of THE TWILIGHT ZONE?
Post by: Alex Undead on November 24, 2007, 07:51:20 PM
My favorite episode would have to be "Nightmare at 20,000 Feet." That one is just awesome! It actually scared me the first time I saw it (hey, I was only about six years old!) but when I watched it again (when a bit older) I found it to be pure entertainment.


Title: Re: Favorite episode of THE TWILIGHT ZONE?
Post by: D-Man on December 02, 2007, 11:27:34 PM
"The Eye of The Beholder" has always been my favorite of the original series as well. 

There's also an interesting (and touching) episode of the 80's Twilight Zone called "Her Pilgrim Soul".  Gary Cole plays a scientist experimenting with new hologram machine, when the spirit of a human woman who lived sometime in the last century manifests itself in the device...and later reveals some startling truths about the scientist's own life.  Most surprising of all, as that this episode was directed by Wes Craven, of all people. 


Title: Re: Favorite episode of THE TWILIGHT ZONE?
Post by: Jack on December 03, 2007, 08:07:25 AM
I think my favorite was the one with the little old lady living in the ramshackle cabin, where a miniature flying saucer lands on her roof and she spends the episode fighting tiny spacemen.  Really fascinating how they built her character even though she had no spoken dialogue.  That's really what all the episodes were, character studies, and seeing how these very believable people reacted in the most bizarre of circumstances.


Title: Re: Favorite episode of THE TWILIGHT ZONE?
Post by: peter johnson on December 06, 2007, 01:33:49 PM
My favorite episode?
"One Hundred Yards Over the Rim", by I think Charles Beaumont.  Cliff Robertson is leading a wagon train West in the 1840's.  The pioneers are starving & dying & out of water.  Robertson's son is on the verge of death from disease.  The pressure to turn back is high.  Robertson volunteers to go off in search of food and water & walks over a great sand dune & finds himself in 1959!!  His interactions with the people of the future are believeable, but he eventually freaks out & runs away when it seems as if they're trying to imprison him.  As he runs off, he snags some pennicillin from a medicine chest.  That's enough plot giveaway on that one.  Extremely well-acted & believably strange, and touching & moving in the way that so many Zones were.
peter johnson/denny crane


Title: Re: Favorite episode of THE TWILIGHT ZONE?
Post by: KYGOTC on December 07, 2007, 02:36:51 AM
My favorite episode?
"One Hundred Yards Over the Rim", by I think Charles Beaumont.  Cliff Robertson is leading a wagon train West in the 1840's.  The pioneers are starving & dying & out of water.  Robertson's son is on the verge of death from disease.  The pressure to turn back is high.  Robertson volunteers to go off in search of food and water & walks over a great sand dune & finds himself in 1959!!  His interactions with the people of the future are believeable, but he eventually freaks out & runs away when it seems as if they're trying to imprison him.  As he runs off, he snags some pennicillin from a medicine chest.  That's enough plot giveaway on that one.  Extremely well-acted & believably strange, and touching & moving in the way that so many Zones were.


peter johnson/denny crane

That soundslike a great one.


Title: Re: Favorite episode of THE TWILIGHT ZONE?
Post by: nada on December 07, 2007, 06:08:20 AM

That soundslike a great one.

Sounds like a more interesting version of The Village.


Title: Re: Favorite episode of THE TWILIGHT ZONE?
Post by: SynapticBoomstick on December 20, 2007, 11:54:31 PM
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What's the one with the little girl who falls out of bed and rolls into another dimension...? 

That would be "Little Girl Lost", musical score by Bernard Herrmann.  :smile:

Another classic Herrmann-scored episode is "Eye of the Beholder". That's the one where the woman's face is covered in bandages until the very very end. Seems she's horribly deformed and this latest surgery is her last opportunity to look normal...
 



Those are two of the best episodes :-D I do not recall the name of it but it dealt with three astronauts who have crash-landed on the moon (or Mars) and have no way of communicating with home. They must make a difficult between life and death. The head astronaut eventually makes a shocking discovery...

The second one involved a woman whose home is being invaded by tiny aliens from another world who have landed on her roof.

It's so hard to contain the twist, they're so good! Ah, The Twilight Zone was a high point in story telling  :smile:


Title: Re: Favorite episode of THE TWILIGHT ZONE?
Post by: Sister Grace on December 21, 2007, 07:47:21 AM
"I sing the body electric" was good, about a robot woman that takes care of some children after their mother dies but it never really struck me as something that should have never been done by the twilight zone. a litte too heart felt i guess.

"The Last Rites of Jeff MyrtleBank" a guy wakes up at his own funeral but the townspeople are sure he's really the devil.

my favorite of all is "A Kind of Stopwatch" a man has a watch that can stop time but the idiot breaks it while time is still. go figure.. :buggedout:

wasn't there also one about a camera obscura? seems like it was the twighlight zone, but i'm not sure. i remember i really liked it as a kid but can't remember which series put it out.


Title: Re: Favorite episode of THE TWILIGHT ZONE?
Post by: sideorderofninjas on December 21, 2007, 11:45:40 PM
"I sing the body electric" was good, about a robot woman that takes care of some children after their mother dies but it never really struck me as something that should have never been done by the twilight zone. a litte too heart felt i guess.

"The Last Rites of Jeff MyrtleBank" a guy wakes up at his own funeral but the townspeople are sure he's really the devil.

my favorite of all is "A Kind of Stopwatch" a man has a watch that can stop time but the idiot breaks it while time is still. go figure.. :buggedout:

wasn't there also one about a camera obscura? seems like it was the twighlight zone, but i'm not sure. i remember i really liked it as a kid but can't remember which series put it out.

That's a Twilight Zone episode about a camera that can take pictures 15 minutes into future.  The camera only has a few pictures it can take.  The people use it to win big at the races and the patented twist comes at the ending...


Title: Re: Favorite episode of THE TWILIGHT ZONE?
Post by: Sister Grace on December 23, 2007, 08:28:35 AM



That's a Twilight Zone episode about a camera that can take pictures 15 minutes into future.  The camera only has a few pictures it can take.  The people use it to win big at the races and the patented twist comes at the ending...

no, thats with a polaroid camera that some theives come across. This was about a camera obscura in an old building that an elderly man had and was showing to another man. I found the episode, it was an episode of night gallery.


Title: Re: Favorite episode of THE TWILIGHT ZONE?
Post by: Amanda on December 23, 2007, 09:34:28 PM
Night Gallery and Twilight Zone each had an episode called "Camera Obscura", I think. 

I really liked the Invaders (the lady in the cabin).   "Mute" was very good--with Ann Jillian playing the little girl whose parents taught her to communicate telepathically. 

"On Thursday We Leave for Home" was also excellent.  The man losing control of the colony he's led for 30 years is sad to me.

"Midnight Sun" is one of my favorites ever, though.  As well as "Time Enough at Last" and "Little Girl Lost".  And I am drawing a blank on the name of the Bill Mumy one, where he's the little boy who wishes people into the cornfield....that's a common threat in my house. *L* 

It's too hard to pick favorites!!!


Title: Re: Favorite episode of THE TWILIGHT ZONE?
Post by: nada on December 23, 2007, 10:11:38 PM
"Midnight Sun" is one of my favorites ever, though.  As well as "Time Enough at Last" and "Little Girl Lost".  And I am drawing a blank on the name of the Bill Mumy one, where he's the little boy who wishes people into the cornfield....that's a common threat in my house. *L* 

That's "It's a Good Life".


Title: Re: Favorite episode of THE TWILIGHT ZONE?
Post by: ToyMan on December 30, 2007, 04:24:13 AM
i remember, one august night in chicago, staying up really, really late just reading a twilight zone episode guide. it had facts about the actors, production notes, insights into the underlying sentiments and themes of the program, etc.

also, chicago's big horror host, svengoolie, runs "tv graveyard" episodes from time to time, and they've shown a dozen or so episodes from time to time.

like a lot of the other members, i've probably seen all the episodes at some point or another.

faves: people are alike all over, nervous man in a four dollar room, mr dingle the strong, hocus-pocus and frisbee, printer's devil, number 12 looks like you.


Title: Re: Favorite episode of THE TWILIGHT ZONE?
Post by: Dennis on December 30, 2007, 07:49:37 PM
New Year's day, 6:00 AM, Sci Fi Channel Twilight Zone marathon looks to have all of the episodes mentioned from the original series, for those of us who do not like parades or football.
My own favorite "One for the Angels" with Ed Wynn is on at 2:00 PM


Title: Re: Favorite episode of THE TWILIGHT ZONE?
Post by: raj on December 31, 2007, 02:56:34 PM
There are so many that stand out.  One of the earliest ones I remember watching involved the guy who lived forever.

The Hitch hiker was another good one that stands out.  Then there's the one where a commuter falls asleep in a train and dreams he's in a sleepy town.

The Simpsons parodied the stopwatch one in one of their Halloween specials.  SNL parodied the pig-faced one when Pamela Anderson hosted the show (kinda funny considering all the plastic surgery she's had done, to her detriment IMO).


Title: Re: Favorite episode of THE TWILIGHT ZONE?
Post by: Killer Bees on January 03, 2008, 10:48:34 PM
I dont know if these were Outer Limits or Twilight Zones.  And they're all just snippets of what I remember so there could be some confusion as to the actual stories.

A redneck guy who hates Jews goes to his local bar and causes a fight.  When he finally stumbles out drunk, he's back in world war 2 and mistakenly gets bundled onto a train going to the concentration camps.

The Earth is dead in the path of an enormous solar flare and only one scientist guy knows it will happen because he finds out as the flare leaves the sun and it's too late to do anything about it.  He proposes to the woman in his building who he's always had a thing for but she didn't really know him.   I think they survive, but they are the lucky few.

A little girl gets sick and Death comes to take her, but her grandfather sidetracks death's attention until after midnight/morning with card tricks.  Death can't take her after that and the girl recovers completely.

Another one with Neil Patrick Harris as a retarded kid who must save his sister and their whole town from some kind of alient spirits who only come out at night and take over their bodies.  Somehow he's immune.  I think the twist is that because he's retarded, nobody thinks he has any value.

A woman discovers that aliens are taking over people and they are disappearing.  She thinks they're being killed but they are just being transported to the alien planet to keep the population going.  Apparently they are kind aliens and give the earthlings wonderful lives.  There's some substory going on with her and her dad being on the outs with each other and she goes to him to try and make peace before they take her, but it doesn't work and the dad is left alone thinking the daughter really hates him. I think Ally Sheedy was the woman.

That's all I can think of right now.


Title: Re: Favorite episode of THE TWILIGHT ZONE?
Post by: KYGOTC on January 04, 2008, 12:41:10 AM
I dont know if these were Outer Limits or Twilight Zones.  And they're all just snippets of what I remember so there could be some confusion as to the actual stories.

A redneck guy who hates Jews goes to his local bar and causes a fight.  When he finally stumbles out drunk, he's back in world war 2 and mistakenly gets bundled onto a train going to the concentration camps.


That one sounds really good!


Title: Re: Favorite episode of THE TWILIGHT ZONE?
Post by: ulthar on January 04, 2008, 12:48:55 AM
I dont know if these were Outer Limits or Twilight Zones.  And they're all just snippets of what I remember so there could be some confusion as to the actual stories.

A redneck guy who hates Jews goes to his local bar and causes a fight.  When he finally stumbles out drunk, he's back in world war 2 and mistakenly gets bundled onto a train going to the concentration camps.


That one sounds really good!

Sound to me like TWILIGHT ZONE: THE MOVIE segment with Vic Morrow.

My favorite "Zwilight Zone" episode is the one with Agnes Morehead where she does not say a word through the whole episode...the 'aliens' are attacking her house....


Title: Re: Favorite episode of THE TWILIGHT ZONE?
Post by: ToyMan on January 07, 2008, 04:11:52 AM
The Earth is dead in the path of an enormous solar flare and only one scientist guy knows it will happen because he finds out as the flare leaves the sun and it's too late to do anything about it.  He proposes to the woman in his building who he's always had a thing for but she didn't really know him.   I think they survive, but they are the lucky few.

sounds like the feature-length film the miracle mile, which was adapted for the outer limits.


Title: Re: Favorite episode of THE TWILIGHT ZONE?
Post by: Killer Bees on January 08, 2008, 12:08:11 AM
Thanks to everyone who updated  my memories of those episodes.

Twilight Zone wasn't such a big deal here and I only ever remember watching it really late at night on odd days.  It wasn't ever a staple show by any means.

I do remember another episode where some Nazi goon guy after the war was in South America and went into an art gallery.  I think the cops were after him to capture him for the Nuremberg trials and he ended up staring at this painting of a boat on a beautiful lake.  He stared so hard at it, he became the figure in it on the boat and avoided capture.

Or something like that. 


Title: Re: Favorite episode of THE TWILIGHT ZONE?
Post by: Oldskool138 on January 08, 2008, 08:33:05 AM
Thanks to everyone who updated  my memories of those episodes.

Twilight Zone wasn't such a big deal here and I only ever remember watching it really late at night on odd days.  It wasn't ever a staple show by any means.

I do remember another episode where some Nazi goon guy after the war was in South America and went into an art gallery.  I think the cops were after him to capture him for the Nuremberg trials and he ended up staring at this painting of a boat on a beautiful lake.  He stared so hard at it, he became the figure in it on the boat and avoided capture.

Or something like that. 

That was a Night Gallery episode.  A great one but not a Twilight Zone episode.


Title: Re: Favorite episode of THE TWILIGHT ZONE?
Post by: Killer Bees on January 08, 2008, 10:48:55 PM
Thanks to everyone who updated  my memories of those episodes.

Twilight Zone wasn't such a big deal here and I only ever remember watching it really late at night on odd days.  It wasn't ever a staple show by any means.

I do remember another episode where some Nazi goon guy after the war was in South America and went into an art gallery.  I think the cops were after him to capture him for the Nuremberg trials and he ended up staring at this painting of a boat on a beautiful lake.  He stared so hard at it, he became the figure in it on the boat and avoided capture.

Or something like that. 

That was a Night Gallery episode.  A great one but not a Twilight Zone episode.

Thanks Oldskool.

Boy my memory sure is jumbled up about these shows!  I have enjoyed all of them though.


Title: Re: Favorite episode of THE TWILIGHT ZONE?
Post by: JaseSF on January 09, 2008, 12:52:39 PM
I suspect some of those listed by Killer Bees above to be from the 80s Twilight Zone and the 90s Outer Limits series, some of which are partial remakes or retakes on some classic stories. While those shows were average to quite good on occasion, they pale in comparison to their original counterparts from the 1960s. The movie DARK CITY lifted its basic plot from a classic "Outer Limits" episode ( "A Feasibility Study"). Stuff gets borrowed and reborrowed or inspires or re-inspired. Still to me, the best sci-fi and horror is and will always be in black and white.


Title: Re: Favorite episode of THE TWILIGHT ZONE?
Post by: Killer Bees on January 09, 2008, 09:14:47 PM
I suspect some of those listed by Killer Bees above to be from the 80s Twilight Zone and the 90s Outer Limits series, some of which are partial remakes or retakes on some classic stories. While those shows were average to quite good on occasion, they pale in comparison to their original counterparts from the 1960s. The movie DARK CITY lifted its basic plot from a classic "Outer Limits" episode ( "A Feasibility Study"). Stuff gets borrowed and reborrowed or inspires or re-inspired. Still to me, the best sci-fi and horror is and will always be in black and white.

I agree with you Jase.  I saw Dark City and loved it.  But there's something inherently creepy about black and white that adds to the chilling atmosphere.


Title: Re: Favorite episode of THE TWILIGHT ZONE?
Post by: BTM on January 09, 2008, 09:22:18 PM
And one that I cant remember the title, about astronauts that crash on an asteroid or moon..

Er.. that describes a couple of eps, actually.  One where they crash in the middle of an unknown planet and one guy's getting particularly worried about the dwindling water supplies, and there's another where they crash on a planet with several "scenes" set up with frozen people.  And there's probably others I can't even think of off-hand...


Title: Re: Favorite episode of THE TWILIGHT ZONE?
Post by: Oldskool138 on January 09, 2008, 10:17:05 PM
And one that I cant remember the title, about astronauts that crash on an asteroid or moon..

Er.. that describes a couple of eps, actually.  One where they crash in the middle of an unknown planet and one guy's getting particularly worried about the dwindling water supplies, and there's another where they crash on a planet with several "scenes" set up with frozen people.  And there's probably others I can't even think of off-hand...

Or the astronauts caught in a time loop where they investigate their crash and try to prevent it from happening...again.   :smile:


Title: Re: Favorite episode of THE TWILIGHT ZONE?
Post by: KYGOTC on February 05, 2008, 08:30:49 PM
I watched a really good episode late last night on the sci fi channel. Its called "The Little People" and its about these to astronauts that get stuck on this planet but one of the astronauts finds a tiny civilization and decides to make himself their god. The ending of that one was great.


Title: Re: Favorite episode of THE TWILIGHT ZONE?
Post by: Hollis on February 09, 2008, 09:01:02 AM
 The best one I ramaber was the one where the scientist turns his son into a robot (I don't remeber too much about it, but I thint he kid was dead, and that's why he did it.) But the creepiest thing about it was the scene where he boy is petting a cat, but he can't feel anything because he's a robot, and he doesn't realise that he's mashing the cat, so he's just sitting there petting this cat pulp and saying "soft".

It's a little disturbing.


Title: Re: Favorite episode of THE TWILIGHT ZONE?
Post by: BTM on February 09, 2008, 04:31:42 PM
The best one I ramaber was the one where the scientist turns his son into a robot (I don't remeber too much about it, but I thint he kid was dead, and that's why he did it.) But the creepiest thing about it was the scene where he boy is petting a cat, but he can't feel anything because he's a robot, and he doesn't realise that he's mashing the cat, so he's just sitting there petting this cat pulp and saying "soft".
It's a little disturbing.

Are you sure that wasn't an Outer Limits episode (the newer Showtime version)?


Title: Re: Favorite episode of THE TWILIGHT ZONE?
Post by: darthchicken on February 10, 2008, 09:49:55 PM
The one where the guy keeps falling asleep on the train, and dreams he's in a place called Willoughby. That was a really good one.

Another good one is where the woman in an old fashioned house, is under attack by a bunch of tiny aliens.

Both have really good twist endings.

And how could I not mention William Shatners brilliant episode?
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Title: Re: Favorite episode of THE TWILIGHT ZONE?
Post by: hdjanks on February 22, 2008, 04:00:03 PM
The one where the guy keeps falling asleep on the train, and dreams he's in a place called Willoughby. That was a really good one.

And how could I not mention William Shatners brilliant episode?
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I love both of those Episodes. I also Like the Shatner episode where he keeps putting a money in that satanic fortune teller.