I haven't seen it listed (though I didn't look at all of the comments), but "Long Live Walter Jamieson" was one I cannot forget. It was about two college professors; one teaching history, the other teaching chemistry. The latter notices the former hasn't aged in the 12 years they have known one another. The former confesses that he has lived for thousands of years. The latter comments how lucky he must be, because he has been able to accumulate so much knowledge. The former tells him that his life has been horrible because he keeps seeing loved ones grow old and die. I saw it as a child, and didn't think much about it. Until fifty years later, when my father was over 90 years old, all but one of his friends had died, and he was very depressed about it. I connected the dots.
My favorite was the Donald Pleasence story "A Changing of the Guard" about an aging professor who is forced to retire and begins to think his life has been a waste. It is haunting and touching and most of all thought provoking.
That one is great for extolling virtues of duty, honor, and sacrifice. The part where his past students as ghosts stand up and tell him what he did for them as their professor to serve with honor was the part that really got me.
A great episode! Many of his former students, inspired by him to do great deeds, showed up to see him off into retirement, and convince him his life, as an instructor, hadn't been in vain! A really great, dare I say it... heartwarming episode. AND, I believe, it was written by Serling himself. A stand out episode, on a stand out series!
Yes indeed that was a masterpiece when the ghosts of his former students told of the great virtues that he taught them. A really great lesson how even though you may feel useless and lonely, you had a positive impact on others in ways you don't know. Along the same lines as "It's a wonderful life"
I forgot about that one. Yes indeed great episode where the teacher realized that his career as a teacher realized wasn't wasted when his former students who have passed tell him all the virtues he taught them and how they applied them in the name of humanity.
"The monsters are due on maple street" is a great episode and also extremely true in the way we as humans are easily swayed in our actions. I just bought the boxed set of The Twilight zone, and it was money well spent. Such a creative and groundbreaking series years ahead of its time. Rod Serling is a criminally underrated writer as well.
Yes, good stuff. I also have a boxed volume of episodes, watch often when there is "nothing on tv to watch that is good", so I watch it often, and other sci fi classics of the day, and have almost worn it/them out!!
3x10 Midnight Sun. A horrific story. Well acted. 2x11 Night of the Meek. Great acting by Art Carney. A feel-good story and a terrific Christmas episode.
Scripturegirl1990 I know who you're talking about. It's John Fiedler, the mousy little guy in that episode, but also often appeared on the old "Bob Newhart Show" and (yes, as you mentioned) the original voice of Piglet from "Winnie the Pooh." He was also one of the jurors in "Twelve Angry Men."
"I Shot an Arrow into the Air," "The Four of us are Dying," "The Fever," "The Purple Testament," "Back There," "The Silent," and "A Thing About Machines" are some of my favorites.. this show is just fascinating. If I could have lunch with any person from history I would pick Rod Serling
Don't get me wrong. I think Agnes Moorehead is a wonderful character actress, all the way back to her days with Orson Welles. BUT... For me, anyway, the episode dragged with only two highlights. Moorehead drooling, and the ending. But hey, that's just me...
"Third from the Sun" was excellent. Although todays viewers will miss the clues, such as the odd shape of the telephone, weird art and music in the house, because of the TV show being dated.
No love for "Mirror Image," which I thought was one of the creepiest episodes ever?!? The first few minutes of that episode is spent thinking Vera Miles is suffering some sort of mental breakdown. Then it slowly becomes apparent, that two parallel worlds have converged inside a small bus depot on a dark stormy night. (Spoiler Alert) Finally, we're presented with the reality that exact counterparts from that other dimension are taking the place of people in OUR world. But why must they push us aside to survive? Are they EVIL? The answer is only hinted at in the very last scene. C-R-E-E-P-Y! All in all, though, yours is a much better list than the one the dopes at WatchMojo put together!
"The Midnight Sun" I think is one of my favourite Twilight zone episodes, its already set in an actual apocalypse and humanity on its last legs and the themes of the fear of nuclear annihilation during the 60s during the Cold War and Global Warming was starting out and the twist ending it was just an fever dream and the earth is moving away from the sun.
"100 Yards Over The Rim"; "The Little People"; "Static"; "Third Planet From The Sun"; "You Drive"; "A thing About Machines"...are top favorites of mine. Another series I enjoyed was "One Step Beyond", with host John Newland. Great TV back in the late 50's-early 60's.
My favorite Twilight Zone episode is the after hours about a blonde woman buying a gold thimble that is scratched and dented and she's locked inside the department store and hears the mannequins talking and she gets hysterical and acts like a silly child then she finds out that she too is a mannequin a wooden lady with a painted face
"You Are Obsolete!" Ho-Hum, whatever. One of my least favorite, even though it was written by a big time writer, I believe, because it hits you over the head with it's "relevant" meaning... Although, at the end, when they pounce on him growling, I guess it was amusing. Oh, sorry, spoiler... lol! Again, though, that's just me. I'm glad you enjoyed it!
Spur of the moment was one that wasn't mentioned. And also one that scared me was an old lady getting crank calls. Turns out it was her long lost boyfriend who's dead and buried, and a phone line was down laying across his grave.
For episodes that don't usually make the crème de la crème I'll list....The Passerby.....A Most Unusual Camera.....The Little People.....Ring a Ding Girl.
The last one is the best of the four. The part where Bunny, knowing that her mission to save the entire town from her own plane crash has succeeded, walks out into the rain and disappears is incredibly moving.
"A Nice Place To Visit" "The Eye Of The Beholder" "A Most Unusual Camera" "A Dead Man's Shoes" "The Odyssey Of Flight 33" "Queen Of The Nile" Those are my absolute favorite episodes!
Thank you for your comment honestly, it's my favorite episode. The plot wasn't all that complicated, but the acting was incredible. Each astronaut experienced sheer terror one by one as they were plucked from existence.
"Walking Distance" ranks among the best. I just wish the reruns of that episode did not cut anything from the original: i.e., walking through the neighborhood and identifying the.owners of the houses, seeing Ron Howard sitting on the curb playing marbles, etc.
Twilight Zone dealt with timeless issues, including fears of growing old and out of touch and the fear of death. Changing of the Guard and Nothing in the Dark were two of my favorites that are not on your list. Third from the Sun is another good one with a twist ending.
Scripturegirl1990 thats actually my favorite episode, most people dont appreachiate it..personally I think its an important lesson. There was another episode in the 2000 remake where death took a day off that ties into nothing in the dark as both show that death is nessesary and that its not some evil force, but merly a part of the natrual order.
Why do u like nothing in the dark.??. I would refuse to die, I know some sign language, I got two fears, etc. I am scared of. "Physical." Death since I was 12, but numbah una I had forever..HEIGHT'S.!!.😨😱
Yep Loved that episode It's also the other episode that breaks the fourth wall with Rod Serling himself actually being chastised on camera by Keenan Wynn, then disappeared when Wynn tosses Serling's audio tape "existence" into the fireplace. It's a fantastically funny episode.
My favorite "Twilight Zone" episode is 'King 9 Will Not Return' (Season 2, Episode 1). It was based on the Lady B Good, a bomber that went missing during World War II.
+Syfy Wire (@SyfyWire) - Noting here that voice actor June Foray has passed away (July 2017). Foray voiced the role of Talky Tina - the doll in the 'Living Doll' (11:23) episode of 'The Twilight Zone' (1959-1964). Foray discusses the role in this interview clip: 'June Foray discusses voicing Talky Tina on "The Twilight Zone" - Emmy TV Legends,' at +FoundationInterviews (@TelevisionAcad). Excerpt: 'I felt so privileged working on that. Apparently it's a favorite episode among a lot of people, and when I tell them that I'm Talky Tina - "Were you really that bad?" Yes, I was. But not personally.'
Two more fun facts for you: June Foray also voiced the crying of the little girl in the episode "Little Girl Lost" and voiced the little girl in the last episode of the entire series, "The Bewitchin' Pool," the latter because the studio execs believed that the actress playing the little girl's southern accent was too thick for most people to understand. That second episode in particular is really strange, with what is quite clearly the voice of Rocky the Flying Squirrel coming from a little girl! Check it out.
My favorites were "The Shelter", "One for the Angels", "The Mirror", "Five Characters in Search of an Exit", "Eye of the Beholder", "Shadow Play", "Will the Real Marian Please Stand Up", "I Shot an Arrow into the Air", "The Hitch-Hiker", and "The Monsters are Due on Maple Street"
My top 10 best episodes of the Twilight Zone to make films: 10. Nightmare at 20.000 (1963) 9. Living Doll (1963) 8. It's a good Life (1961) 7. The Hitch-Hiker (1960) 6. Eye of the Beholder (1960) 5. Twenty Two (1961) 4. The After Hours (1960) 3. The Monsters are due on Maple street (1960) 2. Five characters in search of an exit (1961) 1. The Mask (1964)
I'm just starting to watch season two, and I am already falling in love with The Twilight Zone! My all time favorite episode right now is the last episode of season one: "A World of His Own".
Scripturegirl1990 I can't think of any I hate. I like the stories and figuring out which situations are literal or all in the person's mind. Though one episode that scares me the most is The Dummy.
Anyone know the episode with the 3 pilots who plane crashes and they end up in the hospital but not feeling the same one of them visits the other in that's still in the hospital and tells him that he feels like they didn't make it off the plane alive and at the end they all disappeared that's my favorite.....
" And when the sky was opened", great one, when he saw the headlines of the paper and the other guy didn't exist. That was the same actor who played in " The Birds" Rod Taylor.
From Serling interviews, his two favorite episodes were "The Invaders" so well acted by Moorhead, though regretted the budget didn't allow for better effects on the spacemen, and "Time Enough at Last" written by Serling himself -an irony with the great sets already available and great acting. Serling wrote 92 of the 156 episodes; he stated writing was cathartic for him after his experience in WW2. (BTW -Forbidden Planet was from 1956 not 59, and Meredith was in 4 episodes.) Suggest Syfy Wire watch these interviews for more insight. Good overview. Serling deserves the highest respect; his passion for social justice, personal understanding and deeper consciousness of the human condition bleeds through each of his episodes -as you show on the powerful closing statement in Monsters Due on Maple St - indicative of how he influenced the world for the better and why these have become enduring classics.
I'd be in my room, doing homework or building a car model, and I'd hear the ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding theme of TZ, and I'd bolt from my room into the living room to watch, on our glorious 29 inch screen Magnavox console, an episode with my parents. Good "family times" those!!
"one of the Angels" is honestly one of my altime favorites, it's not necessarily Scary but more meloncoly. (Won't spoil it you have to see it for yourself)
What's the story where astronauts crash on 'another world', fall out with each other, dispair, start killing each other then realise when they see a plyon and a road that they actually crashed on Earth?
What about A Stop in a Quiet Town? Judgement Day is great, too. The Masks. I’ll stop now. I think The Masks is one of my top ten. I can watch that one over and over again. I would recommend The Dummy, but that one really freaks me out, so I have only seen it a few times.
Yes sir! You beat me to it. I think he might have missed the season 4 episode "The Printer's Devil" which was an hour long episode. People always forget about season 4 for some reason.
Am i the only who kinda wants a Twilight Zone reboot? That would be awesome, I loved the show as a kid! Thank you to my 7th grade English teacher for getting me hooked XD
Invaders, and Terror at 20,000 feet. Also the episode when the plane kept traveling back and forth through the sound barrier. Love watching each episode during the new years marathon.
And every other day. Like Serling said in the closing monologue, there's always going to be someone like Hitler running around, waiting for his moment to shine.
The Monsters Are Due On Maple Street is probably my favorite episode. It seems to be so relevant today as well. I also like The After Hours, The Masks, and The Hitchhiker.
I have so many favorites. I would say my all time favorite Is the one with the Guy at the Museuem who takes care of the serial killer wax figures. Also the one with the people who had the camera that one was creepy.
Another that was really good, can’t remember the title-a plane lands at an airport, completely empty. The head of the airport is going crazy because other employees see a different plane number, etc. finally everyone disappeared, including the plane, too. It was his one unsolved missing plane that was haunting him.
I have been a Twilight Zone fan since it's debut. Rod Serling was brilliant and a couple of my favorites are The Masks and another that isn't mentioned much but is very prophetic as to our world today , The Brain Center at Whipple's.
Films like extended The Twilight Zone Episodes: 1. Twelve Monkeys (1995) 2. Time Lapse (2014) 3. Another Earth (2011) 4. The Vast of Night (2019) 5. Cube (1997) 6. Final Destination (2000) 7. Dead End (2003) 8. Elevator (2011) 9. Soul Sourvivor (2001) 10. The Room (2019) 11. Hjemsøkt (2017) 12. After (2012) 13. Premonition (2007) 14. Beyond the Gates (2016) 15. Las Tinieblas (2016) 16. Black Box (2020) 17. Anti Matter (2016) 18. Carnival Souls (1962) 19. The Population 436 (2006) 20. Eyes of Laura Mars (1978) 21. Fight 7500 (2014)
I actually think, overall, that the episode of The Outer Limits (the original series) stand the test of time better than those of the Twilight Zone. I think that's because the TZ episodes are basically twist-ending shorts while the OL episodes were actual adventures. There were, of course, clunkers in both series, but even today, the OL episodes "O.B.I.T." and "The Architects of Fear" and "The Guests" and "Don't Open Till Doomsday" and "Corpus Earthling" are eminently watchable, along with numerous others. I can't at the moment think of more than an couple of TZ episodes that I'd _like_ to re-see.
Passage for a Trumpet haunted me in the first grade and is the one episode I remembered will into the see it on Video Tape again era. But Nightmare at 20,000 feet... The very next morning, Saturday Morning, there was a Buggs Bunny cartoon that went into Gremlins attacking airplanes as well, it cemented the idea that it was Real for me.
Good choices. Very difficult to pick the top ones, as there are so many. I would nominate "Perchance to Dream" as one, though. Talk about a twist ending! A very well-done but under-appreciated episode.
I’m pretty sure the plane in “Nightmare at 20,000 Feet” is a propeller plane. I think the gremlin even touches the propeller and hurts himself a bit. This episode was made a few years before jets replaced propeller planes as airliners.
I have the definative complete collection of the Twilight Zone and love it a lot. Jack Elam was in many roles small or big in show. William Shatner was in 2 episodes and so was Bergis Meredith. All episodes are great and like them a lot. I can't rate them all when all episodes are great.
None of the Jack Klugman episodes were mentioned here, my favorite being 'A Game Of Pool". Also, most of the episodes with then Big Name Stars were fun to watch like the ones with Mickey Rooney playing a short guy who wanted to be BIG and Cliff Robertson in "The Dummy" and oh yes, William Demerest and Joan Blondel fighting over the futuristic scenes projected onto the T.V. screen.
You noticed that too! Yep! I'm 68 and remember the first time it was played and me, Ron, and Frank and neighborhood kids all talked about it ..... then we chose parts and pretended and redid the show with Maria playing the old woman ---- I had a crush on her and she got to hit me with the broom ........................ aaahhhhh childhood
I haven't seen it listed (though I didn't look at all of the comments), but "Long Live Walter Jamieson" was one I cannot forget. It was about two college professors; one teaching history, the other teaching chemistry. The latter notices the former hasn't aged in the 12 years they have known one another. The former confesses that he has lived for thousands of years. The latter comments how lucky he must be, because he has been able to accumulate so much knowledge. The former tells him that his life has been horrible because he keeps seeing loved ones grow old and die.
I saw it as a child, and didn't think much about it. Until fifty years later, when my father was over 90 years old, all but one of his friends had died, and he was very depressed about it. I connected the dots.
My favorite was the Donald Pleasence story "A Changing of the Guard" about an aging professor who is forced to retire and begins to think his life has been a waste. It is haunting and touching and most of all thought provoking.
That one is great for extolling virtues of duty, honor, and sacrifice.
The part where his past students as ghosts stand up and tell him what he did for them as their professor to serve with honor was the part that really got me.
A great episode! Many of his former students, inspired by him to do great deeds, showed up to see him off into retirement, and convince him his life, as an instructor, hadn't been in vain! A really great, dare I say it... heartwarming episode. AND, I believe, it was written by Serling himself. A stand out episode, on a stand out series!
Yes indeed that was a masterpiece when the ghosts of his former students told of the great virtues that he taught them. A really great lesson how even though you may feel useless and lonely, you had a positive impact on others in ways you don't know. Along the same lines as "It's a wonderful life"
I forgot about that one. Yes indeed great episode where the teacher realized that his career as a teacher realized wasn't wasted when his former students who have passed tell him all the virtues he taught them and how they applied them in the name of humanity.
Interesting, rather odd that l don't even remember that l actually commented on your response 4 years ago. Now that was a a twilight zone in itself
"The monsters are due on maple street" is a great episode and also extremely true in the way we as humans are easily swayed in our actions. I just bought the boxed set of The Twilight zone, and it was money well spent. Such a creative and groundbreaking series years ahead of its time. Rod Serling is a criminally underrated writer as well.
Yes, good stuff. I also have a boxed volume of episodes, watch often when there is "nothing on tv to watch that is good", so I watch it often, and other sci fi classics of the day, and have almost worn it/them out!!
Oh i love that episode also
I would not say underrated is highly respected in the industry just as Hitchcock
What is happening in the USA is this episode.
@@ronschlorff7089 with streaming contracts always changing it is on paramount plus now
3x10 Midnight Sun. A horrific story. Well acted.
2x11 Night of the Meek. Great acting by Art Carney. A feel-good story and a terrific Christmas episode.
Night of the meek, rip John, who played the lovable 🐷🐽🐖
Both are great episodes.
The part where Art Carney realizes that his wish to be the real Santa comes true is priceless.
Scripturegirl1990 I know who you're talking about.
It's John Fiedler, the mousy little guy in that episode, but also often appeared on the old "Bob Newhart Show" and (yes, as you mentioned) the original voice of Piglet from "Winnie the Pooh."
He was also one of the jurors in "Twelve Angry Men."
He was also in. "Robin Hood, fox, and the hound, the munsters, the rescuers."
Rod Serling wrote the story and envisioned Carney as the "Santa Claus". He wanted Art for that role. And he got him.
"I Shot an Arrow into the Air," "The Four of us are Dying," "The Fever," "The Purple Testament," "Back There," "The Silent," and "A Thing About Machines" are some of my favorites.. this show is just fascinating. If I could have lunch with any person from history I would pick Rod Serling
J nothing in the dark💜 season 3 episode 16, I cry every time i watch it and even try to explain it 😭
Yes, agree. However, they don't allow smoking in most restaurants any more! LOL.
All of those, I haven't even heard of! I just started reviewing them, on my channel!
I hope it's going to be fun! :)
A Thing About Machines has one of the funniest Serling appearances!
"The Invaders" is a great episode. Agnes Moorhead does a fantastic job in the starring role without speaking a word.
Yep, definitel a classic.
Don't get me wrong. I think Agnes Moorehead is a wonderful character actress, all the way back to her days with Orson Welles. BUT... For me, anyway, the episode dragged with only two highlights. Moorehead drooling, and the ending. But hey, that's just me...
this was the best episode for me I was really shocked when I saw it 60+ years ago
The ending was dumb and made no sense.
@@franzimmerman2174 how?
"Third from the Sun" was excellent. Although todays viewers will miss the clues, such as the odd shape of the telephone, weird art and music in the house, because of the TV show being dated.
I've watched that episode time after time looking for slip ups like a company name on a product but found nothing! Well done for a 25 minute show!
"And forced to live with a hot hunk of a male model!" Lmao.
No love for "Mirror Image," which I thought was one of the creepiest episodes ever?!?
The first few minutes of that episode is spent thinking Vera Miles is suffering some sort of mental breakdown.
Then it slowly becomes apparent, that two parallel worlds have converged inside a small bus depot on a dark stormy night.
(Spoiler Alert) Finally, we're presented with the reality that exact counterparts from that other dimension are taking the place of people in OUR world. But why must they push us aside to survive? Are they EVIL? The answer is only hinted at in the very last scene.
C-R-E-E-P-Y!
All in all, though, yours is a much better list than the one the dopes at WatchMojo put together!
that episode scared the hell out of me, even the guy with the suitcase.
that was a great and underrated episode.
I grew up with Rod and the Zone Always a favorite He was a good human , a shining star devoted to excellence. He is missed
Five Characters In Search Of An Exit is my favorite and most twisted episode in my opinion.
Own it.
Why do u mean, by twisted.?.
The Original Toy Story.
The original Isle of Misfit Toys!
That reminded me of TOY STORY..a little.
Buzz thought he was real
5 characters in search of exit, didn't know, they were TOYS
"The Midnight Sun" I think is one of my favourite Twilight zone episodes, its already set in an actual apocalypse and humanity on its last legs and the themes of the fear of nuclear annihilation during the 60s during the Cold War and Global Warming was starting out and the twist ending it was just an fever dream and the earth is moving away from the sun.
I love that one too, especially the twist ending. Never suspected she was having a dream. A very creative and well written episode.
“stop painting the sun!,”
"100 Yards Over The Rim"; "The Little People"; "Static"; "Third Planet From The Sun"; "You Drive"; "A thing About Machines"...are top favorites of mine. Another series I enjoyed was "One Step Beyond", with host John Newland. Great TV back in the late 50's-early 60's.
My favorite Twilight Zone episode is the after hours about a blonde woman buying a gold thimble that is scratched and dented and she's locked inside the department store and hears the mannequins talking and she gets hysterical and acts like a silly child then she finds out that she too is a mannequin a wooden lady with a painted face
will the real martian please stand up? great episode
Sub Samadhi will the real slim shady please stand up
is anyone else seeing the resemblance
A lot of people love that episode, although I thought it was a yawner myself, twist ending and all.
very best ep
@@grojzow11 i read it in the tune of slim shady!!!
@ Sub Samadhi: IKR??? One of Rod Serling's finest..
Twilight Zone, New Year's Marathon. I've been watching for years.
What about the obsolete man
"You Are Obsolete!" Ho-Hum, whatever. One of my least favorite, even though it was written by a big time writer, I believe, because it hits you over the head with it's "relevant" meaning... Although, at the end, when they pounce on him growling, I guess it was amusing. Oh, sorry, spoiler... lol! Again, though, that's just me. I'm glad you enjoyed it!
I like that one, too. It has a great message.
Spur of the moment was one that wasn't mentioned. And also one that scared me was an old lady getting crank calls. Turns out it was her long lost boyfriend who's dead and buried, and a phone line was down laying across his grave.
For episodes that don't usually make the crème de la crème I'll list....The Passerby.....A Most Unusual Camera.....The Little People.....Ring a Ding Girl.
The last one is the best of the four.
The part where Bunny, knowing that her mission to save the entire town from her own plane crash has succeeded, walks out into the rain and disappears is incredibly moving.
Shadow Play
I always loved night call. The creepy voice and ironic twist make it one of my favorites
Karma.
"A Nice Place To Visit"
"The Eye Of The Beholder"
"A Most Unusual Camera"
"A Dead Man's Shoes"
"The Odyssey Of Flight 33"
"Queen Of The Nile"
Those are my absolute favorite episodes!
I absolutely love A Nice Place to Visit. Great episode.
@@johnporter9073 scares me though.
To me, the most underrated one is "And When The Sky Was Opened."
Thank you for your comment honestly, it's my favorite episode. The plot wasn't all that complicated, but the acting was incredible. Each astronaut experienced sheer terror one by one as they were plucked from existence.
@@Tazer183 that was a creepy one, and Rod Taylor, of Time Machine fame, was brilliant!!
Time enough at last is my own personal hell. It gets me every time.
"Walking Distance" ranks among the best. I just wish the reruns of that episode did not cut anything from the original: i.e., walking through the neighborhood and identifying the.owners of the houses, seeing Ron Howard sitting on the curb playing marbles, etc.
No doubt. That episode is too good to leave anything out, especially what was probably Ron Howards first appearance on film.
Good picks, and such a great show! 'It's a Good Life' still gives me serious shudders and I'm 60.
Yes, still creeps me out, too! But that boy is real good, really!
You should have included "The After Hours" and "Twenty-Two."
Agree!!! Room 22 is just creepy and well done!
Absolutely
Definitely Twenty -two should've been in the top 10!
Three of my all time favorite episodes are "The After-Hours", "Five Characters In Search Of An Exit" and "Queen Of The Nile".
Allow me to submit for your approval "The Hunt."
I loved "The Hunt", also liked"Number twelve looks just like You" and "I am the night, color me Black".
Twilight Zone dealt with timeless issues, including fears of growing old and out of touch and the fear of death. Changing of the Guard and Nothing in the Dark were two of my favorites that are not on your list. Third from the Sun is another good one with a twist ending.
Nothing in the dark, makes the top of the pop, the ending, and twist is awesome.
Scripturegirl1990 thats actually my favorite episode, most people dont appreachiate it..personally I think its an important lesson. There was another episode in the 2000 remake where death took a day off that ties into nothing in the dark as both show that death is nessesary and that its not some evil force, but merly a part of the natrual order.
Why do u like nothing in the dark.??. I would refuse to die, I know some sign language, I got two fears, etc. I am scared of. "Physical." Death since I was 12, but numbah una I had forever..HEIGHT'S.!!.😨😱
Can I ask u some questions about nothing in da dark.?.
A world of his own is a great episode that was very underrated. The ending was really funny and unexpected. I loved it.
How is it funny.?.
Yep
Loved that episode
It's also the other episode that breaks the fourth wall with Rod Serling himself actually being chastised on camera by Keenan Wynn, then disappeared when Wynn tosses Serling's audio tape "existence" into the fireplace.
It's a fantastically funny episode.
PinkOld Absolutely! On of my top Favorite episodes.
"What You Need" and "Execution" are my favorites
I liked the one where the plane keeps ending up in different eras of time
what was the name of this ep? i loved that one!
Raj Soni odyssey of flight 33
I know that "Nightmare at 20,000 Feet" is the better-known Shatner TZ episode; however, I think "Nick of Time" is the better Shatner episode.
Another one I really liked is the guy who keeps playing pool until he is known as the best
A game of pool.
Jack Klugman
great commentary and analysis of these wonderful stories. Many thanks.
Buy the complete Box set if you can. Well worth it.
The SyFy Wire announcer did an EXCELLENT job capturing Serling’s facial expressions and mannerisms - without overdoing it. Well done!
I'm 58 and I think I have watched every episode at least 1000 times already, lol
My favorite "Twilight Zone" episode is 'King 9 Will Not Return' (Season 2, Episode 1). It was based on the Lady B Good, a bomber that went missing during World War II.
To Serve Man is my favorite episode of all time-I also like Night of the Meek , Game of Pool, and 22.
Game of Pool was great, too.
+Syfy Wire (@SyfyWire) - Noting here that voice actor June Foray has passed away (July 2017). Foray voiced the role of Talky Tina - the doll in the 'Living Doll' (11:23) episode of 'The Twilight Zone' (1959-1964).
Foray discusses the role in this interview clip: 'June Foray discusses voicing Talky Tina on "The Twilight Zone" - Emmy TV Legends,' at +FoundationInterviews (@TelevisionAcad).
Excerpt: 'I felt so privileged working on that. Apparently it's a favorite episode among a lot of people, and when I tell them that I'm Talky Tina - "Were you really that bad?" Yes, I was. But not personally.'
Rip June, I bet grandma fa is with her ancestors now..ha ha.!!.😎
Two more fun facts for you:
June Foray also voiced the crying of the little girl in the episode "Little Girl Lost" and voiced the little girl in the last episode of the entire series, "The Bewitchin' Pool," the latter because the studio execs believed that the actress playing the little girl's southern accent was too thick for most people to understand.
That second episode in particular is really strange, with what is quite clearly the voice of Rocky the Flying Squirrel coming from a little girl!
Check it out.
+PinkOld If I remember correctly, the girl in the 'bewitching pool' was also the star in the classic movie "To Kill A Mockingbird."
searchlight17 You remember correctly.
She played Scout, and her name is Mary Badham - en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_Badham
@@searchlight18 is she
..weird because her name was Scout in the episode bewitchin pool too...
"22" the episode starring Barbara Nichols is probably the scariest.Not really science fiction but scary.
agreed. the Hitch-Hiker was also scary (she adjusts the rear-view mirror and he's in the back seat)
Love that episode!!
My favorites were "The Shelter", "One for the Angels", "The Mirror", "Five Characters in Search of an Exit", "Eye of the Beholder", "Shadow Play", "Will the Real Marian Please Stand Up", "I Shot an Arrow into the Air", "The Hitch-Hiker", and "The Monsters are Due on Maple Street"
Shot an Arrow “ was another of my faves. The end, gets me every time!
Great list
I second especially Shelter and Arrow. No one mentions those in their tops...
A game of pool, the masks, what you need, a stop at Willoughby all in my top 10
my personal favourite is Five Characters In Search Of An Exit and i thought for sure that it would be on this list somwhere
The soldier character was played by William Windom, who was great in the Star Trek episode “Doomsday Machine “
The balet dancer is so poise😍
My top 10 best episodes of the Twilight Zone to make films:
10. Nightmare at 20.000 (1963)
9. Living Doll (1963)
8. It's a good Life (1961)
7. The Hitch-Hiker (1960)
6. Eye of the Beholder (1960)
5. Twenty Two (1961)
4. The After Hours (1960)
3. The Monsters are due on Maple street (1960)
2. Five characters in search of an exit (1961)
1. The Mask (1964)
“Long Live Walter Jameson” is very underrated.
I'm just starting to watch season two, and I am already falling in love with The Twilight Zone! My all time favorite episode right now is the last episode of season one: "A World of His Own".
You had never seen it before?
Some of my favorites: (no order)
The Masks
It's a Good Life
Number 12 Looks Like You
(Forgot the rest, but they're just so good, it's hard to choose)
Which do u hate.?. Baby sister loves the masks, I think I read it's a good life, in 07.
Scripturegirl1990 I can't think of any I hate. I like the stories and figuring out which situations are literal or all in the person's mind. Though one episode that scares me the most is The Dummy.
Dummy is third place.
Dummy was at first, when I first saw it decades ago, but now it's one of my faves.
joyunicycle. I love a world of his own. It's an underrated episode.
I like to get stoned in the middle of the night and watch the twilight zone on Netflix
A euphoric trip while observing a philosophical story and an intellectual lesson is always a good thing
Anyone know the episode with the 3 pilots who plane crashes and they end up in the hospital but not feeling the same one of them visits the other in that's still in the hospital and tells him that he feels like they didn't make it off the plane alive and at the end they all disappeared that's my favorite.....
I know that episode, I forgot the name.
And When The Sky Was Opened
" And when the sky was opened", great one, when he saw the headlines of the paper and the other guy didn't exist. That was the same actor who played in " The Birds" Rod Taylor.
From Serling interviews, his two favorite episodes were "The Invaders" so well acted by Moorhead, though regretted the budget didn't allow for better effects on the spacemen, and "Time Enough at Last" written by Serling himself -an irony with the great sets already available and great acting. Serling wrote 92 of the 156 episodes; he stated writing was cathartic for him after his experience in WW2. (BTW -Forbidden Planet was from 1956 not 59, and Meredith was in 4 episodes.) Suggest Syfy Wire watch these interviews for more insight. Good overview. Serling deserves the highest respect; his passion for social justice, personal understanding and deeper consciousness of the human condition bleeds through each of his episodes -as you show on the powerful closing statement in Monsters Due on Maple St - indicative of how he influenced the world for the better and why these have become enduring classics.
Jack Klugman and John anderson also in 4
The Twilight Zone is one of my favorites of all time!!!
I’m so proud I’ve seen all these episodes. My parents were smart to show me the good ones.
I'd be in my room, doing homework or building a car model, and I'd hear the ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding theme of TZ, and I'd bolt from my room into the living room to watch, on our glorious 29 inch screen Magnavox console, an episode with my parents. Good "family times" those!!
"one of the Angels" is honestly one of my altime favorites, it's not necessarily Scary but more meloncoly. (Won't spoil it you have to see it for yourself)
*”One For The Angels”
Love that episode ♥️
The Jeopardy room it's one of the best episodes.
"Nightmare As A Child " Terry Burnham was brilliant.
Love, Love, Love The Twilight Zone ❤️
Three faves not usually mentioned: The Obsolete Man, Deathshead Revisited, and Of Late I Think of Cliffordville.
Shadow Play!!
A Piano in the House from Season III is my favorite.
Karma.
The Dummy (by far the scariest episode!) and The After Hours (the creepiest)!
Dummy, third place, I own da after hours, and I own the dummy.
What do u like.?.
luv that episode!!! that dummy is now in David Copperfield's magic warehouse collection
The dummy is SO MUCH BETTER than living doll
Own the living doll, and one of my younger sisters likes it too.
What's the story where astronauts crash on 'another world', fall out with each other, dispair, start killing each other then realise when they see a plyon and a road that they actually crashed on Earth?
'I shot an arrow into the sky'
many thanks
That episode is called, "A Shark Is Gonna Eat You"
I literally just watched that episode
No,that one was about your mom.....
What about A Stop in a Quiet Town? Judgement Day is great, too. The Masks. I’ll stop now. I think The Masks is one of my top ten. I can watch that one over and over again. I would recommend The Dummy, but that one really freaks me out, so I have only seen it a few times.
12:16 One other thing, the astronauts spacecraft in The Invaders was the same flying saucer craft from Forbidden Planet.
“Can’t you feel anything!?”
“Well of course I do! I feel good”
“Life is pretty life is fun I am all and all is one”
Where is that from.?.
@@Scripturegirl. #12 looks just like you
Talky Tina in the living doll was also voiced by the same one who voiced rocket J squirrel in the Bullwinkle show.
Living doll, own it, it's taking Tina, one of my younger sisters fave, and rip June.F.😭💔
An underrated classic having seen every episode atleast 2-3 times is a short drink from a certain fountain
Burgess Meredith appeared in 4 episodes
Yes sir! You beat me to it. I think he might have missed the season 4 episode "The Printer's Devil" which was an hour long episode. People always forget about season 4 for some reason.
@@unchainedwiththecapt That's because it is awful! Except for that 1 episode :)
One of my favorites is A Stop at Willoughby
Printers devil is my favorite episode of his!!!
2 videos and no one mentioned Cloris Leachman in the it's a good life episode
Some episodes long ago watched haunt me to this day... Not sure of what the titles were but the stories lurk in the dark corners of my mind.
"A Nice Place to Visit" was seriously spooky for me.
Netflix spilled the beans on it.
Am i the only who kinda wants a Twilight Zone reboot? That would be awesome, I loved the show as a kid!
Thank you to my 7th grade English teacher for getting me hooked XD
Apparently their already working on it
@@cuteyhoney1994 They're not their. And there were already two reboots, 1985-89 and 2002-03.
"Twenty Two." Not a thematic heavyweight, but chilling as an Antarctic night. "Room for one more, honey!"
5:42 She attacked them first! lol I saw the episode just recently. She kicked one of them down into her house.
Nicely done my friend. Agatha Moorhead was very memorable for me.
Agnes Moorehead.
Invaders, and Terror at 20,000 feet. Also the episode when the plane kept traveling back and forth through the sound barrier. Love watching each episode during the new years marathon.
Its nightmare at 20,000 feet.
That episode where the plane breaks the sound barrier and goes back into time (twice) is The Odyssey of Flight 33.
@@jdpower71 Yup, I would have landed to see the dinosaurs, just for kicks!!
I’m a diehard fan. But, you guys should have included the one with Julie Newmar “OF LATE I THINK OF CLIFFORDVILLE” where she plays the devil.
She was very hot for the 60's and fantastic episode foreshadowing Donald trump
You narrated this very well.
'He's Alive' was a fantastic episode.
Lord Publius I rewatched it last night. It is honestly frightening how relevant it is to what's going on in Western politics today.
And every other day. Like Serling said in the closing monologue, there's always going to be someone like Hitler running around, waiting for his moment to shine.
The Monsters Are Due On Maple Street is probably my favorite episode. It seems to be so relevant today as well.
I also like The After Hours, The Masks, and The Hitchhiker.
It's ridiculously sad that so many people are still like that!
I have so many favorites. I would say my all time favorite Is the one with the Guy at the Museuem who takes care of the serial killer wax figures. Also the one with the people who had the camera that one was creepy.
The new exhibit, and a most unusual camera.
The Devil's Printer is just as relevant today!
It's how the news operates nowadays
The Hunt, Stopover in a quiet town, Mirror image, Person or persons unknown, Deathship, Spur of the moment, People are alike, Night call.
It's people r alike ALL OVER.
Another that was really good, can’t remember the title-a plane lands at an airport, completely empty. The head of the airport is going crazy because other employees see a different plane number, etc. finally everyone disappeared, including the plane, too. It was his one unsolved missing plane that was haunting him.
"The Arrival"
I have been a Twilight Zone fan since it's debut. Rod Serling was brilliant and a couple of my favorites are The Masks and another that isn't mentioned much but is very prophetic as to our world today , The Brain Center at Whipple's.
Films like extended The Twilight Zone Episodes:
1. Twelve Monkeys (1995)
2. Time Lapse (2014)
3. Another Earth (2011)
4. The Vast of Night (2019)
5. Cube (1997)
6. Final Destination (2000)
7. Dead End (2003)
8. Elevator (2011)
9. Soul Sourvivor (2001)
10. The Room (2019)
11. Hjemsøkt (2017)
12. After (2012)
13. Premonition (2007)
14. Beyond the Gates (2016)
15. Las Tinieblas (2016)
16. Black Box (2020)
17. Anti Matter (2016)
18. Carnival Souls (1962)
19. The Population 436 (2006)
20. Eyes of Laura Mars (1978)
21. Fight 7500 (2014)
Loved the style of this video! Thank you!
OMG, great writing holds up over time.
I actually think, overall, that the episode of The Outer Limits (the original series) stand the test of time better than those of the Twilight Zone. I think that's because the TZ episodes are basically twist-ending shorts while the OL episodes were actual adventures. There were, of course, clunkers in both series, but even today, the OL episodes "O.B.I.T." and "The Architects of Fear" and "The Guests" and "Don't Open Till Doomsday" and "Corpus Earthling" are eminently watchable, along with numerous others. I can't at the moment think of more than an couple of TZ episodes that I'd _like_ to re-see.
Passage for a Trumpet haunted me in the first grade and is the one episode I remembered will into the see it on Video Tape again era.
But Nightmare at 20,000 feet...
The very next morning, Saturday Morning, there was a Buggs Bunny cartoon that went into Gremlins attacking airplanes as well, it cemented the idea that it was Real for me.
The toon you are referring to is "Falling Hare."
Good choices. Very difficult to pick the top ones, as there are so many. I would nominate "Perchance to Dream" as one, though. Talk about a twist ending! A very well-done but under-appreciated episode.
joemama62- Not on my personal top ten list, but between the music, and the crazed dream woman, a completely eerie episode!
I’m pretty sure the plane in “Nightmare at 20,000 Feet” is a propeller plane. I think the gremlin even touches the propeller and hurts himself a bit.
This episode was made a few years before jets replaced propeller planes as airliners.
Might have been a DC-6. Same as in the "High and the Mighty" with John Wayne as the Captain!
I have the definative complete collection of the Twilight Zone and love it a lot. Jack Elam was in many roles small or big in show. William Shatner was in 2 episodes and so was Bergis Meredith. All episodes are great and like them a lot. I can't rate them all when all episodes are great.
Burgess Meredith was in four episodes (twice in the second season).
What an impossible list to put together. So many good episodes
I love The Hunt and The Last Rights of Jeff Myrtlebank...those are two of my favorite episodes
I wish they would do these marathons in October.
Not season four.
I bought mine (dvd boxed set, about 100 bucks) at Barnes and Nobel book store.
None of the Jack Klugman episodes were mentioned here, my favorite being 'A Game Of Pool". Also, most of the episodes with then Big Name Stars were fun to watch like the ones with Mickey Rooney playing a short guy who wanted to be BIG and Cliff Robertson in "The Dummy" and oh yes, William Demerest and Joan Blondel fighting over the futuristic scenes projected onto the T.V. screen.
The one with Mickey was. "Last night of a jockey." The other one with Joan is "What's in the box."
A passage for trumpet is my favorite episode and a game of pool #7
I remember watching the one with Agnes Moorehead. I though she looked so old. I'm 65 now and she dont look too bad.
You noticed that too! Yep! I'm 68 and remember the first time it was played and me, Ron, and Frank and neighborhood kids all talked about it ..... then we chose parts and pretended and redid the show with Maria playing the old woman ---- I had a crush on her and she got to hit me with the broom ........................ aaahhhhh childhood
this is the most Legit List I've seen well done 👍🏻
I love the episodes ' The Lonely' and 'The Mighty Casey' starring a young Big Ben Healy!
My favs are:
Will the real Martian please stand up,
Nightmare at 20,000 ft
Nick of time
Odyssey of Flight 33
Back There
and DOZENS more
William Shatner was great in Nick of Time, you can hear his punctuated vocals that he was known for later in Trek.