Originally Posted By jasmine7 After watching some of the New Year's Day marathon on SciFi yesterday, my love for The Twilight Zone was rekindled. Is anyone else a fan of it (talking about the original, not the remake from the early 2000s)? What are your favorite episodes? I think I'm going to splurge and get the Definitive Collection from Amazon. It has every episode, along with documentaries & cast commentaries. It really looks like a great set. Right now, I'm watching an episode I haven't seen before via IMDB, The Passerby. It's a Civil War era episode, and it's really wonderful so far. As far as favorite episodes (honestly, I haven't seen that many, sooo. . .), I have to go with Masks, It's a Good Life, The Changing of the Guard, Deaths-Head Revisited, The Grave & A Stop at Willoughby. There are also two episodes that I love which I cannot think of the titles of. The first is the one with Talky Tina, and the second one is about a shy, reserved man who falls in love with a miniature doll who only he sees coming to life in a museum.
Originally Posted By RockyMtnMinnie I still love the Twilight Zone. My favorite is the rustic woman who lives alone who gets attacked by the little "martians." We were soooo excited when we were in the library of ToT and looked up and one of the little martian suits was up there. I waited back until everyone had left the library and snuck a picture.
Originally Posted By vbdad55 Huge Fan - watched originals as they aired..... Favorite Episode: A Stop at Willoughby <a href="http://tzone.the-croc.com/tzeplist/willoughby.html" target="_blank">http://tzone.the-croc.com/tzep...hby.html</a> Also: A Thing About Machines Kick The Can
Originally Posted By mele We watch the Twilight Zone marathons every July 4th and NYE. (We actually went out this past NYE but we still recorded our favorite episodes.) My daughter loves "Living Doll" and she and my husband act out scenes, specifically when the little girl cries "Daddy, no!" and Telly Savales yells back "I'm not your daddy!" Charming. LOL I don't think they played the hour long episode where a colony of humans living in space is rescued. Their leader is a control freak who wants them all to stick together once they get back to Earth. I can't quite recall the title ("On Thursday We Leave For Home"?) It's one of my favorites. We also love "Kick the Can". It's not creepy at all. I also like the one where Julie Newmar plays the Devil. I don't think that one was on this time around. Tune in on July 4th. ;-)
Originally Posted By ecdc It's a great show. J.J. Abrams owes his entire career to this show That Definitive Collection is almost 40% off right now on Amazon. Wish I could justify the cost
Originally Posted By Jim in Merced CA I've been watching 'The Twilight Zone' for years. Love some of the classic ones too. 'Talky Tina' is a classic. The one with Burgess Meredith as the glasses wearing reader. Agnes Moorehead being attacked in her home by a UFO. Great stuff. The ballerina, the bag-piper, the bum, and other trapped in that strange cylindrical room. I'm not a big fan of the 'comedy' episodes. Burgess Meredith as Mr. Dingle for example. I like when the stories are more serious or weird. The hour long episodes tend to drag too. I was also disappointed that SciFi Channel seems to cut pieces from the episodes -- a good reason to buy the DVD set. Even saw a couple of 'Twilight Zone' episodes that I'd never seen before. One about a WWI British pilot who lands in his Sopwith Camel into present day (1959) America. Confusion ensues. The other one I'd never seen starred Jack Albertson. He's married to his lovely wife and they have 2.5 kids, and they hang out and have block parties with other families. They all hang out and get hammered and love each other. Until, the radio announces that an unidentified object is headed toward the U.S. Panic ensues and they all run home -- except only one family has a bomb shelter. And the close friendships quickly unravel. It's one of those episodes that is as effective today as it was in 1960. Very well done. It's a great show.
Originally Posted By mele <<The other one I'd never seen starred Jack Albertson. He's married to his lovely wife and they have 2.5 kids, and they hang out and have block parties with other families. They all hang out and get hammered and love each other. Until, the radio announces that an unidentified object is headed toward the U.S. Panic ensues and they all run home -- except only one family has a bomb shelter. And the close friendships quickly unravel.>> Oh, that's a good one, too!
Originally Posted By ecdc >>Until, the radio announces that an unidentified object is headed toward the U.S. Panic ensues and they all run home -- except only one family has a bomb shelter. And the close friendships quickly unravel.<< Being a fan of the Twilight Zone is very helpful for being a Simpsons or Futurama fan as well Multiple references abound.
Originally Posted By vbdad55 Matt Groenig references just about every TV show boomers watched growing up in the series - I believe helping makeit so endearing to a wide age group.
Originally Posted By DAR <<The one with Burgess Meredith as the glasses wearing reader>> Time Enough At Last is the episode, probably my favorite.
Originally Posted By mele <<Time Enough At Last is the episode, probably my favorite.>> Man, the wife in that episode is crazy mean. Hard to fault the guy for not wanting to chat her up.
Originally Posted By beamerdog I loved this show. By far the one that creeped me out the most was with aliens and mushrooms. I avoided mushrooms for over 15 years before I could eat them again, lol. (I'm thinking that this was the TZ)
Originally Posted By FiveBearRugs I have never seen "Cavendish Comes Over" or whatever it's called, but it stars Carol Burnett and it's the only Zone episode with a laugh-track...lol, it's actually not well-liked by the fans
Originally Posted By pirviii When I was a kid, they showed 2 episodes every night at 11:00 so I spent the summer watching every night. The one I always remembered was the one where the guy was in the town all alone and it turns out is some isolation experiment and he was in a chamber being studied to see how long he could last. Also the rocket crashing on what the astronauts think is another planet when it's only the desert. Finally, the normal looking woman who was considered ugly by the pig looking people. I didn't like the scary ones because I went to bed after watching and got creped out.
Originally Posted By brotherdave I personally like the episode where the guests enter the 4th dimension in an elevator which falls down an elevator shaft in an old hotel... ;-)
Originally Posted By Jim in Merced CA ^^^I liked the episode too, brotherdave, but the special effects were kind of cheesy and clunky.
Originally Posted By RockyMtnMinnie It has it's high point, but the plot seemed to plummet from there.
Originally Posted By brotherdave True, the plot does seem a little vertical with very little twists, but just when you think it's over...it happens again...and again...and again!
