What's your favorite episode of 'The Twilight Zone"

[Liberal_in_LA]

Poll question: What's your favorite episode of 'The Twilight Zone"

I'm referring to the old black and white version.

BTW, most of the eps are on youtube in 3 segments.

[BOSSHOG]

1. TO SERVE MAN

The book the men from outer space bring to earth. Earthlings love them and get on their spaceships to go to their planet. Finally in the end someone figures out that To Serve Man is a cookbook.

[Liberal_in_LA]

3. A classic, I changed the poll! thanks.

[Fire Walk With Me]

65. "ITS A COOKBOOK" was one of my choices for a new username.

Likely still available.

[WinkyDink]

2. Other: The one with the children diving into their pool to escape Mom and find love.

[Liberal_in_LA]

5. yep... good one. But weird how they dubbed girl's voice with "Rocky Squirrel" voice.

[WinkyDink]

38. It's the same actress who played Scout in "To Kill a Mockingbird".

[QueenOfCalifornia]

48. That's called

The Bewitchin' Pool

A good one except for the voice over weirdness... the sound on that one episode is difficult to tolerate.

[MrCoffee]

4. Other: The one where the lights go out and the neighborhood locks and loads.

[Liberal_in_LA]

6. Classic!

[Danger Mouse]

10. "There Are Monsters Due on Maple Street"

a classic episode...one of the best.

[Liberal_in_LA]

15. They really wigged out!

[Danger Mouse]

20. The reason it works so well is because it's so believeable, even today.

[begin_within]

36. It even has my name in it

At one point someone yells, "It's Bob Weaver's fault! Look, there's Bob Weaver! Get him!" or words to that effect. But I still haven't seen the episode yet, even though the video store right down the street carries the entire series.

[GalleryGod]

71. #1 Not even close,friends!

"there's always another Maple Street...and another, and another,and another...."

[krispos42]

78. Bingo

Although I haven't seen "To Serve Man" yet

[Liberal_in_LA]

79. The snarkiest ep EVER. hee hee

Here is shortened version. The full version is somewhere on the web.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WudBfRa0ETw&feature=PlayList&p=4736B64B4F8DBA47&playnext=1&index=16

[HiFructosePronSyrup]

7. The one were the guy from the Dirty Dozen....

had a failure to communicate with Sheriff Roscoe and Angel Eyes.

OK, it's not my favorite episode, but it is my favorite ensemble cast.

[Liberal_in_LA]

8. Need more info here.

[HiFructosePronSyrup]

12. RLY?

[Liberal_in_LA]

14. Was it the gunslinger episode where the angel gives him quickdraw powers?

[HiFructosePronSyrup]

16. No, "The Grave."

Lee Marvin is scared to death while visiting a grave.

Strother Martin
James Best
and Lee Van Cleef co-star.

[Liberal_in_LA]

30. I'm going to look that one up and watch it online

[Dr. Strange]

9. To Serve Man is the tops.

Although It's a Good Life is a close second.
And it's not Opie, it's Will Robinson: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Billy_Mumy (though he looks a lot like Opie in the episode)

[Liberal_in_LA]

13. Oh my gosh. You are right. I've been thinking "Opies" for decades.

They did a sequel to the "it's a good life" episode. Billy Mumy was an adult with a daughter. The daughter had "the power" and the two of them were terrorizing the town.

[Dr. Strange]

21. I so need to see that episode.

[alsame]

11. There was one about a strand of pearls that chokes the

women who wear it. I saw it when I was a kid and it scared the hell out of me - I wouldn't wear necklaces for months!

[SemiCharmedQuark]

17. Monsters Are Due on Maple Street. I LOVE Rod Serling.

Another great Hollywood Liberal.

[racaulk]

23. YES!!!

That was my all-time favorite episode as well! :)

[begin_within]

35. My friend keeps begging me to watch that episode, because

at one point someone yells, "It's Bob Weaver's fault! Look, there's Bob Weaver! Get him!" or words to that effect. But I still haven't seen the episode yet, even though the video store right down the street carries the entire series.

[sasquatch]

18. "I am the night color me black"

[bif]

19. The one my friend's uncle wrote

About the guy who's on a train and enters this town. No one is living there and everything is fake. Turns out he's an earthling and he's riding a miniature train set that some giant aliens have built.

[HiFructosePronSyrup]

22. You're confusing two episodes.

"Stop Over in a Quiet Town."

and

"A Stop at Willoughby."

Serling wrote the later, Earl Hamner Jr. wrote the former.

[bif]

27. Hmm...maybe you're right

I thought for sure that I recall a guy on a train that comes through town about once an hour.
after he checks out the town, he boards the train which circles around only to renter the same town. At the end I seem to remember hearing a voice saying something like, "Quit paying with the earthling and come to dinner."

[Liberal_in_LA]

28. There is one where a couple wakes up in an empty town... Turns out they are the playthings

for a little girl.

[bif]

61. Does anyone remember the name of that episode?

I'd love to track it down and see it again.

[Orsino]

24. "A Stop at Willoughby"

It probably isn't on many people's top-ten lists, but this one always struck me as being what TZ is all about: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Stop_at_Willoughby

[bikebloke]

25. Agnes Morehead fighting the aliens

I don't know the name of the episode.

[doc03]

54. That one is the most memorable to me n/t

[kaiden]

26. Little Girl Lost. She falls out of bed and into the 4th Dimension.

Her parents can hear her calling them, but they can't find her.

I was about 9 when I saw this and it FREAKED ME OUT!

[Liberal_in_LA]

29. That one's on youtube. Funny how the father just happened to have a theoretical physicist as a frie

friend

[kaiden]

37. I saw that recently on You Tube. Over-the-top acting!

[Liberal_in_LA]

80. yup. lol.

[Auggie]

69. Thanks for the tip

I've been wanting to see this for decades

[Liberal_in_LA]

81. enjoy!

[trackfan]

31. I like "The Trouble with Templeton"

where the old actor meets up with his dead wife and friend.

[Amerigo Vespucci]

32. ALL four, plus a couple of other key episodes...

1). "The Monsters Are Due On Maple Street" (the ultimate paranoia episode)

2). "A Kind Of Stopwatch" (this episode has a similar payoff to the Burgess Meridith glasses episode)

3). The Volume 24 DVD, which has 3 classics: "People Are Alike All Over" (Roddy McDowell, a definitive TZ episode), "Valley Of The Shadow" (Ed Nelson "trapped in a small town where people can reverse time"), and "Black Leather Jackets" (alien bikers!)...

:toast:

[deucemagnet]

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

...and it was Will Robinson, not Opie who wished people into the cornfield.

Careful, you know where a mistake like that can land you!

[Liberal_in_LA]

59. lol. Will Robinson and more recently guy on Babylon 5. long career he's had

[BeachBaby]

34. The one with the evil "Talking Tina" doll.

Telly Savalas as a disgruntled stepdad to a little girl with a talking doll, that wants to kill him.

[Rhythm]

39. Lyric and i were just talking about that one the other day...

She saw it when she was little, and it scared the heck out of her.

[BeachBaby]

41. Yeah, I inherited a "Chatty Cathy" doll that was my mom's

when she was little. It does talk, and the eyes blink.

It doesn't bother me, but my younger son completely freaks out when he sees it. :rofl:

I like your and oktoberain's new names - very nice! :hi:

[Liberal_in_LA]

60. "Rocky Squirrel" / 'Bewitchin Pool' voice did Chatty Cathy also.

[SemiCharmedQuark]

43. I'm talking Tina and you better be nice to me.

:scared:

[BeachBaby]

45. Yikes.

You've seen it a few times, it sounds like. :)

[SemiCharmedQuark]

46. !

[Fire Walk With Me]

66. I can't decide if that one is literal or a study of the ID.

Probably some of both. If it spoon-fed answers, it wouldn't be as memorable.

[rurallib]

40. "Night of the Meek" - Art Carney as Santa

I still remember when I first saw it.

[Doc_Technical]

42. "Nunber 12 looks just like you"

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Number_12_Looks_Just_Like_You

[Rabrrrrrr]

44. The one about Dachau, and second the Maple Street one

The Maple Street one was totally what Shrubbie's administration was all about.

The Dachau one I put at the top because of the final words:

A doctor examines the former SS Captain and asks, "Dachau. Why does it still stand? Why do we keep it standing?"

And Serling says:

"There is an answer to the doctor's question. All the Dachaus must remain standing. The Dachaus, the Belsens, the Buchenwalds, the Auschwitzes - all of them. They must remain standing because they are a monument to a moment in time when some men decided to turn the Earth into a graveyard. Into it they shoveled all of their reason, their logic, their knowledge, but worst of all, their conscience. And the moment we forget this, the moment we cease to be haunted by its remembrance, then we become the gravediggers. Something to dwell on and to remember, not only in the Twilight Zone but wherever men walk God's Earth.

[Iggo]

58. "Becker! I should've killed you when I had the..."

:scared:

[RagAss]

47. Next Stop Willoughby

[QueenOfCalifornia]

49. It isn't "Opie"

The role of the boy - Anthony, is played by Billy Mummy. The kid from Lost in Space. It's called "It's a Good Life" (A terrific episode)

I think I like "A Game of Pool" as one of my favorites - Jonathan Winters and Jack Klugman play a game of pool, the wager is Klugman's life. Winters' role is one of a dead Pool Hall Legend who comes from the dead to play the game of games. Of course, Klugman is over the top but the story line is most interesting.

[LibDemAlways]

50. I like "Eye of the Beholder" about the "ugly" shunned woman

who undergoes an operation to make her more beautiful. When I got a look at her doctors as a kid I ran out of the room screaming. A classic.

Another favorite of mine is from the Twilight Zone revival in the 70's. It starred Mare Winningham as a woman who receives a mysterious box containing a boatload of cash, but she is warned that if she opens it someone she doesn't know will die.

[nytemare]

53. I like that, and "He's Alive"

With a very young Dennis Hopper about a Nazi sympathizer.

Here is Serling's closing narrative:
"Where will he go next, this phantom from another time, this resurrected ghost of a previous nightmare - Chicago; Los Angeles; Miami, Florida; Vincennes, Indiana; Syracuse, New York? Anyplace, everyplace, where there's hate, where there's prejudice, where there's bigotry. He's alive. He's alive so long as these evils exist. Remember that when he comes to your town. Remember it when you hear his voice speaking out through others. Remember it when you hear a name called, a minority attacked, any blind, unreasoning assault on a people or any human being. He's alive because through these things we keep him alive."

[surrealAmerican]

51. How about the one in the retirement home ...

... where they all turn into children again by playing "kick the can".

[Orrex]

52. The one with Buster Keaton, with half the episode filmed as a silent movie

Saw it for the first time during the recent marathon on SciFi. Loved it!

[FloridaJudy]

55. "The Eye of the Beholder"

About the disfigured woman undergoing radical plastic surgery - all shown from her POV. That one had a very neat twist at the end, along with a rather preachy sixties-ish message about tolerating differences, but it impressed the hell out of me as a child.

This is the DU member formerly known as FloridaJudy

[pokerfan]

56. "It's a Good Life" with Bill Mumy

Very creepy and it was even good enough to be parodied by the Simpsons.

[Lucian]

57. Monsters are Due on Maple Street

[Swede]

62. No Time Like the Past . It was a great antiwar story.

Here is the best scene
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oKL-asLhaAo

Hanford: ... So what are your world views, Driscoll?
Paul Driscoll: ...I don't have any, Mr. Hanford.
Hanford: Of course you do, man. We ALL do! Like all this nonsense about giving the Indians land. What we need are twenty General Custers and a hundred thousand men! What we should have done is swept across the prairie, destroying every redskin that stood before us. After that, we should have planted the American flag deep, high and proud!
Abigail Sloan: I think the country is tired of fighting, Mr. Hanford. I think we were bled dry by the Indian Wars. I think anything we can accomplish peacefully, with treaties, we should accomplish that way.
Hanford: Now, I trust this isn't the path you spoon-feed your students. Treaties, indeed! Peace, indeed! Why, the virility of a nation is in direct proportion to its military prowess. I LIVE for the day when this country SWEEPS AWAY...

Hanford: ... You some kind of a pacifist, Driscoll?
Paul Driscoll: No, just some sick idiot who's seen too many boys die because of too many men who fight their battles at dining room tables... and who probably wouldn't last forty-five seconds in a REAL skirmish if they WERE thrust into it.
Paul Driscoll: ...I take offense at that remark, Mr. Driscoll!
Paul Driscoll: And I take offense at "armchair warriors," who don't know what a shrapnel, or a bullet, or a saber wound feels like... who've never smelled death after three days on an empty battlefield... who've never seen the look on a man's face when he realizes he's lost a limb or two, and his blood is seeping out. Mr. Hanford, you have a great affinity for "planting the flag deep." But you don't have a nodding acquaintance of what it's like for families to bury their sons in the same soil!

[Resuscitated Ethics]

63. Also the one where the Earth was moving closer to the sun

Fry an egg on the sidewalk. Too hot! Aaaa.
Awakened from the dream, to our relief, only to see the snow falling through the window. "It's been getting colder, they say we're moving further from the sun..."

I am a huge sucker for the 'things aren't as they seem' shockers the TZ traded in.

[Liberal_in_LA]

64. I remember that one!

[Kool Kitty]

68. That was a great episode.

One of my faves. A couple others that I really liked, but I don't remember the names: the silent movie star that never ages, because she has a scarab beetle that sucks the life out of men and she uses that to keep herself young (title may be "Queen of the Nile"?), the one where an execution is supposed to take place at sunrise-but the sun fails to rise (and Serling voice-over states that the sun has also failed to rise in a few different places that day-including southeast Asia), and another one that I do remember the name of: "The Incident at Owl Creek Bridge". What a grat series that was. Sometimes scared me silly.

[unsavedtrash]

67. Death's Head Revisited

and Time Enough at Last

[alphafemale]

70. That one where the young girl is chased by a shrieking old woman on a horse who turns out to be....

...well I won't give it away. But dang. That one rattles me to this day. :scared:

[Liberal_in_LA]

73. I saw that ep within the last year. The ending surprised me...not who SHE

turned out to be, but her her HUSBAND turned out to be. Those of you who have seen the ep know what I mean.

[alphafemale]

75. Do you remember the name of the episode? nt

[Liberal_in_LA]

76. 'spur of the moment'. All the eps plus summary listed here:

http://tzone.the-croc.com/twilight1.html

[Liberal_in_LA]

77. Here is the youtube link to watch the episode

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6DHVsBqJ4Qs&feature=related

[alphafemale]

86. ooooh...thank ye!

:hug:

[wartrace]

72. The Hunt.

http://www.cbs.com/classics/the_twilight_zone/video/video.php?cid=649562032&pid=1C83Z0a4Yv19oUM1Hzu7vclL7y0DcX4m&play=true

Old guy goes hunting with his dog, they end up dying find the gate to "heaven" only to be told his dog is not welcome.

[surrealAmerican]

74. I think my favorite is called "The After Hours".

It's the one with the department store mannequins, and the woman who wants to exchange a thimble.
There are so many great episodes.

[Jamastiene]

82. Thanks for making it easy.

The dude who broke his glasses is my personal favorite.

[frogmarch]

83. Not sure if it was a TZ episode, but

it's where a man is hanged from a bridge (I think during the Civil War). The rope apparently breaks, and he ends up in the rushing river, fighting hard to beat the current.

[Liberal_in_LA]

84. Yes, it's a TZ episode

[alphafemale]

85. "An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge"

There's a link here.

http://tesla.liketelevision.com/liketelevision/vip/alacartavail.php?theme=guide