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| vott does ziss do? Join Date: May 2003 Location: Seattle 
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			this is probably my favorite episode of all time. was just watching an episode of the Simpsons (Treehouse of Horror IV) in which Bart had his own little nightmare at five-and-a-half feet. I was thinking "hey, wasn't that Wil Shatner in the original T.Z. episode?" checked the faithful youtube and sure enough...   fun stuff 
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			I remember watching the original episodes as a kid (yeah, I'm that old!) and the hair would crawl on the back of my neck. Between Twilight Zone, Alfred Hitchcock, and Outer Limits, a kid could have a different nightmare every night of the week....  ah the good ol days.
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			Terry, I'm that old too and I wasn't allowed to watch those shows by my mother. Of course we had a very small house and the TV was in my room. My Dad was watching so he sorta looked the other way at my NOT looking the other way.  And I had nightmares but had to suffer quietly or I'd be found out! The episode I liked most isn't scary but it is thought provoking. It starred Gig Young as an overstressed, terribly unhappy executive who returns to his childhood small town and happens upon himself as a child. He tries to get his mother to know it is he - her son as an adult come back the the bossum of his youth where he knew happiness. Ultimately he gets good advice from his Dad who tells him, "this is his time (Gig Young's character as a child), not yours. The lesson is simple, You can't go home again but "home" exists for us all within." For a half hour, black and white show on a shoestring budget it was very well done. Ironically, Gig Young later committed suicide in a case of life imitating art. 
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|  10-25-2006, 09:23 PM | 
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			i always liked the episode with burgess merideth.....he's a bank teller who likes to read, so much that he was reading in the vault and nuclear war broke out and he was the only one left.... he gathered up all the books he could find which was his dream come true.........then he broke his glasses  and the one where the girl is dreaming ( but she doesn't know it) that it's super hot in the city because the sun is getting closer, then wakes up at the end only to find out the sun is moving away and she's freezing  and kick the can   
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			The one with a very young Robert Redford as the Angel of Death is also a great one.  The cheesy one with the last scene where the Martian and the Venusian in the diner in the rain storm always got to me. When the fry cook tilted back his cap to reveal the third eye in his forehead I about crapped my jammies! 
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 My favorite episode also Dan. I've been waiting for it's re-run on Sci-Fi. 
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			One of my favorites was the one where the guy is out hiking in the mountains somewhere in Europe in a terrible storm and looks for shelter in a castle with a religious order only to find they have captured Satan.
		 
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			Good ones: The one with Cliff Robertson coming into that roadside cafe in the middle of the desert. The one with a very young Elizabeth Montgomery (smokin hot) and Charles Bronson as survivors of a war in the future. To Serve Man William Shatner and that fortune teller machine. The mannequins getting to become real for a while What was the one where the lady is in bandages til the very end, only to find out the doctors are the disfigured ones 
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			All those classic episodes are permanently in my memory. I still watch occasionally on SciFi channel. I was about 7, and after watching the episode where the girl falls through the wall in her bedroom and they send the dog in after her, I slept on the far edge of the bed that night.... if I slept at all. Last edited by TerryH; 10-26-2006 at 07:55 AM.. | ||
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			I read a collection of the short stories by Richard Matheson who wrote alot of "Twilight Zone" episodes (also "Night Gallery") and one of the best and scariest was the one where Billy Mumy would "wish them to the cornfield". I also liked the one w/ Agnes Moorehead in the attic with the astronauts and spaceship.
		 
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			I remember an episode where a pilot takes off in a plane and never returns, sometime like twenty years later a friend goes to the site and the plane come in for a landing, he goes over to the plane and a skeleton is in the cockpit, strange. Only one I remember. | ||
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			i am not sure if it is thanksgiving or new years day, but i seem to recall sci fi channel has a 24 hour marathon of twilight zone episodes.  i liked the one with jack klugman shooting pool.also the one with ed wynn as an old time pitchman stalling the angel of death from taking a little girl. how about the one with andy devine as a terrific liar. they were all good. it would be a lot harder to remember an episode that i didn't like. Last edited by onlycafe; 10-26-2006 at 12:14 PM.. | ||
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			Not as old as some of the others here who watched the episodes when they originally aired, but my fav has to be Eye of the Beholder.   | ||
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			Oh man, I forgot about the Billy Mumy one. Truly great.  COuldn't agree more that Elizabeth Montgomery was too hot. Man, that woman would have been Angelina today!
		 
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			What was the one with the two gunfighters taking the potion?
		 
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			Bell the episode with Burgess Meredeth is one of my favorites too. "Time, timeI finally have time to read"  I have been taping the shows for a few years and only need about 20 more. They filmed 156 episodes. Cool thread. 
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|  10-26-2006, 12:12 PM | 
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			My favorite is "Changing of the Guard."  It is about an old school teacher who is being forced to retire to make way for new blood.  He becomes suicidal, but before he shoots himself a few of his former students reappear. Great episode, David 
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			My favorite: "King Nine Will Not Return". Robert Cummings plays a pilot of a B-25 that never came back from a mission in North Africa. Was he on the flight or not...? The episode aired not long after the Lady Be Good, a B-24, was found in the Lybian desert sixteen years after it was reported missing (a fascinating story all by itself)
		 
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			speaking of Burgess Meredith, my favorite episode with him was "Printer's Devil" in which he plaed a Mr. Smith, the devil homself, who helps a newspaper owner turn his ailing paper around for a price. classic Meredith
		 
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