Whats your fave Twilight Zone episode?
 

Todds "cornfield" thread got me thinking about the Zone.

My fave was the episode where the old lady keeps getting phone calls all through the night , first its static, than someone comes on and says he wants to see her. She keeps hanging up on him. She calls the phone company. They come out and check her line they tell her its impossible for her to get calls, because her line went down in the storm.
She takes a ride with them to see the proof . It turns out the phone cable went down in a cemetery and was laying across her dead husbands grave.

That creeped me out big time!

One of my favs was the one where Burgess Meredith was a bank teller (with coke bottle glasses) who loved to read and everyone bothered him about it. He was a bank teller who would sneak down to the vault to read during lunch. One day there is a "nucular" explosion and destroys everything around except his vault that he is in. He comes out and starts stocking up his books. He is in hog heaven because now he has time enough to read all of these books he is gathering up around him. Then he drops his glasses and they break and he is blind as a bat. The show ends with him muttering over and over, "thats not fair..."

"To Serve Man" , kinda like modern times :)

Its a cook book!

Jay

"two" starring Charles Bronson and Elizabeth Montgomery. There was also one I like with some crazy lady and tiny aliens in her attic. She ends up bashing the spaceship and the aliens turned out to be US astronauts!!!!

the episode in which the guy( i think william shatner) is on a plane minding his own biz on a night flight when he looks out his window and this "creature" is on the wing. this goes on umpteen times and totally discombodulates the guy looking out the window.


saw that as a kid and every damn time i get on a flight i think about that.

This is why my mom and dad didn't let me watch it when it was new. :eek:

Rod Serling was brilliant, in my humble . . .

Boy, did he get some future big stars, though, Charles Bronson, Rob't Redford, . . .

"King 9 Will Not Return" Robert Cummings is an Air Force pilot who wakes up in the Libyan desert next to his crashed B-25. Inspired by the true story of a B-24 bomber 'Lady be Good' found in the Libyan desert 16 years after the crash with no trace of the crew.

How about the one I feel I should be waking up from any moment?

The one that starts out with the guy at the diner in the middle of nowhere. He's alone and hunched over his coffee, wearing a flannel shirt, minding his own business.

That one is great.

The one with the ventriliquist act--the dummy was 'alive'--and at the end the dummy and guy switched faces--creepy as hell.

Don't know the episode name but starts out with an old hillbilly coming home from coon hunting to his wife at the cabin. She won't let his dog come in. They stand at the door arguing about his dog.

Later, they go coon hunting and the dogs starts to drown in the water fighting a coon; the old guy dives in to save him. They wake up (late) the next morning beside the creek ........................you guessed it.........they're both really dead but don't know it.

I liked the Burgess Meredith one, too. The one I liked best as a kid was the one with the Army Tankers out on maneuvers and they come across Custer's Last Stand. In the end they charge over the hill to help out. Not PC these days, but I thought that was cool.

All of them...really.

"Two" is a good one. Elizabeth Montgomery was HOT back in the day.

I always liked the one with Cliff Robertson as the ventriloquist

From the new Twilight Zone:

"Shelter Skelter" (from Wikipedia)

Harry Dobbs is a family man obsessed with surviving a nuclear war. He has even built himself a fallout shelter in his basement. One afternoon, his wife, Sally, makes plans to visit her sister in Kansas City, taking their two kids with her. Harry has their son, Jason, downstairs in the shelter, teaching him to shoot a gun when she wants to leave. They have an argument over teaching a seven-year-old to shoot and why she has to go to her sister's. He becomes frantic when he thinks Sally might've revealed their "family" shelter. He wants no one to know about it.

Nick, who runs Harry's gun and ammo store, comes by that evening. He talks about the escalating tension in the Middle East, that it could lead to nuclear war. They learn by the news that the president has left the White House to an undisclosed location. Harry then talks about how he wishes the bomb would come, so the world could be rid of pimps, cowards, rock stars, hair-dressers, bureaucrats, i.e. scum, in his eyes. He talks of how he and his son would start over in a "purified" world (somehow, leaving out his wife and daughter). While drunk, Harry blabs about his "family-only" shelter to Nick and shows him the whole operation, all the while talking of how "no one knows about it". On the news, Harry and Nick learn that World War III could be imminent. Harry frantically tries to get Sally to come home, but she refuses saying that Harry "cries wolf" far too often. Suddenly, without warning, a blast takes place and Harry runs back to the shelter with Nick and shuts the door. Believing that a nuclear weapon has hit the local air force base and that World War III has begun, Harry and Nick believe they are the only ones left.

Six weeks later, Nick hears something moving above. Harry believes it's the walking dead or scavangers. Harry goes ballistic when Nick tries to get whatever is moving above to come down there. After ten months, the radiation hasn't gone down at all. And Nick is going stir crazy. Harry decides to kill him, but Nick leaves the shelter. After a while, Nick returns to tell Harry of what it's like outside. Everything is gone, there is no more daylight and it's freezing outside. Harry refuses to let Nick back in, afraid he'll contaminate him. Soon, Harry sits in the red lit shelter, waiting. Outside the shelter is Nick's decaying body. Through ash and darkness, light is finally seen.

Outside, however, things are quite different. World War III has not in fact happened. The nuclear blast was an accident at the Air Force base, destroying the entire town, with the incident bringing a shocked world back from the brink of nuclear war. Now, one year later, the blast crater has been contained under a radiation proof dome memorial, known as the Peace Dome, which has sealed inside it all of the debris and radiation and proved to the world the folly of war. The memorial was built right on top of the Dobbs house, with Sally and the kids putting flowers down on the memorial. Jason asks Sally if that's where his daddy is buried. She says yes, and then smiles...

So many great TZ episodes...hard to pick a single favorite. All those mentioned above would make my list for sure. I always enjoyed the ones where time travel figured in the story. Like the Army tank crew out on maneuvers who find themselves back in time witnessing Custer's Last Stand. After much deliberation about changing history, they charge into the battle with their modern weapons as the episode ends.
Another favorite centers around a group of thieves who steal a fortune in gold and then place themselves in hibernation deep inside a desert cave. They awake far in the future and greed drives one to kill his partners and carry off as much gold as he can. Thirst and exhaustion cause him to gradually toss the gold away a bar at a time. In the end he dies a miserable death and we discover that it was all for naught...gold is now worthless.

A stop at Willoughby......love the conductor- "Next stop Willoughby". Every time I drive through there my family rolls their eyes and still have no idea what I'm talking about.

WOW! Initially I would have said the episode with Meredith being the over-read bank teller. And in fact I still think that's probably the best episode. But I'd forgotton about Agness Moorehead being the giant lady who had the run in with the US flying saucer. Amazingly, I had never seen that episode until maybe 3 months ago. And in third place, how can you not just love a young Elizabeth Montgomery. I bet she would have won a prize in either the 'Chest Thread' or the 'Panty Thread'.

This might have been my favorite too. This one or the one where the guy who hated everyone became the jew in nazi occupied europe and the SS officers where taking pot shots at him while he was on a window ledge.

One of my favorite TV series of all time.

I like ALL of the ones mentioned above.

In addition, the one where the earth is out of orbit and is slowly going closer to the sun, getting hotter and hotter. I thought that was one of the most well made TZ's ever.

Also, the one where the gold thieves seal themselves in a cave with the gold, in chambers where they hibernate for 100 years (figuring the heat will be off them by then), then emerge 100 years later. Lots of interesting thoughts about human nature in that one.