I've always loved the classic show. Some of the writing, plots, and characters blow me away sometimes. You don't see quality like this on network TV much anymore.

There are a lot of episodes I like, but here's a few that stick out:

Time Enough At Last - the guy who survives doomsday and finds all the books he can read.

The Monsters Are Due on Maple Street - where the neighbors on a street turn on each other when they suspect they're aliens.

The Eye of the Beholder - great twist on this one.

A Game of Pool - great dialogue in this one.

To Serve Man - another great one with a twist. Simpsons did a parody off of this episode in one of their early Treehouse of Horror episodes.

That's all I can think of right now....what are y'alls favorites?

Nightmare at 20,000 feet - my uncle wouldn't let me watch this growing up during a Twilight Zone marathon. We had watched everyone up until that point.

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i had gotten spoiled on that episode...the first version of that one i saw was the remake with john lithgow, where the creature on the plan was actually pretty scary (i was pretty young when i watched this one)....scared THE CRAP out of me

after seeing this, then much later on when i was older seeing the original with william shatner, i couldn't take it seriously...

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"There's some…THING on the wing!"

The Nightmare at 20,000 feet episode always reminds me of an episode of 3rd Rock From the Sun back in the 90's.

Lithgow is on a plane with The Big Giant Head, played by Shatner. Lithgow is scared of being on a plane and looks out the window and says "There's something on the wing!" Then Shatner goes "I see it too!"

3rd Rock was pretty dumb, but I thought that was a cool thing they threw in there.

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Simpsons did a parody off of this episode in one of their early Treehouse of Horror episodes.

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They also did Nightmare at 20,000 feet, where Bart's the only one who can see a gremlin tearing the bus apart on the way to school.

There's one where a man captures the devil in a jail cell. The devil disguised himself as a pitiful old man, so the guard freed him. Scared the hell outta me as a kid.

there's one where a polaroid camera took a picture of the future

Time Enough At Last was the first one I thought of.

The Shelter (maybe not the title of it) but it's the one where they make fun of a guy with a bomb shelter for his family - until the bombs are about to hit. Then they're willing to kill each other to use it. I think Grandpa Joe from the original Willie Wonka was in it.

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The Shelter (maybe not the title of it) but it's the one where they make fun of a guy with a bomb shelter for his family - until the bombs are about to hit. Then they're willing to kill each other to use it. I think Grandpa Joe from the original Willie Wonka was in it.

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i remember watching that one! it was such a long time ago i couldnt even remember if it was a twilight zone episode or not....another great one!

Jerry: "It's like that Twilight Zone where the guy wakes up, and he's the same - but everyone else is different!"

Kramer: "Which one?"

Jerry: "Oh, they were all like that!"

"I'll wish you into the cornfield"...hands down, even though the writers had to water the story down considerably from its source, the famed short story by Jerome Bixby. I first read it when I was about 12 or 13 and it is not for the faint of heart.

BTW, Bixby's story (It's a Good Life!) can be read in its entirety here:

http://nickelkid.net/docs/greats/its_a_good_life.html

The one where the mean dad is attacked by his daughter's doll was creepy. What's fun about watching TZ is seeing all the stars who were just getting started. Robert Redford as "Death", Robert Duvall falling in love with a museum doll, and so on.

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That episode is called The Howling Man. It is a great one, with a very chilling ending.

There are two DVDs of "Treasures" of the Twilight Zzone that have some of the lesser known classics on them. One is the Masks. Great episode. Another is An Occurrence at Owl Creek BridgeN which won a prize at the Cannes Film Festival. Its on youtube.

One of my favorites though is It's a Good Life, from a Jerome Bixby short story. The Simpsons parodied that one, too.

A few more good ones with great twists are Third from the Sun and the Invaders.

I cant remember the names of them all, but here are a few good ones...my favorites have a * by them.

Nightmare at 20,000*, Penny for your Thoughts, The Hunt*, Long Distance Call*, Twenty Two (room for one more honey), The Trade Ins, The Mirror, The Lonely, Nothing in the Dark, Little Girl Lost...

How do y'all feel about some of the remakes?

I know there was a "movie" made that was just some of the classic episodes re-done...it had:

The one about the guy who made fun of different people in a bar (black guy, vietnam vet), and then had to re-live all the pain and suffering they went to.

The one about the boy who could wish for anything to happen.

The one about the monster on the side of the plance.

And I think there was another one that I can't remember....

Anyways...what were y'alls thoughts on those? I personally didn't care for the episode with the kid who wish for anything, but liked the other 2.

I'm amazed that hollywood hasn't tried to cash in on this series. Not to say that I want them to. I'm convinced anyone associated with the script in a Twilight Zone movie not named Rod Serling would completely screw it up.

Think they'll ever make a movie about it?

one of my favorite shows of all time...so I've got a huge list of favorite episodes...in addition to all the ones listed, I'm picking these out...

"The Lonely" - An inmate (Jack Warden) sentenced to solitary confinement on a desert planet is given a gift by a sympathetic supply-ship captain.

"I Shot an Arrow Into the Air" - A manned space flight crash lands on what the astronauts believe to be an unknown asteroid.

"The Monsters Are Due on Maple Street" - At the sound of the roar and the flash of light, neighbors whose contact with the outside world is mysteriously cut off begin to suspect each other of being aliens.

"The Night of the Meek" - A drunk, out-of-work department store Santa (Art Carney) finds a magical sack that can create Christmas presents and soon becomes the real Santa Claus.

"Will the Real Martian Please Stand Up" - A group of bus travelers find that there is an extra person when they stop at a diner.

"The Obsolete Man" - In a future totalitarian society where books have been banned, librarian Romney Wordsworth (Burgess Meredith) is put on trial for the crime of being obsolete.

"Two" - A man (Charles Bronson) and a woman (Elizabeth Montgomery), survivors from opposite armies of an apocalyptic world war, meet in a deserted, war-ravaged town.

"Deaths-Head Revisited" - A sadistic former captain in the S.S. (Oscar Beregi, Jr.) returns to the ruins of Dachau concentration camp after the end of World War II and meets someone unexpected.

"The Midnight Sun" - A woman (Lois Nettleton) tries to survive as the Earth hurtles toward the Sun.

"Five Characters in Search of an Exit" - An Army major in dress uniform (William Windom), a clown, a hobo, a ballet dancer (Susan Harrison) and a bagpiper find themselves in a giant cylinder with no memory of who they are or how they got there.

"Steel" - At a time when human boxing is outlawed, a manager (Lee Marvin) takes the place of his broken robot fighter.

"I Am the Night -- Color Me Black" - The sun does not rise on the execution day of a man (Terry Becker) who was wrongly accused.

and of course, "To Serve Man"

Ahh forgot about "Two!" Very good episode. I also liked "The After Hours."

He reminds me of Ray Bradbury.

What about ‘Night Gallery’ hosted by Rod Serling from 70 to 73. Both of these series were good, but I liked Night Gallery better.

The Cemetery
The Escape Route
The Lone Survivor
A Death In The Family
and many many more

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The Shelter (maybe not the title of it) but it's the one where they make fun of a guy with a bomb shelter for his family - until the bombs are about to hit. Then they're willing to kill each other to use it.

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The Simpsons did this one, where Flanders had built the shelter.

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The one where the mean dad is attacked by his daughter's doll was creepy.

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And this one, where the Krusty doll tried to kill Homer.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zcKoKOhrLfg

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The one about the guy who made fun of different people in a bar (black guy, vietnam vet), and then had to re-live all the pain and suffering they went to.

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That segment of the movie actually resulted in the death of Vic Morrow and two of the child actors in the movie. The stunt scene where the helicopter crashes went badly wrong.

Morrow was actually talking before the scene filmed that he couldn't believe he'd let them talk him in to doing the scene.

I like the "Monster" one.............the guys head on the Jack in the Box with the music cracked me up.

The one where the pig faced people are normal

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one of my favorite shows of all time...so I've got a huge list of favorite episodes...in addition to all the ones listed, I'm picking these out...

"The Lonely" - An inmate (Jack Warden) sentenced to solitary confinement on a desert planet is given a gift by a sympathetic supply-ship captain.

"I Shot an Arrow Into the Air" - A manned space flight crash lands on what the astronauts believe to be an unknown asteroid.

"The Monsters Are Due on Maple Street" - At the sound of the roar and the flash of light, neighbors whose contact with the outside world is mysteriously cut off begin to suspect each other of being aliens.

"The Night of the Meek" - A drunk, out-of-work department store Santa (Art Carney) finds a magical sack that can create Christmas presents and soon becomes the real Santa Claus.

"Will the Real Martian Please Stand Up" - A group of bus travelers find that there is an extra person when they stop at a diner.

"The Obsolete Man" - In a future totalitarian society where books have been banned, librarian Romney Wordsworth (Burgess Meredith) is put on trial for the crime of being obsolete.

"Two" - A man (Charles Bronson) and a woman (Elizabeth Montgomery), survivors from opposite armies of an apocalyptic world war, meet in a deserted, war-ravaged town.

"Deaths-Head Revisited" - A sadistic former captain in the S.S. (Oscar Beregi, Jr.) returns to the ruins of Dachau concentration camp after the end of World War II and meets someone unexpected.

"The Midnight Sun" - A woman (Lois Nettleton) tries to survive as the Earth hurtles toward the Sun.

"Five Characters in Search of an Exit" - An Army major in dress uniform (William Windom), a clown, a hobo, a ballet dancer (Susan Harrison) and a bagpiper find themselves in a giant cylinder with no memory of who they are or how they got there.

"Steel" - At a time when human boxing is outlawed, a manager (Lee Marvin) takes the place of his broken robot fighter.

"I Am the Night -- Color Me Black" - The sun does not rise on the execution day of a man (Terry Becker) who was wrongly accused.

and of course, "To Serve Man"

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Saw someone had TT'd this thread and came here to post this exact episode. Holy crap this might be my all-time favorite saw it long after I made this post.

That was hands down one of the strongest most emotional episodes of this whole series…and the ending narration is absolute perfect writing!

It's funny, I love the twilight zone and as I was looking through this thread and seeing new responses i started from the bottom up and i saw my list and was like oh dang these are all good episodes....my top episodes might change in ranking but Death's Head Revisited always winds up top 3 for me.

And just because it blew my mind (maybe I posted this in the past but idk/idc) when I saw this episode as an adult.. here's Anthrax sampling part of that episode for my personal favorite track 1&2, side 2, "Intro to Reality/Belly of the Beast"

This show and Black Mirror will both send you into an existential crisis for a few days.

Very few other shows can say that.

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The Shelter (maybe not the title of it) but it's the one where they make fun of a guy with a bomb shelter for his family - until the bombs are about to hit. Then they're willing to kill each other to use it.

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The Simpsons did this one, where Flanders had built the shelter.

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The one where the mean dad is attacked by his daughter's doll was creepy.

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And this one, where the Krusty doll tried to kill Homer.

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A lot of the Simpsons Halloween stories were pulled from Twilight Zones or at least used parts of them.

Absolutely love Twilight Zone. My daughter is a huge fan too because she grew up watching the marathons with me. Her favorite episode is "Midnight Sun". Mine is "A Stop at Willoughby"

"Nothing in the Dark" doesn't get mentioned much but it's an oddly comforting episode where Robert Redford's character pays a visit to a reclusive elderly lady. Redford's character is actually Death disguised as an injured policeman.

Saw one the other day I hadn't ever seen... Probe 7 Over and Out. Really entertaining. Crash landed astronaut on a strange planet. He's in dire shape. Broken bones/injured. He is getting messages from home but they are about to go through a nuclear war. Eventually transmissions end and he knows his world is destroyed. Encounters a woman on his new planet and they go about learning from each other and starting a civilization.