The 10 best ‘Twilight Zone’ episodes (SyFy Twilight Zone Marathon all day)

NY Post ^ | 12=31-2015 | Michael Starr

[Bender2]

The 10 best "Twilight Zone" episodes

by Michael Starr

"A Game of Pool" (Originally aired Oct. 13, 1961)
"The Monsters Are Due on Maple Street” (Originally aired March 4, 1960)
"It's a Good Life" (Originally aired Nov. 3, 1961)
"Nightmare at 20,000 Feet" (Originally aired Oct. 11, 1963)
"The Fever" (Originally aired Jan. 29, 1960)
"Living Doll" (Originally aired Nov. 1, 1963)
"Twenty Two" (Originally aired Feb. 10, 1961)
"And When the Sky Was Opened" (Originally aired Dec. 11, 1959)
"Will the Real Martian Please Stand Up?" (Originally aired May 26, 1961)
"A Piano in the House" (Originally aired Feb. 16, 1962)

[golux]

Cool! Thanks, FRiends! I’m on it...

[mware]

Yes it was Telly.

My talking dollie was the one that scared them the most. Her name was Chatty Kathy

[windsorknot]

And "Two" with Bronson/Montgomery.

One of my faves with a very hawt Montgomery.

[Marcella]

Thank you for posting this thread. I have a terrible cold and my throat is really hurting and I have fever and chills. When I saw this thread at about 3:00 pm central time, I had something to watch while lying on the couch with two blankets on me, drinking hot drinks and using Cepacol throat drops to help deaden the throat pain.

When this series was on years ago, I never missed one unless it was absolutely necessary. Watching these is making a miserable cold more bearable.

You did not know you would be such a help to me. Put on your angel wings, okay?

[trisham]

Take care of yourself, friend.

[AU72]

Inger Stevens in The Hitchhiker

I had a 12 year old's crush on her then. Actually still do.

[ExNewsExSpook]

I was up early this morning to put a pork roast in my smoker (turned out great). Came back in and tuned into the Twilight Zone marathon just in time to see “The Shelter,” one of my favorite episodes.

Most of you know the plot. A group of neighbors have gathered for a birthday party honoring a doctor in the community. The party is interrupted by news that enemy missiles may be heading for the U.S. The party breaks up as the neighbors scramble to prepare for Armageddon.

The doctor and his family are prepared, having built a bomb shelter in a corner of their basement. His neighbors are less prepared and that realization prompts them to return to the physician’s home and beg for admittance to his shelter. The doctor refuses, since he only has enough food and water for himself, his wife and his son.

Desperate, the neighbors use a battering ram to knock down the door of the bomb shelter—just as the local CONELRAD station announces it is a false alarm. The “missiles” are actually satellites and there is no threat. The neighbors must now try to live together, having displayed their most selfish and violent behavior.

Terrific cast of relatively unknown actors, with the exception of Jack Albertson. Like most Twilight Zone episodes, it was written by Rod Serling. The director was Lamont Johnson, who helmed a number of Twilight Zone episodes during the the show’s third season.

[SES1066]

Given the time of year that this is, I cannot believe that there is no mention (unless I missed it) of the Christmas themed "Night of the Meek" starring the great Art Carney. Intro; "This is Mr. Henry Corwin, normally unemployed, who once a year takes the lead role in the uniquely popular American institution, that of the department-store Santa Claus in a road-company version of 'The Night Before Christmas'. But in just a moment Mr. Henry Corwin, ersatz Santa Claus, will enter a strange kind of North Pole which is one part the wondrous spirit of Christmas and one part the magic that can only be found... in the Twilight Zone."

[Fungi]

Link does not work but that is OK.

[NFHale]

Those were damn good shows. Twilight Zone and Outer Limits... loved them.

I was a kid, and saw them mostly as reruns, Also enjoyed Rod’s Night Gallery series as well.

Good stuff from a better time.

[SevenofNine]

OH MAN I hate holiday cold and flu with PASSION LOL!

I have bad case of flu when Twilgiht Zone was on New year eve and day on Sci fi channel couple years ago I was binging watch that

Also when Antenna tv first got launch on KTLA 5.2 here in LA market couple years ago

[Karl Spooner]

Very sad thing that happened to her. She tried to leave early - even before the Hitchhiker aired.

http://boatagainstthecurrent.blogspot.com/2010/01/this-day-in-television-history-inger.html

[Marcella]

“OH MAN I hate holiday cold and flu with PASSION LOL! I have bad case of flu when Twilgiht Zone was on New year eve and day on Sci fi channel couple years ago I was binging watch that”

That is what I am doing. Got out my little Acer Chrombook computer I take on trips, and it weighs almost nothing and have that on my lap on couch to read and post while watching Twilight Zone episodes. I get hot and cold and am now in the cold mode so have on warm robe with blanket on me.

Being sick on New Year's Eve was the pits for me just as it was for you. Hope I feel better tomorrow and glad you are not sick this year at this time.

[Salamander]

Remember the TOL ep with the Martian “sand monsters”?

I saw that in the middle of a winter storm and was terrified of the “flawless, sparkly snow” in our front yard, [especially when illuminated by the dusk to dawn light] that looked exactly like that deceptively calm sand *for weeks*.

Should not let little kids watch that show.

LOL

[Salamander]

I do NOT watch that episode.

Ever.

[Salamander]

That must have been before you could buy reading glasses at the Dollar Store.

:)

[dfwgator]

Desperate, the neighbors use a battering ram to knock down the door of the bomb shelter—just as the local CONELRAD station announces it is a false alarm. The “missiles” are actually satellites and there is no threat. The neighbors must now try to live together, having displayed their most selfish and violent behavior.

A very realistic and frightening view of the dark side of human nature.

[DAC21]

No love for “Kick the Can” The epi taking place in the “old folks home” It has made other list as a top 10 epi.

[dfwgator]

I thought the “Hocus-Pocus and Frisby” episode, with Andy Devine, was hillarious.

[Bender2]

Re: Watching these is making a miserable cold more bearable. You did not know you would be such a help to me. Put on your angel wings, okay?

Well, happy... to help--