[Bender2]

Can only agree with three... of Starr's picks:

"A Game of Pool" Jonathan Winters playing it straight and nailing it!

"Will the Real Martian Please Stand Up?" One of the best episodes ever chocked full of Jack Elam & other great character actors: Barney Phillips, John Archer & John Hoyt

and "The Monsters Are Due on Maple Street" Fear is greatest of what we think we know--

The rest of my favorites are as follows:

"The Old Man in the Cave" Very Early James Coburn & great character actor John Anderson

"Mr. Bevis" Orson, the OTHER Orson-- Orson Bean

"Cavender Is Coming" Early Carol Burnett & ace Character Jessee White!

"Mr. Denton on Doomsday" Dan Duryea, early Martin Landau & Doug McClure

"The Hunt" Anything with Arthur Hunnicutt is worth the look--

"The Last Rites of Jeff Myrtlebank" AND that goes double for anything with Sherry Jackson in it!

"King Nine Will Not Return" Robert Cummings in his natural element--

"Mr. Dingle, the Strong" The wonderful Burgess Meredith with two super character actors Douglas Spencer & Michael Fox as Martian #1 & #2

"The Odyssey of Flight 33" John Anderson again and another reason I don't like to fly--

"A Thing About Machines" One of my favorite character actors Richard Haydn battling machines. I often have the same problem--

"On Thursday We Leave for Home" Great twist ending with James Whitmore & Tim O'Connor in costume and spaceship from the classic 1950s Sci-Fi film Forbidden Planet

"Printer's Devil" Burgess Meredith again!

"Once Upon a Time" The immortal Buster Keaton! If that is not enough, toss in wonderful character actors Stanley Adams & Jesse White

"Time Enough at Last" Burgess Meredith in his best "Twilight Zone" performance--

"The Bard" Burt Reynolds doing Brando, what more can you ask for? Okay how's about excellent character actors Jack Weston, John Williams & John McGiver--

and all time best is "To Serve Man" The ultimate killer twist ending with Lloyd Bochner & a Pre-007 Jaws Richard Kiel!

[Autonomous User]

Bender. Your TZ pick are far superior to your FINO FOOTBALL IN NAME ONLY! j/k :)

Jake. Making A Stop at Willoughby.

[TruthWillWin]

To Serve Man should have made the top 10.

[ncalburt]

Inger Stevens in The Hitchhiker

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0734644/

Her voice over in this episode is very haunting.

[left that other site]

The Obsolete Man.

Another Burgess Meredith masterpiece.

[chris37]

The Obsolete Man > All.

[NCC-1701]

Personally, I like all of the Zones. Some are less attention getting than most but they all stand up on their own. I’ve got the entire set so I don’t waste time watching these marathons.

But, as an aside, I want to wish all FReepers a very happy and prosperous new year.

[cripplecreek]

“The Obsolete man” and “The Hunt” are my favorites.

https://vimeo.com/15365268

[Ruy Dias de Bivar]

“In His Image” gave my wife’s nephew nightmares for months.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/In_His_Image

[raybbr]

Terror at any elevation...

[BlueLancer]

"Time Enough At Last" was always my favorite, probably because I am an extremely .. extremely .. avid reader and my eyesight is only slightly better than that of Burgess Meredith in the show.

It's not fair! It's just not fair!!

[MayflowerMadam]

Yes; “Time Enough At Last” with Burgess Meredith. Loved that one.

[WonkyTonky]

My favorites are, in no particular order:

Walking Distance
The Lonely
Time enough at Last
Third from the Sun
The Fever
People are Alike all Over
A stop at Willoughby
The after Hours
A world of his own
King Nine will not return
The Howling Man
Eye of the Beholder
Nick of Time
A most Unusual Camera
The Odyssey of Flight 33
The Obsolete Man
It’s a Good Life, this is the “cornfield” episode
To Serve Man
The Trade Ins
Death Ship
On Thursday we leave for home
NIghtmare at 20,000 Feet
You Drive
Number 12 looks just like you
The Masks
The Jeopardy Room

Most are from season one and two, TZ was truly great TV

[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?

[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."

[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.

[Impy]

It’s a cookbook!

[Vaquero]

Stanley Adams (under the Nom De Guerre Cyrano Jones) went from wearing flux capacitor helmets with sparklers to selling tribbles on Deep Space Station K7 where said tribbles ate all the quadrotriticale. Trelane then was a human looking Klingon (they don’t like to discuss it). And patty Dukes father was a d!chead administrator of said grain.

And Scotty gave them all to the Klingons. Where they’ll be no tribble at all.

[Tanniker Smith]

I have a timer set for An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge, which I’ve only seen in Flim Class in college, and for the Zgeorge Takei episode, which I don’t think I’ve ever seen.Shatner, Nimoy and Doohan, sure nut not Takei.