[fwdude]

Loved this episode. And I loved the not subtle references in the names Scout and Jeb.

[BipolarBob]

I remember this one well.

[E. Pluribus Unum]

Not sure it’s a happy ending.

Peter Pan is not the happy story we all thought it was.

It was written by a guy who worked at a children’s hospital and saw many children die.

Neverland was where there souls went after they died.

Tinkerbell would come to take them to Neverland so they wouldn’t be frightened.

[GSWarrior]

Watching all of TZ for the first time. Just about done with season 1

[cuban leaf]

That one is my absolute favorite episode.

[Dr. Sivana]

Great show, and gave a starring part to a lot of new comer actors. Everyone knows Shatner, but Peter Falk played a VERY convincing Fidel Castro wannabe, and Robert Redford was perfectly cast as Mr. Death.

[Robert DeLong]

FWIW, the consensus seems to indicate there were 156 episodes Duration October 2, 1959 – June 19, 1964:

The episode highlighted in this article is episode 156.

Season 1: 36 episodes
Season 2: 29 episodes
Season 3: 37 episodes
Season 4: 18 episodes
Season 5: 36 episodes

IMDB: Twilight Zones episodes list

Wikipedia; Twilight Zone

Also there were three iterations of Twilight Zones after the original:

The Twilight Zone (1985–89)
The Twilight Zone (2002–03)
The Twilight Zone (2019–20)

[Danie_2023]

I vaguely recall an episode about a totalitarian regime where an incompetent vegetable male was being ‘presented’ as the supreme leader of the nation by the nefarious real leaders .. but I can’t remember the name of the episode or even if it was the Twilight Zone, Outer Limits, or some other SciFi show.

I keep thinking how ironic it is... that way back then (decades ago)... they had a writer writing about a scenario that we seem to be going through today with Biden, the dementia-patient puppet and Obama, the puppet-master... and all the while the current regime pretending and presenting the brain-addled ‘supreme leader’ as the one really in charge. Life imitates art... or just prophetic writing?

[logi_cal869]

All 5 seasons on Paramount.

Watching this one now (haven’t seen it or most of the others; now on my list).

I had no idea that they made 156 episodes in those 5 seasons...MANY still to see for me.

[daniel1212]

The problem with a world in which abuse of the gifts of God in disobedience to His word - which the constant, warring, discouraging snipping by parents is - always quickly becomes rectified by a home of perfect or better parents/government, is that it avoids the issue of the freedom of the delivered to become like the parents they escaped from.

If the straw-hatted boy is a type of savior, and the fantasy world is to represent Heaven, then the premise is that no child should endure, learn and overcome from faulty parents, but that physical deliverance from such should always quickly take place.

And by extension, that the negative effects of wrong choices by men should never be allowed have an extended effect, and a purpose that history can and eternity will reveal.

As it is, this TZ episode could be used by socialists to support a norm of children being raised by the state if parents are judged to be somehow unfit.

[AnotherUnixGeek]

Loved this episode.

What I remember most about that episode is that the little girl Sport sounded like anything but a little girl. As the article details, sound problems meant the show had to be overdubbed, and Sport's voice was delivered by the grown woman who played Rocky the Flying Squirrel. It was distracting enough to be all I really remember about the episode.

[Robert DeLong]

The episode that really sticks out in my mind was the guy who loved to read, but couldn't enjoy it enough because of work. He wakes up one morning to the realization that he was the only remaining human on earth. He was overjoyed at this development. So he goes to the library and helps himself to several books. At some point in time he somehow steps on his glasses, and his nirvana evaporates to his horror. M

Then there was the episode where a plastic surgeon doctor and his nurse are treating a very disfigured woman, and contemplating if they can possible fix the disfigurement as it was so severe. We are unable to see any of these three people other than their bodies. Then it comes time to remove her bandages only to react in horror as she is even more disfigured after the surgery and recovery then before they had done the surgery. The camera than pans up to her face and she is a good looking woman, and then the camera pans across the faces of the doctor & the nurse and they are gruesome. I think it was called: Beauty in the eyes of the beholder.