Best Twilight Zone Episode of ALL TIME?

[drewson99]

i vaguely remember one where three things kept happening in succession, a glass breaking, a bell, then something else.

something happened in a morgue, and it ends with the main char at the airport and she hears the first two noises, so she panicks and doesn't get on the plane. then the plane crashed as it is taking off.

[cartamy]

Bus crashes, all the passengers are herded into a diner to wait until they can be picked up. Somehow it's determined that one of the passengers has to be an alien. Everyone turns against each other claiming everyone else is the alien, including the cook from the diner. The last scene is great where the passenger (Martian) comes back in after killing all the survivors from the first crash and reveals his 3rd and 4th arms to the cook. So the cook (Venetian) reveals his 3rd eye and tells the Martian how his "boys" have just killed all the other Martians.

[NightWing]

To me the reasons why these eps are so good was quality writting, production and esp acting.

Look at the stars that played the characters were super experence in a hughe number of plays and movies and TV of that time. For example Agnes Moorhead was one of the orginal Mercury Player group of Orson Wells. And one of my faviors character actors Burgess Meredith playes many outstanding character in TZ and other shows. Yes the guy that played the Penguin in the Batman series and Search from the early 70's.

Like the "The Invaders" with Agnes Moorhead. Yes the little space men one.

Any one remember "The Eye of the Beholder"? I think they redid it last Wed.

The problem with the TZ is there are so many good epsodes it hard to pick the best since the bulk are the best!

[MichaelLAX]

"Perchance to Dream": Richard Conte comes sweating into a psychatrist's office where after resting for a moment on his couch tells a tale about his serial dreaming about "Maya, the Cat Lady" who is trying (in the dream) to get him to ride the roller coaster with her at the carnival where she performs. Unfortunately, he has a bum ticker and (due to a past history, more fully developed in the episode) the shock of the roller coaster ride, even in his dream, will be enough for his last, great heart attack.

The rub: he has been taking uppers to keep from falling asleep, and they will most surely cause his heart to pop eventually as well. What to do....????

See the episode to find out...

[Hardcoreruss]

I would have to agree with Lazyboy, the one where the old man distracts the reaper so the kid can live. Quality

[Timoleon]

"Perchance to Dream": Richard Conte comes sweating into a psychatrist's office where after resting for a moment on his couch tells a tale about his serial dreaming about "Maya, the Cat Lady" who is trying (in the dream) to get him to ride the roller coaster with her at the carnival where she performs. Unfortunately, he has a bum ticker and (due to a past history, more fully developed in the episode) the shock of the roller coaster ride, even in his dream, will be enough for his last, great heart attack.

The rub: he has been taking uppers to keep from falling asleep, and they will most surely cause his heart to pop eventually as well. What to do....????

See the episode to find out...

I had forgotten about this one! I remember as a kid it scared the everloving sh*t out of me --- I was afraid to sleep for a week

The great thing about Twilight Zone and The Outer Limits has always been a combination of great writing and great acting, with bonafide stars anxious to do something that will stretch them a bit. Compare this to the absolutely worthless writing and acting you see on most current network fare, and you'll see what I mean

[MichaelLAX]

The great thing about Twilight Zone and The Outer Limits has always been a combination of great writing and great acting, with bonafide stars anxious to do something that will stretch them a bit.

I recently had the occasion to visit old, dear friends up in Mendocino, and one of them wrote the "Second Chance" episode of "Outer Limits." She changed her screen name to "Lin Dane" (an anti-weed poison) after the producers rewrote her script (which she says paled by comparison).

Anyway I called the Writers Guild on her behalf, because she has not received residuals for years, and actually got her a small check (every bit helps when you are retired), and put the Guild on notice that MGM/UA has released them on DVD (accounting are due 90 days after release).

I told this story to another friend here in LA and it turns out he co-wrote two "OL" episodes including the one that I call the "Manchurian Candidate" knock-off. So I put in a claim for him too, and he got a similar check.