Oh, how I LOVED this show! It was my absolute favorite, growing up in Detroit in the late 50s-early 60s. I couldn't wait 'till Tuesday night....

There's a link on the site (below) with viewers' all-time favorite shows. How do yours match up?

Any favorite quotes? (I think there are quotes as well as scripts on the site)

The Twilight Zone

Enjoy!

-- Eve (eve_rebekah@yahoo.com), May 18, 2001

Answers

You may find the initial web page a little strange...just click through it.

-- Eve (eve_rebekah@yahoo.com), May 18, 2001.

My favorite was always the episode where the kid (Bill Mumy I think) keeps getting phone calls from his dead grandmother, who is trying to convince him to kill himself so he can be with her. Spooky as hell! I also really liked the episode where neighbors try to break into a family's shelter when the radio mistakenly reports a nuclear bomb headed their way. The episode ends with the neighbors breaking the door down and the radio announcing the mistake, but now nothing will ever be the same again. And who could forget the episode where the defeated Confederate soldiers are walking past a woman's house on their way home, and one stops and stays with her for awhile, only to realize that all the men who are on that road, including him, are actually dead men? Jane's favorite episode is the one where the girl is driving cross country, has a minor accident and is subsequently stalked by the weird hitchhiker, only to find out that she died in that accident and the weird hitchhiker is death. Jane and one of her sisters watched that episode shortly before the sister left to drive from Georgia to California alone. That episode so affected them that Jane's sister called at least twice a day from the road, and Jane didn't really relax until she'd heard her sister had stopped for the night.

-- Tarzan the Ape Man (tarzan@swingingthroughthejunglewithouta.net), May 18, 2001.

Better Twlight Zone link for ya Eve.....[Subj.: Economy] Michael Milken's junk bond scam

Talk about crossing over into the world of delusions, geez. Milken? haha you have got to be dreaming. What's next? OJ?

People wonder why the moral decline of this nation? Look at the leaders in Government and Industry, do they seem like they could give a rats ass bout integrity? Why should a kid give a crap?

Twlight Zone damn straight.

-- (pinhe@d.detector), May 18, 2001.

Pinhead,

Please go back and re-read my posts about Milken. Then give me an actual argument -- on THAT thread, if you don't mind. Rants are a dime a dozen. I'm betting you're above that.

-- Eve (eve_rebekah@yahoo.com), May 18, 2001.

Funny, I was just thinking about this today fer some ungodly reason. My fave was about this guy (banker?) who goes down into the vault fer something and comes back up to discover that civilization has been nuked. He gets downright giddy as he starts to stack up all the wonderful books he's gonna read now that he's all alone with plenty o' time on his hands. In the midst of his celebratory stacking, he drops and breaks his glasses, without which, of course, he is blind.

It ends with the camera panning back on the twisted rubble with him in the middle of it screeching about the unfairness of it all.

Great stuff! There are many, many more episodes that I really liked, but that one has always stuck with me.

Dan V.

-- Jimmy Splinters (jsplinters@earthlink.net), May 18, 2001.

Jimmy, that is my favorite episode too!

That poor guy's wife harped on him incessantly because he loved to read, and his coworkers also hated to see him enjoying a good book. So he locked himself in the vault to be alone...to read...at last. Poor old bugger.

-- (cin@cin.cin), May 18, 2001.

Best Twilight Zone episode?... The one where the astronauts landed on some distant planet and one of them discovered a civilization composed of tiny beings who worshiped him as a giant god. Rather that return to earth with his fellows, our main character found a way to stay behind so he could enjoy the fruits of playing evil dictator god to the miniature people. A few days after the rocket lifted off and returned to earth, a couple of giants made their appearance from behind a high hill. As one of the giants reached down to cup our astronaut-come-God in his hand, he was overheard to comment how this tiny little fella must think he's just met some gods. (Fade to black with the sound of screams coming from a terrified astronaut.)

In Eve's town it was shown on Tuesday nights??? Not in Iowa. In Iowa Twilight Zone was shown on the best tv night of the week. Friday, right after I Dream Of Jeanie and right before Get Smart.

-- CD (costavike@hotmail.com), May 18, 2001.

Suddenly, Eve's demeanor makes much more sense....not that she ever has....

But now I know why!

-- Rod Sterling (why@fight.zone), May 19, 2001.

"How to serve Humans"

Nuff said.

-- Enlightenment (gone@away.now), May 19, 2001.

En, it was "To Serve Man" if I'm not mistaken. A freakin' menu! One of my favs too. Cin and Jimmy, the guy who broke his glasses was played by Burgess Meredith, I believe.

Serling was a renegade and a genius. How he got $$$ to do film his creations in that day and age is a miracle. I for one am glad he did.

-- Rich (howe9@shentel.net), May 19, 2001.

Tarzan, did her sister really make it?

-- Just (another@weird.hitchiker), May 19, 2001.

The best episode ever was one where the old farmer had the friend over for ham roast and the friend asked him what he fed the pigs to make them so tender and the farmer just smiled a big smile. The friend didn't realize that the farmers wife who supposedly devorced and left him to go back to Cincinatti had actually been turned into pig feed. Great stuff!

-- Boswell (fundown@thefarm.net), May 19, 2001.

How about the one with a shattered William Shatner on an airplane flight during a terrible storm? Looking out the window, he watched helplessly as a creature tore the wing of the airplane apart piece by piece. I think it was called "Nightmare at 20,000 feet".

CD - did you see Serling's Night Gallery episode about the astronauts?

-- flora (***@__._), May 20, 2001.

Hmm... I'm not sure, Flora. Do you have a quick summary of the NG astronaut episode? The only "Night Gallery" show that stands out to me was of the guy who "concentrates" his way into a an art gallery's picture of a fisherman in a boat on a placid lake. Night Gallery was "only ok" in my opinion. TZ was by far Serlings best work.

-- CD (costavike@hotmail.com), May 20, 2001.

Eve, great site!! I spent many an hour watching Twillight Zone in my youth, and some time in my adult feeling like I was there!! Rich, "To Serve Man" was a book, a cookbook. That was the last line of the show, as he was watching his friends board plane with the alien behind them, he yelled to his friends: "The book, To Serve Mankind, it's a COOKBOOK!".

-- Aunt Bee (Aunt__Bee@hotmail.com), May 20, 2001.

I used to watch The Outer Limits and there was this one favorite episode where this nerdy computer programmer was working with a mainframe-type computer named Agnes. Agnes subsequently fell madly in love with the programmer, and even became jealous of some girl in his office. I still remember his last few lines; he repeated them over and over as if he were having some sort of nightmare..."You can't love me. You're just a machine! You're just a machine!"

heehee

-- (cin@cin.cin), May 20, 2001.

Does anyone remember that Twilight Zone episode where the small group of extremists thought all the computers would malfunction at 12:01 AM on New Year's Day 2000?

-- Tarzan the Ape Man (tarzan@swingingthroughthejunglewithouta.net), May 21, 2001.

Wonder memories, y'all; thanks for sharing!

My favorites...

Best shock endings:

"To Serve Man"

"The Eye of the Beholder"

Scariest...

"Nightmare at 20,000 Feet"

"Twenty-Two"

Most memorable overall...

"It's a Good Life"

"The Lonely"

"An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge"

"Night of the Meek"

If you're curious, I'll be happy to describe the plots of any, to jog your memories.

-- Eve (eve_rebekah@yahoo.com), May 21, 2001.

Eve-

Do you remember the broadcast of "An Occurance at Owl Creek Bridge"? I understand that the actual episode was an independant French film which the network didn't get full rights to, so it hasn't been shown in syndication. I saw it once in college for a film class and once on IFC (or another cable channel). I wish I'd recorded it. The film was sort of cheesy in spots but the overall spooky tone really did justice to Ambrose Bierce.

-- Tarzan the Ape Man (tarzan@swingingthroughthejunglewithouta.net), May 21, 2001.

Tarzan, LOL! And you know, the fact that I hadn't had enough coffee this morning, coupled with my staying up late last night watching Anne Frank (yeah -- excuses, excuses...), got me to where I read your post and actually thought for a few seconds, "Hmmmm.....somehow I don't remember that one, but it sounds interesting..."

-- Eve (eve_rebekah@yahoo.com), May 21, 2001.

Tarzan, we cross-posted.

Yes!! "An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge" as I listed above, was one of my all-time favorites. And it was absolutely hauntingly beautiful. I remember getting out the story to re-read right after I first saw it.

Do you think it's on video somewhere?

-- Eve (eve_rebekah@yahoo.com), May 21, 2001.

Eve-

I know that all the original TZ are available on video, but I'm not sure about Occurance at Owl Creek Bridge since there's a question about copyrights. You might want to check out Amazon.com or even e- Bay.

-- Tarzan the Ape Man (tarzan@swingingthroughthejunglewithouta.net), May 21, 2001.

One episode that sticks out in my head was where an old lady kept getting phone calls from someone claiming to be her dead husband. The eerie sounding voice on the static laden phoneline was chilling. AFter deciding it's a hoax and telling him never to call her again, she goes to the cemetary to check on his grave, and sees a phone line down, directly on top of it. Then she returns home to wait for the phone to ring again, hoping to talk to him..but he never calls again...ACK!

-- kritter (k@a.n), May 22, 2001.

Willoughby.

-- Cash (Cash@andcarry.com), May 22, 2001.

What about the one where the RAF officer from WW1 flies out of a cloud, and lands on an Air Force base 40 years in the future... was that a Twilight Zone, or Outer Limits?... it's been so long, they tend to blend together. Or, wasn't there a movie about a bomber, stranded in the desert, with the ghosts of the crew hanging about the plane... they began disappearing as their bodies were discovered, leaving one guy alone, sobbing in despair and sifting sand with his hands... and it turns out he's grabbing sheets, in a hospital bed freaking out after reading in a newspaper that his plane was discovered after being missing for forty years... what was the name of that one? P.S. I also grew up in a suburb of Detroit, watching this stuff...

-- Martin J. Filiatrault (ajfmjf@aol.com), July 03, 2001.

Martin, that movie about the bomber who crashed in the desert was called "The Sole Survivor." One of my favorite movies of all time.

-- Semper (hello_to_my@old.pals), July 03, 2001.

Nobody mentioned the one for which the Hollywood Tower of Terror (Orlando, Disney World, MGM Studios) is named. At the beginning of the ride, they show the clip of the original TZ episode.

-- Pammy (pamela_sue57@hotmail.com), July 03, 2001.