favorite Twilight Zone episode?

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What about 'To Serve Man'? IT'S A COOKBOOK!...

I like the one where the guy who likes to read survives WWIII, only to break his glasses...

I've not seen many of these - they're not often shown in the UK.
But one of my favourites, of those I've seen, is Harlan Ellison's "Demon with a Glass Hand".

1.) The Monsters Are Due On Maple Street
2.) The Obsolete Man
3.) Death's Head Revisited

I can kind of relate to "Wordplay" An overworked businessman (Robert Klein), when pressed to learn his company's new product line, is surprised when the entire world starts speaking in gibberish.

"Time Enough at Last". Burgess Meredith is a "reader" who finally gets some peace and quiet to read as much as he wishes, only to break his single pair of glasses.

Although "Little Girl Lost" made every kid I knew at school afraid to go to bed for at least a week, except for those of us who would actually like to end up in that other dimension, so I remember it fondly as well. It's always advisable to have a Scientist as a neighbor. You never know when they can be handy.

I liked most of those and I think my favourite was the one with the ghost plane arriving at an airport, sitting on the runway with propellers spinning, but nobody on board. There are 3 guys - one is the big expert. They try everything they can think of to explain it. Finally the big expert says that the only explanation is that the ghost plane is an illusion. He sticks his hand in the propeller to prove it, and the plane disappears. Triumphantly, he turns to the other 2 guys - who disappear.

Where can we watch all these things again? Those were absolutely fabulous shows!

I remember most of these! They were such wonderful stories.

I don't think anyone has mentioned the guy in the airliner who keeps seeing a monster out on the wing, trying to tear up the airplane. He had recently been in a mental hospital, I think, and so none of the crew believes him.

The twist comes when they land ... they check out the wing and sure enough, it's been partially torn up.

The one where the people were all pigs.... Nah, just kidding. The one I really like is where a man is given the gift of immortality and since he can never die, he wants to defy the death penalty by committing a murder, little did he know he'd instead get a life sentence, literally.

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Also the origin of Dr. Evils pinky thing?


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My favorites are eye of the beholder, the one where theres an alien in a diner and they have to figure out who it is, how to serve people(i haven't seen the whole thing, just the last 10 minutes), the star which is about a priest/physicist who lands on a dead world and its from the 80s, this one about a guy from 2055 whos in cryo freeze and wakes up in the 24th century after the nuclear holocaust to find that biotechnology and phsychic powers are the new form of technology and its also from the 80's,

and helter shelter which is about a guy who has a radiation bunker under his house and obsesses about impending nuclear holocaust when it actually happens and he has to use it and it too is from the 80's. I love the twilight zone but most young people cant get past the dated looks and watch this show. Thse stories are timeless and im gald my mom introduced me to the show.

I just found out that some of the good old Twilight Zone episodes are being released in comic version. So far: “Midnight sun”, “Walking distance”, “Deaths head revisited”, “After hours”, “Flight of odyssey 33” and “The monsters are due on Maple street” have been released, and “Big tall wish” and “Will the real Martian please stand up” are to be released the next month.

I figured anyone reading this topic might like to know. I have a few of them already, and they are fairly true to the episode they’re based on.