What's Your Favorite 'Twilight Zone' Episode And Why???

Question

I thought I'd ask this question because it's almost the New Year and that means SciFi is having its annual marathon of The Twiligt Zone!
I have two. Well alot more than two but two of my favorite ones are...

"Nightmare at 32,000 Feet"-I think that's the name of it. It's the one with William Shatner and he sees this Eskimo/Bear/thing on the wing of the plane and flips out. I JUST LOVE that episode and Ithink the little eskimo guy is kinda cute actually. =P And then at the end they find scratch marks on the wing. Ahahaha. I love it.

One of my other favorites is "To Serve Human". It's the one where the aliens come and act all nice and they have a book that says To Serve Human.And its really a cookbook. And there's the guy in the spaceship talking about it. I don't I just like that one because it's kind of clever.I mean you would never think of that...well.I wouldnt at least.

Another one I like is the one where there's an alien in the diner. And they cant figure out who it is.

Answer 1

i love all the twilight zone episodes so much so that my husband bought me the book listing all the episodes the dates they aired who wrote and directed them who starred in them and a description of the show
i think my favorite one is the one where burgess meridith works in a bank and goes down to the vault to read because he keeps getting in trouble reading at work all the time
he keeps complaining there is never enough time to read
one day while in the vault the world ends by some apparent bomb and he survives because he is in the vault
he wanders out and is all alone and stumbles into the area where a library was destroyed
there are books every where and he is overjoyed because he has "all the time in the world" now to read
he stacks books to take with him to read but then steps on his glasses and breaks them so he is not able to read

i also like the one where a wealthy man is a real pain and all his appliances and mechanical things including his car start taunting and chasing him

Answer 2

My favorite Twilight Zone episode was the one where I spent the entire night, from 8 P.M. to 6 A.M. in a topless bar, in Gainesville, Florida, attending a "lecture" given by Rod Serling, for a writing class I was taking at the Univ. of Florida.

During the entire time, Mr. Serling had a cigarette in one hand and a glass of scotch in the other. He drank and smoked continously. Never once did he slur his precise clipped speech, and he never missed a chance to pat the almost bare behinds of the bar maids.

All in all, it was a great evening!

Answer 3

Too many excellent stories on twilight zone. i remember the one with a young gorgeous William Shatner as a newlywed who keeps on putting money in a fortune telling gadget in a diner. It almost ruins his life.
Of course there is the one with a young and even more gorgeous Robert Redford who plays an injured policeman in order to gain the confidence of this very old woman who will not leave her house because death will get her. Needless to say, he is death and she understands its not so bad.

Answer 4

my favorite twilight zone is when they are at a topless bar for a long time and will shatner puts money in a fortune teller like 100 times and it messes up his life pretty bad,my least favorite would have to be the one where a kid is talking on a red phone (supposedly to his dead grandmother)and his parents freak out.

Answer 5

I've answered a question similar to this before, but I'll answer it anyway.

My all-time, favorite episode of "The Twilight Zone" is one of the very few that has a truly happy ending. It's also the only one whose ending makes me laugh.

It's called "A World of His Own" starring Keenan Wynn.

“A World of His Own”
Episode Number 36
First Aired July 1, 1960
Writer Richard Matheson

Director Ralph Nelson


Guest Stars: Keenan Wynn (as Gregory West) Phyllis Kirk (as Victoria West) Mary La Roche (as Mary)


Synopsis

Victoria West sees her husband and a blonde through a window, sharing drinks. But when she barges into his office, he is alone. Gregory tells her that by describing something into his dictation machine, he can bring anything into being. To make it disappear all he needs to do is throw the tape in the fireplace. He demonstrates by describing an elephant in the hall. Victoria ignores the evidence and informs Gregory she is going to have him committed. Gregory removes an envelope from a wall safe, and tells her it contains the tape that describes her. Victoria grabs the envelope and throws it into the fireplace, and promptly disappears. Gregory quickly begins to redescribe Victoria, then reconsiders and begins to describe Mrs. Mary West. A loving Mary appears mixing her husband a drink.

Notes

In the final scene, as Serling begins to make his ending voiceover narration, the character actually starts to interact with him.
The episode in syndication, at least on the Sci-Fi Channel as of 2001, cuts the sequence where West dictate-creates an elephant to stop his wife from leaving. The cut is very abrupt and quite noticeable. A pity, since according to The Twilight Zone Companion they went to great lengths to get an elephant on the set for that one brief scene.
This episode marks the series' first on-camera appearance of Rod Serling.
Included on volume 43 of Image-Entertainment's DVD collection.


Quotes

Opening Narration
Narrator: "The home of Mr. Gregory West, one of America's most noted playwrights. The office of Mr. Gregory West. Mr. Gregory West - shy, quiet, and at the moment very happy. Mary - warm, affectionate...And the final ingredient - Mrs. Gregory West."

Closing Narration
Narrator: "Leaving Mr. Gregory West, still shy, quiet, very happy - and apparently in complete control of the Twilight Zone."

Answer 6

Most of the Twilight Zone episodes are well written and entertaining. I don't remember all of them, but I love the one you mentioned, ""To Serve Man."". I'm not sure, but I think that was the name of the cook book. Loved it!

Answer 7

there are countless episodes of all seasons I'd liked of the twilight zone. But if I had a fav I wouldn't know which one to pick. But my fav part of the show has been Rod Serling and his open narrartion.

Answer 8

I sing the body electric.
Also any episode that Ray Bradbury wrote

Answer 9

"The After Hours" with Anne Francis as the Mannikin come to life.

Answer 10

I cannot recall the title, but it is a man who finds a genie and eventually decides to become the genie