Favorite Original "Twilight Zone" Episode
National Twilight Zone Day is celebrated annually on May 11th. The original television show, The Twilight Zone (1959) aired from 1959-1964 and was created, written and narrated by Rod Serling. A long rumored third revival series is in development and seems to be inching closer to becoming a reality.
Which episode from the original black and white "Twilight Zone" (1959-1964) is your favorite?
Cast your vote or Discuss the topic here.
Which episode from the original black and white "Twilight Zone" (1959-1964) is your favorite?
Cast your vote or Discuss the topic here.
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- DirectorRichard L. BareStarsLloyd BochnerSusan CummingsRichard KielAn alien race comes to Earth, promising peace and sharing technology. Linguists Michael Chambers, Patricia Brody, and their team set out to translate the aliens' language, using a book whose title they deduce to be "To Serve Man."
- DirectorAlvin GanzerStarsInger StevensAdam WilliamsLew GalloA young woman driving cross-country becomes frantic when she keeps passing the same man on the side of the road. No matter how fast she drives, the man is always up ahead, hitching her for a ride.
- DirectorRichard DonnerStarsWilliam ShatnerChristine WhiteEd KemmerA man, newly recovered from a nervous breakdown, becomes convinced that a monster only he sees is damaging the plane he's flying in.
- DirectorJohn BrahmStarsDennis WeaverHarry TownesWright KingConvicted killer Adam Grant is trapped in a recurring nightmare in which he is sentenced to death by electrocution. He tries to convince those around him that they are imaginary and will cease to exist if he is executed.
- DirectorDouglas HeyesStarsMaxine StuartWilliam D. GordonJennifer HowardA young woman lying in a hospital bed, her head wrapped in bandages, awaits the outcome of a surgical procedure performed by the State in a last-ditch attempt to make her look "normal."
- DirectorJohn BrahmStarsBurgess MeredithVaughn TaylorJacqueline deWitA henpecked book lover finds himself blissfully alone with his books after a nuclear war.
- DirectorRobert ParrishStarsRod SerlingJames DalyHoward SmithTired of his miserable job and wife, a businessman starts dreaming on the train each night, about an old, idyllic town called Willoughby. Soon he has to know whether the town is real and fancies the thought of seeking refuge there.
- DirectorAnton LeaderStarsLois NettletonBetty GardeTom ReeseWhen Earth deviates from its normal orbit and moves closer to the sun, painter Norma and her landlady Mrs. Bronson try to cope with increasingly oppressive heat in a nearly abandoned New York City.
- DirectorRichard L. BareStarsWilliam ShatnerPatricia BreslinGuy WilkersonA pair of newlyweds stopping in a small town are trapped by their own superstition when playing a fortune-telling machine in a local diner.
- DirectorBoris SagalStarsFranchot ToneLiam SullivanCyril DelevantiAnnoyed by fellow country club member Jamie Tennyson's constant chatter, Colonel Archie Taylor bets half a million dollars that Jamie cannot be completely silent for one year while living in a glass enclosure in the club's basement.
- DirectorDouglas HeyesStarsRod SerlingAnne FrancisElizabeth AllenA woman is treated badly by some odd salespeople on an otherwise empty department store floor.
- DirectorRon WinstonStarsRod SerlingClaude AkinsBarry AtwaterOn a peaceful suburban street, strange occurrences and mysterious people stoke the residents' paranoia to a disastrous intensity.
- DirectorDouglas HeyesStarsRod TaylorJim HuttonCharles AidmanThree astronauts return from man's first flight into outer space and can't remember the trip.
- DirectorMontgomery PittmanStarsJohn HoytJean WillesJack ElamFollowing a frantic phone call about a crashed spaceship on a winter night, state troopers Bill Padgett and Dan Perry try to determine who among the bus passengers at a snowed-in roadside diner is a visitor from another world.
- DirectorJames SheldonStarsJohn LarchCloris LeachmanDon KeeferOn an isolated family farm in Peakesville, Ohio, young Anthony Fremont, who has vast mental powers but lacks emotional development, holds his terrified family and neighbors in thrall to his every juvenile wish.
- DirectorRichard C. SarafianStarsTelly SavalasMary LaRocheTracy StratfordFrustrated Erich Streator does battle with his stepdaughter Christie's talking doll Talky Tina, whose vocabulary includes such unconventional phrases as "I hate you" and "I'm going to kill you".
- DirectorBuzz KulikStarsCliff RobertsonJohn CrawfordEvans EvansThe leader of a wagon train across the New Mexico territory in 1847 comes across a highway.
- DirectorDouglas HeyesStarsJohn CarradineH.M. WynantRobin HughesSeeking refuge from a storm, a traveler comes upon a bizarre abbey of monks, who have imprisoned a man who begs for his help. When he confronts the head monk, he is told that the man is the Devil, and he must decide whom to believe.
- DirectorDouglas HeyesStarsAgnes MooreheadDouglas HeyesRod SerlingWhen a woman investigates a clamor in the attic of her rural house, she discovers a small UFO with little aliens emerging from it. Or so it seems.
- DirectorLamont JohnsonStarsErnest TruexRussell CollinsJohn MarleyCharles Whitley living in the Sunnyvale Rest Home thinks he's found the secret of youth in playing child's games and exhorts his fellow seniors into joining in. His friend Ben Conroy and facility superintendent Cox want this stopped.
- DirectorLamont JohnsonStarsSusan HarrisonWilliam WindomMurray MathesonAn Army major awakens in a small room with no idea of who he is or how he got there. He finds four other people in the same room, and they all begin to question how they each arrived there, and more importantly, how to escape.
- DirectorRalph SenenskyStarsRobert SterlingPat CrowleyBurgess MeredithA man sells his soul to the Devil to save his failing newspaper and gets more than he bargained for.
- DirectorElliot SilversteinStarsBurgess MeredithFritz WeaverJosip ElicIn a future totalitarian society, a librarian is declared obsolete and sentenced to death.
- DirectorRobert StevensStarsRod SerlingGig YoungFrank OvertonA man, fed up with where he's at in life, finds himself not only in his old hometown, but back to the time when he was a boy.
- DirectorRobert StevensStarsEarl HollimanJames GregoryPaul LangtonMike Ferris finds himself alone in the small Oakwood town and without recollection about his name, where he is or who he is. Mike wanders through the town trying to find a living soul.
