Top 10 Creepiest Twilight Zone Moments 

Aiur no need to overrate a show just because you have on your nostalgia glasses on.

I wasn't around for the original run so there is no rose colored glasses at work, i'm 29 and would honestly disagree, i'm a huge fan of sci fi anthologies - and have recently re watched every season of TTZ over the last few months and then some-from the outer limits to monsters to tales from the darkside to tales from the crypt and their more modern incarnations (ala black mirror) i'm a fan of it all i'm also something of a horror aficionado and have seen most films in the genre since the mid 60 starting with italian horror so i've seen how some of these ideas have grown to become standalone movie franchises and television series in their own right. i can say with the upmost confidence that not only does this series hold up, but it puts to shame most modern attempts. there is simply nothing comparable to the writing in that show.

Damien Lu Have you watched the entire series? Everything that Aiur has said is absolutely correct. It's one of the greatest, if not _the_ greatest, television shows ever created.

Damien Lu overrated? Get your millennial ass outta year.

Often replicated, never duplicated. One of the single greatest television shows of all time.

Poor bastard had one of the worst lives ever, too! 😕

All of the greats on earth go early, unfortunately.

@Brandon Sutton wait until you’re 50. Trust me, you will not be old.

@@MeanBeanComedy what was so bad about his life?

More like middle-aged 🙄

A dear friend grew up in upstate NY and Rod Serling was a summer neighbor and friend of his father’s. Smoked like a fiend, but was very sociable and friendly. He said he ‘tricked’ the network into Twilight Zone in order to make thought-provoking morality plays.

The Monsters Are Due on Maple Street. We need that lesson today more than ever. "Fear is the mind killer."

Grace Skerp Dune.

It was definitely for it's time

JONATHAN LOCKE I Shot an Arrow into the Air

I loved that one!

Inspiration for The Village

@@dreday5880 And perhaps a contributor towards Capricorn One in a way,too.

I agree! Especially the scene where he shoots one of them and the bullet punctures the last cantene of water!

KINGSEANFAME just reading this sumup scared me lol

This sent chills down my spine

That would actually be a cool movie to watch lol.

KINGSEANFAME what episode is that?

"Spur of the Moment" was the name of this ep.

A true classic!

I know. I own both boxsets and Twilight Zone the movie.

Rebel Gamer26 Sad that he died so prematurely - at 50! He achieved a great deal in his limited time on earth - he started writing for the fairly new medium of TV to deal with his PTSD after serving in WW2 in the Philippines - won a Bronze Star and Purple Heart...

U wrote all this?. SMH.

Lol

My name is talky Tina and I'm gonna bake some cookies

Hate doll stories! Freaky

My name is talking tina wanna play

So that means... Tina was once human too before she became a doll and uses voodoo too, to transfer her soul into the doll. And Tina was also once a serial killer too... Just like her grandson Charles Lee Ray before he became Chucky. XD

Agreed. Add "Walking Distance." That episode brings tears to my eyes each time I watch it.

@@TomTimeTraveler That episode resonates with hard working Execs who have money but no peace

Yes agree. Very emotional. The woman who gets the phone call always made me tear up, because my grandma lost her husband when my mother was 11 and he actually worked on telephone lines.

Absolutely right; emotionally searing, even to me as a kid. Donald Pleasence played the teacher.

@@BRuane-pw6xq That was beautiful and moving. Most of us ever get to see the good we have done in someones life.

Gon amazing final twist. And it lasted just a few seconds leaving you in your trauma

I agree the total hopeless agony of life itself coming to an end and nothing anyone can do about it is the only type of horror that keeps me up at night.

"All of man's little devices to stir up the air are now no longer luxuries, they happen to be pitiful and panicky keys to survival."

Yes! One of the show's best and most memorable episodes!

When it's disgustingly hot and humid in the the summer or bitterly cold in winter, I always think of this episode.

G10VANN1 TH3 G35 FAN Its the film noir effect.

in the early 60s color sets were alot more expensive than the late 60s. Beginning in the late 50s, a select few programs could be watched in color, but they were mostly animated movies. so basically it was pretty pointless to own a color TV till around 1965.

If they ever try to reboot this series again (I think they've tried twice), they ought to go black and white. Yeah, I know - why in the age of 4K HD would you have a B&W TV show?? But. the effect of it! A few years ago, they made a very good B&W movie about a silent film star fighting to keep his career alive "The Actor". It was in B&W, mostly silent and very good.

@wulfgar3000 Color TV was around since 1954. 4+ years before the series started. And many other TV programs were filmed in black and white film while color was available as a cost cutting measure.

everything was in black and white back then, dullard

😂😂 Just saw that one like 2-3 days ago that’s a good one.

Jasmine M Deathshead Revisited

Karma.

Which Episode is It?

It is a great example of karma

What other horror episodes is there besides that?

so true.

Absolutely! Thanks to gorgeous black and white noir-ish cinematography. Effort, care, and nuance. Great writing, a lot of it from Serling, one of the greatest writers in tv history. Great casting and acting and directing. My all-time favorite series since childhood when I watched it first-run.

Someone above commented that The Twilight Zone stole ideas from today's movies and shows. Must have had a time machine.

Stephen T- Because of the writing. It irks me when someone uses the expression, "It Was Ahead Of It's Time." Really? In what way? There were plenty of good television shows in that same time period. The ones that stand out, even today, are the ones that employed good writers. Good writing is timeless!

Because Rod Serling was a genius.

Makes me 😿 Cause I lost my grandma in July 2002.

Yeah, WAY more so than a dumb doll. Jmo

argel bargel A Nice Place to Visit

THIS is the bad place!!

@Alan Cogan Yeah. Because we want to make sure all people have food and water and housing and healthcare and an education, including Republicans. Imagine that. We're just so horrible, we're filling up Hell (that other imaginary place). But I seem to recall a certain man in a certain book telling people to offer people things if they needed them, even the refugee. And somehow we're wrong for following that certain man's instructions, even if people throw that man's words at us all the time. So, you know, hey. If "Hell" is the reward for wanting to take care of people...my neighbors and people I've never even met, because I'm like that...then I accept it graciously. I don't plan to stop what I'm doing any time soon.

Goddess FourWinds preach ✊🏽

Also, "The Masks", could be considered a hell on earth story. When the dying elderly man makes his beautiful but selfish family put on masks to be taken off at midnight. The masks became the faces of how each of the family members truly were character wise. It doesn't matter that they inherited all that wealth when they would become pariahs in the real world. The old man taught them all a good lesson.

TRUE... It was the inspiration...

"The Cube" was based on the twilight zone episode "5 characters in search of an exit"

"The Hitch Hiker" may have inspired "The Sixth Sense," which inspired a bunch of other movies.

Hollywood has no imagination. It just keeps rehashing the same old stories.

I think the zone always gets ripped off

Gangle Fingers- Not just ahead of it's time, but WAY ahead of it's time. Really? In what way? In comparison to what? Is good writing "ahead of it's time?" I think not. Good writing is timeless. Even in TZ episodes that look extremely dated today, the good writing often makes up for it. I don't understand what that expression is even supposed to mean! Did it tackle issues other shows of that era didn't? No... Did it produce horror other shows of that era couldn't match? No... Was the acting superior to other shows of that era? No... So how the Hell was it ahead of it's time? I'm sorry, but I can't stand that expression. I'm not trying to pick on you, I'm just venting.

Hey, it means that TV at that time was mostly crap. Because they had to not do anything to upset the sponsors. Because that was the whole purpose of TV shows at the time, to sell products. And they managed to be original despite the concerns of corporations. Much harder to do then.

@@jamessmithe5490- Well, then, I guess TV hasn't changed much. It's still mostly crap. There were certain shows in 1960 that were better than the standard fare. TZ was one of them, but hardly the only one.

Yes, I agree!

I think 'One Step Beyond' was earlier, and it was creepier because it was based on actual events.

Luca Xzanders plus that twist at the end after she woke up from her nightmare.

Scathach best waifu And she realized that the earth wasn't moving towards the sun, it was moving AWAY from the sun.

Michael Palmieri- Well, actually, she was never given the word in the episode. Remember, she wakes up from her feverish nightmare, and says to her landlady how nice it is to see night, and to be cool; And the landlady, without any enthusiasm, says, "Of course, dear." The poor kid doesn't know what's going on, even though we the audience do. It's part of what just added to the "creep" factor!

Luca Xzanders Kinda reminds you of the results of 🌏 global warming.

Shark Snack I know, I love the episode. It send a chill down my spine by seeing the neighborhood tear itself apart

The one about the fallout shelter and the neighbors is awesome too, one of my faves.

@Shark Snack - The title was "The Monsters are DUE on Maple Street." Not "Die."

Robert Polanco 😂 thanks didn’t realize my autocorrect changed that! lol stupid autocorrect, that could have been embarrassing!

Yeah that one was good

One of my favorite episodes

I hate hot places, and would much rather die from cold than heat. So for me, in that episode, the ending was a relief.

That was long distance call, and No he tried getting hit by a car, he accidentally fell inside his pond, he died, but came back later.

Sunshine M I thought he had a sister too and they were trying to get away from their RichEvil parents just to be with 👵 Granny and theHappyPlace.Is that the episode.

That was. "The bewitchin pool." There were two kids, both siblings, running away, swimming to the other side from their pool, and they live now with a woman named Aunt T. They ran away cause their parents were getting divorced, and they weren't happy about it.

yes! too many creepy ones to name

He kept talking to his dead grandmother on his toy phone. His mother had enough of it and grabbed the phone from him, only to hear his grandmother's breathing on the speaker. The boy was Billy Mumy, who would go on to star in "Lost in Space".

im outa here!

So what's your point in typing out the entire pre-episode narration? We've all heard it 5,000 times. SMH

sorry, I prefer "you unlock this door with the key of imagination..."

Rod Serling knew how to WRITE (I'm assuming he wrote that passage).

This is paranoia isolation and BS

It's five characters in search of an exit, I own it, and seen it.

I think Star Trek Next Gen did a copy cat of that .

Hammer house of mystery and suspense t.v show did a very similar story called "child's play" which I think they copied from T.Zone

@@suckmyballzgameplays7172 Way to spoil it when the OP was nice enough to not do that.

Boo!

One of my favs as well!

Loved that one. I have felt like that before in my life. It was beautiful.

Смена караула. Сезон 3, серия 37

Yep i loved it too

Да, тоже неплохой эпизод

That’s because John Lithgow played shatner’s character in the movie. He was great!

i already said he played shatner's character in the film and lithgow is great in anything he does

I remember that, it was hilarious.

One of my all-time favorite tv moments. Hilarious. They both gave such great performances of sheer white-knuckle panic. It is William Shatner (and the gremlin on the wing) that are responsible for me never having flown to this day. Early childhood trauma. Thank you, Twilight Zone!

Anastasia Beaverhausen The gremlin in the story is based on the idea that mischievous creatures by that name make a habit of sabotaging airplanes. Whenever something goes wrong on a plane, the crew immediately blames it on the gremlin. The fear of these little troublemakers was especially prevalent during World War Two, when each side of the war was worried about gremlins destroying their fighter and bombing planes. This fear was even parodied in the popular culture of the day. For example, the Warner Brothers movie studios put out a few Looney Toons/Merrie Melodies cartoons where gremlins were featured prominently. One of these was entitled "Russian Rhapsody," which was inspired by the fact that the Soviet Union was one of our most important allies. In this film, German bombing planes try to attack Russia but fail to complete their mission. It is suspected that Russian gremlins are to blame. Adolf Hitler is so furious about this, that he decides to pilot a plane to bomb the USSR personally. As he's flying through the sky, tiny Soviet gremlins, many of them caricatures of members of the Warner Brothers animation staff, invade the plane and begin destroying it as they sing, "We Are Gremlins From The Kremlin" (to the tune of "The Song Of The Volga Boatmen"). Some of them torment Hitler: one scares him by putting on a Josef Stalin mask; another says to "Der Führer," "How do you do?" (a spoof of the popular catchphrase of comic Bert Gordon, better known as "The Mad Russian") In the end, the gremlins throw Hitler out of the plane into the ground below and place the wings from the plane as grave markers (Adolf pops out of the "grave" chuckling and says "Nazis is de claziest peoples," a takeoff of Lew Ayes' "Monkeys is de claziest peoples"). Another cartoon (I don't remember the title) showed Bugs Bunny trying to stop an Axis gremlin from sabotaging an American plane. The gremlin taunts Bugs throughout the picture, throwing banana peels on the floor that makes the rabbit slip and almost fall out of the plane, dropping him through a bombing hatch, sticking his tongue out at him, etc. Soon, the plane goes into a dive, heading towards certain doom. But just as it's about to hit the ground, it stops suddenly. "Sorry, folks," the gremlin says to the audience, "we ran out of gas." "Yeah," says B.B., "you know how it is with these 'A' cards."

minkdevil The dummies always freaked me out.Creepy.Never played with the damn things like dolls.

Marsha! I was really young when I saw this,and got scared of mannequins,the actress was lovely,and would later be on honey west.

minkdevil same

I can’t hear the name Marsha repeatedly whispered without shuddering, that episode scared me.

Anne Francis aka Honey West. And what is spooker than being locked alone in a department store filled with mannequins?

I'm not nodding, it's the air conditioning.

I was just thinking of that before I got here. Krusty the Clown doll trying to kill Homer, that was creepy before ever hearing the "Living Doll" audio version

I vaguely remember watching that episode when I was like 11. I've never been so deeply disturbed in my life. Like, it was literally months before I could relax and sleep normally

Another personal favorite. STILL scares the hell outta me. 😶😨😱

I don’t like that episode as much… maybe cause his disturbing that darn dummy is!

Faizan Baig indeed

True, as did Alfred Hitchcock.

LOL, someone above commented that The Twilight Zone stole ideas from today's shows and movies. Must have had a time machine.

The episode when the little girl disappears into another dimension was Poltergeist's inspiration i bet :D

Yes

Very creepy.

@@ethanbanta4714 Yes! simple and scary as hell.

What about the Civil War episode, the last casualty is President Lincoln and they're all marching down a highway of death?

@@andrewmalinowski6673 yes. or the patient at the hospital who keeps walking by the morgue and the nurse opens the door and says "room for one more honey"

It doesn't have a sad ending

.....with yet another appearance by the Forbidden Planet spaceship!

The scene when one of the "aliens" sliced her hand is a jump-out-of-your-chair shocker. No dread music build up - it just falls on your lap.

I remember that one very well! Agnes Morehead was a great actress.

she didnt speak because she wasnt an earthling, she was the giant monster, also the decor was very simple, a chair a chair, a pot a pot , a table a table, to remove any appearance of earth for the final scene.

@@edwardburner2721 The final shot - fast pan down to the ship. On its hull USAF. We were conned into cheering for the old 'woman'. Hellva twist.

Good call. I too see Tina as more of an anti-hero than a straight-up villain. You also have to consider the fact that both the little girl and her doll share the same name -- Christina and Tina respectively -- suggesting, possibly, some kind of psychic link. It's certainly an episode that has more to it than its imitators.

Yes, but in the era of the Hayes Code, having the doll kill a father-figure in the family would be... well, you couldn't act as though that was the "right" thing to do...

Serling's outro suggests the doll was there to protect Christie from that abusive father figure.

Gregory Tyson The name "Talky Tina" may have been a spoof of "Chatty Cathy," a popular talking doll at the time.

This theory actually makes me feel a lot better.

In England known as "Cora Tina"

Mr. Uncle It was scary because the "howling man" of the title was the devil himself!

Ju Raju "Five Characters In Search Of An Exit" was an interesting episode, especially at the end when it turned out that the five characters are only dolls, and that the huge cylinder they're trapped in is just a donation barrel set up to collect Christmas toys for needy children. I certainly didn't see that coming! The actor who played the major doll in that story was William Windom, who also played Jessica Fletcher's friend, Seth, on "Murder, She Wrote."

A winner for sure

Better than any NYE party

Netflix has all the episodes.

Do yourself a big favor and get the DVDs or Blu-rays so you can binge without commercial interruption. That will leave a mark...

Pete... yes I remeber that one, his wife was such a bitch, just because he liked reading alot.

That episode still makes me cry! 😭 poor burgess!!

Black Mirror is nothing without TZ.

Floymin- Or "Thriller." Or "One Step Beyond." Or... Oh, heck, the early days of television had a lot of GOOD Shows!

The twilight zone was clean and timeless. Black mirror only works because of our misconception of modern technology, also they have to throw a lot of gore and sex to shock audiences, which is to say Cheap

You mean Black Mirror... a reiteration of Twilight Zone

Floymin Black Mirror is garbage, a modern rip-off of The Twilight Zone

LadyCeag840 Wouldn’t surprise me, the show is that good.

it's absolutely true, and even in written form as well

Yeah i have to admit that episode "Twenty-Two" ending was basically Final Destination and it would be something from Beyond Belief: Fact or Fiction.

Michael Marriott What’s Beyond Belief?

It was a TV show in which Jonathan Frakes (of Star Trek TNG fame) presented anecdotes that were either real or fiction, challenging the viewer to guess which was which. Look it up sometime.

Will the real Martian please stand up.

Scripturegirl1990 I saw that episode. However, the passengers in the story don't go to the diner because the bus crashed; they do it because they're waiting to see if a nearby bridge, which is covered with ice, will soon be safe to cross over. Eventually, a phone call comes in saying that the bridge is safe. The two state troopers who have been looking for the alien without success decide to give up the chase and offer to escort the bus and its passengers over the bridge. A little while later, one of the passengers, a middle-aged fellow who is supposedly a businessman, returns to the diner and tells the counterman that the phone call was just an illusion. The bridge wasn't safe; it collapsed into the river and the state troopers' car and the bus fell in with it, killing the troopers, the bus passengers, and the driver. The businessman is the Martian, a scout sent ahead by his people to prepare the earth for a coming invasion. It is also revealed that he has three arms! But, in one of those twist endings that the program was famous for, the counterman reveals that he too is an alien--from Venus! His people have already intercepted the Martian invaders so they can conquer the earth themselves. To confirm his story, he removes his chef's cap, revealing a third eye on his forehead! The Martians' plans have been foiled before they could be put into operation. One of the state troopers was played by John Archer, who was, for a short time, the radio voice of "The Shadow."

horse noodles We are all 👽 aliend.HAHA.

Michael Palmieri John Archer is the late father of Anne Archer. Not a household name but a good actor.

yungdro247 my skin broke out in goosebumps when I first saw that scene.

Unforgettably creepy! :)

To serve man., With French fries and Cole slaw

TO SERVE MAN! YUMMY!

I actually read the short story 1st, so when I saw it on a Twilight Zone I thought this is pretty neat.

I believe it inspired The Final Destination movie as well

Heather Johnson THATS WHAT MY DAD SAID

Same! I saw it when I was 12 and then watched it in my high school English class senior year to learn about good foreshadowing and twists. At the part where his glasses fell, I actually heard a few people in my class gasp. A moment in this show was able to make a class of high school students that acted too cool to care about anything (especially anything that happened before they were born or anything that they saw in a black and white show because it was "old") gasp and that really says something about how good it is.

Watching that episode now is crazy because people do not read and explore their imagination like today

Time enough to last. Its on Netflix in the first season

Its not fair!

Yesssss! Best episode imo!

jose alfaro yes I thought that too!

yes it was :)

being in that dimension after going in the wall with time running out...........

See, this is why shows like The Twilight Zone are good art -- not just because they're well made, but because they resonate and have meaning in the real world. I feel like way too much of our entertainment these days focuses on the spectacle or the cool factor, and forgets to be important to us, in the audience.

birdword111 The book "The Twilight Zone Treasury" said that the episode "Number 12 Looks Just Like You" could be considered "a companion piece to 'The Eye Of The Beholder' ", because they were both aimed at one of Rod Serling's favorite targets, namely conformity. The young lady in "The Eye Of The Beholder" is considered a freak because she doesn't look like everyone else, which is why she's in a hospital with her face covered in bandages, waiting to see if the doctors were able to fix her face so she will look like everybody else. This is her eleventh operation, the maximum allowed by the state; if the operation is a failure, she'll be exiled to a community where others like her are forced to live in isolation. Of course, there's a twist to the story: the audience is led to believe that the woman is ugly and that the doctors are trying to make her beautiful; however, when they finally take the bandages off (while, on television sets all over the hospital, the leader of the state makes a speech about "glorious conformity"), the audience sees that she IS beautiful, but the head doctor announces that there's been "no change at all," that the operation has failed; when one of the nurses turns on the lights, we see the truth about this strange, fictitious society, that the doctors, the nurses, and everyone else (including the leader of the state) have faces that are hideous and distorted! Apparently, in this world, attractive looking people are the outcasts of society while the ugly ones are regarded as "normal." It turns out all for the better, on the other hand, when the woman is introduced to another "freak," a very handsome man who is from one of the separate areas where people like him and her have to live. He comforts her and assures her that she will be accepted by the other outcasts, that she will be loved. He then reminds her of the old adage that gives the episode its title: "Beauty is in the eye of the beholder." "Number 12 Looks Just Like You" is another story about how society subtly pressures people to be exactly the same as all those around them. But unlike "The Eye Of The Beholder," this is a story about a futuristic world where everyone has to be beautiful. At the age of 19, everybody undergoes an allegedly "voluntary" operation that makes them look as attractive as possible, but at the same time, turns them into carbon copies of thousands of others (both actor Richard Long and fashion model Suzy Parker play multiple roles in this episode). But one young girl, 18 year old Marilyn, sees the "transformation," not as a gift from a benevolent society, but as a deliberate method of enforcing conformity. This belief is reenforced when she notices that everyone who has the operation not only looks alike, but thinks and acts alike as well. Marilyn's free-thinking father had committed suicide after his transformation because, as she says, "when they took away his identity, he had no reason to live." She remembers that her father had once told her "if everyone is beautiful, no one will be, because without ugliness, there can be no beauty." She then adds her own opinion: "They don't care if you're beautiful or not, they just want everybody to look the same." Unfortunately, nobody can understand how she feels, not the doctors, not her mother, not her uncle, not her friend Valerie, no one! When she tries to sneak out of the hospital where she is forced to stay, she ends up in an operating room where a doctor and nurse are waiting for her. She comes out looking, acting, and thinking like Valerie ("The nicest part of all, Val," she says, "I look just like you). She's finally been crushed by a heartless, uncaring world bent on mindless, stifling conformity.

Cool! I'll have to rewatch that one because it has been so long!

phastinemoon - Too many shows spell it out for us. We aren't supposed to think about the implications of things or to fill in the blanks (if there are any to fill). For example: Hulu has episodes of 'Night Gallery'. In one of them, Pernell Roberts's character is told why a jukebox (which had been replaced once) always played the same record: a story of love, betrayal, and murder, and you know that the ghost of the dead man is still in the building, and really likes that song. Roberts goes back to his car and happens to look up as a man and woman enter the diner. As he pulls away, we hear terrified shouts. Someone in comments actually asked what happened. They needed to be shown the ghost getting his revenge on his cheating wife and her lover because they were used to being spoon-fed.

I wonder how much control the people in the 'three beautiful cities' have over their lives. What sort of economy do they have? Are there commercial relations between these cities and the rest of the nation? Are they self-sufficient or are they kept under control through dependence on the government for certain services? (Given the implications of dictatorship, I'd call that a possibility.) Are they allowed to reproduce? If so, what happens to those children who are normal? Are they sent away, to be raised as good little citizens, never knowing their parents were abnormal? (I mean by the standards of this culture.)

Akira625 Jesus, that's a thought to linger on.

She also voice Grammi Gummy in the New Adventures of the Gummi Bears.

And Cindy Lou Who.

Also Natasha, Nell from Dudley Do-right and Penelope Pitstop.

June Foray also supplied the recorded voice of Chatty Cathy, the real-life doll that Talky Tina was based on.

Tobey Starburst Me too.Never miss it.

I look forward to them too

*You're

Even scarier than The Twilight Zone.

*the comment zone

Lol

doo doo doo doo doo doo doo doo doo doo

Five Characters in Search of an Exit

Feel Good Music and predictable and part of their last list if memory serves

Feel Good Music That man's head in the Jack-in-the-box was absolute terror.

That didn't creep me out as much as it made me frustrated and angry. I kept waiting for someone to put a bullet in that kids head lol. They made a sequel to that in color called "Its Still A Good Life" with original actors Bill Mumy and Cloris Leachman. Its on youtube.

I think the most creepy I found about that episode was the kid himself, He had that look of a Menace, idk it's just he looked like one of those kids that will ending growing up being a serial kller

Creepy short story 😮In the beginning of the story Andy is tearing apart a rat with his mind 😈

That shadow jack-in-the-box head of his neighbor freaked me out as a child!

Nick Potter A classic- one of my favorites! I know it is just a show, but that spoiled brat really got on my nerves!

That was a good thing you just did.

Think I read it, in h.s.

That should have been on the list instead of Nightmare at 20,000 feet!

iNK Shadow Cool Huh.

Wow 2 whole years

What school do you go to? We never got anything that interesting.

Wolfrunner326 Bam.MindBlown.

Dang, TOTALLY forgot this one. And yes, incredibly scary!

Good catch! That's one of my favorites with possibly the best performance Rod Taylor ever gave! I always think of that episode.

Anastasia Beaverhausen- Yes, Rod Taylor's performance in that episode was stellar! You may be right. That may, indeed, have been his finest performance EVER!

dang no way :o

One Step Beyond came out before Twilight Zone and it was very Twilight Zoney, lol just not as remembered. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-fLVj8q3uQ7A.html

Unfortunately the character was a alien and the invaders were astronauts exploring the intstellar of space

Marchant2 ThankYou.

Exactly. I love this show.

I mourn the death of Hollywood, too. I wish that they could go back to creating original stories again.

I'm reading that in english right now. I had a nightmare last night lol

I read that in English last year! We even got to watch the episode in class

a great one that weirdly isn't creepy at all is "night of the meek". it's a great one to watch with the little ones around Christmas time.

"The monsters are due on Maple Street."

You mean for the character of Carol Ann BUT, the storyline, itself, was influenced by a park built on a cemetery. The bodies were originally supposed to be removed to a bigger cemetery, however, that idea was scrapped. Ever since that time, the park has been haunted by the souls of those deceased.

The ending wasn't happy, who knows if it will happen again

I never noticed Midnight Sun's relevance to nuclear warfare - you think you'll die out in an inferno, but then nuclear winter freezes you instead. Damn...

Bobby Brady I beg to differ. Remember the Cuban missile crisis? The Berlin Wall? The ‘80s was when the Cold War was winding down. Gorbachev. “Tear down this wall!” Ronald Reagan. Perostroyka.

You are like me. I bought The Twilight Zone DVD box set about 8-9 yrs. ago and since then, I've lost track of how many times I've seen the entire series. Have you watched the short film by Rod Serling called The Time Element? It is the unofficial pilot episode of The Twilight Zone *before* it was called The Twilight Zone. If you are interested in watching it, you can find it here on RU-vid...

Ethel-Marie Harris Me too Ethel.TwilightZone is da Bomb.

Amen

It sort of was. There is a film called 'The Day the Earth Caught Fire," in which an enormous nuclear test (presumably Russian,) begins shifting the Earth's orbit, causing it to spiral into the sun. There isn't a twist ending, but an ambiguous one in which the fate of the Earth is dependent upon the success or failure of a plan to reverse the effects of the original nuclear test.

Bogmire42 All Midnight Sun (2018) jokes aside, Midnight Sun (Twilight Zone) does deserve to be a movie

But there's no fridge horror

@@mrnobody2018 fringe horror?

@@kill3rbamb146 something what you logically believe in horror sensing innocent characters receiving, death or violence or trauma inflicted to them offscreen

@@kill3rbamb146 I'm talking about the innocents in terror

@@kill3rbamb146 the proper horror source in the twilight zone

I know its gonna happen, but i still jump

Milsurp Mike Channel it’s good that ya done that son, it’s real good!!!!

That is definitely the creepiest. Gave me nightmares.

Milsurp Mike Channel The boy in the "It's A Good Life" episode was named Anthony, not "Billy."

Milsurp Mike Channel I. Agree.This was the creepiest episode ever.

Christ that episode freaked me out for YEARS

I mean… no, it isn’t. In fact, we are further away from that dystopia than we where when that episode was made. Yes, some people still unfairly judge others on looks and the beauty industry is still going strong. However, when you say- ‘Free thinking is thrown away for vein beauty and treatments to make one look more beautiful.’ Nope, that’s a load of bull. Society tends to look down on people who only care about their looks and nothing else. Women aren’t expected to just be beautiful and shut off their brains. Men are thought of as shallow if all they care about is their own appearance. I don’t wear makeup, have fizzy hair and freckles, and I tend to wear comfortable rather than attractive clothing. Every now and again my mum will tell me that I’d look so pretty if I just made more of an effort. However, nobody is horrified that I don’t spend hours doing my hair and putting on makeup every day. No one is telling me to quite my job so that I can concentrate more on looking beautiful. I’ve never been told that I should shut down my brain and hand over my free will so that I can be more attractive. That's just not the world we live in. If people want to spend time and money on makeup, then there’s nothing wrong with that. People can be both pretty and cleaver at the same time.

I know "Eye of the Beholder" is on my people's Top Ten TZ eps, but for me, I greatly prefer "Number 12".

+Nuttersincorporated You make an excellent point. The reason for my original comment is, if you gather a group of people together (and it's been done before), and ask them what's going on in the news today, or even who a famous person is, one who is famous because of a great achievement, the majority would not know. Now, there are definitely exceptions, and I've seen those exceptions, but the majority don't know. Ask those majorities who Snookie is, or what trend is happening now, or even what good makeup brands are, they will know without thinking about it.

That’s true enough in its way and I’m not denying it but I think you underestimate people because of it. People need light-hearted things to make life bearable. Hell, more people probably recognise Harry Potter than Snookie. That doesn’t mean they only care about fictional characters. People aren’t giving up their free will just because they like something frivolous. It’s escapism and fun. Do I wish that the beauty industry wasn’t so in your face, hell yes! Do I judge people who choose to use beauty products because it makes them happy, no. Everyone needs something. We can’t only think about big issues. It would crush us. Just because people recognise celebrities easily, that doesn’t mean they don’t care about anything else. Science programs are more popular than they’ve ever been and a lot of young people are really engaged and passionate about politics these days. More people might recognise Snookie than Deborah Birx. However, that doesn’t stop Deborah Birx being in charge of a $6. 6 billion program, in 65 countries around the world, that supports HIV/AIDS treatment and prevention efforts.

That episode always reminds me of Huxley's "Brave New World."

Long distance call, makes me cry badly.!!.😭😿💔😢

Chris Delgado MeToo.

ILoveME #NoTime4FairyTalez - The room for one more mantra, is an old folktale that has been retold countless times. Ancient Rome even had their version. "Twenty-two" was just TZ's version of that folktale!

I will never forget that last scene.

T #DeterminedB eye if the beholder was extremely predictable, but twenty two was quite the opposite

I agree that "22" should've made the list along with to "To serve Man", "The Howling Man" and "Nothing In The Dark"

"The New Exhibit." It was that rarity: a good season four episode.

Gregory Tyson Thanks, I stand corrected as far as the name of the episode is concerned. It was a creepy episode to me.

Martin Balsam rules, but who REALLY did the murders? Him or the dummies...?

I love that ep! Those dummies were terrifying. One of the great hour long eps.

Do not remember that one?

I prefer sad endings episodes

Thank you!

It did make, however, their list of the best "TZ" episodes a few years back.

Refugeefromcalif Unfortunately, it wasn't a really scary episode until the very end. But to get to the end by unraveling the mystery of the cookbook was well worth it. It threw me for a loop when I first saw it. Definitely one of my top 10 episodes!

@ Gregory Tyson. I missed that video.

Second place.

Refugeefromcalif In "To Serve Man," the people of the earth are tricked into thinking that the aliens bearing the book entitled "To Serve Man" have come to help mankind solve its problems. This belief seems to be confirmed when the aliens create new ways to grow plenty of food for everyone, to turn deserts into fertile fields, to end wars, and so on. It's only at the end when they find out the aliens' true intentions, especially when it's discovered that "To Serve Man" is actually a cookbook! The message can probably summed up in the old adage: "If something seems too good to be true, it probably is." One could liken it to the old legend of the Trojan Horse, where the people of Troy believed that they had defeated their enemies, the Greeks, when they discovered the huge wooden horse outside the gates of the city, and assumed that it was some sort of peace offering. Of course, they later found out that they were wrong when the Greek soldiers hidden inside the horse jumped out of it and conquered the Trojans. This story inspired a popular saying: "Beware of Greeks bearing gifts." Perhaps what "To Serve Man" was trying to say was "Beware of aliens bearing gifts."

jimmydiddles it's one of the best creepy episodes

Good to see that you have good taste in TV. I love the Twilight Zone even though it came out nearly 20 years before my birth. My dad and I used to love watching the old reruns on TV. Mom never liked it. The "music scared her".

Inus Berard yeah I’m 15 so not many people my age can connect to me with this but my best friend likes twilight zone . My favourite twilight zone related thing is the tower of terror at Disneyland Paris as it’s what got me in to it in the first place

I'm 25 and I still watch a few episodes every month. You know a show is good when you already know the ending of an episode and can still enjoy watching it again and again.

yeah man....THE GRAVE - phew!~ still urks me until this day.

Depending on the horror and fantasty episodes and no karmic justice

I want real horror for fun of the show

You want to find the proper horror to be scared straight

Could something like this happen....... we come from a other world in peace travel to our world on vacation, to find out YOU ARE ON THE MENU.

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