Best TZ?

The Key Man · Post by **The Key Man** » Thu Nov 20, 2003 9:30 pm

Well...what was your most memorable, or most frightening, Twilight Zone episode? Perhaps I can incorporate it into next years costume.

shitmouse · Post by **shitmouse** » Fri Nov 21, 2003 8:57 am

i liked the one where the alien came to earth and swapped intelligence for emotions with a scientist.

and there was an episode in the later years that was an interesting concept.
"something" happened with the sun, and if you were older than "x" years of age you wouldn't transform into the new humanoid 'body' that would protect you from the sun's increased ultra-violet rays. so older people would just burn up, and younger people would morph and change into the new shiny gold headed freaks.

tz ws great.

technopatra · Post by **technopatra** » Sat Nov 22, 2003 12:45 am

"Talking Tina" was the scariest, hands down - she's an evil doll that bad father Telly Savalas keeps trying to throw away, but reappears. He tries to set her on fire, but she won't burn. He tries to cut off her head with a table saw, but she can't be destroyed. She eventually kills him in a beautifully passive way - he trips over her and falls down a flight of stairs.

My most memorable was the one where Burgess Meredith plays the bookworm who sneaks into a vault to get away from his life and just read. The bombs drops, and he's the only man left on earth. Just him and books, just like he wants...until he drops and steps on his glasses. Aiiiggghhh!!

My other favorite was called, I think, "Eye of the Beholder". There's woman who has had plastic surgery because she's so hideously ugly. Her face is covered with bandages, and you don't see any of the doctors or nurse' faces, either. Everyone pities her and hopes for the best. When they remove the bandages, the doctors and nurses are horrified and turn away - she's absolutely, angelically beautiful. But the rest of humankind in their world has twisted mouths and bug eyes, and she's considered so terrifyingly ugly that she is led away by an equally disgusting man (who is, of course, gorgeous by our standards) to a place where those "of her kind" won't scare anybody. She goes with him, weeping at her own "ugliness".

MAN I love that show. There is a great documentary about Rod Serling that you can rent from Netflix. Did you know that he wrote about 80% of the scripts? That man was an absolute genius.

Karma · Post by **Karma** » Sat Nov 22, 2003 6:11 pm

My favorite episode hands down, was the one were an astronaut getting ready to depart on a twenty year mission in space, meets and falls in love with a beautiful scientist working on the space mission.
They realize that since he'll be in suspended animation for the majority of the trip, he'll return to earth having not aged at all, while she'll have aged 20 years.
They say a heart wrenching goodbye to each other on the launch pad and he takes off into space.
But instead of putting himself in suspension, he stays out of the machine so that when he returns to Earth he'll have aged the same 20 years as his love back home and they can be together.

Upon his return to Earth, he steps off the ship looking alot older and ready to start a new life with the woman scientist. He hears her call his name, they turn towards each other and stare in heartbreaking shock as the camera pans to show that she looks exactly the same as she did 20 years earlier when he left.
Unbeknownst to him, she had thought of the same idea he did, but in reverse, she had herself put in suspended animation on Earth for the 20 years so she would be as young as him upon his return.

Fuckin Twilight Zone.
Rod Serling was from another planet !

Angry Butterfly · Post by **Angry Butterfly** » Sun Nov 23, 2003 1:57 pm

I liked this one that was one of the "New Tighlight Zones" not the most recent one, the one in the 80's where these two kids fall in love and are in a time warp.

Captain Goddammit · Post by **Captain Goddammit** » Sun Nov 23, 2003 3:01 pm

I'm not sure if this was a TZ episode or some other show... I think it was;
A stranger confronts this man and gives him a box with a button on it, telling him that if he pushes the button he will recieve some very large amount of money... BUT, "someone, somewhere will die. Someone you don't even know." He almost goes crazy staring at the button, and finally pushes it. The stranger then appears at the door with the money, and wants the box back. "Why?" "So I can give it to someone else. SOMEONE YOU DON'T EVEN KNOW!" (terrified look on button-pusher's face)

technopatra · Post by **technopatra** » Sun Nov 23, 2003 6:20 pm

Yeah, that was the "new" TZ that was done in the 80's or early nineties. Loved it! One of the few of the post-60's ones that nailed the moral dilemma/consequences tone.

spaceboy · Post by **spaceboy** » Sun Nov 23, 2003 6:53 pm

The one where the woman comes into an emergency room from a car accident. She was a model or tv anchor or something. Anyway her melon was all mangled and the docs (whose faces you never see) wrapped her face in bandage. After several operations they finally unwrapped her to reveal a very pretty face. Screams, gasps from the docs, then the camera pans up to show the doctors faces', and they were horrible and ugly and all mangled... They thought she was ugly; a play on the concept of beauty in the eye of the beholder...

Badger · Post by **Badger** » Sun Nov 23, 2003 7:21 pm

MAN I love that show. There is a great documentary about Rod Serling that you can rent from Netflix. Did you know that he wrote about 80% of the scripts? That man was an absolute genius.

NEVER knew that.

Respect for Sterling just jumped an order of magintude.

stayfrosty · Post by **stayfrosty** » Mon May 10, 2004 2:50 pm

Yeah. I love that one. My grandpapy, Jerry Sohl, wrote that episode, although under a pen name of, Charles Beaumont, who was suffering from a neurological disorder.

I also loved "Night of the Meek," and so much so that I memorized the whole thing and performed it as a one man show the last two christmases. Good fun! I even made a black and white santa claus outfit for it.

Coastburner · Post by **Coastburner** » Thu May 13, 2004 11:19 pm

My favorite episode of Twilight Zone was the one they called "Earwig" or something like that. This guy wants to kill someone and the hitman is going to use an earwig to eat through the victims brain.

The problem was, the hitman made a mistake and put the earwig in the ear of the guy that ordered the hit in the first place.

The guy managed to live through it after a few days of excrutiating pain as the earwig ate through his brain.

The guy is standing there in a robe and the doctor comes out and says I have good news and bad news. The guy says, what's the good news? The doctor says, you're the first person to survive from this type of earwig. The guy's then asks what the bad news is...... The doctor says, the earwig was pregnant and laid eggs in your brain. All of the sudden the guy starts screeming in pain and that's the end.

I've never looked at an earwig the same since.

Coastburner · Post by **Coastburner** » Thu May 13, 2004 11:20 pm

My favorite episode of Twilight Zone was the one they called "Earwig" or something like that. This guy wants to kill someone and the hitman is going to use an earwig to eat through the victims brain.

The problem was, the hitman made a mistake and put the earwig in the ear of the guy that ordered the hit in the first place.

The guy managed to live through it after a few days of excrutiating pain as the earwig ate through his brain.

The guy is standing there in a robe and the doctor comes out and says I have good news and bad news. The guy says, what's the good news? The doctor says, you're the first person to survive from this type of earwig. The guy's then asks what the bad news is...... The doctor says, the earwig was pregnant and laid eggs in your brain. All of the sudden the guy starts screeming in pain and that's the end.

I've never looked at an earwig the same since.

Coastburner · Post by **Coastburner** » Thu May 13, 2004 11:20 pm

My favorite episode of Twilight Zone was the one they called "Earwig" or something like that. This guy wants to kill someone and the hitman is going to use an earwig to eat through the victims brain.

The problem was, the hitman made a mistake and put the earwig in the ear of the guy that ordered the hit in the first place.

The guy managed to live through it after a few days of excrutiating pain as the earwig ate through his brain.

The guy is standing there in a robe and the doctor comes out and says I have good news and bad news. The guy says, what's the good news? The doctor says, you're the first person to survive from this type of earwig. The guy's then asks what the bad news is...... The doctor says, the earwig was pregnant and laid eggs in your brain. All of the sudden the guy starts screeming in pain and that's the end.

I've never looked at an earwig the same since.

Chai Guy · Post by **Chai Guy** » Fri May 14, 2004 9:49 pm

Don't remember the name of my favorite episode but it when like this....

A couple of big-mouthed blue blood country club type millionaires are always trying to trump each other's outlandish stories. One millionaire gets sick of the other's constant mouth and challenges him to a bet of a large sum of money ( I think it was a million $) The bet states that he can not speak for an entire year. To make sure he keeps the bet, they construct a glass room for him inside the country club where he can be more easily supervised (he can't leave the glass room for the entire year.)
A year goes by and the man dosen't speak a word. It's then revealed that in order to win the bet he had his tongue surgically removed, and he was never actually a millionaire, he just pretended to be one because he liked to impress people, but now that he's won the bet, he's actually going to become one for real. Then it's revealed that the man who made the bet is also a fraud, he isn't a real millionaire either and has no money to give him, thus removing his tongue was for nothing.

cowboyangel · Post by **cowboyangel** » Thu May 20, 2004 9:16 pm

the one with ( a very young)William Shatner being tormented by a horible little troll from outside of an airplane in flight.....I see these things all the time

samtzu · Post by **samtzu** » Thu May 20, 2004 9:30 pm

Agnes Moorehead as the Primitive old woman alone in a shack out in the middle of nowhere. She hears a noise, investigates, and it's a little machine that crashed through her roof and is on her attic floor. She touches it and it tries to electrocute her; she freaks out and begins to beat on it and scream inarticulately. The last shot is a closeup of the tiny ship with "USA" painted on the side, and to voice of an astronaut on the radio, sending a messge back to Earth that they are being attacked by some giant creature.

Dunno'. I liked that one. Maybe it was just Agnes Moorehead... she was such a hottie...

PurpleKoosh · Post by **PurpleKoosh** » Thu May 20, 2004 10:19 pm

cowboyangel wrote:the one with ( a very young)William Shatner being tormented by a horible little troll from outside of an airplane in flight.....I see these things all the time

That would be "Nightmare at 30,000 Feet" - which was refilmed for the TZ movie with John Lithgow...

...and which was subsequently referenced in "Third Rock From The Sun," when Shatner first appeared as Big Giant Head.

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