7 TERRIFYING EPISODES OF THE TWILIGHT ZONE!!!

[Omaha Steve]

POSTED BY KYLE ANDERSON ON OCTOBER 14, 2016

Few serialized television shows can offer the same kind of punchy science fiction or horror plots that an anthology series can. They’re only beholden to the 25 or 45 minutes they have to tell the story and any character or contrivance is fair game to play with, fast and loose-style. Already we’ve talked about scary episodes of Are You Afraid of the Dark? and the 1960s The Outer Limits, but we’d be remiss if we didn’t pay tribute to the godfather of this genre, a show that gave audiences 156 episodes of terrifying morality plays between 1959 and 1964: The Twilight Zone.

Rod Serling’s vision of realities slightly twisted from our own gave birth to such shows as Black Mirror and Tales from the Crypt in addition to the ones mentioned above. While The Twilight Zonewasn’t the first show of this kind, its constant repeating on cable—holiday marathons on Syfy (née The Sci-Fi Channel) anyone?—has made it the cultural touchstone for what our fearless leader Chris Hardwick calls “Nice Try, Asshole” stories.



FULL story: http://nerdist.com/7-terrifying-episodes-of-the-twilight-zone/

Marta and I have hundreds of TZ autographs from two conventions in 2002 and 2004. Dial up warning.

The 2002 convention: http://www.steveandmarta.com/graveyards/tzcon2002.htm

The 2004 convention: http://www.steveandmarta.com/tzcon2004.htm

We are also fans of the 80's series: http://www.steveandmarta.com/ntz1.htm

[PSPS]

1. NO CHANGE!

The girl in the top photo is 27-year-old Donna Douglas, who later played the long-running role of "Elly May Clampett" on The Beverly Hillbillies.

The doctor with the mangled face was played by William Gordon, who didn't do much acting but was a prolific writer whose stories were used on numerous shows such as Thriller, Chips, The Fugitive, The Richard Boone Show, Kraft Suspense Theater, The Alfred Hitchcock Hour and others.

[longship]

2. Wonderful TV.

Also, there's "The Outer Limits" whose epitome was Demon with a Glass Hand starring Robert Culp and Arlene Martel (who many will recognize from Star Trek "Amok Time" as Spock's betrothed.) It is one of the great SciFi TV episodes.

But Twilight Zone is the original, never eclipsed.

[SamKnause]

3. I love the Twilight Zone.

I have seen every episode too many times to count.

My favorite is the one with Agnes Moorehead.

She was the only person in the entire episode and she never spoke a single word.

I watch it every year around the holidays.

[irisblue]

4. Time enough at last

I always buy 2 pairs of glasses.

[etherealtruth]

5. Although it is anything but terrifying my favorite twilight zone episode is "The Hunt"

"An old man and a hound-dog named Rip, off for an evening's pleasure in quest of raccoon. Usually, these evenings end with one tired old man, one battle-scarred hound dog, and one or more extremely dead raccoons, but as you may suspect, that will not be the case tonight. These hunters won't be coming home from the hill. They're headed for the backwoods—of The Twilight Zone."

[Frank Cannon]

23. Written by Earl Hamner.

Creator of The Waltons.

That's one of my favorites as well.

I tend to favor the nonscary ones. Others I love are Walking Distance and A Stop at Willoughby.

[etherealtruth]

25. :-) n/t

[awoke_in_2003]

6. Just added the whole series

and Night Gallery, to my Hulu watchlist. The NG theme always creeped me out.

[gratuitous]

14. Too young to see Twilight Zone in its original run

But I did watch Night Gallery every week when it aired. The theme song was creepy. What I remember is trying to guess what the closing painting was going to be. For those who never saw it, Rod Serling would give an introductory paragraph, standing in front of an easel covered with a cloth. When he was done, he'd remove the cover and the story would begin. Somewhere along the line, a painting or two might figure in the story, and at the end of the story, the painting for the story would be revealed.

Both Twilight Zone and Night Gallery were writers' showcases. The story was a lot more important than the sets, the actors, or the "special" effects (which weren't all that special). I catch the Twilight Zone marathon every New Year's Eve.

[awoke_in_2003]

16. Great summation. nt

[irisblue]

20. loved Night Gallery

[Omaha Steve]

18. Marta and I bid on one of the original paintings: “The Cemetery”

We had to drop out. It went for over $10,000. The guy that bought it put it in a credit card.




A GALLERY OF THE PAINTINGS FROM ROD SERLING’S ‘NIGHT GALLERY’: http://dangerousminds.net/comments/a_gallery_of_the_paintings_from_rod_serlings_night_gallery

[awoke_in_2003]

21. Sorry you didn't get it

I haven't seen that show in over 30 years, but can still hear that theme song.

[Wolf Frankula]

7. It's a Cookbook.

Wolf

[BlueStateLib]

11. One of my favorites

[Feeling the Bern]

8. The Twilight Zone is when Television at least attempted to be intelligent and the execs

made Rod Sterling's life a living nightmare, which is why he was known as the angriest man in Hollywood.

[loyalsister]

24. I think he would have a fascinating take on the world today

So much has gone far beyond and so much is similar if not exactly what he imagined the future would be like. And, unfortunately much if not most of the social criticisms he had are still necessary.

[Spitfire of ATJ]

9. Let's not forget the classic show "One Step Beyond"....

One of the all time creepiest episodes:

[Initech]

10. A reality TV star runs for president.

[PCIntern]

15. One of my favorites is one of the hour-long ones

The three astronauts see a glimmer from the planet's surface and they land and find themselves dead in their ship. And the complexity begins...

the other hour long one when the dog jumps out of the car in the small town...

and about 150 others.

[Dyedinthewoolliberal]

17. Not terrifying

but entertaining nonetheless-

[smirkymonkey]

19. Episode 179: Donald Trump Runs for President

And almost wins. Gahhhhaaa!

[burrowowl]

22. K&R!!!!!!

Plus ca change

[Hoyt]

26. Remember the "pig faced" episode well. Another I remember was a women who was assaulted, her

boyfriend or husband is driving her down the street and she says, "there he is" pointing out a man walking down the street. The boyfriend/husband grabs a wrench out of his car an pulls the man in an alley and presumably kills him. The show didn't show the assault or beating/killing, just left us to imagine.

Then, he gets back in the car and calmly drives on down the street. A few moments later she sees another man and says, "there he is."

The show ends with typical music and the boyfriend/husband looking like all the blood is draining out of his body.

A great show. I don't think it would work as well today unless writers, producers came up with a new way of portraying such stories.

[demotux]

27. Number 12 looks just like you ...

... is one of my favorite episodes:

http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x41why0

[Kablooie]

28. I had to run from the room when the doctor revealed his face.

I was about 9 years old.
I didn't see the end of the show until years later.