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Related: Culture Forums, Support ForumsThe original Twiight Zone had 156 episodes?
Yes! It did!
No wonder there are so many that are so memorable.
Phoenix61
(17,006 posts)actors and actresses are in them. I remember one where Robert Redford plays death. He couldn't have been much over 20 years old.
sarge43
(28,941 posts)Irish_Dem
(47,131 posts)Next to I Love Lucy.
left-of-center2012
(34,195 posts)Irish_Dem
(47,131 posts)I didn't have a sophisticated palette then.
MustLoveBeagles
(11,612 posts)Many of the story lines are still relevant today.
RandomAccess
(5,210 posts)In literary criticism (and life in general), the quality of involving or being shared by all people or things in the world or in a particular group.
The BEST literature, film, theater, etc. has this quality. If it doesn't, it doesn't last long.
Skittles
(153,169 posts)just a super treat
wyldwolf
(43,867 posts)Cirque du So-What
(25,947 posts)Irish_Dem
(47,131 posts)Ground Hog Day loop.
Hoyt
(54,770 posts)The rest of them were something to anticipate and enjoy.
Irish_Dem
(47,131 posts)When we saw the alien cook book.
I was 9 yrs old.
Twilight Zone helped me think outside the box.
I learned basic reasoning as I always tried to guess the twist
at the end beforehand. And to look for things that are hidden
from view.
First Speaker
(4,858 posts)...I think what helps is the black and white. It gives the series a noirish feel, and it ran at the end of the Noir Era--1959-64. The best shows are the ones that took place in the Then-and-Now, the "contemporary" episodes like Dead Man's Shoes, or What You Need. (Which was, by the way, based on a Henry Kuttner story. Many of the best episodes were based on, or written by, "modern" SF and fantasy writers, like Kuttner, Richard Matheson, and Charles Beaumont.) For the most part, the quality of the far out stories--alien planets, or the far future--weren't as good, though of course there are exceptions. And they were the ones most likely to depend on cheap surprise endings, which any experienced SF editor could see coming on the first page if it was a story. At one point, they even had the Adam-and-Eve-were-spacemen ending! Still, the series at its best was unforgettable...