What were some of your favourite episodes of The Twilight Zone?

Question

The original Twilight Zone, not the 80's version!

What were your favourite episodes?

BQ1: Who was your favourite actor to appear in an episode of The Twilight Zone? William Shatner, Charles Bronson, Robert Redford, Buster Keaton, Lee Marvin, Terry Savalas, Dennis Hopper, Robert Duvall etc, take your pick.
BQ2: Can you name any other slightly spooky tv series/tv movies from the 1950's-1960's? I mean like The Twilight Zone, early tv movies like 1984 and Whistle and I'll Come to You, anything in that vein.
BQ3: Is there any tv theme music more iconic than the Twilight Zone theme? Dr. Who, perhaps? Does anything else come close?
BQ4: Which theme music is more iconic: Marius Constant's Twilight Zone theme or Bernard Herrmann's Psycho theme?
BQ5: Was the X-Files a complete rip-off of the Twilight Zone? How did you feel about that show, did you ever watch it? Did you enjoy it?

Answer 1

some of my favorites:



"One for the angels" where the salesman cheats death (sort of, I mean he still dies but at least he saved the little girl)



"the eye of the beholder" was a classic, where this woman is getting cosmetic surgery because she is "ugly" and when the doctors have finally unwrapped her bandages it shows that she is really beautiful and everyone else (who has up to this point not shown there faces) are all ugly.



"the masks" is also one of my favorites, Where the dying wealthy father makes all his spoiled children(who are just out for his money) wear these horrible masks until midnight. When the father finally passes away and the children take off their masks, their faces had formed to how the mask looked.



"the monsters are due on maple street" where inexplicable things start happening in a middle class neighborhood. They all start freaking out and blaming each other for the mishaps and start to fight. At the end you see a couple of aliens taking it easy and waiting for humanity to destroy itself... also a classic.



and last but not least,

"A nice place to visit" Where a crook dies and thinks he has gone to heaven because when he gambles he always wins, he always gets girls, and he always gets what he thinks he wants. However he starts getting tired of always "winning" and pleads with "god" to send him to hell only to find out that he has been in hell the whole time.......this one has really stuck with me.



i'm going to answer what I can:

BQ4: Oh jeeze that's pretty hard.....i'm going to go with the Psycho theme, because I think people who have never seen the film know where that music comes from.

BQ5: I don't thinks so, it had recurring characters for one thing. I haven't seen that show in a LONG time, I remember watching it with my mother and being freaked out though.

Answer 2

The episode with the book "To Serve Man" and it turns out to be a cookbook and "The 7th is Made up of Phantoms". To mee this was the best Twilight Zone episode.



BQ1 Richard Basehart

BQ2 60s TV series, The Invaders

BQ3 Dr Who

BQ4Twilight Zone

BQ5 Not a rip off but definitely a source for the X Files.

Answer 3

the only regarding the doll talking Tina- i think of that became The Twilight Zone- perhaps The Outer Limits I additionally enjoyed the only the place the persons rode the practice around and around, yet saved coming back to the comparable station. seems they have been abducted with the aid of giants and set up like hamsters in a super container. there is likewise a stable one the place a guy is going loopy as a try subject for isolation. He starts to have self assurance its actual and he became in simple terms sitting in a cardboard container in a lab. staggering practice.

Answer 4

damn, i can't remember any of the names.... i like the one about the evil fortune teller in the restaurant. i like the one about the pilgrims who were on their way to california, but one of them somehow gets warped into modern america, but finds his way back. i like the one about the man who just wanted to read poetry but his wife wouldn't let him until a nuclear explosion set him free. and i like the one about the old man in the nursing home who has an old fm radio that tunes into the past.



but mostly i liked them all. i still watch them :)



bq2: alfred hitchcock presents. i actually enjoyed it a little bit more than twilight zone. it was cleverer. there was also one step beyond.

bq3: doubtful.

bq4: probably twilight zone.

bq5: i never watched the x-files.