What is your favorite episode from the original Twilight Zone?

[IndigoChild5559]

Mine is Eye of the Beholder. The speech by the Fascist leader at the end chilled me to the bone. I was 10 when I first watched it, and had no idea what fascism is. Now when I hear various fascist leaders today, I'm always reminded of this episode.

We know now that there must be a single purpose, a single norm, a single approach, a single entity of people, a single virtue, a single morality, a single frame of reference, a single philosophy of government. We cannot permit… we must not permit the encroaching sentimentality of a past age to weaken our resolve. We must cut out all that is different like a cancerous growth. It is essential for society that we not only have a norm, but that we conform to the norm. Differences weaken us. Variations destroy us. n incredible permissiveness to deviation from this norm is what has ended nations and brought them to their knees. Conformity we must worship and hold sacred. Conformity is the key to survival.

 

[Revoltingest]

To Serve Man

Spoiler: Ending spoiler

 

[Stevicus]

The Monsters Are Due on Maple Street - Wikipedia

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"The tools of conquest do not necessarily come with bombs and explosions and fallout. There are weapons that are simply thoughts, attitudes, prejudices ... to be found only in the minds of men. For the record, prejudices can kill ... and suspicion can destroy ... and a thoughtless, frightened search for a scapegoat has a fallout all of its own—for the children and the children yet unborn. And the pity of it is ... that these things cannot be confined to ... The Twilight Zone!"

 

[Revoltingest]

To Serve Man was the basis for...

 

[an anarchist]

The Shelter

I'm currently rewatching the Twilight Zone. I just re watched the episode The Shelter and it remains my favorite as it was before.

No mystical stuff. No sci Fi. Just pure psychology. That's the episode.

 

[an anarchist]

To Serve Man

Spoiler: Ending spoiler

Spoiler

I just watched this episode with my boyfriend. I had already seen it so I knew the twist. But my boyfriend called the twist ending when the title of the episode popped up on the screen at the beginning still great

 

[metis]

Mine was the woman who went in to get a facelift, but when the doctors took the bandages off, the medical staff gasped as she still was as ugly as hell. But then they panned to the doctors and nurses, and it was really they who were the ugly ones.

 

[IndigoChild5559]

Mine was the woman who went in to get a facelift, but when the doctors took the bandages off, the medical staff gasped as she still was as ugly as hell. But then they panned to the doctors and nurses, and it was really they who were the ugly ones.

Yes, that is my favorite one as well. It's called "In the Eye of the Beholder. I included the final scene in my post, and what you are referring to happens immediately prior to my scene, and I mean like two seconds before. Here is your scene:

 

[Spice]

A Nice Place to Visit

A man named "Mr. Bingham" is trapped in his office after hours, and as time passes, he realizes that his seemingly normal office is actually his personal hell, with subtle, unsettling details that reveal its true nature.

 

[IndigoChild5559]

A Nice Place to Visit

A man named "Mr. Bingham" is trapped in his office after hours, and as time passes, he realizes that his seemingly normal office is actually his personal hell, with subtle, unsettling details that reveal its true nature.

I'm gonna have to watch that one!

 

[Frank Goad]

Mine is it's a good life.

 

[Stevicus]

A Nice Place to Visit

A man named "Mr. Bingham" is trapped in his office after hours, and as time passes, he realizes that his seemingly normal office is actually his personal hell, with subtle, unsettling details that reveal its true nature.

"A Nice Place to Visit" was one of my favorites, too, although I think that episode is where an armed robber (named Rocky Valentine) gets shot by the cops trying to flee a crime, and ends up dying and thinks he wound up in heaven. He's given a luxury hotel suite, cash, and it seems to be everything he might have wanted in life. But he starts to get bored because he wins all the time at the casino, so there's no real challenge. It turns out he wasn't in heaven at all.

 

[Stevicus]

Another episode I was partial to was "A World of His Own," which was about a playwright who could create people simply by describing them into a tape recorder and then preserving the tape. If the tape containing their description is destroyed, the person disappears.

A World of His Own - Wikipedia

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This episode was interesting in that one of the characters interacted with Serling as narrator at the end, throwing a tape containing Rod Serling's description on the fire, causing Serling to disappear.

 

[JustGeorge]

The one with the Obsolete Librarian.

 

[Spice]

"A Nice Place to Visit" was one of my favorites, too, although I think that episode is where an armed robber (named Rocky Valentine) gets shot by the cops trying to flee a crime, and ends up dying and thinks he wound up in heaven. He's given a luxury hotel suite, cash, and it seems to be everything he might have wanted in life. But he starts to get bored because he wins all the time at the casino, so there's no real challenge. It turns out he wasn't in heaven at all.

That one fits the episode name better. I know I found the right synopsis for my favorite, (I can still see the filing cabinet beside the window as he looks out on nothing.) but evidently my Google search gave the incorrect title. I'm going to keep looking. Getting stuck alone in the office for eternity most certainly sounds like hell to me. LOL