The Scariest Twilight Zone Episodes Ever Made
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- Опубліковано 9 вер 2024
- So you think The Walking Dead or American Horror Story are frightening? Consider Rod Serling’s original Twilight Zone. While the terror in those two shows is over the top, the horror in The Twilight Zone is much more subtle and, far more psychologically frightening. If you've never seen the Twilight Zone beware, there are spoilers ahead!
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Not a whole lot of people are aware that Rod Serling wrote the twist ending of Planet of the apes. Great writer!
He wrote the screenplay.
Yes the original Planet of the Apes was a great film. I loved it despite the strange ending which has never been explained where it turns out that the apes had built an exact replica of the Statue of Liberty on their own planet. Weird.
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That's NOT the twist!
It wasn't that the apes had built an exact replica (on their own), but it's the FUTURE EARTH where after nuclear holocaust, the apes took over from the humans as the ruling species!!!
@@themvsthemvsus Joking, right?
One of the best endings of all time.
My scariest episode was "22," about the dancer in the hospital who was recovering from exhaustion/nervous breakdown who kept having the exact same chronological nightmare about a nurse trying to get her to go to the morgue. Don't want to spoil it for anyone who hasn't seen it, but the nurse saying "Room for one more, honey" still scares the hell out of me all these decades later. Truly frightening.
I was gonna say this too!
I agree 100%. I was thinking of that episode too when I clicked on this video.
yup
Holy crap you just reminded me of that one.. I was gonna say monsters on maple st, but 22 was definitely scarier
Same here.
One of the greatest shows every created. The acting and writing was superb.
We know it!
I need to see Night Gallery , too. The Hitchhiker was definitely one of the best (Going- My way!).
A LOT OF PEOPLE CAME TO THE SAME CONCLUSION
Always....❤
I was so dumb to go into the basement, shut off the lights and start watching the show at 9 years old. Once that scene came on where the kid said “you’re a very bad man” and turned him into a jack in the box I lost my mind. I couldn’t run up the stairs fast enough! The stairs seemed like a hundred feet. I was scared frozen but moving at full speed at the same time. Ahh! Still scares me at 54 years old even with the lights on!
I feel that! TZ definitely had more impact when watching as a young child. I remember crying at the end of Time Enough at Last when Burgess Meredith's glasses broke. As a kid with glasses I knew his world had been shattered (pun intended). Awesome series - Rod Serling was brilliant.
One of my favorites was William Shatner and his girlfriend In a diner. He puts coins into a small fortune teller machine and keeps getting answers that seem to coincide with his questions in such an odd way that you can't make up your mind whether the thing is possessed or giving random answers. William Shatter can't stop feeding coins in and his girl friend has the creeps and wants to leave but he won't. A real masterpiece in spookiness!
Nick of Time
Yeah. & There was a little, devil bobblehead on top of the the machine they put the coins in !!!
Sounds creepy to me. 🥺😱
no way the shelter was a great one
@@thomasbrunn4182 Showed how quickly neighbors can turn on each other.
"Long Distance Call" on the Twilight Zone with Billy Mumy talking to his dead Grandmother on a toy telephone while she tries to talk him into killing himself so they can be together again.
When Billy's mother grabs the phone away and hears her deceased Mother-in-Law talking on the other end and freaks out...it raised every hair on my young head as well!
If I would've heard my dead relative talking on the other end I would've freaked out too!
The Dummy with Cliff Robertson scared me with that creepy dummy laughing. Also To Serve Man.
When it says "To Serve Man" it means serve humans as a main course for dinner
I would have to say 'It's A Good Life' with Billy Mumy of 'Lost In Space' fame was one of the creepiest episodes and should have been included.
I agree. I'm also pissed off a bit; the picture for this video is from 'It's a Good Life,' then the episode is not even mentioned. Very disappointed.
I agree and even now, at the age of 54, I will not watch that episode again - still scares the crap out of me.
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Being the same age as you, I'll watch it, but it usually takes a day to shake off the creeps.
Agreed! It is crazy that that one wasn't on here!
I do no think it is right to put up a picture of anything and not even talk about it in any part of the video
there are a number of videos that seen to do it.
I remember seeing Nightmare at 20,000 Feet when I was a little kid. It scared the crap out of me. Oddly, despite the fact that both The Twilight Zone and The Outer Limits frequently did that, I remember tuning in faithfully every week to both shows fully expecting to see a good story-- NOT worried about being frightened. Of course not every show was that intense and some were even funny. It was just good TV --Something we really don't have now.
"It's a GOOD Life." Scared hell out of me as a kid. The greatest show. I lived for it. So glad I got to see it as a little kid. It's influenced my whole life, taught me not to take reality at face value.
I've always enjoyed psychological horror. Twilight Zone, The Outer Limits, Alfred Hitchcock & a few others were all-time favorites to me.
TZ, AH.....great tv
Night Gallery
I'll never forget the episode"Little Girl Lost". When I was young I was afraid to sleep at the head of the bed because I thought I would disappear into the wall after watching that episode
That's always been my favorite episode, too!
The greatest horror anthology ever! It is just as scary today as it was when I was a little kid.
Yep, I totally agree. When I was rewatching these episodes I still got a chill up my spine.
@@RerunZone It was scary back in the day, but I laughed when I watched it today. It needs a remake for today.
@@RerunZone where you guys watch these old series ?
@@Grundewalt I own them all on DVD, but I think you can watch most of them on Pluto TV for free!
@@RerunZone ok I see. I looked, now there are only on some plateformes , to buy. No free reruns as I can tell.
As I've gotten older the subtle stories are, to me, the most effective. The Old Man In The Cave, the Obsolete Man, the Monsters Are Due On Maple Street, The Masks, Eye Of The Beholder and so on. The episodes that really put a mirror up to humanity, and find it lacking.
And I agree with you 💯. The second one on your list so very applies today, not just to this government but to just about the entire American infrastructure.
Not scary but my favorite episode is Changing of the Guard. A teacher forced to retire is going to commit suicide but ghosts of his dead students appear to him. "I'm Jim. I died at Iwo Jima. You taught me about courage."
I would add the After Hours with Anne Francis as a mannequin that comes to life. Saw it as a kid about 7 years old and it stayed with me. It’s a fear many have that mannequins are really alive !😳
Agreed. It was creepy story about a department store!
Very good.
Love that episode!
I mostly relate to the part where she is locked in the department store after they closed. That happened to me at a Wal-Mart on Christmas Eve!
“The Invaders” episode starring Agnes Moorhead of Bewitched acclaim scared the spank out of me when I was a kid in the 60’s. I still see it occasionally and it continues to give me the willies. Rod Serling was a genius. It was as if he had the ability to travel in time he was so creative and on point politically.
I remember ALL the twilight zone shows, The Outer Limits shows were my favorite shows too
Me too. Have you seen "One Step Beyond", they're like these too
I loved The Outer Limits too and, of course, the original Star Trek. One Step Beyond was also a great show.
@@jack002tuber "ONE STEP BEYOND". I love those, also! The only difference, they're 'ALL' based on real events (to a degree)😮!!
I never realized how dark The Outer Limits could get, until I grew up, lol.
Meaning to watch The Outer Limits. So it's recommended then?
Honestly to me, the episode And When the Sky was Opened is the scariest episode because it makes you realize that death isn’t scary. When you die, there is proof of your existence with the people who remember you (who both love and hate you), your personal possessions you leave behind, and even your own body. But to be erased from existence and no one, not even the people with whom you love most, ever remember you being there? That’s is truly scary.
I remember watching one about a little girl who fell into another dimension through the wall next to her bed. As a child at the time, it really bothered me!
After seeing this episode, my brother and I were afraid to go near the walls in our home.
Also,check out how close it was in premise to" Poltergeist ". Richard Matheson could have sued,but he took the high road.
Script was way ahead of its time…dealing with alternate dimensions…which today most quantum physicists agree exist
Me, too.
Yeah, that one scared me too.
For month I was touching the wall near my bed to be sure it was still solid, ready to run if not.
The twilight zone has stood the test of time. While the graphics are cheesy by today's standards, the psychological scare factor still works. The one that scared me the most was "The After Hours" as well as "Talking Tina".
I have a fairly high fright threshold. The only two that I found scary were "22" and "Hitchhiker". My favorite TZ episode was "Midnight Sun" because the acting was off the charts. Lois Nettleton should have one an Emmy for that performance. Scariest thing Rod Serling ever did was 'The Sins of the Fathers" for Night Gallery. That episode was literally too scary for broadcast television...especially in 1972.
"When the Sky Was Opened" and "The Hitch Hiker" are the two most deeply disturbing, coldly chilling eps. of the TZ I've ever seen.
Oh, "And When the Sky Was Opened" is one of my favorites and not many people talk about that one! It certainly got me thinking.
Indeed, those two both seriously creeped me out! Did you know the hitchhiker was originally a radio play by lucile fletcher? You can find it here on UA-cam.
Good choices for scariest episodes. I like Rod Sirling's saying at the end of The Howling Man, "You can catch the Devil but you can't hold him."
The one that scared me as a kid was the one where a kid has a toy phone & gets phone calls from from his dead grandmother. Another one that sticks in my mind is when aliens come to Earth and convince people to go back to their planet with them making them think they’ll be like gods there because they have a book called To Serve Man. I won’t tell you the end. I may have to sleep with the lights on tonight. Lol
Same. Also, remember the one where the old woman kept getting calls from someone who doesn't explain who they are and it's ends up leading back to the cemetery where her husband is buried? Also the bus station where the woman sees her double... Yikes.
With stories as old as those are though, does the idea of "spoilers" actually apply at all? Anyone who has heard of them & hasn't yet seen them are not likely to watch them anyway.
The episode was called, "Long Distance Call", and it starred Bill Mumy. Interesting how two of the three arguably best Twilight Zone episodes starred the young Mr. Mumy. The second episode you mentioned was called, "To Serve Man", and it starred Richard Kiel just before his career as a James Bond villain began.
@@fearlessfosdick160 wow I wouldn’t want to play Trivial Pursuit with you. Lol
To Serve Man gave me the creeps!
"Ugly Duckling"... The reveal of the "MEDICAL STAFF" scared the "BLEEP" out've me the first time I saw it!
That woman in it who was covered up, that was Elly Mae Clampett. That was a good TWZ
@@jack002tuberReally!??? WOW! NEVER knew that. Thank you for ID'ing her.
@@johnc.bojemski1757 Yessirie, Donna Douglas!!
I thought it was called "Eye of the Beholder" though.
@@deborahkeesee7412
I was. It was remade in the next incarnation of TZ. Eighties version . . . not as good, though.
One cannot leave out the one which, for me, is the scariest episode and a very good one as well: "Twenty-two," which might have also been called "Room for one more, honey." It is about a dancer (stripper) who is in the hospital because of her recurrent nightmares about going down to the morgue and a woman coming out and saying "Room for one more, honey." The other really scary episode is one of the hour-long ones, titled "The New Exhibit," which stars Martin Balsam, who spends the night with a group of wax figures all of whom are murderers. Scary stuff.
“Wish him to the cornfield Anthony”
That one. Talking Tina. And the episode where it is an old lady and little aliens are in her home, but it turns out at the end they are humans from Earth where the scariest when I was young.
YES I WATCHED IT ,VERY GOOD CALL GREAT EPISODE.
Agnes Moorhead played the old lady. That episode scared the liver out of me when I was a kid!
@@julesa.5887 I wasn’t expecting that one to be as scary to others. I found it more than the attacking razor, or the girl that went into the wall like in Poltergeist, or the ‘you’re a kid’s toy in a model town.’
Agnes Morehead and the small aliens, that was scary! A good one. No dialog at all
Yes, those are scary episodes as well. "It's a Good Life" and "The Invaders" cover two aspects of terror. In one case it's a person alone facing a terror. In the other it's a whole town facing a terror. It's also a contrast in "The Invaders" the woman prevails. In "It's a Good Life" the townspeople are left trapped with no hope of escape. It's uncertain if there's even a place to escape to.
Talky Tina Approved! 👍
The airplane gremlin has always stayed with me, and made me afraid to get on a plane well into the 70s. Great video, thank you!
"Nightmare at 20,000 Feet"
And half of the terror was the amazing soundtrack that accompanied it! I'm pretty sure it was Bernard Herrmann and his incredible notes.
I have sooooo many episodes of The Twilight Zone on two huge box sets and on normal set. I liked Rod Serling because he wrote about injustice, the hate of the world, and the mental harm of racism in the scary form he was so good at...he entertained us at the same time he was doing his best to help us. The man was a genius!
The Howling Man works on that very real terror that we don't always recognize evil when we see it, sometimes even when we are warned about it. Whether you believe in the devil or not is irrelevant, evil exists in many forms and we are often blind to it until it is too late.
But it's And When The Sky Was Opened that really chilled me. To cease to be in a world that won't remember that you even existed strikes at the heart of our mortality. No matter what we do, we will be forgotten.
Rod Serling was incredible at exploring the human condition. I don't think any other show has ever been able to come close to matching him in that regard, making The Twilight Zone infinitely rewatchable.
Man how great was the Twilight Zone I freaking love that show as a kid I used to always watch The marathons on Channel 11 every year and then I just brought it on Blu-rays just to enjoy this fantastic sci-fi horror TV series over and over literally for me the greatest sci-fi horror series ever thank you Rod Serling an awesome video man I really enjoyed this one.
I haven't had cable for years so I've been missing the 4th of July and New Year marathons. My mom got me the whole series on DVD for my birthday. I can't wait to start my marathon this weekend.
The Twilight Zone is one of the few sci-fi series that prove that "sci-fi" and "horror" don't need to be synonymous. Some episodes have had me rolling on the floor laughing 😂 🤣😂🤣‼️ Some examples are "The Whole Truth" and "The Mighty Casey". And some episodes could warm your heart, such as "I sing the body electric" and "Night of the meek". That was part of the fun of watching The Twilight Zone; you just didn't know what would happen!!!
I loved the episode where Billy Mumy would Wish People into the Cornfield.
Lassie fainted when she saw it. 🤣🤣🤣
A classic!
Billy Mumy and I are the same age. I grew up with him. This episode is classic because Mumy played the scary little shit so well. i was hoping somebody would ring his neck, but, you never get what you ask for.
Amazing how it predicted cancel culture…
@@jack002tuber 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
Nightmare As A Child was great too. An adult meets herself as a child. The child is giving her hints as to her identity but finally says, "I'm you when you were 9 years old."
Omg yes!
The twilight zone had episodes that just freaked me out as a kid. Still does.
Telly Savalas and that talking doll - terrifying to this day and easily the scariest Twilight Zone. This was the predecessor of Chucky and all those possessed doll horror flicks from the 70s and 80s
Talking Tina was our favorite, that and Telly with hair, which is scarier? Tina was bulletproof, we liked the neck sparks.
Also originals of Candace Bergen's father's puppet charlie macarthur...they never answered if he was mocking charlie of Vietnam,😶😓
The last scene after Telly trips over the doll and is lying at the foot of the stairs, and the mother goes to him. The slow-motion photography as she picks up the doll, it talks, and the horror on her face with the realization that her daughter was telling the truth...no comparison. #1
Sterling did a similar story in his tv series "Night Gallery." Only it was based in India and Britain,. Gives me the creeps to this day.
I can't believe you left out the episode in your thumbnail. The powerful kid, with telekinetic power, who has, what's left of a town, under his sadistic & absolte control 👽👹.
I watched this movie starring Ron Howard one time. Ron is a wonderful actor who I first noticed as Opie in the Andy Griffin show. Not only is he still a great actor, he’s a great producer, a director and a screenwriter. He’s still alive at the age of 68. 👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻🎉🎉🎉🥰🥰🥰
Most underrated episode? One of my favorites: Shadow Play.
Shows a man on death row, but it’s actually his recurring nightmare (he’s aware he’s dreaming)-the entire episode is him trying to convince those around him that they are not even real- just elements of his dream. One of the most interesting aspects is how it shows other people, living their own lives, debating with eachother if they really are real or not
There was always a moral of some kind to the story. I learned at a young age that it was OK to have an imagination, which wasn't exactly encouraged at that time. These episodes are timeless, and that's why they are on ME TV now. Young people would do well to watch and learn. And there is so much.
The hitchhiker episode scared me as a kid. he followed her across the country, stalking her... then the plot twist, he was the angel of death letting her know she died.
I was glued to the TV when this was on, as a child. The living doll still freaks me out 50 years later.
I remember the episodes mentioned vividly...also Outer Limits, Night Gallery, and Night Stalker...all great horror shows that gave the imagination a good workout !
I will have to say that "Little Girl Lost", A Nice Place To Visit, A Stopover in a Quiet Town" are also pretty freaky as well.
Little Girl Lost freaked me out for weeks when I first saw it. I was a kid, but still...
Talking Tina was my all time favorite. The Hitchhiker came in second and the little boy talking on the phone his grandmother gave him came in third on my list. "The man that never was," was excellent with Martin Landau. I just don't remember if, it was the Twilight Zone or the Outer Limits. Either way nice reminiscing.
"Man That Never Was" was Outer Limits. GREAT episode.
Glad to see the Howling Man included, one of my favorites.
My favorite was called the howling man. Best dialogue, best photography, best story, best acting. Just fantastic. I've watched EVERY episode.
One I like the best is one of the Last episodes. A Husband and his Wife end up in a neighborhood that they don't recognize. The homes are just fake homes, etc. Another one is about a woman who hears someone calling her from the grave.
The one where the power goes out in the neighborhood and the residents first accuse one then the other (and so on) of being aliens. The Billy Mummy episode of the vid thumbnail is another great one. Also, the "Obsolete Man" and "Time Enough At Last" both starring Burgess Meredith. Meredith).
A lot of the Twilight Zone episodes are scary but many of them are beautiful or sad.
Nightmare as a Child was a good scary, mystery episode that felt like a Hitchcock episode. You know a show is good when you would have a hard time picking a top twenty list because of all of the good/great episodes you would have to leave out.
The word genius gets tossed around a lot these days but Sterling really was. Season 1 alone has almost 40 episodes and half of them are classics!
The episode with Nan Adams who died in a car crash and saw "death" who was attempting to hitch a ride is an episode that I remember all too well. Inger Stevens nailed that role...
For me it's gotta be the one Rod didn't write ,"Its a good life!" Anthony mimics that biblegod perfectly, he's insanely jealous, demands good thoughts about him 24/7, considers it a grave sin if anyone even his mom or dad also paralyzed with mind numbing fear question any evil he does, like dishing out a little of his godlike wrath on any fool who rebels against him. As for that cornfield death jazz via (hell) it's actually a place he stores his many once human trophies...
The first episode mentioned; The Devil in the Monastery cell, scared the hell out of me when I saw it as a kid.
Loved "A stop at Willoughby." Touching and loved the ending.
You love “FOR ALL TIME” with Mark Harmon. You should watch it.
@@cynthiaamitrano8915 must be from the new Twilight Zone series. I'll have to watch it sometime.
They are all great but I was surprised they didn't have 'To Serve Man'.. when I think of the ending I can still get shivers. 😲
I saw the hitchhiker one on TV when the show was new. Most scary thing on TV or a movie I ever saw.
I can remember staying up past my bedtime some nights and just catching a glimpse of the opening theme. That was enough to scare the pants off of me! 🤣
Then the hitch-hiker turned up in "Get Smart" as The Craw!
I was wondering why the picture of Billy Mumy was in the promo but his episode, which was one of the creepiest ever, wasn't included in the list.
The first episode shown Ger, ' The Howling Man' reminds me of a film I watched a few months ago.
'I Teapped the Devil' is about a man who tries to persuade some ftiends that he had trapped the actusl physical Devil in a room. However, when the friends speak to the whoever is behind the locked door, the voice that replies is seemingly that of an injured man. The people think their friend has gone mad and try to persuade him to release this apparently injured man, while he refuses and tries to persuad them that it is actually the Devil. If you want to know what happens, watch the film. It is on Amazon Prime.
June Foray did the voice of the very popular Chatty Cathy doll. My mom's friend had one, and she'd wanted one...until they saw this episode. Chatty Cathy wound up living at the back of her friend's closet, and Mom took it off her Christmas list.
The only one that literally terrified me the most was 'Terror at 20,000 Feet'. Many years ago, I fell asleep with the TV on and woke up just as William Shatner pulled up the shade to reveal that hideous face staring right at him. I nearly fell out of bed!
To this list, I add my new favorite '22', where the poor female nightclub entertainer keeps dreaming about following a hospital nurse at night, down to the basement morgue, only to have that nurse suddenly throw open the door and exclaim with an evil grin "Room for one more, honey!".
Shatner's episode was so scary, it was included in the Twilight Zone Movie and John Lithgow did just as terrific a performance as Shatner. And the gremlin in the movie was much scarier. Serling was a genius!
I remember as a kid, jumping about 5 feet when shatner pulls the curtain and the gremlin has his face against the window!
That episode made shatner a star.
The last clip was so much more terrifying when reprised in the 1983 movie Twilight Zone: The Movie with John Lithgow.
Much more terrifying? ONLY, because it's updated!
But William Shatner was so good in this episode.
The one where the kid disappeared into the wall into another dimension freaked me out when I was a kid
The one with Agnes Moorhead and the little astronaut in her artic, always creeped me out .
That ending blew my mind as a kid!
@@kirnpu 👍🏼
Attic?
One of my favorite episode is the kicking the can....that was creepy 😳
Talking Tina and Nightmare at 20,000 Feet are so vivid in my mind - like I saw them yesterday.
I think there was one episode I've seen years ago that to this day still sends shivers down my spine when I think about it.
It's the one episode where a survivor of a ww2 battleship was rescued and the survivor kept having visions of his dead comrades beckoning him to join them in the ocean. The imagery of his dead comrades just standing together in a group beckoning him towards them was one of creepiest moment I saw on the series.
The best television series of all time.
Not only has it endured the test of time, it spawned a reprisal series,albeit less successful.
I liked the one about the boy talking to his dead grandmother on his toy telephone and Agnes Morehead clobbering invaders in her cabin.
The twilight zone is the best argument for television being art
The original short story of 'It's a Good Life' (by Jerome Bixby) is even more terrifying than the TZ episode. In the short story, the kid is only 3 years old and doesn't really understand what he is doing with his powers. Most of the time, he believes he is helping others by giving them what they desire but it goes horribly wrong. Brilliant writing; a lot is left to the imagination of the reader.
One of the scariest episodes for me is the New Exhibit. It’s about a man who works in a wax museum who is obsessed with the figures of murders and serial killers. I won’t give away the ending but, it really freaked me out when the figurines came to life.
I think that "The Monsters are due on Maple Street" is the scariest, because of it's epilogue. All of the others end with "This is in the Twilight Zone " (or words to that effect). But at the end of this episode, Rod Serling specifically says, (These things CANNOT be confined to The Twilight Zone. "
On the lighter side, did anyone else notice at 3:40, the price of gas in the background ⁉️ Twenty seven CENTS per gallon and thirty two for premium 🤣😂☺️⁉️. Today, that wouldn't buy half a cup of gas!!!
I'm going to save this video and look up all the episodes - see if maybe they playing on Hulu or Netflix.
A lot of them are here on UA-cam- full episodes
My vote for the scariest episode is definitely The Howling Man.
-So be very very good or you may see the Howling man after you pass away. This is why i be sure to be a nice person.
I watched the talking Tina episode when I was about 7 and i believe that's when my fear of dolls started.
Be that as it may, i love horror shows/movies and The Twilight Zone is still one of my favorite tv shows ever.
The very first TZ episode I ever watched on television was The Hitchhiker with the lovely yet tormented Inger Stevens. a truly great episode!
Cool stuff great show.
Way ahead of his time. Rod's genius was a kink for the eerie, macabre, alarming, bizarre; strange events that make you stop and stare away in disbelief and wonder. Everything about the Twilight Zone was iconic. Even to this day when something strange happens someone will intone its creepy score.
The Dummy is also quite scary, as well as Eye of the Beholder, Mirror Image and many others
Death Ship
Death Ship is my favorite Season 4 episode. I just watched it again last week.
@@RerunZone Matheson's eps are sime of my favorites. Serling's On Thursday We Leave for Home is good from season 4, too.
Another superb terrifying ep is Beaumont's "Number 12 Looks Just Like You."
Ahhh, "DEATH SHIP"! One of the 'eight', hour-long, episodes😁!!! With Jack Klugman!! My first choice of the hour-long, episodes. Inger Stevens (who played Nan, as the driver, who gets killed in Pennsylvania, when her tire blows out), plays in another one, a daughter, of rich people, yearning to get away, and see life.
In the past few months I've been listening to the whole series on pod cast...this is amazing.
Great selection. I bought the whole original series on blu-ray a few years ago and I've watched them all a few times. Most of them are no better than the dvd collection. I hope they get remastered with a 4k release. Great selection of Scary episodes but you should have included 'It's a good life'.
"To Serve Man" & "A Nice Place to Visit"
That thumbnail was a misdirection, as the "wish it to the corn field" Billy Mummy episode was not in this list. I agree with your episode picks of the blonde and the hitch hiker as well as Shatner's airplane gremlin. I'd add the episode with the phone call frim the dead fiance's grave to the old woman, the one where Agnes Moorehead is attacked by little robots and the one with blonde that kept dreaming of going to the morgue and it ended being her airplane flight that blew up.
Honorable mentions would be that Billy Mummy corn field, Talking Tina, the blonde that's really a mannequin and the one with the ventriloquist and his dummy.
Room for one more! 😋
You've got that straight about the talking Tina doll episode. That was the scariest thing in my day. A killer doll , and I saw it as a child. 🙄😳🤪
Spoilers ahead if you never saw this episode: There was a creepy story where a woman enters a department store. She is enjoying a day out when she goes into the bargain basement and encounters mannequins. They come alive and tell her that they are waiting for her to return to her place in the department store. She realises then that she is also a maniquin but had been overstaying her monthly day out in the world of the living. She then returns to her place as a mannequin so the next mannequin can have a day out.
The Hitchhiker was first broadcast on a radio show called Suspense. Which starred Orion Wells as Ronald Adams. It one where you don’t want to listen to in the dark.
Rod Serling did a good job adapting it for television. The Twilight Zone has stood the test of time…still can give you chills up the spine.
The rerun Zone home invades your house once-a-year dressed in a red suit with a crazy beard.
I found "The Jungle" very creepy as well. One of the scariest in my book.
I have not missed any of the episodes, i have seen each one over and over again
Excellent list. Richard Matheson was a genius writer of creepy fiction. He wrote the original novella “I Am Legend,” and partnered with Serling on a number of TZ scripts.
Love the original! Time enough at last, is one of my fave episodes.
Richard Matheson wrote books that became movies: I am Legend (Last Man On Earth), What Dreams May come, Bid Time Return (Somewhere in Time), ect.... His son is also a prolific writer in his on right as well!
The Howling Man, Jess Belle, and The Passersby are some of my favorite.
The scariest one for me was the episode about the famous serial murder wax figures from a museum being cared for in an employee's basement.
OMG!!!! I LOVE "The Twilight Zone"!!! I don't know how many times that I have rewatched the whole series! I agreed with everything on the list,except the last one...The monster just makes me laugh!! Is that weird? BTW...LOVE your Content!
Scariest episode for me was The Hitchhiker.