Favorite OG twilight zone episode?

probably The Hitch-Hiker, still maybe the most well done and genuinely goosebump-inducing ghost story I've ever experienced. That or I Shot An Arrow Into The Air (pic related.)

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>(even though the rest of the movie sucks)
Nah, the It's A Good Life segment is great as well.

The one where the guy keeps coming back when someone puts on his shoes was good, even though I think the idea behind the episode couldve been executed in a better way

The one where the astronaut becomes a zoo pet for aliens

The one where the plane enters an alternate world and they're running low of fuel

I thought it was absolute garbage. Completely ruined the entire point of the original. I wanted to throw stuff at the screen during that ending.

I think in some ways we have. Then again, the general landscape of television was much lower quality in those days. Honestly I don't know how they got away with some of the stuff they did. But it's telling in some way that every attempted Twilight Zone reboot or revival through the decades has been awful. I haven't tried the most recent Jordan Peele one yet but I don't have high hopes.

>The one where the guy keeps coming back when someone puts on his shoes
My god they play that exact same piece of music every five seconds until it drills a HOLE IN YOUR BRAIN but otherwise a pretty good one

Rod Serling was a fucking genius

Twilight Zone or The Outer Limits?

>Jordan Peele one
Dont bother, it's so bad it might even taint the image of the original.

imho The Outer Limits was even more spotty than Twilight Zone - and that's saying a lot - but it did have some genuinely great ones.

Clearly you haven't seen the other revivals.

That's what I was afraid of. God damnit, why can't they just leave it alone? It's like my favorite show ever and they keep molesting it.

The one where Jordan Peele milks his 15 minutes of fame for all it's worth

What was the worst episode?

Best: Little Girl Lost
Worst: I Sing The Body Electric

The hour long ones tend to be really tedious. There's a reason they switched back. Although the ghost ship one is pretty good.

The first two episodes sucked, but most anthology shows have pretty wildly variable quality. The original Twilight Zone is mostly good because Serling was extremely involved. My guess is this'll end up like the other two revivals, where most episodes are bad or forgettable with a few great ones sprinkled in.

>15 minutes of fame
I doubt it. I think we're going to endure another one of his projects every couple of years for the foreseeable future. And the critics will continue to praise him. For some reason.

Yeah the Mr Dingle and to serve man ones are mostly for laughs. Like the humans just decide to get on the ships and leave lol.

When I heard Peele was going to be doing the whole narrator bit like Rod Serling did, that's when I knew it was going to suck. You can't recreate that. It was a product of its time, and also you can't replace Rod Serling. His mannerisms, his choice of words, that's what made it work. I imagine Peele doing it just comes across as precious and corny.

Mirror Image or On Thursday We Leave For Home

Also let's not forget this classic bit of dialogue:
>No, I mean on EARTH, what time is it on EARTH?
>On earth, it is noon.
Mr. Serling, did you forget about how the sun works?

It works better than I thought it would, but it didn't feel natural at all, just feels like homage.

The one with the mannequins is really good. Also the one where the guy who works at the bank can read minds.

The Howling Man. I love the way it's shot, with all the dutch angles and stuff. And it's genuinely creepy, although you have to not question it very much and just kind of go with it.

The main guy really hammed it up in the framing scenes though. I can't even watch those parts now without laughing.

Obsolete Man will always be my favorite. But for an emotional gut punch Long Distance Call

are any night gallery episodes worth watching?

Decent writing more often than not alongside mindfuck plots and atmosphere.

Mannequins one was good. My favorite was Mr. Denton on Doomsday

The Obsolete Man
The Masks
One For the Angels
Uncle Simon
Walking Distance
The Howling man
The Gift
The Invaders
Last Night of a Jockey
Five Characters in Search of an Exit

The Lonely

Hard to name just one but...
Season one: Third from the sun
Season two: the howling man
Season three: the hunt
Season four: of late i think of Cliffordville
Season five: In praise of pip.
Im sure there is another onebi like even more butbi cant think of it or them

god i love the white twilight zone

It understood the human condition extremely well and tapped into pure imagination to deliver stories with some deep emotional resonance. Obviously Rod Serling was the biggest factor, and his writing along with his worldview worked great together. It was kind of an idealistic modernism combined with a belief that man was very flawed at its core while still having something in common and good at its core. Serling outright said what he was going for, and wasn’t afraid to believe the world could easily be a great place to live in if humanity behaved better but was aware that was unlikely.

Night Visions

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>When I heard Peele was going to be doing the whole narrator bit like Rod Serling did, that's when I knew it was going to suck.

Disagree about that. Pretty much all horror anthologies have had narrators. It's sort of a tradition. I liked Get Out, but Peele doesn't have the right persona for a horror anthology host. He definitely doesn't have the right voice.

>horror anthologies

horror and sci-fi*

>dude ironic punishment lmao

Night Visions is definitely not anywhere near the quality of either of those IMO, but holy fuck was that a great episode! There were actually some other pretty good Night Visions episodes, too, now that I think about it.

>tfw no Amish cannibal gf

The one where the big sized astronauts find the little people and one of the astronauts goes crazy with power then gets stepped on by an even bigger astronaut

Forgot the name of it but there is this one where an old man is supposed to die but refuses so death decides to kill a little girl instead so then the old man distracts death for long enough for him to miss his appointment to kill her. Its not really as serious as the others ones and is pretty comfy

I remember going "get the fuck out of here!" at the end of Will The Real Martian Please Stand Up youtube.com/watch?v=kHomWdiXch0

Episode 146 "I am the Night - Color me Black" is probably one of the most kino things to ever appear on television.

>The Obsolete Man
Pure kino

Probably The Shelter, for being the consummate depiction of what goes down when The Happening finally happens.

>What you are about to watch is a nightmare. It is not meant to be prophetic, it need not happen, it's the fervent and urgent prayer of all men of good will that it never shall happen. But in this place, in this moment, it does happen. This is the Twilight Zone.

Agreed.

Rod Sterling had the gravitas of a man who despite having witnessed abject sadism and inhumanity in his life remained deeply compassionate and convicted in his reverence for the dignity of mankind. Before a single word of his writing had ever been published or broadcast he experienced some of the worst combat conditions in the history of warfare fighting in the pacific theater of WWII. To emphasize:

>In November 1944, his division first saw combat, landing in the Philippines. The 11th Airborne Division would not be used as paratroopers, however, but as light infantry during the Battle of Leyte. It helped mop up after the five divisions that had gone ashore earlier.

>For a variety of reasons, Serling was transferred to the 511th's demolition platoon, nicknamed "The Death Squad" for its high casualty rate. According to Sergeant Frank Lewis, leader of the demolitions squad, "He screwed up somewhere along the line. Apparently he got on someone's nerves."
>When portions of the city were taken from Japanese control, local civilians sometimes showed their gratitude by throwing parties and hosting banquets. During one of these parties, Serling and his comrades were fired upon, resulting in many soldier and civilian deaths. Serling, still a private after three years, caught the attention of Sergeant Lewis when he ran into the line of fire to rescue a performer who had been on stage when the artillery started firing.

>As it moved in on Iwabuchi's stronghold, Serling's regiment had a 50% casualty rate, with over 400 men killed. Serling was wounded and three comrades were killed by shrapnel from rounds fired at his roving demolition team by an antiaircraft gun. He was sent to New Guinea to recover but soon returned to Manila to finish "cleaning up".

This is the sort of guy you need to present high-concept Sci-Fi/fantasy meditations on enduring significance of the human condition at odds with accelerating modernity. By contrast, who the fuck is Jordan Peele?

The Howling Man, easily

The first that come to mind, although there are many more, are

>The Howling Man
>A Stop at Willoughby

I like media that makes me think, not media that tells me how to think

Yes. Just keep in mind it didn't age well because of the move to color. Generally I'd say the ones based on Short Stories are pretty good.

Was this the greatest show ever? It's up there with Twin Peaks, Classic Simpsons, and Andy Griffith for me.

Damn

First episode I saw, still my favorite.

Name one show or movie that does that.

>andy griffith
Not being rude, but how does that one figure in with the others? AFAIK the Andy Griffith show is best known for it use as a strawman in that one /pol/ pic.

Am I retarded if I never really understood "Terror at 50,000 feet" ? I like the episode but I never understood if it was more than
>man freaks out cause there's something on the wing... OR IS THERE???????

>who the fuck is Jordan Peele?
some african american comedian who thinks hes suffered oppressed due to his skin colour in the 21st century lmao

not even like he suffered real oppression by being black in jim crowe south, let alone the pacific front in the worst battles, its a true shame rod sterling never got a full budget and creative freedom to write and create

The Obsolete Man. Hands down.

>AFAIK the Andy Griffith show is best known for it use as a strawman in that one /pol/ pic.

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Andy Taylor is a moral paragon.

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the theme song is pretty connected with nude old men now

The ending shows you the damaged wing and that he wasn't crazy but everyone else dismissed him because he had a breakdown on another flight in the past.

oh, thanks user I thought it was just part of the "WELL MAYBE?? WHO KNOWS? YOU'VE BEEN TWILIGHT ZONE'D"

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Well written sci-fi short stories are always pure kino, Twilight Zone is just a TV version of the Illustrated Man or similar

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He got a lot more creative freedom for the budget he was allowed than anyone in modern times. He and the twilight zone are specifically a product of a very fleeting and unusual time and place of America in the 1950s and 60s where the most unprecedented distribution of wealth, the broadest liberty of conscience and expression, and the greatest technological advancement in the media of communication ever seen since the advent of the printing press happened to intersect. You'd be hard pressed to find an example of a similarly independent-minded writer or director as prolific as Rod Sterling working in the last 50 years.

Based

Well they flew through the Twilight Zone and landed safely but not without any damage. Be it on the plane or in Shatner's brain.

>Decent writing
thats an understatement, watching all these new and reimagined shows being created at one hundred milles per hour and forgetting to actually have a story to tell

And when the sky was opened
after hours
walking distance

Why is the intro song so fucking good?

When will they learn?

Fucking kek.

imho, the only ones that even come close in terms of spook factor are "Tales from the Dark Side," "Unsolved Mysteries," and "The X-Files."

>Walking Distance
Absolute best. Ending made me cry.

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Nothing In The Dark
The Lonely
Nick Of Time

!!!FACT!!!

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>Twilight Zone or The Outer Limits?

How is that even a question?!? The first three seasons of TZ are arguably the greatest the medium has ever produced while season's 4 and 5 are only good but still blow away pretty much everything done since.

The Outer Limits was boring shit because the hour long format fucking draaaaaaaggggssss. TZ worked best at 30 minutes that let them set up the premise play it through and add a twist. When they went to the hour long format for season 4 it sucked shit because they had to pad the fuck out of the stories to fill the runtime. Season 5 went back to 30 minutes and was better for it.

Outer Limits episodes just go on and on. 30 minutes is ideal but if you have a story that warrants extra time them do it as a two-parter!!!FACT!!!

Just wait for the /pol/tards to come running to talk shit about Serling. They always do!!!FACT!!!

The ventriloquist one

I just started watching it and noticed like every episode after the first one is just some supernatural being making a some Faustian deal with the protagonist (Death, Fate, the Devil).

[Spoiler]I *am* a /pol/tard nigger[/spoiler]

The episode with the chick in the bus station, or the one where the guy travels back in time and alters the future (changing the butler in the gentleman's club into the owner)

The Masks

The one with the old woman in the farmhouse and the tiny spacemen still probably has the best ending in the whole show

>[Spoiler]I *am* a /pol/tard nigger[/spoiler]

Imposter. /pol/tards HATE Serling because he preaches equality and fairness. Or maybe you're a closet faggot who craves nigger cock in secret, ADMIT IT, YOU THIRST YOU NUBIAN CUM DON'T YOU, DON'T WAIT FOR THE TRANSLATION, ANSWER ME NOW!!!FACT!!! youtu.be/rh_KyO4uifc

there are like 6 episodes like that at best in the entirety of the first season, user, and that's stretching it

Serling did the voiceover intro to Brian DePalma's Phantom of the Paradise!!!FACT!!! youtu.be/j12CcYNPZDA

One for the Angels is probably my favorite