twilight zone

I'm logged in for the third time today and I've only just realised it is apparently Twilight Zone Day for some reason. I've never actually seen this programme and am desperate to see some of it. Has anyone here actually seen this show?

One of the greatest shows ever. I remember they used to show a marathon of it every Thanksgiving. My favorite episode was the one where the normal looking women (to us) was the freak among a world inhabited by disfigured people.

It's a brilliant show. Entertaining, thought-provoking, intelligent and eerie. They tried to remake it and bring it back recently but it just didn't work.

There was an episode that aired in 1964 called "Number Twelve Looks Just Like You" where a young girl is forced to undergo a "transformation" on her 19th birthday and I had the opportunity to watch it a year or two ago. And it amazed me how much foresight the writers of the show had.

"Given the chance, what young girl wouldn't happily exchange a plain face for a lovely one? What girl could refuse the opportunity to be beautiful? For want of a better estimate, let's call it the year 2000. At any rate, imagine a time in the future when science has developed a means of giving everyone the face and body he dreams of. It may not happen tomorrow - but it happens now in the Twilight Zone."

"Number Twelve Looks Just Like You" is a episode that stems from "Beauty is in the Eye of the Beholder" which is the episode that Yamaneko is talking about. But I like Number Twelve more because it was so spot on in it's prediction for the future of cosmetic surgery.

The one that always freaked me out was the episode where those tiny aliens land in the atic of that old women's house in the middle of nowhere. I believe there's no dialogue in the entire episode (she's sort of a hermit). I didn't quite understand the meaning, if there was any meaning behind it.

i've been on some of twilight zone websites and read up on many of the episodes. The guys writing the show back then were so imaginative. There were particular episodes that interested me such as 'Little Girl Lost', 'Living Doll', 'To Serve Man', 'Nervous man in $4 room', 'It's a Good Life'. I live in England and there doesn't seem to be a way I can watch this show which is almost a crying shame

In the 7th grade, we put on a play based on the episode "The Monsters Are Due on Maple Street." I was townsperson #5 or something. :D

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Originally Posted by Miriel

In the 7th grade, we put on a play based on the episode "The Monsters Are Due on Maple Street." I was townsperson #5 or something. :D

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must've been one of the duller episodes. There is way too much need for SFX in some of the best of these shows

It wasn't a dull episode. And the best of the Twilight Zone episodes don't require any special effects, the ones that deal with human interaction and psychology are the most interesting I think. "The Monsters Are Due on Maple Street" deals mostly with mob mentality and the fact that humans are their own worst enemies.

*moves to The Lounge*

I love this show. The original series with Rod Serling was the best, but the new one is just as good.

To Serve Humans is one that I will always remember. Not sure if that's the actual title for that episode though. :cat:

This is the second best vintage show ever. If you can call it vintage. Also, the only Sci-Fi show I've ever enjoyed watching.

"The Monsters Are Due on Maple Street" was supposed to be a commentary on McCarthyism, I think. I like the end of that one. It's just the aliens manipulating the electricty from afar that produced distrust within the community.

Man I love that show.
They show old episodes on Sci-Fi all the time.
There was one I saw called "the Gift" I think about an alien that came down to a mexican villiage and some happens and they distrust him and kill him and it turns out they brought them the cure for cancer but burned it.
Yeah I liked that one.