Posted on 01/01/2016 12:08:37 PM PST by Bender2
The 10 best "Twilight Zone" episodes
by Michael Starr
"A Game of Pool" (Originally aired Oct. 13, 1961)
"The Monsters Are Due on Maple Street†(Originally aired March 4, 1960)
"It's a Good Life" (Originally aired Nov. 3, 1961)
"Nightmare at 20,000 Feet" (Originally aired Oct. 11, 1963)
"The Fever" (Originally aired Jan. 29, 1960)
"Living Doll" (Originally aired Nov. 1, 1963)
"Twenty Two" (Originally aired Feb. 10, 1961)
"And When the Sky Was Opened" (Originally aired Dec. 11, 1959)
"Will the Real Martian Please Stand Up?" (Originally aired May 26, 1961)
"A Piano in the House" (Originally aired Feb. 16, 1962)
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IMO "To Serve Man" was second best. "The Hunt" (again, thanks for the pictures with captions; I didn't recall the title of that episode) was the best episode ever.
Actually it was the best episode of any regular TV program, ever, in my (our) opinion.
And “Two” with Bronson/Montgomery.
“To Serve Man” has to be included. It is the Platonic ideal of a Twilight Zone episode. And yes, that’s despite serious plot holes. Great fables and myths are allowed to have plot holes. “To Serve Man ... it’s a cookbook!” Should be in Bartlett’s Familiar Quotations if it isn’t already.
However, your list omits “It’s a Good Life”. Cheesy special effects aside, it is a great story with an all time great child actor performance by Billy Mumy. You KNOW it is so good because we can see what happens when the whole story debunking the notion of children as innocent noble savages gets ruined in the movie version by Steven Spielberg.
The Invaders with the wonderful Agnes Moorehead was the best Twilight zone. Season 2, Episode 15
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0734648/
“When a woman investigates a clamor on the roof of her rural house, she discovers a small UFO and little aliens emerging from it. Or so it seems.”
LOL, be nice or I’ll post the Helen Thomas version!
Okay, "The Grave" 
was pretty good with early Lee Marvin, Lee Van Cleef, Strother Martin & James Best but no top ten.
Lee Marvin's other Twilight Zone was "Steel" 
that I liked but not as a top favorite. Nor did I go see Hugh Jackman's recent take on robot boxers in his 2011 Real Steel film.
Good picks, but I have to add “Eye of the Beholder”.
I’ve always like The Twilight Zone. It is startling to see so many of the characters smoking on camera. I think that a reboot of the show could still do well.
Great movie.
I was looking for the one of a different lady reporter (don’t remember her name) shoving her face of somebody’s auto, back in the day.
It was a great study in believing you control your own destiny, and to not be paralyzed by what others say or think.
-PJ
Yes!
That and The Hunt are my top two.
A good cross over episode of TZ and Third Rock From the Sun when John Lithgow and Shatner (the Big Giant Head) talk about being on an airplane.
clip/ “https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_OF2uOy5r5k";
Thank you! I was trying to remember the name of that episode. Moorehead was brilliant in it, with no dialogue at all.
Like everybody, I used to love Twilight Zone.
But now, being objective, most don’t make any sense.
“You're a bad man! You're a VERY... 
bad man!"
But I cannot say Bill Mumy's "It's a Good Lufe" was one of my favorites even with an early Cloris Leachman in it.
The Outer Limits scared me.
TZ was more contemplative.
” Moorehead was brilliant in it, with no dialogue at all.”
Indeed...a rare performance. I couldn’t remember the name either and it took some digging.
That one gave me nightmares for weeks as a kid
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