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Inspired by Carl's Sci-Fi Experience 2010, I wanted to discuss The Twilight Zone original series and list a few of my favorite episodes. I always like watching these and every New Year's Day is spent watching several episodes on the SyFy Network, who runs thier marathon. There's something about Rod Serling's introduction, and the episodes themselves, that's fun and creepy mixed together. There's usually a lesson taught in the episodes, like not to take things for granted or that things aren't always what they seem.



One of my favorites is Terror At 20,000 Feet. William Shatner stars in it and there's a creepy gremlin like creature taunting him from the wing of the plane. Nobody believes him and he starts to doubt his own sanity.

Portrait of a frightened man: Mr. Robert Wilson, thirty-seven, husband, father, and salesman on sick leave. Mr. Wilson has just been discharged from a sanitarium where he spent the last six months recovering from a nervous breakdown, the onset of which took place on an evening not dissimilar to this one, on an airliner very much like the one in which Mr. Wilson is about to be flown home - the difference being that, on that evening half a year ago, Mr. Wilson's flight was terminated by the onslaught of his mental breakdown. Tonight, he's traveling all the way to his appointed destination, which, contrary to Mr. Wilson's plan, happens to be in the darkest corner of the Twilight Zone.

Will the Real Martian Please Stand Up? is another favorite.
During a snowstorm two policemen investigate a crash that they saw and believe to be a UFO. They wind up at a Diner near the crash and try to figure out which one of the people inside is an alien.

Wintry February night, the present. Order of events: a phone call from a frightened woman notating the arrival of an unidentified flying object, and the check-out you've just witnessed with two state troopers verifying the event, but with nothing more enlightening to add beyond evidence of some tracks leading across the highway to a diner. You've heard of trying to find a needle in a haystack? Well, stay with us now and you'll be a part of an investigating team whose mission is not to find that proverbial needle- no, their task is even harder. They've got to find a Martian in a diner, and in just a moment, you'll search with them, because you've just landed in the Twilight Zone.

Stopover in a Quiet Town. A couple wakes up in a deserted town the morning after a night out, and has no idea where they are. When they try to leave town, the train doesn't work and mysteriously, everything in town is fake and proplike, the grass, the shrubs, the telephones....

Bob and Millie Frasier: average young New Yorkers who had attended a party in the country last night, and on the way home, took a detour. Most of us, on waking in the morning, know exactly where we are; the rooster or the alarm clock brings us out of sleep into the familiar sights, sounds, aromas of home and the comfort of a routine day ahead. Not so with our young friends. This will be a day like none they've ever spent, and they'll spend it in the Twilight Zone.

The Bewitchin' Pool. Two young children are neglected by thier rich parents, who are constantly fighting. The kids wind up finding another dimension by swimming deep inside thier swimming pool. They find an alternate world where a kind elderly woman treats them well and wants to keep them.

A swimming pool not unlike any other pool, a structure built of tile and cement and money, a backyard toy for the affluent, wet entertainment for the well-to-do. But to Jeb and Sport Sharewood, this pool holds mysteries not dreamed of by the building contractor, not guaranteed in any sales brochure. For this pool has a secret exit that leads to a never-neverland, a place designed for junior citizens who need a long voyage away from reality, into the bottomless regions of the Twilight Zone.

The After Hours. A woman is looking for a gold thimble in a department store winds up on the ninth floor, which turns out doesn't even exist. The mannequins in this one really creep me out.

Miss Marsha White on the ninth floor, specialties department, looking for a gold thimble. The odds are she'll find it, but there are even better odds that she'll find something else, because this isn't just a department store. This happens to be the Twilight Zone.

I'll stop with that one, or else this will turn into an extremely long post. But, is it normal to have a Rod Serling crush? lol.

Have you watched any of the Twilight Zone episodes? If not, I recommend watching, you might just get hooked on it too.