The Twilight Zone

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If this link works, the episode is The Monsters are Due on Maple Street.
To Serve Man has to be near the top of the list, though.
 
So many great ones.

Terror at 10,000 Feet is great. William Shatner overacting and still the gremlin has its way.

Night Call.

The Howling Man is pretty top notch stuff. If the monk says leave the prisoner alone, leave the prisoner alone.

There is probably a list somewhere linking all the TZ plots to subsequent movies that 'borrowed' from them. It is probably a long list.

Nevermind all of the great actors, leading and character, that graced the show.
 
Eye of the Beholder scared the beejesus out of me when I was a kid. Also scary to me was one where the department store mannequins came to life. I liked the one with the gremlin and Capt.Kirk. I still make remarks about not closing the window shade on a plane. You know there will be a gremlin looking at you when you raise it up!
 
I'm a huge Twilight Zone buff.

My favs are:

1) The one where the guy that loves to read finally gets his wish in a post-apocalyptic world only to break his glasses just as he sits down to read.
2) The one where a neighborhood thinks its under alien attack and begins to go all anarchist on each other only to realize they actually were being played against one-another by aliens.

The newer Twilight Zone episodes (80's and 90's) had a couple of good one's as well.

1) There was an episode where people were seeing faces in the walls. Can't remember all the specifics but it was terrifying as a child.
2) Also one where a guy addicted to smoking makes a deal where he loses big-time if he gets caught smoking. They end up taking his family, house and then, if memory serves, identity.
 
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Walking Distance - executive (Gig Young) visits the town he grew up in and goes back to his past. (If only it were that easy).

The Bewitchin'Pool - 2 kids escape their divorcing parent's world by swimming to the bottom of a pool and into a nicer place.

The Silence - a man bets he can quit talking for a year.

Will The Real Martian Please Stand Up - stranded bus travelers in a diner notice that there's one more of them than was on the bus.

Dead Man's Shoes - A bum finds a slain gangster's shoes and then takes on another personality.

Of Late I Think of CliffordsVille - Rich man cuts deal with the devil to go back and do it all again (and screws it up).
 
Anyone remember "Night Gallery", a TZ-like show that was on for about a year or two in the 70s? I think it was produced and hosted by Serling. There was an episode guest-starring Telly Savalas, IIRC, involving a spooky looking doll that was downright bad dream-inducing for me.
 
Knoxville, the #2 episode on your list is the one I mentioned, The Monsters are Due on Maple Street. The ending is so classic.
 
Got it Accurate. I guess great minds think alike.

I'm actually in the process of writing a book of short, Twilight Zone-esque stories. I've got three pretty good one's with twists at the end. I've related the plots to some of my friends and they seem pretty impressed. The stories actually came to me in my dreams so I can't say that I'm all that creative - at least when awake.
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Sp many great ones in the ("To Serve Man"). There was one really great episode in the 80s version --"Nightcrawlers," directed by William Friedkin (!!). Goole it, and there are also videos online (I think in 2 parts because of the length). Basically, a Vietnam Vet shows up in a country diner, and is trying to stay awake because every time he falls asleep...well, watch the video.
 
Wasn't there one where some old codger was out in the sticks, in a deserty area, and the tumbleweeds started blowing around and they would erupt into fire when they hit things? Anyone know the title of that one? The was a creepy concept.
 
I truly believe most science fiction movies are based on this series. But here is my list:

Eye of the Beholder
A Penny for Your Thoughts - A man (Dick York) gains the ability to read minds when a coin he flips stands on its edge.
The Odyssey of Flight 33 - An airliner traveling from London to New York travels back in time.
The Obsolete Man - In a future totalitarian society where books have been banned, librarian Romney Wordsworth (Burgess Meredith) is put on trial for the crime of being obsolete.
To Serve Man.

Just to name a few.
 
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