The original Twilight Zone, which aired from the fall of 1959 through the spring of 1964 on CBS, is one of my all-time favorite television series. Rod Serling, the cigarette-smoking-and-gesturing host, also wrote many of the episodes and was instrumental a few years later with the similar Night Gallery. The Twilight Zone is also fixed in its time: two of my favorite episodes, And When the Sky Was Opened and Where is Everybody?, came out in 1959, after the Soviet and American space programs began but before any human was launched into space: these episodes speculated on the consequences of such ventures. The Bewitching Pool was the first Twilight Zone episode I ever saw, back in the early 60s when I was little: shown past my bedtime, I sneaked into the hallway and surreptitiously watched it with my parents, who sat around the corner in the living room unaware of my presence. Well, here's the list of my top 100 episodes out of the 156 made. And just because an episode appears low on the list doesn't mean I didn't like it: I deliberately cut it off at 100 to exclude those shows I disliked. Most of the episodes were thirty minutes long; those few from the fourth season that lasted an hour I've marked with an asterisk (*). Here's a link to the Wikipedia article about this series: [link]. If you'd like to read about a particular episode, you can copy and paste the title from below onto Wikipedia's search engine...all Twilight Zone episodes have individual Wikipedia articles...
1 And When the Sky Was Opened
2 Little Girl Lost
3 Mirror Image
4 The Odyssey of Flight 33
5 The Purple Testament
6 The Mind and the Matter
7 The Hitch-Hiker
8 Death Ship*
9 Will the Real Martian Please Stand Up ?
10 Twenty Two
11 Time Enough at Last
12 The Masks
13 Hocus Pocus and Frisby
14 The Prime Mover
15 A Stop at Willoughby
16 A Piano in the House
17 The After Hours
18 Elegy
19 What You Need
20 Passage on the Lady Anne*
21 A Game of Pool
22 The Last Flight
23 The Trouble with Templeton
24 Miniature*
25 The Quality of Mercy
26 Nightmare at 20,000 Feet
27 Midnight Sun
28 A Hundred Yards Over the Rim
29 The Old Man in the Cave
30 A World of Difference
31 Shadow Play
32 Death's Head Revisited
33 Changing of the Guard
34 Mr. Denton on Doomsday
35 The Mighty Casey
36 Four O'clock
37 Nick of Time
38 The Hunt
39 The Bewitching Pool
40 Where is Everybody?
41 Garrity and the Graves
42 Stopover in a Quiet Town
43 A Kind of Stopwatch
44 A Penny for Your Thoughts
45 The Little People
46 To Serve Man
47 On Thursday We Leave for Home*
48 Mr. Bevis
49 The Fugitive
50 Spur of the Moment
51 A Most Unusual Camera
52 The Invaders
53 The Jeopardy Room
54 A World of His Own
55 Of Late I Think of Cliffordville*
56 The Chaser
57 Kick the Can
58 The Jungle
59 The Thirty-Fathom Grave*
60 Nervous Man in a Four-Dollar Room
61 The Fear
62 Walking Distance
63 Printer's Devil*
64 Long Live Walter Jameson
65 A Thing About Machines
66 The Valley of the Shadow*
67 You Drive
68 Person or Persons Unknown
69 Perchance to Dream
70 An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge
71 The Howling
72 I Sing the Body Electric
73 He's Alive*
74 The Fever
75 Showdown with Rance McGrew
76 The Living Doll
77 The 7th is Made Up of Phantoms
78 Five Characters in Search of an Exit
79 A Nice Place to Visit
80 Once Upon a Time
81 People Are Alike All Over
82 Eye of the Beholder
83 The Whole Truth
84 One More Pallbearer
85 Black Leather Jackets
86 It's a Good Life
87 Third from the Sun
88 The Obsolete Man
89 Nightmare as a Child
90 Nothing in the Dark
91 The Incredible World of Horace Ford*
92 The Lonely
93 Uncle Simon
94 Man in the Bottle
95 Mr. Dingle the Strong
96 Dust
97 Dead Man's Shoes
98 The Rip Van Winkle Caper
99 Escape Clause
100 From Agnes with Love
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