I'm going to say it. The Twilight Zone was one of the greatest TV shows of all time.

[AZLD4Candidate]

[Anon-C]

1. It is missed!

[rurallib]

2. When some network tried to revive it (80s? 90s?)

it just didn't have the same punch.
I once heard it described as "Rod Serling's little morality plays."

[Phoenix61]

3. That and Rod Serling's Night Gallery. Nt

[AZLD4Candidate]

4. Some are scary, some are uplifting, some are dramatic, some are satisfying in their conclusion,

and some are just damn depressing. "The Purple Testament“ is one that will make you say onions are in the room.

[PoindexterOglethorpe]

5. I'm old enough to have seen the original Twilight Zone

when it was first aired.

It was absolutely amazing. Especially for the time.

[AZLD4Candidate]

7. Rewatch "The Monsters are Due on Maple Street" and you'll see what people are doing over COVID19

[Ocelot II]

6. I loved that show!

Watched it as a kid, scared the crap out of myself.

[rsdsharp]

8. I was about eight when I watched the opening scene of

The Last Rites of Jeff Myrtlebank. I damn near levitated!

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[hotdamn00]

18. That's Sheriff Roscoe P. Coltrane in the box :)

[lucca18]

9. I loved that show!

[kimbutgar]

10. Watched a show yesterday that made me look it up today on IMDB

That show is so relevant even today!

METV has it that comes on antenna tv.

[yaesu]

11. And Serling was a great writer/producer. Through his show he was able to bring up topics

that weren't politically correct at the time like racism. He was traumatized by his experiences fighting in the Pacific & that fueled his art.

[Tom Yossarian Joad]

12. So many favorite episodes.

[First Speaker]

13. Some were great...

...some of the best TV ever produced. Some were OK. And some, to be honest, were dreadful tomato-surprise endings of concepts so gawdawful and cliched that any actual science-fiction editor, even back then, would have seen the "surprise ending" on page one of the manuscript and tossed it in the garbage can without a second thought. They actually used the Adam-was-an-astronaut bit! And many of the best episodes, usually taut, noirish tales taking place at the time, the mid-century, were based on actual SF short stories, or written by SF pros--Richard Matheson and Charles Beaumont, especially. But glory to Serling, for recognizing good material and using good writers. And glory to black and white. The thought of the original TZ in color is ghastly, as we saw when they remade it in the 80s...

[90-percent]

14. a national treasure

recording it on dvr, programmed for every episode on syfy network.

watching one or two episodes a day. a lot more entertaining than the insipid pop drivel on most modern contrived TV shows.

i recently re-discovered TZ and I remember it from my childhood, but I didn't have enough life experience to appreciate it.

Every single show is compelling, entertaining and some times utterly chilling. nice to watch worthwhile imaginative well made tv created by CRAFTSMAN.

I have more appreciation now for my dad's years in the making collection of "Fantasy and Science Fiction" pocket magazines of the 50's and 60's.

-90% Jimmy

[AverageOldGuy]

15. And now . . .

. . . the Republican Party is living in the Twilight Zone.

[nuxvomica]

16. The "It's a Good Life" episode is about today's Republican Party

They're all afraid to be banished to the cornfield.

[Codifer]

17. Agreed

I was, by coincidence, thinking just an hour or so ago that one of the great aspects of The Twilight Zone is that the writing was derived (my perception) from radio mystery script style. I loved listening to Radio Mystery Theater in those days when radio was still wonderful. This ended sometime in the late sixties or early seventies when fascists bought everything and began to just broadcast hate. In the fifties I used to listen to "the Six Shooter" with Jimmy Stewart as well as Gunsmoke and a slew of others that were immensely absorbing. Even into the early eighties I remember listening to mysteries while driving 20 miles north of "The Loneliest Highway in the U.S" in northern Nevada.

Miss that.

[ornotna]

19. Agreed

I always look forward to when they have a TZ marathon on TV.

[MyOwnPeace]

20. Ground-breaking indeed..........

you have to wonder what Serling would do now what with the phenomenal advances in technology, not to mention the added money available for producing each show/series.

Another 'tribute' should be put out there for Ernie Kovacs - an innovator in his own right - pushing the edge in a new and exciting medium.

[Dirtdude]

21. I just had to

I really tried to resist posting but I failed
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[smirkymonkey]

22. Totally agree!

I just started re-watching the episodes again. It was a brilliant show.

[burrowowl]

23. Loved the Twilight Zone!