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Top 10 Episodes
1. It's a Good Life
Billy Mumy is the little kid who wishes things into the
corn field that he doesn't like. Mumy appears as Anthony
Freemont and one day in Peaksville Ohio the world changed.
Anthony only wanted pleasant things. Anthony doesn't like Tv,
singing or laughing. At a birthday celebration someone is
given a Perry Como record but he can't play it because Anthony
doesn't want to hear it.
2. A Stop At Willoughby
Willoughby, a place many of us may think about but a place
we'll never find. Mr. Gart Williams, a man in his late 30's
would take the train home each night. He would fall asleep on
the train and while dreaming he would dream of this place
Willoughby. This was a place were life was much simpler. He
finally decided to get off at Willoughby one day and had the
time of his life in the dream. The next day while dreaming he
thought he was getting off at Willoughby, but he actually
jumped off the train and killed himself. The ambulance was
from Willoughby and Son funeral home.
3. Nightmare at 20,000 feet
William Shatner has a memorable performance in this
Twilight Zone episode. Shatner is in an airplane and sees a
creature fooling around with the plane. Every time he tries to
show someone the creature disappears. Shatner then tries to
get out of the plane and go after the creature. Once on the
ground he is hauled away to the hospital, after examining the
plane you could see it was tampered with.
4. Miniature
Robert Duval stars in this one hour Twilight Zone. Duval
plays Charley Parkes another guy who wants to escape the real
world. He is fascinated by a display at a local museum. The
display shows miniature people going through every day life.
The one beautiful lady in the display is not always treated
very good by others. The Duval character falls in love with
this miniature lady. One day he turns up missing, his doctor
and family go to the museum but can't find him, a security
guard looks down at the display and sees him now in miniature
size as part of the display.
5. Long Distance Call
This episode is another that features Lost In Space star
Billy Mumy. In this episode he is 6 year old named Billy who
has a dying grandmother. The grandmother gives Billy a toy
telephone and her voice comes across this phone after she has
died. One day Billy runs out into the swimming pool and almost
dies, his father goes to this toy phone to tell his dead mom
to give him his son back.
6. Person Or Persons Unknown
David Gurney was an identity theft victim long before the
internet was invented. One day after a party Dave & wife
who were pretty blasted came home and went to bed. When Dave
got up he called to his wife, she screamed and told him to get
out. She said she never saw him in her life. Everywhere he
went this happened to him, his buddy the bartender didn't know
him and neither did his parents. Finally he went to a
photography studio, he found a picture of him and his wife, he
went to show it to her and he was the only one in the picture.
7. You Drive
One of our favorite all time actors, Edward Andrews appears
in this Twilight Zone episode concerning a case of hit and
run. Andrews plays Oliver Pope, a nervous man who only thinks
about himself. On a rainy night he hits a boy on a bicycle and
does not stop. The boy dies the next day and a co-worker of
his is charged with the hit & run. Pope's car starts to
act strange as its horn and lights come on at all times of the
night. Finally Pope starts walking to work, the car follows
him without anyone driving it and leads him to the police
station.
8. Ring A Ding Girl
This is the story of movie actress Bunny Blake, who
receives a special ring from one of her fan club members. This
is a special ring as she can see the faces of people she grew
up with. They all tell her to come and they need her. She
arrives home on the day of the Founders Day picnic, a big deal
in this local community. She asks that the picnic be postponed
but they refuse. She goes on tv and tells everyone she will be
doing a performance at the high school. The whole community
goes to the school to see Bunny Blake, just as the performance
was to start a plane crashes where the picnic was to be held,
Bunny Blake was on that plane and killed. The community still
couldn't figure out how she was in 2 places at one time.
9. Will The Real Martian Please Stand Up
In a remote area a spaceship crashes near an out of the way
restaurant where a small busload of people have stopped. The
police investigate the crash and see footprints leading to the
restaurant. The Police alert the bus driver that the bridge up
ahead is closed. The restaurant starts to have strange things
happening such as the phone ringing and nobody on it, the
jukebox starting up and the lights going on and off. The bus
driver said he had six passengers but there are seven people
in the restaurant. The people in the restaurant start accusing
each other of being an alien. Finally the phone rings and the
police pick it up saying the bridge is ok. A few minutes later
one of the customers return saying the bridge wasn't safe and
everyone was killed. This customer said to the clerk he was
from Mars and he was the one who made everything happened, he
also said there was something different about Martians, they
had 3 hands, the clerk told him he was from Venus and they had
something a little different with them, he had 3 eyes.
10. The Hitch Hiker
The stunning Inger Stevens stars in this episode about a
girl seeing a hitch hiker all alone her route. While on
vacation driving in Pennsylvania she is almost killed when her
car is nearly hit by a train. As soon as she gets over the
railroad tracks she spots a hitch hiker, his familiar line is
"going my way". She continues to see him and she
picks up a sailor who is hitch hiking, she sees this other guy
and tries to run him over. Later she calls her mother but her
mother can't come to the phone as she is upset over her
daughter's death from being hit by a train in Pennsylvania.
When she returns to the car the guy she tried to run over is
in the back seat, he says "I think you're going my
way".
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