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Thanks to last year\u2019s SYFY<\/strong> Twilight Zone<\/em><\/strong> Marathon<\/strong> which ran every episode in order, I can now say with complete certainty I\u2019ve seen every Twilight Zone<\/em><\/strong> episode.\u00a0 Rod Serling<\/strong> deserves all the praise he\u2019s received for creating not only the best television anthology series but one of the overall best tv series ever.\u00a0 Sure, there were some episodes which didn\u2019t quite work, but overall the excellent episodes outweighed those that fell short.<\/p>\n There were eleven episodes<\/strong> that earned my top rating.\u00a0 These are the episodes that can be watched repeatedly without losing their impact.\u00a0 Here they are\u2026<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n How could the devil be held in a cell?\u00a0 Are the monks insane?\u00a0 If so, Ellington is in danger as well.\u00a0 Isn\u2019t his duty to help the man escape?\u00a0 These are the thoughts that race through Ellington\u2019s mind before he makes a decision that will haunt him for the rest of his life.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Thanks to last year\u2019s SYFY Twilight Zone Marathon which ran every episode in order, I can now say with complete<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":912,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[50,74],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15599","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tv","category-z-view","comments-off"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15599","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/912"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=15599"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15599\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15621,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15599\/revisions\/15621"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15599"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15599"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15599"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}\n
\nPoor little, nearsighted, henpecked Henry Bemis [Meredith] loves to read.\u00a0 Reading is his passion but sadly life deprives him of it.\u00a0 A twist of fate provide Bemis with time enough at last to read to his heart\u2019s content\u2026 until another twist of fate proves this is The Twilight Zone.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n
\nIt\u2019s a beautiful summer afternoon until a strange sound and vibration brings neighbors outside.\u00a0 Paranoia soon takes over as the thought of an alien invasion takes hold.\u00a0 Who among them isn\u2019t human?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n
\nDavid Ellington [Wynant] while on a long hike alone in the woods in Europe becomes ill.\u00a0 Ellington stumbles across a monastery.\u00a0 Initially told he cannot stay, Brother Jerome [Carradine] allows him to stay until he is well enough to travel.While recuperating, Ellington hears a man howling in pain.\u00a0 The screams lead to a cell where a man is being held prisoner.\u00a0 Before Ellington can release him, Brother Jerome arrives and explains that the thing in the cell is not a man, but the devil!<\/p>\n\n
\nJanet Tyler [Stuart] is lying in her hospital bed, her head and face totally covered by bandages.\u00a0 Tyler nervously waits for her doctor to remove the bandages hoping that her latest (and last) surgery will make her look normal.Sadly Tyler is hideously ugly and lives in a society where the less desirables are sent away.\u00a0 As the bandages are removed her worst fears are revealed.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n
\nWhile driving through a small town heading for their honeymoon, Don [Shatner] and Pat [Breslin] Carter\u2019s car breaks down.\u00a0 The mechanic says it will take a few hours to repair, so the newlyweds head into a small cafe for lunch and to pass the time.Don is nervous to hear about a possible promotion but is afraid to call his boss.\u00a0 There\u2019s a little penny fortune-telling machine at their table, so Don jokingly puts in a penny to get the answer.\u00a0 When it appear that the machine got the answer correctly, Don asks more and more questions and the machine answers with startling accuracy\u2026 or does it?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n
\nAn old woman who lives alone in a rural shack with no modern conveniences finds herself under attack when small visitors from another planet land on her roof.\u00a0 Contains one of the best Twilight Zone twist endings of all.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n
\nOn a dark, snowy night, two deputies respond to a call about a crashed spaceship.\u00a0 Tracks lead to a remote dinner where seven bus passengers and the diner\u2019s owner are waiting out the storm.\u00a0 The funny thing is there were only supposed to be six passengers on the bus and strange things are starting to happen at the dinner.\u00a0 Coincidence or is there an alien among them?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n
\nSeveral families from the neighborhood have come together to celebrate a birthday.\u00a0 Just as toasts are made with everyone expressing their friendship, an emergency warning announcing an imminent nuclear attack is broadcast.As each family prepares for the incoming bombs, they realize that one of the families has a bomb shelter.\u00a0 Sadly it is not big enough to hold everyone.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n
\nLittle Anthony Fremont [Mumy] has extraordinary mental powers.\u00a0 Anthony has made all of the world outside of his small farming town disappear.\u00a0\u00a0 He\u2019s done the same or worse to anyone of anything that displeases him.
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\nAnthony demands that everyone think happy thoughts.\u00a0 The town people live in fear that they will displease Anthony and they will be next.Tonight is Anthony\u2019s birthday.\u00a0 Let\u2019s hope he\u2019s not disappointed.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n
\nAliens come to earth promising peace and shared technology. They seem to be making good on their promise to turn earth into a paradise, yet some doubts linger\u2026\u00a0 This is one of the best Twilight Zone episodes made.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n
\nBob Wilson [Shatner] and his wife are flying home.\u00a0 Wilson has just recovered from a nervous breakdown and a storm is making the flight less than comfortable.\u00a0 Wilson becomes alarmed when he sees a creature on the wing of the plane tearing at wires.\u00a0 His wife and others think Bob is suffering a relapse but he\u2019s not\u2026<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n