whats your favourite twilight zone??

no fans of the show??

Terrific series and very scary for this schoolboy back then. I think they made nearly 200 episodes.

Equally scary were "The Outer Limits" and "The Quatermass Xperiment" which was some years earlier, but the scariest of the lot.

B/W by far been watching some of the Lost in Space reruns on Horror ch
B/W ones better than the colour ones imo

The radio series is also on youtube

Don't remember much about the tv program but the Pinball it's based around is one of the best ever:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twilight_Zone_(pinball)

Bought all the Twilight Zones on blu ray, watched them all and it reminded me how good they were and what great actors (some who were little known at the time) were involved.  Too hard to pick a fav, not many duds apart from the 80's revamps,'Walking Distance' and 'The Monsters Are Due on Maple Street' were both very poignant, as was 'Lonely' which seemed very simple, but very good.  Must watch them all again.

My FAV b/l was someone woke from a nightmare and said they dreamt the sun was moving away from the earth and we was freezing to death but in reality the sun was getting closer to the earth and the heat  was killing us also loved tales of the unexpected they just don't make them like it anymore

The episode was the midnight sun classic

I enjoyed those programmes, but can't remember much about them.

Blimey, this is a well-timed thread, because I've been thinking about 'The Outer Limits' today. The 1960s b/w ones that is which featured the introduction "....we will control the horizontal, we will control the vertical". Never saw the modern day efforts. 

Now I only saw those original 1960s episodes when BBC2 ran them at around midnight on Friday or Saturday in the early 1980s, so some of you probably have an advantage over me. I can definitely remember an episode called 'ZZZZZ' where a sexy looking actress played some sort of Queen Bee. 

Can ANY readers help me with one enquiry?  I seem to recall one episode among those original "Outer Limits' stories where a man (possibly an astronaut or scientist of some sort) volunteers to undergo some crazy experiment whereby he will be able to go to some planet and survive the hostile climate. The operation he undergoes turns into something resembling a spider.

It's over 30 years since I saw it so it is possible I may have forgotten some of the plot, but he DEFINITELY gets turned into a scuttling insect but one who can speak in perfectly good English to his colleagues. 

I guess it is also possible I have the wrong programme and it could be the Twilight Zone.

Any experts out there?

Probably not this one. alun?




Nightmare (1963 The Outer Limits)
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Introduction

A group of space troopers are psychologically tortured in an alien prisoner-of-war camp.
Opening narration
“     A war between worlds has long been dreaded. Throughout recent history, Man, convinced that life on other planets would be as anxious and belligerent as life on his own, has gravely predicted that some dreadful form of combat would inevitably take place between our world and that of someone else. And Man was right. To the eternal credit of the peoples of this planet Earth, history shall be able to proclaim loudly and justly that in this war between Unified Earth and the planet "Ebon", Ebon struck first. Ebon: Its form of life unknown, its way of life unpredictable. To the fighting troops of Earth, a black question mark at the end of a dark, foreboding journey.     ”
Plot

In response to an unprovoked nuclear attack from the planet Ebon, a group of soldiers—representing Unified Earth—is sent to fight the enemy on their alien world. Captured en route to Ebon, the soldiers undergo physical and psychological torture and interrogation at the hands of the Ebonites, who possess the ability to control the five senses. The prisoners become suspicious of each other when their captors claim they have received cooperation in obtaining military secrets, which is further complicated by each one's past and ethnic origins, along with the unexpected appearance of high-ranking Earth officers among the hostile aliens. The earthmen are subjected to various interactive images of relatives and friends, which have been implanted in their minds during questioning, allowing them to feel a false sense of security, or to instill deeply hidden emotional conflicts. In the end, it is revealed that all of this is but a military "game", organized by the Earth officers to test their troops' loyalty and valor under intense interrogation and psychological stress. The Earth-Ebon war itself is a fake, as the Ebonites' initial bombardment was unintentional. Unexpected accidents and deaths having occurred during the test, the Ebonites—who are, actually, a peaceful and honorable alien civilization—eventually ask for such an immoral and inhuman experimentation to end at once; but, nonetheless, fail to prevent one last man from being killed...one of the conspiring Earth officers thought to be an illusion created by the Ebonites to trick the captives into revealing more information.
Closing narration
“     The exploration of human behavior under simulated conditions of stress is a commonplace component of the machinery called war. So long as Man anticipates and prepares for combat, be it with neighboring nations or with our neighbors in space, these unreal games must be played, and there are only real men to play them. According to established military procedure, the results of the Ebon maneuvers will be recorded in books and fed into computers for the edification and enlightenment of all the strategists of the future. Perhaps they will learn something.     ”
Original air date
Originally scheduled to air on November 25, 1963, the episode was delayed until December 2 due to television coverage of the November 22, 1963 assassination and later funeral of President John Kennedy.

Cheers Kenny. I don't think it's that one, but it's such a long time ago now I couldn't swear it.

I think there were less characters in the plot, and it came as a shock to see the central character transformed into something resembling a spider.

The last rites of jeff mytlebank is an excellent episode.