My Top 13 Favorite 1980's Twilight Zone Episodes
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 27 ต.ค. 2022
- Time for another annual Halloween Top 13 list spotlighting another spooky anthology series. This time we're taking a look at my favorite episodes from the 1980's reboot of The Twilight Zone. This unexpectedly exploded into being my longest video yet. I guess I just couldn't help but yammer on and on. With Twilight Zone stories, there's always a lot to talk about. As always, feel free to share your faves too. Enjoy!
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"Paladin of the Lost Hour", by far is my favorite. Heartwrenching, bittersweet, and (as you noted) the performance by Glynn Turman is utterly amazing. The ending frequently brings me to tears, and it's a great piece that shows this monumental trust (the titular "Lost Hour") whose safety hinges on the character of two strangers. It's an excellent story brought to life by two very good actors.
My favorite 80's Twilight Zone episodes.
The Card, Acts of Terror, Aqua Vita, Examination Day😢, Nightcrawlers, Kentucky Rye, Need to Know, Button Button, A small talent of war, A little peace and quiet, I of Newton, The Elevator, Shelter Skelter.
Honorable mentions. The Hellgrammite Method, The Hunters, Children's Zoo and A Day in Beaumont.
I have the Box Set.
Terry Farrell and Andrew Robinson were also in the Hellraiser Film Franchise
Great video. I vividly remember watching "To See the Invisible Man" on TV one night while doing Geometry homework; I was a sophomore in high school. The other episode, a short one, that scared the hell out of me was one where two men go into what looks like a brownstone; a scientist had been working there on, I think, some kind of super food and when they ascend the elevator they walk into a sort of overgrown, fungal nightmare world...they go back down and the elevator goes up, comes down and there is what is implied to be a giant spider grabs them and you see their flashlight covered in blood. I just don't remember the name!
I believe the spider episode's title was ''The Elevator''.
heh...thanks...pretty obvious, I guess...I need to look it up and see if it's around...@@TheAdorkableRJ
Yes, that was "The Elevator" I'm pretty sure.
"To See the Invisible Man" is so great. It and the Christmas episode of "Tales From the Darkside", "Season of Disbelief" tie for my favorite episode of all the anthology series.....
Thanks for your favorite list of 1980's TZ. It was a good show. My favorites from TZ1980 are: Dreams for Sale, Examination Day, But Can She Type, and After Hours.
"I'm just a highly paid fashion model, but I've always wanted to be a secretary!" (But Can She Type? is awesome for that line alone.)
@@kelleyceccato7025 so true!
Her Pilgrim Soul is a life changer.
".....in the twilight zone."
I LOVE "Gramma"!!!! And it's never mentioned by Anyone, certainly not in a top episodes list. The original short story in "Night Shift" is creeeeppyy - one of the few stories that actually freaks me out (the short story "1408" is another). I'm so glad to see it on your list. Though I agree about the narration. Sometimes, it's just painful😆😆...
The Necronomicon is no scarier than a quantum mechanics textbook :)
That eight year old little girl up to something.....
This was much better than that later 90s revival series.
Charles Aidman narrated the 80's TZ episodes. Charles Aidman was in two or three of the original series episodes, in the first season, he played an air force officer who thought he had came home with his crew, only to find his two buddies disappeared. Then in the second season, he was the neighbor in "Little Girl Lost" where he helped his neighbor get his daughter back from the other dimension.
Thank you!!!!! I was trying to remember what "To See the Invisible Man" was called and where it was from!!!!!
One of my absolute favorites from ALL the anthology shows.
And, yes. The uplifting final scene does hit the feels HARD.
currently half way through a 110 episode playlist of this show on here..love the80s version as it is very nostalgic for me. I used to catch an episode here and there growing up in the 80s.. Our local station showed them randomly, late at night. Absolutely love it ❤
I really used to come on Channel 9 when I was a kid in 89
I've often wondered about this 80s series and Stephen King stories published after. He published The Langoliers four years after the 80s TZ aired A Matter Of Minutes about people stuck in between the past present and future, each minute being a seperate constructs. And then 11/22/63 about a guy who time travels to the Kennedy to era to follow and stop Oswald, becomes a hero and talks to JFK and Jackie, only for his history altering actions to have horrible consequences (which is also like a Red Dwarf episode).
I know this is just your opinion but the Episode Nightcrawlers by Robert R McCammon is IMO the best Episode of the 1980s Twilight Zone .
McCammon is a pretty damn good author too . Several of his novels are best sellers .
Swan Song is a classic from him.
This is an excellent video. While I haven’t made a top 13 of the show, I’d bet 9 or 10 of my favorites are on your list.
Especially like your inclusion of a Message from Charity, by far my favorite romantic episode of any TZ. I feel like Her Pilgrim Soul gets all the praise, but a Message from Charity is loads better in my opinion.
because the boy in "Gramma" is Bastian Bux, I imagine that somehow then the Necronomicon is also the Never-ending Story. LOL
that would mean Falcor is a Great Old One!
"A Message from Charity" is a beautiful love story; the only flaw I can find in it is Charity's very 1980s hair, which a Puritan bonnet can't disguise.
I've always had a preference for the more poignant Twilight Zone episodes over the more disturbing and cynical ones (hence my fondness for the original series' "Walking Distance," "Changing of the Guard," and "The Trade-Ins"), so I'm glad to see the recognition for both "Charity" and "Paladin of the Lost Hour."
Abso-bleeping loved "Profile In Silver!" I will say the very, very ending is a kicker that i didn't see coming! Even though I speak a little Chinese!
Great list!
This is a really interesting list. I haven't seen all of the 80's ones, so you gave me some ones to check out. Thanks!
nice, I gotta watch through the 80s version sometime, seen the original way too many times lol
Finally, a good 80s Twilight Zone series list. Only one missing IMO is Her Pilgrim Soul, but other than that damn strong list RJ. Liked and subscribed.
My dude hasnt uploaded in 2 years and just decided to upload a new video out on nowhere
OMG! "Private Cannel" was one of my favorites!
Saw it first-run!
Great list! I recently finished this series after finishing the 60s series for the first time. Overall, I feel this series doesn't have a Twilight Zone-y feeling throughout its run, but there are a good number of episodes I like. I feel everyone will feel different about it as is evident in the fact that the only episode both you and I share in our top 13 is A Message from Charity, lol! My top 13 counting up to my #1 are:
13) Special Service
12) Button, Button
11) Children's Zoo
10) Grace Note
9) The Cold Equations
8) The Storyteller
7) Wordplay
6) Examination Day
5) Little Boy Lost
4) Her Pilgrim Soul
3) Shadow Play
2) A Message from Charity
1) The Call
Hey AdorkableRJ! Awesome picks here with lots of variety. It's great to see some love for that 'After Hours' remake. I dug it too, it was much more about the general horror of that odd concept of mannequins coming to life. I agree, the alternate approach was interesting and the nightmare fuel gave the remake a unique spin. 'A Little Peace & Quiet' as you noted is just a fun watch and the twist ending is amazing. 'Profile in Silver' is top-notch as well. I don't want to spoil all of your choices here, but again, great list man. Be well! 🤜🤛
Funny timing, I was just watching your Critters 2 Review(which was great, by the way) a few minutes ago. Glad you enjoyed my list! You be well too!
"The Cold Equations" is by far my favorite 80s era Twilight Zone episode. "To See the Invisible Man" is a close second, and "A Small Talent for War" comes in third, if only for being a faithful adaptation of one of my favorite short stories.
Anything with the JFK assassination still fascinates me.
The Stephen King story about the guy who time travels to try and save Kennedy is good, as well. And explores similar themes.
Most people do not realize we came very close to Armageddon at least once during his presidency.
During the Cuban Missile Crisis, aircraft carriers in the exclusion zone actually had A-4s on the flight deck, with "special ordnance" on the pylons and arming kits at hand......
the elevator. quick and to the point.
A little piece and Quiet was the 80 remake of a Kind Of A StopWatch( A powerful classic).❤❤❤😮
And I loved "A Message From Charity." I read it in High School about ten years before they made this---and i saw a movie they made of it a year or so later!
I never saw these shows.
One of my favorites "A Message from Charity" made the list. Great story.
And yes Peter is another star trek alum.
The Bradbury giant spider one wasn't good, but super creepy.
Good video
@@meimei8718 Thanks!
Gramma should have been a Tales from the Darkside episode.
One of the actresses in the first episode you mentioned plays Elvira.
No, Ann Wedgeworth is not Cassandra Peterson.
Too young