Mind-Bending Twilight Zone TWISTS that will BLOW YOUR MIND!
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- My picks for the top 10 most shocking twists from The Twilight Zone.
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"How To Serve Man" was my favorite. "It's a cookbook!"
Actually the episode is "To Serve Man". HOW to Serve Man is the name of the book.
To serve man look at the Boarding. Woman behind that 1st boarding woman. Is that Mrs. Howell lost looking for the set of Gillian’s Island? Sure looks like her in costume & all. At 6.04 to 6.08
I loved the Simpsons version of it
I'm so old, I saw "The Twilight Zone" on the local CBS affiliate when there were only three TV networks. A generation of new/up-and-coming actors showed how great they would become, along with "had only minor roles" veterans.
10. The After Hours
9. Third Planet From the Sun
8. The Dummy
7. A Nice Place to Visit
6. The Howling Man
5. To Serve Man
4. Five Characters in Search of an Exit
3. The Invaders
2. Eye of the Beholder
1. Time Enough at Last
The dummy scared the piss out of me as a kid 😂
The scariest, creepiest part of "Eye of the Beholder" is that the State (and the doctors who work for it) doesn't see itself as brutal. They think they're being compassionate by paying for all those surgeries to make you look more like "everybody else."
Everyone doesn't look the same in that episode, and only one person that we know of has surgery. I think you're likely getting it confused with a different episode, "Number 12 Looks Just Like You".
@@robgronotte1Both episodes have their similarities, but in "Eye of the beholder" it's mandatory to conform to what is normal, but in "Number 12 looks just like you" you're given a choice and the government's intent is to make you prettier, not to make everyone look the same.
@@allisoncorona84"Number 12 Looks Like You" seemed like the transformation was optional, but as the episode goes on Marilyn was being forced to go through the transformation against her will. She tried to convince her family and friends that the state cared about conformity, but no one would listen to her.
@@allisoncorona84 No, in "Number 12" they all look the same (out of a limited number of choices). In "Eye" everyone looks different, they just look ugly to us.
@@robgronotte1 The messages in both of these episodes is conforming to the norm and the government's control of a person's privacy.
The Midnight Sun will always be my favorite episode! I remember the twist shocking me as a kid
The cast was exceptional, all around. Great acting, loved the theme and the twist ending. And yes, I love everything Lois Nettleton did as an actress. Great talent, and a certain mystery circulating throughout her beauty. I suppose it is futile, though, any expectation. When she won the Miss Chicago contest, I was a negative 4 years old, lol. (Born 1952, grew up with The Twilight Zone, from the first CBS broadcast, until the end of the original.
Nigh Gallery had some skill in it, but it was not the same for me. And - no - do not mention any of the Twilight Zone "remakes" after the original ended. Most of all of them were horrid.
absolutely. living in New England [with four real seasons] I think of that episode the first sweltering day of summer and the first bitter below freezing day winter and can't decide if I'd rather wake up, or have just awaken - [if I'm thinking of the right episode]
Yes! That was the most surprising twist.
He left out my all time favorite.... Will the Real Martian please stand up.
Great episode, one of my favorites. Building the suspense in this one was a top tier skill for cast and crew, very well done. 🛸 💫💥
You could have included the episode where astronauts crash land, and one kills the others to hog all the water. It turns out they still on Earth.
"3rd From The Sun" got me good the 1st time I saw it. Definitely, in my top 5 of all time Twilight Zone episodes.
I remember all these classic episodes and they are among the best TV has ever had to offer.
The glasses episode legit made me cry as a kid. It was a devastating KO for a little bibliophile like me.
Excellent choices all. However, as a friend of mine once said when asked to pick the top 10 songs from his lifetime, "How do you pick your top 10 favorite foods from all the world's great dishes?"
Rod was an absolute genius!
It's always good to hear Rod Serling's voice again. Thanks!
This is a good list for sure.......
I imagine it must have tough to narrow it down to just ten, since Serling presented us with so many great twists!
One of my favorite quotes from him was at the end of "The Monsters Are Due On Maple Street."
It was his commentary on how fragile societies can be........
I saw them on reruns as a kid as I was born in 1957. Twilight Zone never really scared me. Night Gallery scared the crap out of me at age 12.
there was one episode of NG [almost positive] that when a kid, I watched alone one night that had scarred me for years. I don't even remember the whole episode, just a single shot of a doll in a trench during a war … the doll may have been cursed.
@jaewok5G Paintings coming to life and dragging people in, Creatures escaping paintings, people being trapped in paintings, yeah, Night Gallery scared me so bad I had to go to my room. Of course, when it became ESP I liked it.
I liked the episode The Devil is not Mocked. Especially the devil wears a German helmet. Or the episode with Mark Hamill.
I'm glad somebody's giving some love to Night Gallery. The show did a fair number of Lovecraft adaptations and hommages, including one with Mel Brooks.
I had a doll that was supposed to be Anne Francis (Marsha the mannequin) as Honey West.
I had gotten it when I was in third grade, about 10 years old, and sold it one year to purchase golf shoes for my husband for Christmas. ❤
That's the very definition of love
A great story, thank you for sharing it here! 🥰💖
had your husband sold his golf clubs to buy you a model department store to display your dolls or isn't your entire life a Christmas fairy tale?
XD
"Ring-A-Ding Girl" had the most baffling twist ending. One woman saved lives on the ground by force of will from an airplane high in the sky.
Huge T Z fan. Watched a number of 1st run episodes as a kid. Surprised you didn't include one of my favorites "Will the Real Martian Please Stand Up?". What a great twist at the end.
Is that the one where the secret is hidden under his hat?
@@stevenmcghee6649 That's the one...a classic.
Fun fact: The giant woman in The Invaders was played by Agnes Moorehead - aka Endora from Bewitched.
As an honorable mention for this list I would add "Death Ship" starring Jack Klugman.
Also the ventriloquist in *The Dummy* is *Cliff Robertson* who plays *uncle Ben* in *Spider-Man* with *Tobey Maguire*
Didn't the Death Ship also have Ross Martin (aka Artemis Gordon from The Wild, Wild West) in it too? Also, Klugman was in a bunch of TZs
I used to look forward to watching this program every week. As a child, it scared the bujeezers out of me 🥺😳😮
I was waiting for the omnipresent Burgess Meredith. ❤
Thank you, Rich ❤ My favorite TZ episodes are on this list - no. 5, 3, 2 and 1 😊
The Howling Man was just bloody fantastic! How it affects your thinking afterwards is mind boggling...😮
Grew up watching the re-runs, I remember all of these episodes very vividly!
I was all worried about Bill Shatner in "Nightmare at 20,000 Feet", but then I blinked and grabbed a handful of Chehzee Puffs and I realized it was really John Lithgow. It made my Big Giant Head Hurt, so I changed the channel to watch "Third Rock from the Sun", but the twist was that it was really "Third Planet from the Sun". I'm going to bed.
Shatner was in a few. another I recall is the fortune telling machine in the drug store. It's fun seeing stars in episodes, before they were famous - it's like the opposite of 'The Love Boat'. Top reveal, Charles Bronson and Elizabeth Montgomery in the same episode [imagine post-apocalyptic Romeo and Juliette] where he has a few lines and she doesn't speak at all.
That was the episode 'Two.' She only spoke one word and it was in Russian.@@jaewok5G
I have seen all of these when I was a
pre-teen when they almost first came out in the early 1960's!
Always love the Twilight Zone, especially the mental twist episodes. Another great video. Thanks for the shout-out!
Third planet also used the set / ship from forbidden planet :)
You got me. Now I'm a subscriber. Thank you for this acknowledgement of the greatest TV series of all time.
It was such a great and entertaining series!
Many of the stories from the "Twilight Zone" were taken from earlier radio shows from the Golden Age of Radio.
The opening show for "ESCAPE" dealt with a dummy that was indeed real is just one example of many such radio shows.
Interesting
I am a fan of old time radio meaning the radio shows from the Golden Age of Radio which lasted from the late 1930's through the 1950's. Radio reached its' zenith about the time television came into being. The last dramatic radio show to air from Hollywood was "GUNSMOKE" with Bill Conrad and the last mystery show to air from New York was "SUSPENSE".
In listening to the radio shows from this period it becomes quite obvious that the early television shows were taken if not in whole, then in part from radio. I could list many of the radio shows that were later direct influences on the shows from not only the "Twilight Zone" but many others. Rod Serling must have been strongly influenced by radio, but any such credit is rarely given or acknowledged.@@andreshernandez1180
I saw "Eye of the Beholder" for the first time as a kid and was absolutely astonished. I didn't even notice that they didn't show any faces until the big reveal. I thought it was incredibly well done. Rewatching it years later, though, I realized that, in various shots, the actors' faces were not sufficiently hidden and you could clearly see that they were normal. I felt cheated.
The Midnight Sun is my favorite twist. The Jungle my favorite episode.
I love the one where a couple wakes up from a late night of partying in a bedroom that is not theirs. The room has fake furniture and fake windows. They go outside to find their way home. They don’t see anyone else. They notice things outside are fake,grass,trees,buildings etc. Then they hear a kid giggling. Turns out they are figures in a kids fake play-toy town.
They. Used that plot again in episode 2 if Land if the Giants.
did someone said TWILIGHT ZONE?
No, they said, The Twilight Zone. Lol❤
Remember, they then dropped the "The". ❤
From Wikipedia "The Twilight Zone (marketed as Twilight Zone for its final two seasons)"
Good ole Twilight Zone from my childhood! Wonderful!
Rerun, which Twilight Zone episode with the astronauts who returned to Earth only to disappear 1 by 1 until there were non left behind. The last astronaut said.”it dealt like we should’ve ever existed.
I LOVE that episode. It's called "And When the Sky Was Opened." It's the eleventh episode of the first season.
Wow, thanks, your brilliant @this.
What about the episode when some humans visit other planets in other galaxies & the Beings poison them & kill all of them and say,”where there are humans there can be no peace”
these are all fun episodes.
Thanks for the video!
First time I saw Five Characters in Search of an Exit, I didn't see the twist coming and it was a genuine shock. It was also the most bizarre 30 mins of TV i'd ever seen.
Yes!!! It still gets to me. It's such a slap in the face
The howling man was my favorite.
I was born in '66 and though I'm sure I'd seen bits and pieces of episodes here and there I want hooked until the summer of '80. staying up late as a kid was exciting, but we still didn't have cable and were limited to 5 VHF channels and maybe 4 or decent UHF channels. our local WSBK38 was airing this after 11pm and since getting up to change
channels every 30min sucked so stations running marathons or several back-to-back
episodes made it easy to catch a lot of good shows. their New Years Eve Three Stooge marathons were always popular too.
Always loved Ann Francis as I entered my adolescence
There has been mention of Honey West (I own the dvd collection. Pretty forward thinking for the 60s) but as Rocky Horror reminds us "Anne Francis starred in Forbidden Planet"
In "Eye of the Beholder", wasn't the beautiful blonde woman Ellie Mae (or May, I dunno, lol) from the "Beverley Hillbillies"?
Great presentation, as usual. Cheers
Yes it was the girl from the Beverley Hillbillies. It was the only other roll I ever saw her in.
@@jacquelinecallejas1390 Good. Maybe that means that she didn't participate in "casting couch culture".
@@scottsmith6643 Her name? Well, you could never guess it. She told me, I am ... Donna Douglas.
Janet Tyler was played by two different actresses. Maxine Stuart played Miss Tyler under the bandages. Donna Douglas, aka Ellie Mae Clampett, was Miss Tyler after her reveal.
I was thinking of Will the real Martian Please stand up yesterday.😂
Spoiler alert?
"The Howling Man" might be my top favorite episode ever. There are many others that I really like, not all of them spooky, but there are a few 'gentle death' ones that are really good too. Jack Klugman as the trumpeter who meets a fellow horn player named Gabe, but also Robert Redford as the Angle of Death. Another is the writer [magic machines collection] whose wife thinks he's cheating on her and he reveals an assortment of envelopes with audiotape of descriptions of everyone they know, including her.
edit; I forgot I was going to include "A Pitch for the Ages" … and Art Carney as Santa Claus … most of the best TZ's have been in a The Simpsons halloween special.
A World of His Own, the episode with the writer who makes taped descriptions of the people he knows, was the first episode in which Rod Sterling made an on-screen appearance. Before then, he'd just been a faceless, disembodied voice. Of course, it turned out there was a reason for us to see him then.
Serling, not Sterling. I hate autocorrect.
@@user-mg5mv2tn8q that's the won!
Ever since I read the Goosebump's book Night of the Living Dummy ventriloquist dolls freak me out and watching TZ didn't help
Love your channel.
Those very twists are what makes The Twilight Zone such a memorable show.
Burgis Meredith's son, Johnathan, was a friend of mine.
The After House was also one the ideas for a TV Musical called "Evening Primrose" with music composed by Stephen Sondhiem.
“Terror at 29,000 feet” gave me nightmares. It was of my favorites along with your #1 choice.
I like: 3rd from the sun was my favorite episode.
I thought that I had seen every one of the Twilight zone. However, I had not seen The Howling and the Invaders. I will have to look those up.
My favorite was the Obsolete where the librarian is sentenced to death and lures his captors into peril. It almost reminds me of the current situation where so many people were labeled as "non-essential."
Yes, another star turn by Burgess Meredith (aka The Penguin from Batman).
@@JAMESLEVEE Some of the most interesting Twilight Zone episodes were written by Earl Hamner, the creator of the Waltons.
~ Will the real Martian please stand up. That ending is one I did not see coming.
Sorry, these are well known episodes but not all of them are the best twist endings. Out of all of these, The Dummy should have been your top pick as it is the most erriest, however you got Eye Of The Beholder in the right spot. Your top pick is very well known but for me as a kid forgetable. It doesn't haunt my memories like other episodes, like Talking Tina and The Masks.
At least one of the Twilight Zone's predictions for the future came true in the episode "Eye of the beholder"; flat screen TVs😃😀😂‼️
Great top Ten.
They are all my favorites, 🌹❤️👍
I expected Eye of the Beholder to be number one, but yours was a good choice.
My favorites are with Burgess Meredith.❤
He's pretty wonderful and seems to enjoy himself. @@WVgirl1959
Thanks @rhonda7070. I know lists like this one are very subjective and I could have included other TZ's (Will the Real Martian Please Stand Up? comes to mind) but I wanted to include only 10.
The only thing that really bugged me in “The Invaders” was Agnes Moorehead’s absolutely perfectly manicured nails.
A stop in Willoughy was real good.
A very good list. I've seen most of these; about 8 of them.
We read the books and listened to the radio shows. Hal Sparks has done a bunch of radio show with the orignal scrips and new actors. It's just as good as the ones we listened to as kids.
Another channel that I have subscribed to made a list of the scariest episodes of the Twilight Zone, so why doesn't this channel make a list of the funniest and heart warming episodes of the Twilight Zone ⁉️ "From Agnes with love" (funny) and "the Hunt" (heart warming) come to mind for me 😂🥰❤‼️
Should have put _The Midnight Sun_ on this list.
Awesome series.
'To Serve Man' was very creepy as a kid!
My favorite one is the one with Robert Lansing and Mariette Hartley.
I felt bad for the mannequins and thought they should all give up their jobs and go outside.
In the episode they take turns living among the humans for one month. Marsha was a day late and was supposed to be the dark haired mannigans turn.
@@melissacooper8724 Yeah, I know, I just think they should all quit!
@@robgronotte1 You got a point there. Those mannequins don't even get paid to stand still and look pretty.
All great episodes
The howling man was a pretty cool episode with a twist
Can't argue with this list
“Occurrence At Owl Creek Bridge “ is my favorite. About a Confederate man who is sentenced to death by hanging.
Agnes Moorehead in silent episode The Invaders, Will the Real Martian Please Stand Up, To Serve Man*!!!
Great character actor Edward Andrews Third Planet From The Sun!
*Delicious steak of man or woman! Do you prefer it medium or well-done?! Are they serving "sweetbreads" for desert?
Nobody told em like Rod👍🏻💖
The rerun zone and I found the hills have eyes and poked them out 👀👁️👈
Nice,
Thanks @e.scottdaugherty8291
You should begin making videos on that 1960's great The Night Gallery"!!
Oh #4 was great too
My favorite is Night Call.
Note all the famous actors cast in these stories - John Carridine, Burgess Meredith... when television provided not only great entertainment but work for some of the best actors in the US.
My fav was Shadow Play
Do One on NBC "Night Gallery"
*The Invaders* had the best, most tension-filled musical score (thanks to Jerry Goldsmith) of any episode in the entire series.
and Darren Stevens' mother in law, Andora!
@@jaewok5G Endora. Her name was Endora.
@@JAMESLEVEE … like from Endor?
@@jaewok5G Wel...that would be an Endorian (except for the Ewoks). But the character's name was Endora.
Best all time is the first one. But you need to read the original story to get the twist. At the end, as they are carrying him away, he reaches up to his pocket and finds the ticket from the movie theater he went to.
Agnes Moorhead was magnificent in the number 3 slot
Midnight Sun.💥
I'm surprised "The Passersby" didn't make the list.
I remember the one that a earwig goes into a mans ear. Then he’s told it’s a pregnant female!
wasn't that a Night Gallery episode
@@stellertonybeller1972 I think so. I'm pretty sure it was NOT TZ.
#4 totally blew my damn mind. It still bugs me. 😅
I jused realized that "To Serve Man" appears to be written in Marain.
What about the hitcher
All my favorites! I love Twilight Zone💖💖💖
My #1 is People Are Alike All Over! That episode has a strong argument against zoos and circuses that have animals as performers! If we could only step into another person's 👟 shoes, we'd have real compassion and empathy!
These shows delivered moral and humane messages by 😨😳 scaring and 😕🤔 confusing us, but they got the 👉☝️ point across!
Our reality is even 😧 creepier and more mind bending than The actual Twilight Zone! Oh boy, I 🤔 wonder how its all going to end! We shall see! Goodbye!
Doesn't the dummy look like Edward G. Robinson?
I 4got that Sgt. Carter was in one of these.
It's a shame we don't have screen writers with original stories and way out there plots, and employ actors who care about their product, as well as their character... Where having integrity, humility, humbleness, and caring are far more important than the big paychecks and fame...
Instead we get one copycat film after another copycat film, only a generation apart...
As each newly adopted film makes it to the big screen or TV, the same repeated generational film, absent are the original writers and producers' names -- where are the credits where credits are due??
Yet, numerous implications point to it being conceived and produced as if it were the original...with only the costumes changing slightly -- reflecting the moral code of the day, or the lack of it...
Again, the writers in Hollywood are on strike... For WHAT? I think they should be renamed, "Film Update Writers," NOT "Screen Writers."
And, if all the old films haven't been rehashed to the point they are unrecognizable, rights are then sold off to any upcoming no-name producer, who will employ the likes of the infamous "Talentless Grifter," or another wannabe who obsessively dresses and styles her hair, like Hitchcock's favorite -- Tippy Hedron...
Perhaps, they can try to make their money back on their minimal investment by rebranding the film, and reselling the rehash to an obscure cable channel who cater to Incels, who will run it in the wee late hours, for those stuck at home on a Friday and Saturday night.
If the new and improved next generation screen "writer," (haha), is out of choices, there's always, boxes and boxes and boxes of Comic Books, with pre-written storylines and thumbnail storyboards, just sitting there in badements world-wide!!
All they need now, is a dumb, good-looking guy that doesn't mind wearing pajamas with capes, and a few pretty narcissistic hazbeen female actors (albeit, too short for the roles, but hey, whatever), that hate each other, and VIOLA!!! A $Billion film franchize waiting to go Woke then Broke!!
Henry wasn't going to survive much longer all the food was contaminated with toxics from the explosion so he would have died in the end anyway
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Considering it was made in 1959, I think there is nothing to spoil.
@stevehall383 that's what I thought, but there are generations of people who haven't even heard of The Twilight Zone. Baffling
How many times did you say " So the next time..." ?
True. I repeat myself a lot. I repeat myself a lot. LOL
Never use a red border for thumbnail as it looks like I’ve already watched it.
So sleeping with 3 glam women every night is Hell - I'll take it