That’s especially rare for a show that features about five dozen episodes about how technology will be the end of us. It’s not only an episode that encourages faith in a higher power but one that arguably is pro-technology in its twist. The first of many Serling-scripted episodes on this list, “The Old Man in the Cave” is based on a short story by Henry Slesar called “The Old Man,” and it’s a fascinating entry in the series history largely because of how many common elements of the show it actually subverts. “The Old Man in the Cave” (Season 5, Episode 7) In the Twilight Zone, we can’t avoid our true selves.Ĥ9. This episode presents us with a man scared that he’s going to kill his wife, but we know by now that this means he probably will anyway. The Twilight Zone often played with the concept of fate, typically coming down on the side that we can’t avoid it. And in that last one, he’s being arrested, tried, and executed for killing his wife. Turned to the nonexistent channel 10, the cabbie sees scenes from his past, present, and then his future. When he mocks a TV repairman (played by Sterling Holloway) for taking too long and ripping him off, the repairmen really fixes his TV. He complains about her cooking, may be cheating on her, and calls her names. This late-series gem stars William Demarest as an average cab driver in a miserable marriage to Joan Blondell. Rod Serling’s creation arguably became more cynical as the show progressed, and the fifth season is full of bleak examinations of the human capacity for evil. Start with these great 50 chapters from one of be the best TV shows of all time. Who’s got 74 hours to watch all of them? Probably no one. But with 156 episodes of the original series (and two reboots), it can be tough to know where to start. If you’ve never seen an episode of the original series before, or simply want to revisit the best ones, now’s the time - all of them are on Hulu, and all but season four are on Netflix. Almost exactly 60 years after that first episode aired, Jordan Peele is rebooting the series, dragging us back into the zone with original stories starring Adam Scott, Kumail Nanjiani, Greg Kinnear, Steven Yeun, and many more. When Rod Serling’s masterpiece premiered on CBS in 1959, he couldn’t have known how much it would still be impacting film and TV six decades later. It is an area which we call the Twilight Zone.” With those words, television changed forever. It is the middle ground between light and shadow, between science and superstition, and it lies between the pit of man’s fears and the summit of his knowledge. It is a dimension as vast as space and as timeless as infinity. “There is a fifth dimension beyond that which is known to man.
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