I also made an obscure Twilight Zone list, so your favorite might have ended up on there. Opinions are purely subjective, but I think most people would agree with many of the picks on this list. This episode’s not really trying to make any grand point, but from a storytelling perspective, there’s nothing better.Īnd that’s the list. The concept is mind-blowing, and the performances of everybody cringing their way through their entire lives so as not to upset a little boy is the most effective the show has ever been. “It’s a Good Life” is the only episode that has ever actually given me a nightmare. And then he’ll turn them into a jack-in-the-box before he sends them to the cornfield.īy far the scariest, most hair-raising episode in the entire series.
He’s telepathic, so nobody in town can even think negative thoughts about him, because he’ll know. Unfortunately, there’s a twist at the end that kind of spoils the rest of the episode, but overall, it’s one of the best in the series.Ī little boy (played by Billy Mumy) has godlike powers, and can basically kill you by just thinking about it. And that image of the dripping paint at the end coupled with the music always gives me the chills. It all feels just way too claustrophobic and uncomfortable, which it’s supposed to. Climate change! How many other shows in the ‘60s were tackling that topic? But the interaction between the two characters (well, three, but I won’t spoil the episode), is great as well. Night Call (The Twilight Zone) Gladys Cooper: Elva Keene Nora Marlowe: Margaret Phillips Martine Bartlett: Miss Finch Previous Black Leather Jackets. The man continues to call and keeps repeating 'Hello' over and over. Its been more than two decades since the show had its final curtain call. Later she hears a man moaning and she repeatedly demands to know who is calling. Burgess Meredith, Actor: Clash of the Titans. During the first calls she hears only static. This episode is especially great since it was so ahead of its time. An elderly woman, Elva Keene ( Gladys Cooper ), receives strange anonymous phone calls in the middle of a stormy night. Bronson, who just wants Norma to stop painting the sun and to start painting something cool for a change! Bronson (Betty Garde) are the last people to stay in an apartment complex, but they slowly go insane from the excessive heat. The Last Night of a Jockey (Episode 5.05) The legendary Mickey Rooney knocks it out of the park in this single-act one-man-show disguised as a Twilight Zone episode. The earth is slowly, but surely, moving closer to the sun, creating an unbearably hot planet Earth.
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