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Apr 20, 2017 - 7:55 AM
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Jim Phelps
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"Martin Sloan, age thirty-six, vice-president in charge of media. Successful in most things but not in the one effort that all men try at some time in their lives—trying to go home again. And also like all men perhaps there'll be an occasion, maybe a summer night sometime, when he'll look up from what he's doing and listen to the distant music of a calliope, and hear the voices and the laughter of the people and the places of his past. And perhaps across his mind there'll flit a little errant wish, that a man might not have to become old, never outgrow the parks and the merry-go-rounds of his youth. And he'll smile then too because he'll know it is just an errant wish, some wisp of memory not too important really, some laughing ghosts that cross a man's mind, that are a part of the Twilight Zone."
~Rod Serling's closing narration for Walking Distance, season 1, episode 5.
What is your personal favorite Twilight Zone series moment? Not episode, but a single moment, whether it be a scene in an actor's performance, a climactic reveal, a bit of Rod Serling narration, or music accompanying a scene...what's yours?
Spoilers galore permitted. 
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The reveal at the end of The Invaders. "...a race of giants!!"
And I'm going to cheat and include a second one because I can't make up my mind between the two...
Martin Milner chasing himself in Mirror Image.
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The big reveal at the end of "Stopover in a Quite Town". The episode features a couple waking up in an unfamiliar house hungover. Most of the episode features the couple trying to figure out what happened the night before, and exploring what appears to be a ghost town. When it was revealed what happened, a very young me thought "wow!" This is the first Twilight Zone episode I have any memory of watching, and is probably why it sticks out. Now, after having seen most, if not all, of the original Twilight Zone episodes, I admit there are plenty of other episodes that are stronger than this one, but my first exposure to the series still had its greatest impact.
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Apr 20, 2017 - 11:17 AM
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Rollin Hand
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What is your personal favorite Twilight Zone series moment? Not episode, but a single moment, whether it be a scene in an actor's performance, a climactic reveal, a bit of Rod Serling narration, or music accompanying a scene...what's yours?
The Chairman: "This is a push business, Williams. A push, push, push business! Push and drive!"
Later on…
Williams: "Fat boy, why don't you shut your mouth!"
—from a violent business meeting in "A Stop at Willoughby".
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"It's a cookbook!"
When I was a kid that was true - maybe I was more freaked out by the end of Eye of the Beholder, but it's this one that left the most indelible memory.
But as an adult, it's this one - Joseph Wiseman in "One More Pallbearer": An unredeemable businessman invites people from his past to his luxurious shelter to apologize to him for imagined wrongs, in order that they may remain safe in his shelter as WWIII commences. When they refuse and leave, preferring to die with their families than live in his company, he leaves the shelter and walks out into the blasted city, sobbing. But it's not blasted, it's just a busy city street. It was all his own trick, but now the post-apocalypse is the only thing real to him, and he can't even see or hear the people trying to help him.
Season 3, episode 17.
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can't remember the title but it concerned a tv actor who had a shrew of a wife and in the end he escaped into a fantasy world with his girlfriend.
I just love that one!
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Did Serling always write the intros and outros?
Even when the eps were crap, those little soliquoys were great!
brm
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