Transcript: Christian Reflections on Classic Twilight Zone Episodes

Greetings, classic cinema and TV fans. This is Pastor Jay here with you on another Top 7 day. Yeah, we're counting down the Top 7 Twilight Zone episodes, probably one of my favorite science fiction shows of all time. I love the twist endings of the Twilight Zone hosted by Rod Serling, and that is true. We are talking about the classic Twilight Zone, not the remake. So these are all episodes from the classic series. Before we jump into this, we want to remind you to like, share, and subscribe to these videos. It would help us out a lot, and we would appreciate it so very much. Let's jump into it. This is Season 3, Episode 25. It is entitled, The Fugitive. No, this is not a David Jensen series. No, it's not. This is a really interesting one. It takes place in a little town where a little girl that is kind of crippled named Jenny and other kids don't realize that the kindly yet magical old gentleman that kind of plays with the young children and kind of has fun with them doesn't realize that this man is a fugitive, but not the kind of fugitive you're thinking. No, it's something a little more out there. Yeah, it is a really out of this world episode We did that on purpose It is an out of this world episode And it is definitely one to find out Who this man is Where he's from And the ending of the episode is so awesome It's one of those ones you need to check out Because it is so cool It's heartwarming, and that's usually not the case with Twilight Zone, but this is a really heartwarming episode. A very great ending, and that's why The Fugitive comes in at number 7 of the top 7. The Invaders. This is from Season 2, Episode 15. The Invaders is a really claustrophobic episode. It basically all takes place in a little shack where a woman begins to investigate a clamor that's going on in her little house. And she discovers a UFO with little bitty aliens emerging from it. Or so it seems. What is really interesting about this episode is it basically is just one person through most of the episode and that one person is Agnes Moorhead who is best known for playing Andorra in Bewitched But she basically carries this entire episode, and it is a tremendous little episode. Her trying to fight off these little creatures, these little alien-type creatures, and how it all plays out, and who they really are, what they really are, and everything. It is a really awesome little episode. It definitely is good, and it definitely deserves the number six spot on the top seven of Twilight Zone. On the fifth season, season five, episode 17, number 12, looks just like you. This is a very interesting episode. It takes place in a future society where everyone, everyone must undergo an operation at the age of 19 to become beautiful, to conform to society. And one young woman desperately wants to hold on to her own identity. Kind of a really interesting episode And it really is Kind of Today If you will Because we're all wanting to conform To be To have everyone kind of feel No one feel any sort of difference In you know Everybody feel right Everybody feel the same This kind of feels like a today episode Like something that could happen and very much so in the near future. It really does eerily feel like this world in which we're living. It's really interesting. I really found this to be a very good episode, and that's why it comes in at number five. Number 12 looks just like you. Number five on the top seven Twilight Zone episodes. Also from Season 5, this is Season 5, Episode 3, Nightmare at 20,000 Feet. This is a really, really scary episode when you get right down to it. A man that has just recently recovered from a nervous breakdown is on his way home, and he's on the plane with his wife, but he's convinced there is a monster, a gremlin, if you will, or whatever on the outside of the plane trying to destroy it. Is it true or is it all in his mind? That's what we find out in this episode, and it is a really awesome episode. The man that has recovered from the nervous breakdown is William Shatner, yeah, Captain Kirk. And this episode is directed by Richard Donner an amazing director known for the Richard Donner cut of Superman 2 the movie Very very interesting little episode I really enjoy this episode It's still kind of scary when you think about it. When you see that monster, that gremlin on the outside of the plane. And when William Shatner's character pulls up the shade and he looks. And then that gremlin's staring him face to face. It's still scary to this day. and age. I mean, it's really awesome. And that's why Nightmare at 20,000 feet gets number four on the top seven. This is from season one, episode number eight. It is Time Enough at Last. Could easily have been number one. It is that great of an episode. But it's kind of a bookish, book-loving, young, older, I should say older, gentleman that works at the bank just loves to get away and just read his books. But interestingly enough, he finds there's time enough at last when he locks himself into the vault to read a book during his break at the bank, his lunch hour, And then when he comes out, he realizes that an atomic bomb has exploded and destroyed the world as he's known it. And now no one is left but him. But he finds books. It's utopia, isn't it? Or is it? This is a really interesting episode, and it really has that twist ending that just haunts you even to this day. It's amazing. A great episode that stars Burgess Meredith, and I love it so much. It easily could have been number one, but there's a couple more great episodes, and that's why this comes in at number three on the top seven. This is from Season 3, Episode 24. This is To Serve Man. An alien race comes to Earth and promises peace and shared technologies, cures of diseases, all kinds of stuff, amazing things, and the end to poverty and to starvation and hunger and all this. I mean, just an amazing thing. Seems like a great thing. And then a linguist decides to translate the alien language of the book and deduces that it says to serve man. Sounds awesome, right? Unless maybe there something a little more sinister to that title Hmm What is it Well you have to watch the episode to find out Yeah We don want to spoil it in case somebody hasn seen it This episode was directed by Richard L. Bear, who is most known for probably directing many episodes of Green Acres, but he also directed quite a few episodes of The Twilight Zone as well. And this one is a tremendous episode and it really deserves number two on the top seven Twilight Zone episodes. This is from season two, episode number six. It is Eye of the Beholder. A young woman is lying in a hospital bed with her head wrapped in bandages awaiting the outcome of a surgery that was a last ditch effort if you will to make her look normal. Now this really is interesting because we hear the doctors and the nurses but their faces are always shaded by the darkness until the final reveal scene and what a reveal scene it is. We're not going to spoil it in case somebody hasn't seen it, but what a reveal it is. And what we think it is, is not what it is. All is not as it seems. The Eye of the Beholder is probably one of those most iconic of episodes of The Twilight Zone. It is haunting, still haunting to this day, and you never get over that final scene that you see when the reveal comes in. It is so awesome. In this episode stars Donna Douglas who is most known for playing Ally May Clampett on the Beverly Hillbillies. Very good episode. That's why Eye of the Hall holder gets number one on the top seven list of Twilight Zone episodes. Do you agree with our list? If not, let us know what your favorite episode of the Twilight Zone is. We'd love to hear from you. Let your voice be heard. We'd love to hear what you love about the Twilight Zone. We want to remind you to go to retroac.blogspot.com as we put up news and reviews and articles and all kinds of good stuff, as well as videos and podcasts, all kinds of awesome stuff there at retroac.blogspot.com. 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