Twilight Zone S2 E1. King Nine Will Not Return

Love the OG TZ. There's one holiday (I think maybe 4th of July) that one of the channels plays nothing but TZ episodes all weekend. I usually load up my DVR with ones that I love or that I haven't seen before and want to, and then gradually watch them here and there throughout the year.

Was it any good? Or just letting us know you watched it?

Thqanks that's a plenty good enough list to go on. I've seen a handful of those alreayd and enjoyed so I'll knock out the others shortly.

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I'll knock out the others shortly.

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Report back and let us know what you think about them. I want to know if I recommended a good list.

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The Invaders

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I almost included that one in my list. It's a cool one.

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let us know what you think about them.

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Brief Spoilers below:

Ones I've already seen:

To Serve Man- Loved

A Kind of Stopwatch- Loved

The Monsters are Due on Maple Street- Liked. A very brief google search a while back led me to believe this is considered one of the very best of the series, and while I certainly enjoyed it I didn't like it as much as some of the others. The first half I was certainly in suspense since I was in the dark just like the characters, but 2 things kind of turned me off from totally loving it. First and foremost, the ENTIRE nature of the plot's chaos centers around one little kid making an offhand remark about how he saw a comic book once with aliens living amongst humans. And somehow, all of the grown arse adults just take that as gospel and treat it like real life. The entire episode unravels if things played true to life and they told him "that's nice dear now STFU please" like would happen IRL. All the suspense, the drama, the "is he or isn't he?", them shooting their neighbor which then sets off pandemonium...ALL of it stems from everyone believing that kid and his comic books. It was just kinda tough to buy. Then the big reveal at the end that there actually ARE aliens was cool, but I felt like it didn't really land with me. We have aliens, but they don't' actually interact with the humans. Their whole method of chaos is just turning the power on and off. That'd be annoying sure but not enoguh IRL to have people killing their neighbors over. I get that the main "lesson" is that disrupting human's natural tendencies and robotic, set in their ways lives can create shockwaves, but while having a pretty decent main idea I just didn't feel like the execution hit the mark completely. Still enjoyed it mind you, just wouldn't call it one of the best I've seen.



Time enough at last and 20K feet are of course well regarded but I already know the big reveal in those since they are such classics and part of TV/Movie tropes. I'll still watch eventually but probably not making a priority.

Spoiler much. My cheap apps started in 1936 film. I'm just now up to 1959.

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The episode was based on the discovery of the B-24 Liberator bomber Lady Be Good and her crew's remains, which had crash-landed at night, deep in the Libyan desert after running out of fuel, while returning from a World War II bombing mission over Naples, Italy.

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This incident also inspired a classic TV movie ten years after TZ