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Archived from the IMDb Discussion Forums — Rod Serling
BaltimoreBob — 19 years ago(June 14, 2006 10:36 AM)
by oversplayer
posted in "The Greatest Twilight Zone Episode of all Time"
under Board: "The Twilight Zone" (1959)
I had the privilege of seeing Rod Serling in person many years ago at UCLA
so I am able to relate what HIS two favorite episodes were because he told
us and brought them along -
"A Stop at Willoughby" and "The Monsters are Due on Maple Street."
Most of the female audience members let out screams at the final scene of "Willoughby."
When Mr. Serling was asked whether "The Monsters are Due on Maple Street"
was his allegorical take on the Red Scare, he replied, in true Beatles fashion:
"No. It was just a story." Sure.
I belive that "Willoughby" was his most personal episode.
As for sheer eeriness, "Little Girl Lost."
"Willoughby? It comes with sunlight and serenity.
And is a part of The Twilight Zone."
Baltimore Bob -
Big G-2 — 19 years ago(December 21, 2006 08:44 AM)
"The Monsters A7ecre Due on Maple Street" is indeed a classic. My personal favorite that Serling wrote was "Eye of the Beholder", where to me, that was more-or-less an allegory on segregation that was going on that the time.
Little Girl Lost- Sadly, I can't remember this one eerie, huh? I'll have to get these on DVD and check it out.
I think "Little Girl Lost" was the episode where a young child falls off her bed and slips into another dimension. The opening was in the wall next to the bed, and we are shown how big that opening was. Another classic episode. -
Raylathotep — 19 years ago(August 05, 2006 04:42 PM)
"Willoughby. next stop, Willoughby." It wasn't the creepiest or freakiest, but it sure was a great story.
The Monsters are Due on Maple Street- is this the one where all the neighbors get paranoid because of a blackout, grow suspicious of the one house with power, and then start killing one another? That was pretty good.(musta been if I remember it)
Little Girl Lost - Sadly, I can't remember this one eerie, huh? I'll have to get these on DVD and check it out.
- is this the one where all the neighbors get paranoid because of a blackout, grow suspicious of the one house with power, and then start killing one another? That was pretty good.(musta been if I remember it)
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samsan_lee — 18 years ago(June 07, 2007 12:01 PM)
Monsters are Due on Maple Street was great,
the similar apocalyptic end where they say were going to that planetEarth."
and the apocalyptic end where their fighting to go into that Bomb Shelter.
it was so brilliant, and it was pure tension the entire time.
Little Girl Lost was eerie. The one with Lee Marvin, and he his snatched up from the grave.
2000they were eerie, timeless, poignant, thought provoking and captivating. It was almost criminal to even have comedic episodes. -
mrleadfoot — 18 years ago(December 25, 2007 10:06 PM)
Little Girl Lost was based on a Richard Matheson short story and I'm not sure if Serling adapted that one or if Matheson did himself. I remember A Stop Over at Willoughby when I was a kid and I loved that episode, the ending wowed me, I think I was twelve or thirteen.
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jgman2000 — 17 years ago(November 26, 2008 04:53 PM)
"Little Girl Lost" was adapted into a Simpsons Treehouse of Horror segment. Its the one where Homer gets caught in the three-dimensional universe.
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