Maybe there is no TV show from the classic era that endured the test of time better than the "twilight zone". Despite its black-and-white coloring, limited budgets and retro-scientific styles, the Rod Serling series remains one of the largest, most influential shows ever set up on American television. Although there have been many attempts to restart the series, none of which have been as successful as less direct heirs as the "Black Mirror", the original series of the late 50s and the early 60s remains the best to be seen. Fortunately, his biggest episodes are also incredibly good.

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Choosing only five episodes of "Dusk Zone" to recommend is a challenging task, as all five seasons are loaded with classics. Comments on war, death, greed, adventures in space exploration, Surprising number of episodes of "Dusk Zone" of WesternMonsters, ghosts, ghosts, deals with the devil, the metaphors of red fear - everything is there and it's worth looking at. But for our purposes here, we will look at five of the most famous, basic and spectacular records in the Anthology series in order to give newcomers a start.

To that end, we will do our best to avoid spoilers here. If you want to know absolutely nothing, I only suggest noticing the names and numbers of the episode, but this is intended as a teaser. If you need more convincing, read and discover five episodes "Dusk Zone", obliged to get you.

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The first entrance to our list is, respectively, one of the earliest episodes of the "twilight zone" for broadcasting. Eight episodes in the first season of the show, TV viewers were treated on an absolutely unforgettable "end time", meditation on nuclear fears day of the era and the dark reality of true solitude.

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The legend of the stage and the screen Burges Meredith plays a mild steering wheel of Henry Bomis, a passionate reader who carries his lunch breaks within the loneliness of the bank's vault. There, he can enjoy the peace and silence of his books, smoothly. The iousubopitic place for the break also ends to protect him when the nuclear war arrives, making him the only survivor of his city. Despite the unstoppable destruction, a bomber sees a silver sheath to the end of the world - more opportunities for him to enjoy his favorite hobby, smooth than other people. Of course, that Grand Plan is not as happy or proven by a fool as it can sound.

This is basically a classic monkeys story-"Be careful what you want" parable with some entertaining scientific teams. That genre has become one of the main parts of the show in the years since "finally" for the first time "for the first time, and he may remain The best such example in its entirety of "twilight zone".

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Red quail is a common source of inspiration in the "twilight zone", which often puts a scientific spin on the very real political paranoia and xenophobia that catches the United States in the years around the show. There are some great examples of episodes that explore these ideas, and I almost put a different here-namely, trapped strip drama "Will the Real Marsejian stand?" It gets an honorable mention all the same and it's worth hours, but for the list of the most episodes of the foundation, we go with "Monsters are due to Maple Street.

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Featuring the likes of Claude Akins and Burth Metcalph, this episode follows residents of a small American city that are growing more cautious about each other after what seems to be a meteoric accident and an accompanying power outage. When some begin to make accusations of someone else's invasion, the neighbors quickly start to turn to each other.

This is an episode less for a last twist and more about the infectious nature of paranoia. It is regularly maintained as one of the simplest episodes of the show and for good reason.

Most episodes of the Twilight Zone put a twist on a true historical or imagined futuristic situation - a magic passing through an old western city, for example, or World War II pilot accidentally traveling through time. "Five characters in search of an exit", unlike them, is one of the most abstract episodes of the show, with very little earthing in our world to explain the weird setting.

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The story goes exactly as you would guess from the title: Five characters - "clown, hobo, ballet dancer, bagpipe and army", as named in Serling's initial narrative - awakened at the bottom of the metal pit without memories of how they got there. Together, and with a growing sense of panic, they are trying to divine means of escape, all the time struggling to identify the nature of their condition.

This is the type of episode that shows how much energy you can withdraw from several costumes and basic set. It is attractive in its abstraction, showing the full width of the types of stories possible in the "twilight zone".

Although not always the case, the "twilight zone" often deals with more violent ideas, with war, death, betrayal, paranoia and other topics with high stakes that play basic roles of many episodes. "Walking Distance", another very early episode of the show, may look tame for comparison, but it is important to highlight the more subtle and sublime episodes.

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Setting up here is simple. After taking his car to a service station in the middle of a long drive, CEO Martin Sloan (Gig Young) realizes that he is going away from the small city where he grew up, and he decided to visit while the mechanic is working on his car. However, after being there, Martin reveals that he was passing through time in his childhood days.

The episode explores the themes of nostalgia and obsession with the past, and has one of the most underestimated endings of the episode "Dusk Zone". But we will allow you to find that one for yourself.

The closure of our list is perhaps the most famous episode of the "Twilight" zone, and not only because it starred William Shatner (though it is certainly much of the episode's legacy). The main moment of the last season of the original series, "Nightmare of 20,000 feet" follows Robert Wilson (Shatner) on a flawing turnaround.

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While looking out the aircraft window in the air, Robert sees a monster of some kind of grilling over the wing. But when he tries to draw attention to the companion of the flight, the creature disappears. This is how Terror's escalation episode begins, which is complicated by the knowledge that Robert was recently institutionalized after a psychotic defect.

This reflects The creeping side of the "twilight zone", And it remains one of the best stories on the show, even if it has been made to death a little over the past few decades.