OT: Favorite "Twilight Zone" Episode?

I always enjoyed the one where the guy makes a deal with the devil to live forever, then I think accidentally kills his wife? And he gets sentenced to life in prison. Poor bastard

The one with the sun getting closer...and closer...and closer....

But it turns out to be a feverish dream of a woman who is sick. She's sick because she caught cold in a world where the sun is actually moving away from the Earth. That's a nice one.

I'm no expert on the Twilight Zone, but doesn't every discussion of the best episode have to include the William Shatner/beast on the wing of the plane episode?  My dad always talks about how that was Shatner's greatest acting performance, and I have to admit that whenever I sit near the wing on a plane, I wonder if I'll be the lunatic who sees the hairy monster.  Luckily it hasn't happened to me yet...

"...Frank - linnnn...."
(What was it , a homicidal slot machine?)

Or the one with Telly Savalas and the Doll Who Would Not Die...

Some more interesting responses from another board:

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I don't know if it is number one but i liked the spisode where Burgess Meredith just wanted time to read. At the end there is a nuclear war or something and he is the only guy left alive. He is happy because he can read in peace... then he breaks his glasses!

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Twilight Zone #1  TO SERVE MAN!
Mr. Chabers! ...........IT'S A COOK BOOK!

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Shatner in the diner, becoming addicted to the penny fortune teller is a pretty good one.  Monsters on Maple Street, of course.  Can't forget Talkie Tina.  The guy having his vocal chords removed to win a bet (which is welched on) is right up there.

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I also liked Dean Jagger in the old folks home, tuning into the radio station playing classic Dorsey etc.  It came in loud and clear for him but was just static noise for everyone else.

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The one where the little girl fell from her bed through the wall and dad grabbed her by the hand just as the wall was closing up (I had to roll my bed away from the wall for several weeks until I got over it) and the one where Ted Knight is banished to another planet for some crime - a lifelike lady-robot is delivered to him for (his only) companionship - he falls in love with the robot, gets a reprieve from home, doesn't want to go home because he has to leave the robot behind, and his friend shoots the robot in the face and wires are all that are behind the gunshot wound.

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A woman is in the operating room, undergoing plastic surgery.  We don't see her face, or those of the doctors and nurses, until the end of the episode.  Finally the bandages are unwrapped from her face to reveal a stunningly beautiful blond.  She is given a mirror and is horrified at the result.  The staff console her and we finally see their faces.  They are all hideously ugly...by our standards.

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Next stop, the Twilight Zone! There was one with a group of characters trapped in a high-walled cylindrical room.  Lots of interaction until one finally makes it to the top and "escapes."  Bwah-ha-ha!

Personally, my biggest creep-out was "The After Hours."
The one with the mannequins.

From: {Sports.Bay_Area.}
{hossypoo} Wed, 06 Dec 2006

"I grew up in Rod Serling's hometown. The house he grew up in was two doors from mine, but alas he was grown up and gone.  We did share some teachers. Binghamton echoes sometimes surface in Twilight Zone episodes.

When Rod Serling died there was discussion of renaming the town "The Twilight Zone," so the sign when entering Binghamton would be changed to "You are now entering The Twilight Zone."  That would have been appropriate, but of course was not a serious proposal."

OK, good place for me to ask this question.  I remember an episode, not sure if Twilight Zone, or Next Step Beyond, or any of those sci-fi shows of the 50's and was hoping someone could pinpoint it for me.

Show starts with aliens coming to Earth, announcing that they had created us humans but were going to destroy the Earth because of our "small penchant for war" or something like snide like that.  Realizing that peace was the way to appease these aliens, Earthlings puts together a peace plan that they presented to the head alien at the time the aliens said that they would destroy the Earth.  The alien bellows laughingly at them and states something like, "Ha!  You fools!  We are not destroying you because you are too war-like, we are destroying you because you do not war enough!"  Destruction and mayhem ensues.

Anyone recognize this story?  I tried googling for an episode like this from Twilight Zone and other sci-fi series on the web but could not run across anything like this.  

THE TOP TEN TWILIGHT ZONES THAT MADE THE MARATON:

• Eye of the Beholder (dystopian view of the future/monster faces)
  
• Time Enough at Last (Burgess Meredith breaks his glasses)
  
• To Serve Man ("It's a Cook-book!")
  
• Living Doll (My name is Talky Tiny, and I hate you.)
  
• Five Characters In Search of an Exit (they're actually toys.)
  
• Nightmare at 20,000 Feet (shatner freaks out on a plane)
  
• The Monsters are Due on Maple Street (classic)
  
• It's a Good life (little boy with special powers)
  
• Little Girl Lost (girl falls out of bed into different dimension)
  
• After Hours  (mannequins come to life)

ONES THAT WILL MAKE THE NEXT MARATHON

• Midnight Sun- the one Grant liked
  
• The Dummy
  
• Number 12 Looks Just Like You
  
• The Masks
  
• Will the real Martian Please Stand Up
  
• The Invaders
  
• Nick of Time
  
• The Howling Man
  

-The Hitch Hiker
- The Lonely

HONORABLE MENTION
Walking Distance
Judgement Night
The Obsolete Man
A Kind of Stopwatch
Nothing in Dark
A Stop at Willoughby
A Penny For Your Thoughts
Kick the Can
A Most Unusual Camera
An Occurence At Owl Creek Bridge
Death Ship
Escape Clause
Nothing in the Dark
People are Alike All Over
Shadow Play
The Bewitchin' Pool
The Changing of the Guard
Stopover in a Quiet Town
The Shelter
The Silence
What You Need
Twenty-Two
Where Is Everybody?
Walking Distance
I Sing the Body Electric
On Thursday, We Leave for Home