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By William Kozy With only two votes “Ninety Years Without Slumbering” remained asleep near the bottom of the list that asked writers and Facebook fan page Twilight Zone members for their favorite episodes. It is tied with 11 other episodes for essentially 149th place out of 156 episodes. We open on Sam Forstmann, played by […]
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The Twilight Zone Review: Ninety Years Without Slumbering
October 21st, 2020 
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October 15th, 2020 Bad Brad By William Kozy Finally, an episode I can honestly say I have never ever seen before. I embarked on this survey project asking writers in the fantasy/sci-fi genre and members of Facebook Twilight Zone groups: “What is your favorite episode of the original Twilight Zone series?” Understandably some episodes are heavily favored by the over […]
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October 8th, 2020 Bad Brad By William Kozy Among the 156 original “Twilight Zone” episodes, you can count on “Cavender is Coming” being consistently mentioned as one of the least favorite. In my ongoing survey of writers and Twilight Zone Facebook fan members, “Cavender is Coming” received only two votes from the 3,000+ respondents. Comedies were not “Twilight Zone’s” forte; […]
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September 29th, 2020 Bad Brad By William Kozy “What is your favorite episode of the original Twilight Zone series?” That was the question posed, and over 3,000 writers and Twilight Zone Facebook fans responded. Eleven episodes received only 2 votes, tying them for 139th through 149th place. Among those episodes was this week’s dud, “From Agnes-With Love.” The episode begins […]
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September 22nd, 2020 Bad Brad By William Kozy My survey questions asked writers in the horror/sci-fi/fantasy genre and Facebook Twilight Zone fan pages, “What is you favorite episode of the original Twilight Zone series?” Of the more than 3,000 respondents, there were three that received 0 votes and four that received 1 vote. “The Bard” is one of those episodes. […]
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September 15th, 2020 Bad Brad By William Kozy This hour-long episode from Season 4 is one of the few Twilight Zone episodes I’ve never seen until seeking it out for this article. It received only 1 vote in my survey asking Twilight Zone fans and writers, “Which is your favorite episode of the original Twilight Zone season?” That put it […]
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September 8th, 2020 Bad Brad By William Kozy “What is your favorite episode of the original Twilight Zone series” was the question posed to writers in the fantastical/horror/sci-fi genres and to Facebook fan pages of the “Twilight Zone.” Many thanks to the over 3,000 respondents, as I count down to the #1 episode, we sort through the discount rack of […]
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September 1st, 2020 Bad Brad By William Kozy In my ongoing survey in which over 3,000 writers and Facebook fans of the original Twilight Zone series responded to the question, “What is your favorite episode of the original Twilight Zone series?” this episode is amongst the few that deserved much better than the low ranking it received due to few […]
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August 25th, 2020 Bad Brad By William Kozy Again, we find one of the “comedy” episodes near the bottom of the list of my survey asking website fans and writers, “What is your favorite episode of the original Twilight Zone series?” Three episodes received no first place votes, and I wrote about those three over the past three weeks. Now, […]
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August 17th, 2020 Bad Brad By William Kozy This is the third episode that received zero votes in my survey asking writers and Facebook Fan Groups of “The Twilight Zone”, “What is you favorite episode of that series?” The other two episodes with no votes were the vastly underrated “Showdown With Rance McGrew” and “The Whole Truth.” So here’s “Mute,” […]
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August 11th, 2020 Bad Brad By William Kozy Of the three episodes that received zero votes in my survey asking “What is your favorite episode of the original Twilight Zone?”, this episode suffered the greatest injustice. Of those three episodes, it is perhaps predictable that two of them would be amongst Twilight Zone’s rare delving into comedy. The comedic episodes […]
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August 6th, 2020 Bad Brad By William Kozy Before continuing on with the episodes that received the most votes from Twilight Zone fans on Facebook and writers in the sci-fi and horror genres, let’s take a look at the episodes that are at the very bottom of the list. And in response to my survey question “What is your favorite […]
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July 29th, 2020 Bad Brad By William Kozy As always, I thank the Twilight Zone fan page members on Facebook and writers who participated in my survey in which I ask, “What is your favorite episode of the original Twilight Zone series?” “The Invaders” have taken over 15th place with 135 votes thus far. Apparently, this was Rod Serling’s favorite […]
Posted in COLUMNS BY WILLIAM KOZY, TWILIGHT ZONE REVIEWS Tags: The Invaders: Ringside Report The Twilight Zone Review Comments Off on The Invaders: Ringside Report The Twilight Zone ReviewLiving Doll: “My Name is Talky Tina and You Better Be Nice To Me” – The Twilight Zone Review & Trivia
July 21st, 2020 Bad Brad By William Kozy Let’s crack the Top 10 for you: In my “Twilight Zone” poll, asking Facebook TZ fan pages as well as horror/sci-fi writers, “What is your favorite episode of the original ‘Twilight Zone’ series?” 6,756 fans have responded. And in 10th place so far with 174 votes is “LIVING DOLL” (which I would […]
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July 15th, 2020 Bad Brad By William Kozy And what is your wish today? How about the answer to which episode came in 17th place in my survey asking, “What is your favorite Twilight Zone episode?” Well the softies amongst you really came to bat for this one, for, ’twas THE NIGHT OF THE MEEK, which gathered 124 votes from […]
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July 6th, 2020 Bad Brad By William Kozy Counting down the Top 25 Favorite original Twilight Zone Episodes according to Facebook voters and writers in the genre, we now come to Number 13, with 145 votes. So…WILL THE REAL MARTIAN PLEASE STAND UP? Opening narration: “Wintry February night, the present. Order of events: a phone call from a frightened woman […]
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June 29th, 2020 Bad Brad By William Kozy Continuing down the road of my survey asking: “What is your favorite episode of the original Twilight Zone series?”, in 18th place with 199 votes is “THE HITCH-HIKER” originally broadcast January 22, 1960. I would be born 18 days later. Thank you to all the respondents among Facebook Twilight Zone fan sites […]
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June 23rd, 2020 Bad Brad By William Kozy Continuing the countdown to the #1 Favorite Twilight Zone episode, we unveil “MASKS,” the episode in 19th place, with 107 votes in my ongoing survey that asks the all-consuming question of life: “What is your favorite episode of the original ‘Twilight Zone’ series?”. A big thank you to all of you who […]
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June 16th, 2020 Bad Brad By William Kozy And coming in 27th place in my ongoing survey of Facebook fans and writers, “LITTLE GIRL LOST” is found to sitting pretty with 60 votes. Thank you to all who participated! This episode unnerved the Hell out of me when I was a little kid. It’s one of the first ones that […]
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June 9th, 2020 Bad Brad By William Kozy Thanks again to all who answered the call to this survey: “What is Your Favorite Twilight Zone Episode?” In 21st place so far with 81 votes from Facebook fan groups of “The Twilight Zone” is the haunting tale “DEATHS-HEAD REVISITED.” The PLOT: A former Nazi SS captain by the name of Gunther […]
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June 4th, 2020 Bad Brad By William Kozy The Poll: “What is your favorite episode of The Twilight Zone original series?” In 16th place with 124 votes, “Midnight Sun” has heated up the ongoing survey of Facebook fan sites and writers. The PLOT: In her apartment, we see Norma Smith painting at an easel (she is played by actress Lois […]
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May 25th, 2020 Bad Brad By William Kozy And coming in 24th place in my “What’s Your Favorite Twilight Zone Episode?” survey: THE CHANGING OF THE GUARD with 67 votes. I received several comments from voters mentioning that because they were in the field of education this episode resonated with them emotionally. A reminder for to thank all those teachers […]
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May 19th, 2020 Bad Brad By William Kozy In a poll asking horror writers and Twilight Zone fans on Facebook, “What is your favorite episode of the original Twilight Zone series?”, with 57 votes here is the episode “Twenty Two.”. My thanks first of all to all who helped so graciously with this survey. How I wish this episode came […]
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May 13th, 2020 Bad Brad By William Kozy Here’s the next entry in my ongoing survey asking writers and Facebook fans of the show, What Is Your Favorite Episode of the Original TWILIGHT ZONE series? Thank you everyone who helped with this! In 21st Place with 75 votes is ONE FOR THE ANGELS. OPENING NARRATION: “Street scene: Summer. The present. […]
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May 3rd, 2020 Bad Brad By William Kozy (In my ongoing survey, asking “What is your favorite episode of the original ‘Twilight Zone’ series?”, “Nick of Time” is currently in 20th place with 84 votes. NICK OF TIME: The PLOT: Newlyweds Don and Pat Carter sit in their car as it is towed into a garage in Ridgeview, Ohio. Here […]
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