By William Kozy I’ve come to feel as I watch this episode over and over that it rates up there with the best of Twilight Zone episodes. It is surely one of the most underrated episodes, receiving only 4 votes in my survey that asked, “What is your favorite episode of the original Twilight Zone […]
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The Twilight Zone Review: The Brain Center at Whipple’s


By William Kozy Since I started writing these reviews, this is the first episode that I’ve arrived at that I had never ever seen before. So, it’s a unique experience to discover an episode that is 60 years old but brand new to me. I wasn’t expecting much since “The Brain Center at Whipple’s” received […]
The Twilight Zone Review: Young Man’s Fancy


By William Kozy There are two kinds of creepy. One is the kind where you have an uneasy sense of dread regarding mystery and danger being dangled in front of you, and the other kind of creepy is the unpleasant annoyance you might feel toward a person or situation that is possibly tinged with a […]
The Twilight Zone Review: One More Pallbearer


By William Kozy “One More Pallbearer” could indeed have used a few more voters to carry it up from the near-depths of the survey results to the question: “What is your favorite episode of the original Twilight Zone series?” Receiving only 3 votes, it was tied with 6 other episodes for 133rd thru 139th place. […]
The Twilight Zone Review: The Mighty Casey


By William Kozy At bat this week is “The Mighty Casey” which avoided getting shut out, receiving only 3 votes in the survey that asked “What is your favorite episode of the original Twilight Zone series?” This put it in a tie with 6 other episodes for 133rd thru 139th place—too many games out of […]
The Twilight Zone Review: Valley of the Shadow


By William Kozy Burdened by dim-witted logic, and a pacing as slow as moss growing, “Valley of the Shadow” received only 3 votes in the survey asking “What is your favorite episode of the original Twilight Zone series?” This put it in a tie with 6 other episodes for 133rd thru 139th place. Reporter Philip […]
The Twilight Zone Review: Four O’Clock


By William Kozy The overly histrionic ranting of “Four O’Clock” led to its receiving only 3 votes in the survey asking “What is your favorite episode of the original Twilight Zone series?” This put it in a tie with 6 other episodes for 133rd thru 139th place. It’s an unpleasant episode to sit through, despite […]
The Twilight Zone Review: Caesar and Me


By William Kozy A plaintive oboe accompanies the sad sight of Jonathan West, a ventriloquist just off the boat from Ireland—he is in a pawn shop, and with poignant reluctance, has just pawned his grandfather’s watch, practically begging the owner not to sell it until Jonathan can buy it back. Stafford Repp by the way […]
The Twilight Zone Review: Execution


By William Kozy Here’s an episode that deserves much better than to be lumped in the group of episodes that received only 2 votes from respondents to the poll asking “What is you favorite episode of the Twilight Zone?” It’s miles better than that group’s “Cavender Is Coming”, “From Agnes – With Love”, “Black Leather […]
The Twilight Zone Review: The Mirror


By William Kozy Ramos Clemente (Peter Falk) stands on a balcony waving at the throng of citizens who shout “Viva Clemente!” after his recent overthrow of this Latin country’s previous leader, General De Cruz. The crowd sound effects are not exactly inspiring, but Clemente turns back into the palatial room overjoyed as he faces his […]
The Twilight Zone Review: Last Night of a Jockey


By William Kozy “What’s your favorite episode of the original Twilight Zone series?” And here come all the episodes rounding the final turn…3,000 fans and writers responded to the poll…here they come down the stretch, and it’s “The Last Night of the Jockey!”…coming in a tie for 151st place after receiving just 2 votes. The […]
The Twilight Zone Review: The Lateness of the Hour


By William Kozy “The Lateness of the Hour” was the first of the six Twilight Zone episodes to be shot in the failed experiment called “Let’s shoot videotape to save money!” The poor visual quality though was very obvious to viewers, and the practice was soon scrapped. In my survey asking writers and TZ fans […]
The Twilight Zone Review: Ninety Years Without Slumbering


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 […]
The Twilight Zone Review: Sounds and Silences


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 […]
The Twilight Zone Review: Cavender is Coming


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; […]
The Twilight Zone Review: From Agnes—With Love


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 […]
Ringside Report The Twilight Zone Review: I Dream of Genie


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 […]
Ringside Report The Twilight Zone Review: Black Leather Jackets


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 […]
Ringside Report Reviews The Twilight Zone Episode “The Mind and the Matter”


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, […]
The Twilight Zone Review: “Mute”


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,” […]
Ringside Report The Twilight Zone Review: Showdown With Rance McGrew


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 […]
The Twilight Zone Review: “The Whole Truth”


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 […]
The Invaders: Ringside Report The Twilight Zone Review


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 […]