RATING: I The first of the hour episodes was perhaps the best, if not the classiest, of the eighteen segments, and it came from the pen of none other than Charles Beaumont. 10 Twilight Zone Episodes That Came True These classic episodes are eerily close to our reality. For evidence of just how iconic The Twilight Zone concept became, one need look no further than the fact that it's spawned not one, not two, but three separate revival series. Although comedy was never the strength of "The Twilight Zone" (or writer Richard Matheson, for that matter), the final episode of the first season is a delightful comedy that plays more on situation -- and a wonderful lead performance by Keenan Wynn -- than punchlines. Whether they came … The six episodes that were screened as part of “The Twilight Zone: A 60th Anniversary Celebration” are, indeed, true classic episodes: “Time Enough at Last” – Henry Bemis (Burgess Meredith) loves to read. "The Monsters Are Due on Maple Street" is episode 22 in the first season of the American television anthology series The Twilight Zone. Based on his own short story, it was to be one of his last teleplays for Twilight Zone. The Twilight Zone can be found on cable channels and streaming ... "The Mind and the Matter" Berman's wish to be rid of other people comes true. So many episodes of The Twilight Zone are about space travel, and it's like, we get it. Space is really spooky! And fate—a laughing fate—a practical jokester with a smile stretched across the stars, saw to it that they got their wish with just one reservation: the wish came true, but only in the Twilight Zone. The episode was written by Rod Serling, the creator-narrator of the series.It originally aired on March 4, 1960 on CBS.In 2009, TIME named it one of the ten best Twilight Zone episodes. This is easily one of the best episodes … The only problem is, he can find neither the time nor the place for it, and he’s harangued by his boss and his wife for his passion. How The Twilight Zone Predicted Our Paranoid Present. The first, and arguably most successful of these revivals came in 1985. Its best episodes hold up just as well today as they ever did too. The Season 1 finale of Jordan Peele's The Twilight Zone reboot revealed that a shadowy figure known as Blurryman had appeared in several of the season's prior episodes… ‘True Terror’: Robert Englund Teases His “Twilight Zone Docu-Drama” Coming To Travel Channel Josh Weiss Contributor Opinions expressed by Forbes Contributors are their own. ... Several Twilight Zone episodes deal with nostalgia and the desire to return to one's …