6 MOST Emotional Twilight Zone Episodes! (Spoilers Ahead!)

[@stevenperry4466]

"In Praise of Pip"always brings me to tears and "Passage for Trumpet" really hits me where I live. Many emotional moments in "the Twilight Zone are one of the things that make it so great.

[@uhclem50]

An episode called "The Lonely" always left me feeling sad.

[@chriscanale5780]

Great video Rick awesome eposides ✌💖

[@melvinquinney5580]

To me, one of the most emotional episodes was The Changing of the Guard, with Donald Pleasence. The writing in this was fantastic, especially when the ghosts of the students express their appreciation for the mark the professor left on each of them. Another very emotional one for me was In Praise of Pip. It really shows the love of a father for his son. Jack Klugman plays the father, Bill Mumy, plays Pip as a child, and Bobby Diamond plays Private Pip. The ending shows, just like The Changing of the Guard, that the father left his mark on his son. Thank you. Great channel you have here Rick.

[@bx8garageman]

A very good review thank you for sharing

[@steveoh9285]

Very well done.

[@juliemitchell3794]

Really Awesome Rick! Thank you 👍🏼

[@robertweber3140]

100% concur with your selections!!

[@EricLehner]

Hello from Canada. I bet that you are a good person. Thank you for what you do, and who you are. Cheers.

[@PerryPapanier]

The Lonely

[@gregorytyson995]

The Changing of the Guard. Surprised it didn't make the cut. The Trouble With Templeton and A Passage for Trumpet both pack an emotional punch as well.

[@lazyhomebody1356]

The Trouble with Templeton, yes!

[@FrancescaA00]

I love that you didn’t do the common ones. Some of these I didn’t even think about and I’ve been watching it for years.

[@Tejaye777]

Ring a Ding girl. I think is a really emotional one. Especially the statement that Rod Serling gives at the end. Just makes you contemplate your life as a whole.

[@gnewt75]

"The Trade Ins" is my favorite episode. Very sentimental lesson about appreciating what and who you have.

[@Chuck_Hooks]

"The 7th is Made up of Phantoms" got me with that shocking twist where three US army reserve tankers (in 1963) end up dead at the Battle of the Little Big Horn. Their names on a plaque listing the dead in Custer's command.

[@aisi816]

There is one episode that nevers seems to feature in these lists people make. The Long Morrow where an astronaut is sent on a fifty year mission where he will be frozen for the entirety of the journey there and back, except to work at the destination before returning home. He knows the woman he loves will be in her seventies when he returns so during the flight he has set the pod to release him shortly after take off so they will be the same age when he returns. You can guess what happens, for me it is one of the most moving episodes , and certainly up there with Nothing in the Dark.

[@jaylamb9546]

“Walking Distance,” in my opinion is one of the best episodes of television period. The haunting score by Bernard Hermann,brilliant cinematography, and acting between Gig Young’s Martin Sloan and Frank Overton as his father . It was one of Rod Serling’s most personal stories, dealing with his loss of childhood innocence growing up in Binghamton NY, after he goes off to war, the loss of his father, and the escapism of the past, but knowing you must live in the present.

[@tinomacchia5410]

‘Great video, Rick. I agree with your picks; I think Rod had a knack for touching the heartstrings. I have so many favorites. I have to say that “The Night Fate Stepped In” has an extremely strong and effective ending and is right up there with my favs.

[@brianrebmann5398]

Very good video. Interesting topic and great choices for your episode picks. My favorite is One for the Angels and never knew Robert Redford was on the Twilight Zone

[@markdrinkard4150]

Art Carney as Santa Clause

[@johnliotta2583]

Many great actors n actresses got their start or appeared very young on tz. You should do a list of them. Great channel.

[@ricknineg]

Thank you so much john!

[@1armijo]

The last casualty civil war soldiers pass by farm woman in south and last one is Lincoln.

[@Scripturechick.]

Passerbys.

[@lisahorsepony]

Great video Rick! These are very special episodes and there are many others which I love as well but there are way too many to remember so if you can cover all or most of them here and there, that would be fantastic. I especially enjoyed the one about the player piano which the husband presented to his wife as a birthday present. I also love the one about the masks as well. I look forward to more episodes for you to cover.

[@charliecontrino1626]

Great episodes!!

[@Scripturegirl.]

Which do u like.??.

[@pedmst]

Willoughby was emotional. The last one about the children in the pool that go under water to a lovely place for unloved children and most of the ones you mentioned. I don't remember seeing the one about the man and his dog or the one with Robert Redford...and I thought I had seen them all.

[@feleciagrasty3880]

I always loved that episode about the pool.

[@marilyn6979]

agreed...and more endearing episodes as we think of them...

[@irishis3]

Mimi Those are both in my top five. The Bewitchin’ Pool is the name of the episode

[@marilyn6979]

@@irishis3 and that pool episode was written by Earl Hamner Jr.aka John Boy Walton

[@Mynamesalexa]

LISTEN FAT BOY!

[@CAT-Anne]

You picked some really good ones! Loved number 4 and 3.

[@bretstanley9449]

The Thirty-Fathom Grave from season 4 is also very sad. A sailor on a US naval ship twenty or so years after WWII begins to be plagued with sickness and just downright bizarre symptoms when their ship nears the area where his ship was sunk back during the war. Very creepy episode, but sad as well.

[@brianarbenz7206]

It is interesting that in 6 and 5, the theme is the carefree childhood. Today, that paradigm has shifted. We hear childhood described as a time of "baggage" and "disfunctions." Today, few would long to relive their childhoods. Those years are thought of as more complicated than their adulthoods.... I must admit I have never seen the Robert Redford as death episode. That sounds like a remarkable message, not to fear the inevitable end of life. My grandparents both lived long and very full lives and both were ready to go when their times came.

[@ralphewell8398]

Rod Serling was remarkably complex and for you to notice the depth of these emotions shows your empathy. I am still touched by your sincerity in the Charles Boyer clip you created. Thanks.

[@deeskers1]

Hi Rick. Loved your choices. I'd have to include 'Willoughby'. It is personally one of my favorites on many levels. I do believe, though, you are truly picking the most emotional* (just like you tell us, lol) episodes. But Willoughby was very emotional to me, although it was more sad than what I think you are aiming for here. In Willoughby, we feel for this poor man all the way through, with his shrewish wife and his awful boss. And it's a tearjerker at the end. But you get the idea this man is truly in heaven, so Willoughby being a funeral home doesn't seem as bad. I like your selections. I have some of the seasons of The Twilight Zone, but not all and I haven't seen several of the ones you bring up. I am looking forward to watching them now. Thank you!!

[@lauriemclean1131]

It has been a long time since I have watched The Twilight Zone, but one that I remember really touching a nerve was about a man who was on trial for being "Obsolete." He was trying desperately to prove he was NOT obsolete, because we knew what would happen if he lost that case. Nightmarish, yet something we may be seeing in how our sick and elderly folks are treated by the medical community these days.

[@markcadieux3445]

That was actually Burgess Meredith he was in 4 episodes.

[@robynsmith3276]

I remember those. The one about the old man wanting to be young is very endearing. That was my favorite of the heartfelt episodes. Thank you!

[@robynsmith3276]

I didn't realize Ronnie Howard was on the Twilight Zone. Thank you for sharing that, I am a huge Andy Griffith fan!! 🤗

[@chriscanale5780]

All my favorites

[@davidbingley6734]

I think the movie 'Cocoon', borrowed heavily from "Kick the Cup."

[@Mynamesalexa]

Good movie

[@davidbingley6734]

@@Mynamesalexa Yes, I liked it too.

[@aisi816]

The Kick the Cup episode was remake as Kick the Can by Steven Spielberg for his segment of Twilight Zone the movie.

[@tigger06]

I love Willoughby...

[@michaelnyny]

That's a great list.

[@pilgrim1952]

"Nigh of the Meek" was really emotional also.

[@Scripturegirl.]

Rip John.F.

[@Joe..3.8.0.9_]

Great video Rick Enjoyed it very much Loved everyone of those shows Do have to say though , my favorite show was the alien in the restaurant Trying to figure out which bus passenger was the alien Joe Navy veteran

[@Scripturegirl.]

"Will the real Martian please stand up.?."

[@Mynamesalexa]

I liked Judgement Night S 1-E 13. And the one where a convict (Jack Warden) is on an asteroid, and gets a female companion who is a robot.

[@Scripturegirl.]

Lonely.

[@Mynamesalexa]

@@Scripturegirl. Thank You

[@johntuttle2825]

Changing of the guard deals with a teacher forced to retire. And thinks he made no impact on students lives until he sees ghosts of dead students. The Passerbys. Is a mysterious road of dead people. Including a union soldier with a horrible face. Her dead husband, and Abe Lincoln at the end. Good emotional shows, Rick.

[@DinoNardelli]

Great pics!! Off the top of my memory, I'd like to include "Dust", " The Trade- Ins" and " Night of the Meek". Very emotional episodes.

[@wilber9735]

I remember Kick The Can, like it was yesterday. But, now that I "am" an old man. Maybe I should go outside and play for a while. Okay, I remember all of these. But in #4 silly man, there was no choice to be made; He should have known "all dogs go to heaven."

[@starey1]

"KICK THE CAN" was re-made for the "THE TWILIGHT ZONE" movie in 1983.. (also the episode NIGHTMARE AT 20,000 FEET)

[@yolandadelazerda207]

Wow Rick! Great countdown! My favorite of course was #3 Time Enough! I'm a bookworm too and can totally relate! PS please do a Twilight Zone DVD giveaway if you get a chance amigo!

[@ThePyramidone]

Among the wonderful actors shown here were Ron Howard, Gig Young, Arthur Hunnicutt, Burgess Meredith, Ed Begley, Murray Hamilton, Glady Cooper, and Robert Redford.

[@paulstan9828]

I remember all of them they were all good episodes. Especially the one with the dog. I remember it made me be with my dog all the time when I was first saw that episode when I was a kid. 😁 I wasn’t taking any chances.

[@marilyn6979]

sweet:)

[@paulstan9828]

marilyn patterson 😁

[@Mr.Glidehook]

❤️

[@johntuttle2825]

Those are good episodes. I think the Changing of the Guard. And the Passerbys are good emotional episodes too, Rick. My opinion. Take care.

[@spinchpuff9911]

I'm so mad Netflix doesn't have season 4

[@1armijo]

Also The Queen of Glasgow, a reoccurring nightmare of a German U-boat Capt that sinks passenger ship.

[@Scripturechick.]

Judgement night.

[@kennethbjorkmann8517]

Great presentation on the theme of emotion. Hope to see more of these types of "TZ" videos.

[@alfredodoardi2717]

Nice post- I hadnt seen the one with Murray Hamilton, i thought I knew them all. I aagree with your 5 and 4 on the list. Since you asked, I'll add a few others that get me a little misty. A Hundred Yards Over the Rim (involves a small child who's ill, and time warping. - In Praise of Pip with Jack Klugman. There's a few more, I cant think of their titles. I agree, they strayed from the mainstay of the series slightly, but still are somewhere in the outskirts, of the Twilight Zone.....de de dede de de dede

[@Robinsnest219]

These are all really great episodes. I think I'll watch a TZ marathon this week. Thanks for posting this list.

[@Mr.Glidehook]

Death's Head Revisited really tore me up. Such horrors, and the Nazi is so arrogant.

[@martinbeneteau309]

My favorite of your choices is Walking Distance. Gig Young is running to encounter his younger self on the merry go round and he is calling out, Martin, Martin! I always seem to project myself into the episode and I feel as if he is talking directly to me! (My first name is Martin.) And to be able to talk with your parents (maybe both passed on in his present life) is truly emotional. I actually hope Rick you are reading this. You need to watch an episode of Hollywood Graveyard: A Twilight Zone Special by Arthur Dark. He is a KZbinr too. It is an excellent episode about the Twilight Zone! Take care.

[@ricknineg]

What an excellent, redaction by you, Martin. I’m so glad that you enjoyed the video and that it reminded you of some good memories.

[@5argetech56]

Yes Rick.. The first episode you showed is very much like Cocoon. Which made me cry like a baby!

[@mightylonesome9426]

Good job Rick. I hope you come up with a lot more on the Twilight Zone. It's weird but everytime I think I've seen every B/W TZone one pops up that I'm certain I haven't seen.

[@alliehamilton-calhoun162]

The episodes that get to me are 'walking distance', 'a stop at willoughby', 'nothing in the dark', 'I sing the body electric', '5 characters in search of an exit', 'sixteen millimeter shrine', 'jess belle', 'static', 'changing of the guard', 'the hunt', .. I could go on. I thought the movie version of 'kick the can' was better than the series version. Walking distance is especially sad in regards to Gig Young's death.

[@debbieanne7962]

Seen every TZ episode. For these 6 you have mentioned here, from 1st to last of these type of episodes 1 Time Enough At Last 2 Kick The Can 3 Walking Distance 4 Nothing In The Dark 5 One For The Angels 6 The Hunt

[@jerrys9226]

I thought “Changing of the Guard” was one of the most poignant episodes.

[@gitaaa7740]

I agree this episode always tears me up!

[@jenrs0445]

My dogs my best friend also. And yes if my dog doesn't like someone or will not enter an area. I wont either. If you have a dog trust his instincts more than your own.

[@Otokichi786]

6. "Kick the Can": I am a child. 5. "Walking Distance": Are there no band concerts in your time? 4. "The Hunt": The Devil don't like dogs. 3. "Time Enough At Last": You're a READER! 2. "One For The Angels": Can you trick Death? 1. "Nothing In The Dark": The sum of all fears. *"Children's Zoo" (1985-1986 version) *"Paladin of the Lost Hour" (1985) *"Extra Innings" (1988)

[@Scripturegirl.]

I love 1.

[@Jared_Wignall]

Despite the show being seen as a thriller, Twilight Zone can be very emotional. I really like these lists that you do for the show. It’s really cool and I can’t wait to see more Rick. Thank you for the work you put into the videos.

[@cheryl3329]

I think the episode is called A Penny for your Thoughts with DickYork is a little emotional for me . He helps the old man get his dream vacation and the best part he gets the girl very sweet ending

[@alienonion4636]

Soooooo very well done. I love Kick the Can and your No. 1 with Redford. And from a woman's point of view...who would not want to take the hand of the young Robert Redford?

[@Scripturegirl.]

Ok ut, nothing in da dark. (#1.). not gonna let him take me, I have my ways of refusing to die, I AM A PRESBYTERIAN.!!.

[@JillMorgan-b7y]

I have two more emotional ones. "In Praise of Pip" and "A Stop at Willoughby".

[@ricknineg]

So many people like The Willoughby episode. I am in contrast where I cant stand the episode. I see it as dark and too morbid for my liking

[@TheVerbalVolley]

I am so much in agreement with your #1 choice, That tale left me speechless and full of tears as the episode unfolded. One of the best scripts ever written for television.

[@MrLourie]

All great choices of emotional episodes.

[@sherlyfree8436]

Thanks Rick for a very pleasurable review. All of the episodes are great but "Time enough at last" is a punch in the face ending and also my favorite episode. It really points out that life can easily take an unexpected turn. I enjoy all of your reviews.

[@donnicholas7552]

I remember all these classic episodes. I agree with your first pick! It's my favorite of the bunch. I saw a colorized version of that episode and it was very cool!

[@williamlangan5902]

A Passage For Trumpet- Twilight Zone's It's A Wonderful Life

[@GregNumber5]

Though the episode itself was not particularly emotional I found the ending to be a very emotional one and that was Ring-A-Ding Girl. There’s a lot going on in the last few moments of the episode.

[@jameswalker4397]

I love all these episodes. I'd only add one. The Buster Keaten episode. Can't remember the title right now, but I loved it.

[@aiemazing585]

Most emotional lesser known episode RING-A-DING GIRL...2020

[@markadconrad4624]

The most emotional has to be In Praise of Pip, hands down. How can you not cry after seeing that episode. I love Willoughby, but I dont' find it that emotional. In Praise of Pip. No question!

[@suzycreamcheesez4371]

Where Is Everybody?

[@neitajames6029]

I have seen all of the ones you showed I'm huge twilight zone fan it come on every night here please early morning on syfy channel now its nearing they will have a marathon. I look forward to that every year.sad rod sterling died so young. I looked in to buying every episode it was over 200.00. So I'll just watch it on TV.thanks. n.a.JJ.

[@antonnym214]

My List: A Stop at Willoughby, Walking Distance, The Lonely, Stopover in a Quiet Town, The Fever, A Hundred Yards Over the Rim

[@cjsansoo7]

My favorite and should be an honorable mention is " Mr. Denton on doomsday." The end is so profound. He pulls one man out of the gutter, and keeps another one from falling in. He gives Denton a second chance in life. Who among us wouldn't jump at the chance to correct our past mistakes?

[@lesleeherschfus707]

You missed the one about the concentration camp

[@feleciagrasty3880]

Do you remember when they had the Twilight Zone in the late 80's early 90's when they revamped the old episodes? I remember watching those too. I think it would come on Sunday Nights on NBC after Amazing Stories, if I can recall.

[@ravenpoe7093]

Felecia Grasty U can find some of those here on youtube. I rewatched many of them. There is also a drama company that remade some episodes including some Rick mentioned here.

[@feleciagrasty3880]

@@ravenpoe7093 Thanks! I have to check those out!

[@deeskers1]

It was in the late '80s, I believe. I was a little too young to understand the old Twilight Zones back in the day and I tried watching the 1980's version when I was in my twenties. I didn't care much for it. Later, I purchased several years of the old 'Twilight Zone' on DVD and really came to love a lot of the episodes.

[@joannemaguuire9664]

Number 2 and 3 were always my favorites. I always liked Kick The Can too.

[@juliemitchell3794]

Is # 5 Gig Young?

[@MsBackstager]

Redford can take me to heaven anytime.

[@Scripturegirl.]

Got my ways of refusing miss.B.

[@greg33770]

Loved watching the Twilight Zone.....always made me think, still does ! Way ahead of it's time....i still watch the old ones when they are on.

[@brianarbenz7206]

For me, the most powerfully emotional Twilight Zone, without a doubt, is Jack Klugman getting the word from the military that his son, named Pip, has just died "in a place called South Vietnam. And there's not even supposed to be a war going on there." Pip appears to him as a child again, and Klugman's character refuses to let go, refuses to accept what has happened. It's riveting and sad. And was this episode ever prophetic! The public was forewarned, whether Rod Serling intended to or not, about a war we'd live with constantly.

[@DogTimes777]

I love twilight zone too!!!!

[@MsBackstager]

Good morning sunshiners.

[@lindanovak8548]

All of these episodes are some of my personal favorites. Especially "Walking Distance" (I can recite every line). Definitely makes me realize how much we need to enjoy our lives. And next one of my faves is "Night of the Meek" because I think many want to be the "biggest gift giver" during the holidays. Especially to people who need it most. And honorable mention goes to "A Stop @ Willoughby". Because life is stressful & I don't know anyone who hasn't felt the need to escape. (Or is it just me?!? 🤔🙄😶

[@alliehamilton-calhoun162]

"perhaps there'll be an occasion - maybe a summer night sometime - when he'll look up from what he's doing and listen to the distant music of a calliope, and hear the voices and the laughter of the people and the places of his past. And perhaps across his mind, there'll flit a little errant wish, that a man might not have to become old, never outgrow the parks and the merry-go-rounds of his youth." It's my 2nd favorite & makes me cry every darn time I see it. I even named my cat Martin.

[@stoehrcov]

In praise of Pip was my favorite

[@davidurban6813]

Greetings from Red Wing Minnesota. Just asking why doing you spotlight The Night Gallery they had some relatively scary episodes. Spotlight one or two episodes that you feel is worth spotlighting. Just a thought. Have a great day everyone.

[@bobwigg761]

“I Sing the Body Electric” with David White (Larry Tate from Bewitched) as a widower that rents a cybernetic grandmother to care for his children. That episode always hit a nerve with me.

[@Scripturegirl.]

I know people with the last name Tate, and white.

[@marilyn6979]

Another 1 Rick...the trade ins ...set in the future..an elderly couple who have a chance to exchange thr old bodies for new ones...problem..not enough money for both..so endearing...

[@janets9179]

I liked the passers-by

[@christopherkraft1327]

The Twilight Zone episodes always made me stop & think! (they still do) thanks Rick for a video that brought back some fond memories of watching this show when I was young 😆

[@Sunchild_26]

The mr.death episode was very emotional for me!

[@Scripturegirl.]

There's two episodes.

[@dawnhalley2205]

Kick the can is my favorite. I will have to go watch the others. Didn't know Opie was in one. They all look interesting. Thanks.

[@deeskers1]

I always liked that one, too. :)

[@shoresean1237]

'The Night Of The Meek' - To this day, part of me wonders if it was really Art Carney's wish that made the ending or if he really had been the real deal all along, and had just lost his way and forgotten. "I want to do this every year."

[@marilyn6979]

in kick the can epidode the other residents except his friend...who disbelieves... all join in kick the can game and become kids again 2

[@jehobden]

I find "I Sing the Body Electric" a very emotional episode, especially since it relates to the death of the family's mother. The night after my mom's memorial service I was staying at my sister's house and watching MeTV, and the network reran this episode that night. I shed a few tears, which I didn't shed during the memorial service, especially when the grandmother mentioned that she knew that the father had lost his mother at a young age, same as his kids had.

[@MsBackstager]

Awwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww these vintage eps.