Short Stories That Would've Made Great Twilight Zone Episodes

[BAYLOR]

Looks like they made it into a vampire episode...not sure if that was in the original; all I remember is that the woman was in complete control at the end.

The girl in the Leiber story was not a standard vampire at all. She something far worse and far more malevolent .

 

[BAYLOR]

The 1986 Twilit zone series produced a lot of really good episodes and segments

Paladin of the Lost Hour based on a short story by Harlan Ellison . The eps die stared Danny Kaye in the lead role . Wonderful and sad story.
Profile in Sliver which stated Andrew Robinson and Lane Smith in what happen if a time traveler interfered in history and saved JFK Kennedy. (its YouTube)
I of Newton based on a story by Joe Haldeman staring Sherman Helmsley and Ron Glass . This segment is Eight minutes long and one the funnies Twilight Zone segment of time. Ive rewatched lots of time . its that good and that funny !

 

[BAYLOR]

Mefisto in Onyx by Harlan Ellison would make a spectacular Twilight Zone episode.

 

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"Harrison Bergeron" and "2 B R 0 T B" by Kurt Vonnegut

 

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I could see "The Last Leaf" by O. Henry as one of the few mundane episodes.

 

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H. Beam Piper, William Tenn, and Arthur Porges would've probably made some pretty good episodes.

 

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"The Trouble With Water" by H.L. Gold
"The Little Terror/Oogledeboo" by William F. Jenkins (Murray Leinster)

 

[BAYLOR]

Old Garfield's Heart by Robert E. Howard

 

[Dave Vicks]

The Outer Limits was good too.

 

[BAYLOR]

The Outer Limits was good too.

Yes it was and so was Thriller hosted by Boris Karloff

 

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The Outer Limits was good too.

OL TOS was okay, imo, but I think it hinged too much on aliens, monsters, and robots. I think I prefer the reboot because it has more variety.

@BAYLOR I've recently watched an episode, one involving a special tomb with an alarm and a death mask. You might also like a show called 'Way Out. It was a bit of a companion show to TZ and was hosted by Roald Dahl. It was cancelled because it was deemed too scary for kids. You can find some episodes on YouTube.

 

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"The Mirror and Mr. Sneeves" by Herbert Gold
"Don't Look Now" by Henry Kuttner and C.L. Moore
"Happy Ending" by Henry Kuttner

 

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"Tune Me In" by Fletcher Flora

 

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"Author! Author!" by Isaac Asimov
"The Tunnel Ahead" by Alice Glaser
"The Statue" by Mari Wolf
"The Dead Man" by Jorge Luis Borges

 

[paranoid marvin]

The Monkey's Paw, but I'm assuming that one of the episodes must surely have covered the theme in some way?

 

[BAYLOR]

The Monkey's Paw, but I'm assuming that one of the episodes must surely have covered the theme in some way?

It would have made a very good Twilight Zone episode. I seem to recall that there was a faithful up tv adaptation of this one , A Buffy the Vampire Slayer episode with gave a nod to the Monkey's Paw and one of the segments to a Simpson Tree House of Horrors episode did a parody of it.

 

[Randy M.]

Dennis Etchison's "It Only Comes Out at Night"

 

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It would have made a very good Twilight Zone episode. I seem to recall that there was a faithful up tv adaptation of this one , A Buffy the Vampire Slayer episode with gave a nod to the Monkey's Paw and one of the segments to a Simpson Tree House of Horrors episode did a parody of it.

It was adapted with a few changes for The Alfred Hitchcock Hour.

 

[Dave Vicks]

Tales from the Crypt did THE MONKEYS PAW.

 

[BigBadBob141]

Two perfect stories are "The Other Celia" & "The Professor's Teddybear" both by Theodore Sturgeon, both of which I have mentioned before, but they both have elements of the weird in them especially the latter, the Celia story does contain nudity which is actually essential to the plot so I don't know how this would be handled.
Two others which I've also mentioned before are "The Emissary" and "Zero Hour" both by Ray Bradbury with nice little twists at the end.