The Twilight Zone: Difference between revisions

* [[The Ageless]]: Walter Jameson, from ''The Twilight Zone'' episode "Long Live Walter Jameson", was granted this form of immortality in Ancient Greece by an alchemist. He says that he came close to death many times over the centuries due to injuries and disease, "but never close enough". {{spoiler|At the end of the episode when he is shot, he begins to age rapidly as he dies until he is nothing but a pile of dust}}.

* [[Aliens Speaking English]]: Pretty consistently played straight. Averted in {{spoiler|"The Invaders"}}.

* [[All Just a Dream]]: {{spoiler|"Where Is Everybody?", "Perchance to Dream", "The Arrival," "The Midnight Sun", "Person or Persons Unknown" (with an added twist), "The Time Element" (also with an added twist), "An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge"}}. Also, see [[Dead All Along]] below.

* [[The Aloner]]: "Where Is Everybody?", "King Nine Will Not Return".

* [[Author Avatar]]: According to biographies, "A Stop at Willoughby" was Serling's favorite episode, and he identified with the main character. The stops on the Northeast line were the same stops on the commute he made into Manhattan daily.

** "Walking Distance" was another of Serling's favorite episodes. The old-fashioned town in the story is based on the town he grew up in and the main character (as an adult and a little boy) was based on him.

* [[Balancing Death's Books]]: "One for the Angels", "In Praise of Pip".

* [[Bandaged Face]]: [[The Reveal]] of a few episodes involved one of these, perhaps most famously in {{spoiler|"Eye of the Beholder"}}.

* [[Haunted Technology]]: "The Fever", "A Thing About Machines", "Living Doll".

* [[Heads-Tails-Edge]]: "A Penny for Your Thoughts".

* [[Hell of a Heaven]]: "The Hunt" [[Playing with a Trope|plays with]] this trope.

* [[Henpecked Husband]]: Henry Bemis, in "Time Enough at Last".

* [[Fantastic Time Management]]: In the 1980s episode "A Little Peace and Quiet", a harried housewife finds a magic sundial that allows her to stop and restart time. She uses it to literally make time for herself, enjoying a peaceful breakfast or leisurely shopping for groceries while time is stopped for everyone else. {{spoiler|Everything is perfect until nuclear war breaks out and she stops time while a missile is 10 feet above her head. She will have to choose between dying with everyone else and living her life forever trapped between two instants of time}}.

* [[The Film of the Series]]: Released in 1983. Sadly, it's best remembered for the deaths of Vic Morrow and two child actors doing production.

* [[The Grim Reaper]]: "Welcome to Winfield", "Rendezvous in a Dark Place" [1980s Revival].

* [[Hair-Raising Hare]]: In '''''The Twilight Zone''': [[The Movie]]'', in the updated version of "It's a Good Life", the local [[Reality Warper]] asks his uncle to [[Pull a Rabbit Out of My Hat|pull a rabbit out of a hat]] as a magic trick, then the rabbit turns into a hairless, hulking, snarling monstrosity before it goes back into the hat.

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