Okay, here are my 22 nominees for the
Name That Twilight Zone Episode poll in Gen SF/F. I'll include only the description and not the title and see how many are recognized. Any other nominees? I should include one of the episodes that involve a town strangely empty of inhabitants, but not sure which one to pick. Ditto for the episodes involving nostalgia about small towns from decades ago, or hillbillies.
An old woman in an isolated farmhouse is menaced by tiny, hostile aliens. (
The Invaders)
After an airliner travels back in time, the crew struggles to return to their own time. (
The Odyssey Of Flight 33)
A daughter feels imprisoned by the robot servants her father has invented. (
The Lateness Of The Hour)
Opposing soldiers - a man and a woman - encounter each other in the rubble of a destroyed civilization. (
Two)
Seemingly benevolent aliens offer humans a free ride to their utopian planet, leaving behind only an oddly-titled book. (I'm tempted to just use "It's a cookbook!" as the description for this one.
)
(
To Serve Man)
A bookworm survives a nuclear holocaust but breaks his glasses. (
Time Enough At Last)
A nervous astronaut ends up in a Martian zoo. (
People Are Alike All Over)
A librarian is sentenced to death in a totalitarian state where books are banned, but allowed to choose the means of his execution. (
The Obsolete Man)
A cruel man thinks his stepdaughter's doll is plotting to kill him. (
Living Doll)
A woman has plastic surgery to cure her ugliness - as her society defines it. (
Eye of the Beholder)
A man recuperating from a nervous breakdown thinks a monster is tearing up the wing of the airplane he's on. (
Nightmare at 20,000 Feet)
A town is terrorized by little boy with the ability to read minds and manipulate reality. (
It's a Good Life)
A neighborhood thinks an energy outage is a prelude to an alien invasion. (
The Monsters are Due on Maple Street)
A child falls through her bedroom wall into a parallel dimension, and her parents must find a way to get her back.
(
Little Girl Lost)
A thug tries to profit from an old man with the uncanny ability to tell what people are missing from their lives. (
What You Need)
After getting a flat tire repaired on a cross-country trip, a woman keeps seeing the same, strangely unnerving hitchhiker. (
The Hitch-Hiker)
A newlywed man frightens his wife when he becomes convinced a fortune-telling machine can tell the future. (
The Nick of Time)
An astronaut returns to Earth, but wonders if it's the same Earth that he left. (
The Parallel)
A prisoner sentenced to live alone on a distant asteroid becomes attached to his only companion - a lifelike female robot. (
The Lonely)
A woman is chased on horseback by a terrifying, unidentified figure in black. (
Spur of the Moment)
A tourist walking across Europe takes shelter from a storm in a remote monastery that houses a mysterious prisoner. (
The Howling Man)
A ventriloquist thinks his dummy is alive - and evil. (
The Dummy)
