Very talented people took roles on Twilight Zone:
Dana Andrews
Martin Balsam
Richard Basehart
Orson Bean
Shelley Berman
Theodore Bikel
Bill Bixby
Joan Blondell
Ann Blyth
Lloyd Bochner
Morgan Brittany (Suzanne Cupito)
Charles Bronson
Carol Burnett
Sebastian Cabot
Art Carney
James Coburn
Michael Conrad
John Considine
Michael Constantine
Jackie Cooper
Bob Crane
Robert Cummings
James Daly
Richard Deacon
William Demarest
Andy Devine
James Doohan
Donna Douglas
Dan Duryea
Robert Duvall
Buddy Ebsen
Jack Elam
Shelley Fabares
Peter Falk
Anne Francis
James Franciscus
John Galt
Mariette Hartley
Sterling Holloway
Dennis Hopper
Ron Howard
Wilfrid Hyde-White
Sherry Jackson
Dean Jagger
Ann Jillian
Arte Johnson
Buster Keaton
Sally Kellerman
Richard Kiel
Jack Klugman
Martin Landau
Robert Lansing
Cloris Leachman
Ida Lupino
Patrick Macnee
Strother Martin
Lee Marvin
Kevin McCarthy
Doug McClure
Roddy McDowall
John McIntire
Burgess Meredith
Vera Miles
Martin Milner
Elizabeth Montgomery
Agnes Moorehead
Greg Morris
Billy Mumy
Julie Newmar
Leonard Nimoy
Patrick O'Neal
Susan Oliver
Nehemiah Persoff
Donald Pleasence
Sydney Pollack
Robert Redford
Burt Reynolds
Don Rickles
Cliff Robertson
Mickey Rooney
Telly Savalas
William Shatner
Max Showalter
Inger Stevens
Dean Stockwell
Harold J. Stone
George Takei
Rod Taylor
Franchot Tone
Lee Van Cleef
Joyce Van Patten
Jack Warden
Dennis Weaver
Jack Weston
Jesse White
James Whitmore
Edy Williams
William Windom
Jonathan Winters
Ed Wynn
Keenan Wynn
Dick York
Gig Young

I loved the Twilight Zone. It always had a moral message and made you think. I always watch the Twilight Zone marathons on New Years Day. They never get tiresome.

These are available on Netflix, without commercials FYI

No question Rod Serling was a genius. His arrows hit the mark most of the time. If you don't mind putting up with the corny effects, and dated references, you can learn a lot from The Twilight Zone, or just be entertained.

And, at the time, Ayn Rand considered Rod Serling as the best writer for television.

I agree, the acting in the Twilight Zone was fantastic. I was always impressed that REAL movie stars would do a TV series. Can you imagine Tom Cruise or Angelina Jolie doing a 1/2 to 1 hour cameo today?

I enjoy watching old movies. No flashy special effects. The script and the acting is what holds your attention.

Casablanca, The Maltese Falcon, and Laura are some of my favorites.

I have ALWAYS LOVED Twilight Zone! My favorite episode is "Time Enough at Last" with Burgess Meredith.

I really identified with him several years ago when I had a job and my boss hated that I was always reading on my free time.

My Favorites are The Eye of the Beholder, (about the beautiful woman getting a face lift because she was considered ugly), and How To Serve Man, (about the seemingly altruistic aliens who come to earth to "help" us, but were actually fattening us up for their cook book!)

I've always loved that show. So much so, I bought the boxed set of DVDs.
Serling was a genius, and you could always tell which ones he wrote without looking at the credits.
Lots of high-calibre movie stars.
And proof you can tell a great story in only 30 minutes.

My favorite episode is "The Invaders" in which Agnes Moorehead (later Smanthat's mother in Bewitched) never utters a word to be found in the dictionary.
You'd have to see the whole 30 minutes to marvel at her tremendous acting, but here is a spoiler alert for the ending compressed two minutes of that episode~

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n99iN...

Great show. I missed the New Year marathon. This year my brother said they aired them in the order they originally aired. I didn't start recording till that evening. Burgess Meredith was in a couple of classic episodes.

I thought so too, having watched maybe 20 episodes. I'll have to go binge a bunch. Maybe my Dr Who-loving daughter will join in.

I agree. My daughter gave me the complete series on dvd and it is also available on NETFLIX. These shows are truly classic sciFi with some of the best authors of the time making contributions to the stories. Great stuff! One of my favorites is "How to serve man". A bunch of aliens arrive with the supposed intention of providing for all of mans needs and solving all of his problems. Their guide is a book titled "How to serve man". Only too late do the humans realize that it is a cook book.

I remember an episode where a man (played by
Bill Bixby), could temporarily read minds.--And
there was a really good episode about a crooked
used car salesman (not that I mean to endorse that
stereotype) came into possession of an antique
car that forced him to tell the truth while try-
ing to ply his trade. He was in despair until he
came across a politician to whom (under pres-
sure from the car) he confessed his predica-
ment. The politician rescued him from it. I guess I'd better not say how, because of maybe
spoiling the episode for somebody.

Looks like a lot of great actors had they're start in shows like this. Our current education system and electronic toys and gaming have sucked the imagination out of the last couple of generations and more to come. Even the commercials were entertaining back then instead of annoying like they are today.

Yes, excellent series.
One of my favorites was "A Small Talent For War." As with many episodes, it takes an unexpected turn at the end. "Dying is easy, Comedy is hard."
Oh, and if you're looking for more thought provoking science fiction, you can find it in the tatooed carcases of dead trees, also known as books.