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- DirectorRichard L. BareStarsWilliam ShatnerPatricia BreslinGuy WilkersonA pair of newlyweds stopping in a small town are trapped by their own superstition when playing a fortune-telling machine in a local diner.Extended Ratings:
Story: 10/10
Characters: 10/10
Rewatchability: 10/10
Twist/Resolution: 9/10
Bonus*
Relevance: 4/4
Tone: 4/4
Effectiveness: 3
Weaknesses: n/a
Total: 50
*Relevance (1-Low/2-Minor/3-Moderate/4-High)
*Tone (1-Flat, 2-Unbalanced , 3-Balanced, 4-Strong
*Effectiveness (Acting, Fortune Machine, Ending) - 1959–196425mTV-PG8.9 (6.2K)TV EpisodeDirectorRon WinstonStarsRod SerlingClaude AkinsBarry AtwaterOn a peaceful suburban street, strange occurrences and mysterious people stoke the residents' paranoia to a disastrous intensity.Extended Ratings:
Story: 9/10
Characters: 10/10
Rewatchability: 10/10
Twist/Resolution: 9/10
Bonus*
Relevance: 4/4
Tone: 4/4
Effectiveness: +2
Weaknesses: n/a
Total: 48
*Relevance (1-Low/2-Minor/3-Moderate/4-High)
*Tone (1-Flat, 2-Unbalanced, 3-Balanced, 4-Strong)
*Effectiveness (Society, Ambiguity) - DirectorRobert StevensStarsRod SerlingGig YoungFrank OvertonA man, fed up with where he's at in life, finds himself not only in his old hometown, but back to the time when he was a boy.Extended Ratings:
Story: 10/10
Characters: 8/10
Rewatchability: 9/10
Twist/Resolution: 8/10
Bonus*
Relatability: 4/4
Tone: 3/4
Total: 42
*Relatability (1-Not at all/2-In small ways/3-Mostly/4-Definitely)
*Tone (1-Flat, 2-Unbalanced , 3-Balanced, 4-Strong)
Extended Ratings:
Story: 10/10
Characters: 8/10
Rewatchability: 9/10
Twist/Resolution: 8/10
Bonus*
Relevance: 4/4
Tone: 3/4
Effectiveness:
Weaknesses: n/a
Total:
*Relevance (1-Low/2-Minor/3-Moderate/4-High)
*Tone (1-Flat, 2-Unbalanced , 3-Balanced, 4-Strong
*Effectiveness (Acting, Fortune Machine, Ending) - 1959–196425mTV-PG8.5 (3.9K)TV EpisodeDirectorLamont JohnsonStarsSusan HarrisonWilliam WindomMurray MathesonAn Army major awakens in a small room with no idea of who he is or how he got there. He finds four other people in the same room, and they all begin to question how they each arrived there, and more importantly, how to escape.Extended Ratings:
Story: 8/10
Characters: 10/10
Rewatchability: 10/10
Twist/Resolution: 8/10
Bonus*
Relatability: 1/4
Tone: 4/4
Total: 41
*Relatability (1-Low/2-Some/3-Mostly/4-Definitely)
*Tone (1-Flat, 2-Unbalanced , 3-Balanced, 4-Strong - DirectorJack SmightStarsRod SerlingJack WardenJohn DehnerA convict, living alone on an asteroid, receives from the police a realistic woman-robot.Extended Ratings:
Story: 9/10
Characters: 10/10
Rewatchability: 10/10
Twist/Resolution: 7/10
Bonus*
Relatability: 2/4
Tone: 3/4
Total: 41
*Relatability (1-Not at all/2-In small ways/3-Mostly/4-Definitely)
*Tone (1-Flat, 2-Unbalanced , 3-Balanced, 4-Strong) - DirectorBuzz KulikStarsJack KlugmanJonathan WintersDee SharonFrustrated pool champion Jesse Cardiff has beaten everyone except for the deceased James Howard "Fats" Brown. Jesse can only curse his name. But guess who just walked into the pool room on Randolph Street?Extended Ratings:
Story: 9/10
Characters: 10/10
Rewatchability: 8/10
Twist/Resolution: 8/10
Bonus*
Relatability: 2/4
Tone: 4/4
Total: 41
*Relatability (1-Low/2-Some/3-Mostly/4-Definitely)
*Tone (1-Flat, 2-Unbalanced , 3-Balanced, 4-Strong - DirectorRobert StevensStarsEarl HollimanJames GregoryPaul LangtonMike Ferris finds himself alone in the small Oakwood town and without recollection about his name, where he is or who he is. Mike wanders through the town trying to find a living soul.Extended Ratings:
Story: 8/10
Characters: 10/10
Rewatchability: 10/10
Twist/Resolution: 7/10
Bonus*
Relatability: 2/4
Tone: 3/4
Total: 40
*Relatability (1-Low/2-Some/3-Mostly/4-Definitely)
*Tone (1-Flat, 2-Unbalanced , 3-Balanced, 4-Strong - DirectorAnton LeaderStarsLois NettletonBetty GardeTom ReeseWhen Earth deviates from its normal orbit and moves closer to the sun, painter Norma and her landlady Mrs. Bronson try to cope with increasingly oppressive heat in a nearly abandoned New York City.Extended Ratings:
Story: 9/10
Characters: 9/10
Rewatchability: 8/10
Twist/Resolution: 8/10
Bonus*
Relatability: 3/4
Tone: 3/4
Total: 40
*Relatability (1-Low/2-Some/3-Mostly/4-Definitely)
*Tone (1-Flat, 2-Unbalanced , 3-Balanced, 4-Strong - 1959–196425mTV-PG8.7 (4.4K)TV EpisodeDirectorMontgomery PittmanStarsJohn HoytJean WillesJack ElamFollowing a frantic phone call about a crashed spaceship on a winter night, state troopers Bill Padgett and Dan Perry try to determine who among the bus passengers at a snowed-in roadside diner is a visitor from another world.Extended Ratings:
Story: 7/10
Characters: 9/10
Rewatchability: 10/10
Twist/Resolution: 8/10
Bonus*
Relatability: 1/4
Tone: 4/4
Total: 39
*Relatability (1-Low/2-Some/3-Mostly/4-Definitely)
*Tone (1-Flat, 2-Unbalanced , 3-Balanced, 4-Strong - DirectorDouglas HeyesStarsMaxine StuartWilliam D. GordonJennifer HowardA young woman lying in a hospital bed, her head wrapped in bandages, awaits the outcome of a surgical procedure performed by the State in a last-ditch attempt to make her look "normal."Extended Ratings:
Story: 8/10
Characters: 7/10
Rewatchability: 8/10
Twist/Resolution: 10/10
Bonus*
Relatability: 2/4
Tone: 3/4
Total: 38
*Relatability (1-Not at all/2-In small ways/3-Mostly/4-Definitely)
*Tone (1-Flat, 2-Unbalanced , 3-Balanced, 4-Strong) - DirectorLamont JohnsonStarsGladys CooperRobert RedfordR.G. ArmstrongElderly urban dweller Wanda Dunn has fought with Death a thousand times and always won. Now she is afraid to let wounded policeman Harold Beldon in her tenement's door for fear that he is Death incarnate. Is he?Extended Ratings:
Story: 9/10
Characters: 8/10
Rewatchability: 6/10
Twist/Resolution: 10/10
Bonus*
Relatability: 1/4
Tone: 4/4
Total: 38
*Relatability (1-Low/2-Some/3-Mostly/4-Definitely)
*Tone (1-Flat, 2-Unbalanced , 3-Balanced, 4-Strong - DirectorElliot SilversteinStarsBurgess MeredithFritz WeaverJosip ElicIn a future totalitarian society, a librarian is declared obsolete and sentenced to death.Extended Ratings:
Story: 8/10
Characters: 10/10
Rewatchability: 7/10
Twist/Resolution: 7/10
Bonus*
Relatability: 2/4
Tone: 3/4
Total: 37
*Relatability (1-Low/2-Some/3-Mostly/4-Definitely)
*Tone (1-Flat, 2-Unbalanced , 3-Balanced, 4-Strong - 1959–196425mTV-PG8.3 (5.1K)TV EpisodeDirectorDouglas HeyesStarsRod TaylorJim HuttonCharles AidmanThree astronauts return to Earth after seemingly having made an encounter that dooms them and their craft to erasure from existence itself.Extended Ratings:
Story: 8/10
Characters: 9/10
Rewatchability: 7/10
Twist/Resolution: 8/10
Bonus*
Relatability: 1/4
Tone: 3/4
Total: 36
*Relatability (1-Low/2-Some/3-Mostly/4-Definitely)
*Tone (1-Flat, 2-Unbalanced , 3-Balanced, 4-Strong - DirectorRichard DonnerStarsWilliam ShatnerChristine WhiteEd KemmerA man, newly recovered from a nervous breakdown, becomes convinced that a monster only he sees is damaging the plane he's flying in.Extended Ratings:
Story: 7/10
Characters: 9/10
Rewatchability: 9/10
Twist/Resolution: 7/10
Bonus*
Relatability: 1/4
Tone: 3/4
Total: 36
*Relatability (1-Low/2-Some/3-Mostly/4-Definitely)
*Tone (1-Flat, 2-Unbalanced , 3-Balanced, 4-Strong - DirectorJohn BrahmStarsBurgess MeredithVaughn TaylorJacqueline deWitA henpecked book lover finds himself blissfully alone with his books after a nuclear war.Extended Ratings:
Story: 8/10
Characters: 5/10
Rewatchability: 8/10
Twist/Resolution: 9/10
Bonus*
Relatability: 2/4
Tone: 3/4
Total: 35
*Relatability (1-Low/2-Some/3-Mostly/4-Definitely)
*Tone (1-Flat, 2-Unbalanced , 3-Balanced, 4-Strong - DirectorBoris SagalStarsFranchot ToneLiam SullivanCyril DelevantiAnnoyed by fellow country club member Jamie Tennyson's constant chatter, Colonel Archie Taylor bets half a million dollars that Jamie cannot be completely silent for one year while living in a glass enclosure in the club's basement.Extended Ratings:
Story: 7/10
Characters: 7/10
Rewatchability: 6/10
Twist/Resolution: 10/10
Bonus*
Relatability: 1/4
Tone: 3/4
Total: 34
*Relatability (1-Not at all/2-In small ways/3-Mostly/4-Definitely)
*Tone (1-Flat, 2-Unbalanced , 3-Balanced, 4-Strong) - DirectorJack SmightStarsBarbara NicholsJonathan HarrisFredd WayneWhile in the hospital recovering from overwork, Liz Powell keeps dreaming about going down to the hospital morgue.
- DirectorLamont JohnsonStarsLarry GatesJoseph BernardJack AlbertsonA dinner party for Bill Stockton's birthday is interrupted by a bulletin warning of an impending nuclear attack. As the neighbors scramble to prepare, they turn against the Stockton's, the only family that installed a bomb shelter.Extended Ratings:
Story: 9/10
Characters: 6/10
Rewatchability: 5/10
Twist/Resolution: 7/10
Bonus*
Relatability: 4/4
Tone: 3/4
Total: 34
*Relatability (1-Low/2-Some/3-Mostly/4-Definitely)
*Tone (1-Flat, 2-Unbalanced , 3-Balanced, 4-Strong - DirectorJohn BrahmStarsRod SerlingVera MilesMartin MilnerWhile waiting in a bus station, Millicent Barnes has the strange feeling that her doppelganger is trying to take over her life.Extended Ratings:
Story: 8/10
Characters: 7/10
Rewatchability: 7/10
Twist/Resolution: 6/10
Bonus*
Relatability: 2/4
Tone: 3/4
Total: 33
*Relatability (1-Low/2-Some/3-Mostly/4-Definitely)
*Tone (1-Flat, 2-Unbalanced , 3-Balanced, 4-Strong - DirectorIda LupinoStarsRobert KeithMilton SelzerVirginia GreggDieing millionaire Jason Foster invites his greedy Boston heirs to a Mardi Gras party where they must wear the masks he had custom-made for them - or else be cut off from their considerably large inheritance.Extended Ratings:
Story: 8/10
Characters: 5/10
Rewatchability: 7/10
Twist/Resolution: 9/10
Bonus*
Relatability: 1/4
Tone: 2/4
Total: 32
*Relatability (1-Low/2-Some/3-Mostly/4-Definitely)
*Tone (1-Flat, 2-Unbalanced , 3-Balanced, 4-Strong - DirectorRichard L. BareStarsLloyd BochnerSusan CummingsRichard KielAn alien race comes to Earth, promising peace and sharing technology. Linguists Michael Chambers, Patricia Brody, and their team set out to translate the aliens' language, using a book whose title they deduce to be "To Serve Man."Extended Ratings:
Story: 7/10
Characters: 7/10
Rewatchability: 7/10
Twist/Resolution: 8/10
Bonus*
Relatability: 1/4
Tone: 2/4
Total: 32
*Relatability (1-Low/2-Some/3-Mostly/4-Definitely)
*Tone (1-Flat, 2-Unbalanced , 3-Balanced, 4-Strong - DirectorJames SheldonStarsJohn LarchCloris LeachmanDon KeeferOn an isolated family farm in Peakesville, Ohio, young Anthony Fremont, who has vast mental powers but lacks emotional development, holds his terrified family and neighbors in thrall to his every juvenile wish.Extended Ratings:
Story: 7/10
Characters: 7/10
Rewatchability: 5/10
Twist/Resolution: 6/10
Bonus*
Relatability: 1/4
Tone: 3/4
Total: 29
*Relatability (1-Low/2-Some/3-Mostly/4-Definitely)
*Tone (1-Flat, 2-Unbalanced , 3-Balanced, 4-Strong - DirectorDouglas HeyesStarsAgnes MooreheadDouglas HeyesRod SerlingWhen a woman investigates a clamor in the attic of her rural house, she discovers a small UFO with little aliens emerging from it. Or so it seems.Extended Ratings:
Story: 7/10
Characters: 4/10
Rewatchability: 4/10
Twist/Resolution: 7/10
Bonus*
Relatability: 1/4
Tone: 2/4
Total: 25
*Relatability (1-Low/2-Some/3-Mostly/4-Definitely)
*Tone (1-Flat, 2-Unbalanced , 3-Balanced, 4-Strong