Which Was Your Favorite?

[cabinetman]

For all of you that are old enough to have watched the TV shows Outer Limits and The Twilight Zone the question is which one did you prefer? Taking it one step further, if they were on at the same time, but different channels, which one would you watch?

[Ed62]

Rod Serling's Twilight Zone.

Ed

[pelligrini]

Definitely The Twilight Zone.

I wasn't old enough to see them first run, but I'm sure I have seen all of them a couple dozen times since. I will never pass up a chance even now.

I even took a laptop out to the shop and streamed the TV to it when there was a Twilight Zone marathon running over the Thanksgiving Holidays

[Richard in Smithville]

Although I didn't see either when they were original, I grew up watching the reruns. As kids we used to run around singing " do-do do-do.....there's a sign post up ahead...." I loved the one with Bill Shatner on the airplane...couldn't act then either. Oh...and how about " How To Serve Man"?

[Black wallnut]

I never really watched any of the above. TV was a luxury we were not allowed very often. Laugh-in M-of-O's Wild Kindom were mostly what we were watching when the set was turned on.

[MilDoc]

That's a tough choice. I liked both, but if I have to vote I'd go for good ol' Rod!

I "fondly" recall the very first episode of Outer Limits. I was still a preteen. Their introduction "We are in control of your television..." scared me to death! I thought it was real!

[charliex]

Watched a Twilight Zone this morning (1 am ). About the Castro look-a-like who was as nasty a dictator as the one he overthrew. Couple of nights ago it was the people on the bus and the diner soda jerk that was from Venus and the bus person from Mars. My favorite one has to be the cook book.
Chas

[Bruce Cohen]

Twilight Zone by a mile.

Rod Serling was a genus, putting all those great SF writers works to film. He introduced the world (well a lot of people to the likes of Richard Matherson, Ray Bradbury, etc.

Now that was TV.

Bruce

[big tim]

Twilight Zone.

Tim

[Salty]

I liked/watched them both. Voted for Outer Limits mainly because they are hardly ever re-run. Twilight Zone is re-run all the time. BTW, to whom it may concern, we don't need another Twilight Zone marathon....ever...
I also like the new Outer Limits series.
My favorite original Outer Limits was the kid who befriended an alien and the alien was going to take over the world. The kid saw right through his scheme and, after learning as much as possible about the alien and his science, built a machine that caused the alien to be unable to breath, and forced him to leave.
That was a great series.
Another good one that you don't see replayed is Space 1999!
Then after that it was Buck Rodgers.

But, if you want to go 'way back', how many remember Fireball XR7?

[TheRic]

... But, if you want to go 'way back', how many remember Fireball XR7?

Wasn't that a car.

I voted for Twilight Zone, just because I could only pick one. Liked them both, couldn't watch them all the time. Depended on what Mom & Dad wanted to watch. They were different from each other, yet the same.

To serve mankind was cool, I figured out the cookbook right before they showed it, don't know why but remember being proud that I did. Hey when your a kid you take any little thing as a triumph.

I remember one (not sure which one they kind of run together in my head after all these year) were some Alien race was going to destroy Earth, tired of our nitpicking fighting. Earth came up with a whole Earth peace plan. Turns out the Alien were upset that we weren't fighting enough, and didn't have more advanced weapons.

[Eagan]

Twilight Zone

I think it was Twilight Zone that showed the first pairing of Shatner and Nimoy. Fasciinating!

[lebomike]

"Twlight Zone" for Sure.

[Salty]

Ric, my mistake. It was Fireball XL5, and it was a spaceship and was refered to as 'supermarionation'. The XR7 was a merc Cougar. It was a senior moment thingy and I got mixed up!!

[dkhoward]

I voted for Outer Limits although I watched both of them almost religiously. Still love em when I can find em