Speaker 1: Day seventeen of the Twilight Zone podcast at Ven Callender
Speaker 1: and our friend Joe Brown says, what is the best
Speaker 1: Twilight Zone episodes penned by the following writers? So let's
Speaker 1: let's do this like for like Zach okay, but we'll
Speaker 1: start maybe at the bottom of the list, if that's
Speaker 1: cool with you.
Speaker 2: Yeah, And I will say, you know, this is a
Speaker 2: really hard question, thanks Joe. But y'all have to sittle
Speaker 2: for probably favorite as opposed to best, because that's really
Speaker 2: what it comes down to in something like this, right Tom,
Speaker 2: at least for me, right.
Speaker 1: Uh huh, yeah, for sure. So let's start with George
Speaker 1: Clayton Johnson. Then my pick was Nothing in the Dark. Okay.
Speaker 2: You know, for the longest time I thought George Clayton
Speaker 2: Johnson wrote long Live Walter Jameson. I was like, oh, okay,
Speaker 2: I mean con let in easy answer for me. Oh no,
Speaker 2: we didn't write that one. That was Charles Wilmont. So
Speaker 2: that had to chase my answer to a game of pool.
Speaker 1: Okay, good pick, good pick. El Hamner Junior, I've chosen
Speaker 1: the hunt. You've chosen black leather jackets, haven't there.
Speaker 2: I'm not I have chosen stopover in a quiet town.
Speaker 2: I think that's when you haven't even seen yet. Ah okay,
Speaker 2: and I enjoyed that one quite a bit. I saw
Speaker 2: that one randomly again on the Sci Fi channel as
Speaker 2: we watch here in America. Just came up and I
Speaker 2: was like, that's a good one from season five, so
Speaker 2: stay tuned to that one. So I'm glad our answers
Speaker 2: have been different so far. I suspect they might be
Speaker 2: the same here on out, but maybe not.
Speaker 1: Let's see. Okay, well, this one Charles Beaumont I found
Speaker 1: maybe one of the trickier ones, because he could, on
Speaker 1: one hand, just be like very mind bending, like shadow
Speaker 1: play or something where it's like there's no meaning to
Speaker 1: any of this, it's just like, you know, this great
Speaker 1: crazy story. But then he also does something like you know,
Speaker 1: number twelve looks just like you, which has really something
Speaker 1: to say. So which one are you going to choose?
Speaker 1: So I think, because we're talking writers, I went with
Speaker 1: number twelve looks just like you because I think there's
Speaker 1: there's some good stuff in there what they're talking about.
Speaker 1: I think there's some really good.
Speaker 2: Stuff, good good So I went with the howling mad cool.
Speaker 2: She is a classic I'm going for the classic choices here, y'all,
Speaker 2: so stay tuned for the next two as well. But yeah,
Speaker 2: I mean, that's such a just such a great story,
Speaker 2: and so is number twelve. Looks to strike you. I'm
Speaker 2: glad that we are having different answers here. It would
Speaker 2: be boring of it all the same. So let's see
Speaker 2: in these last two. I just your approach, though, I
Speaker 2: think we might have different answers, So let's let's see.
Speaker 1: Okay, Okay, So this one is obviously a biggie. It's
Speaker 1: Richard Matheson, and I chose Nick of Time.
Speaker 2: I chose the other William Shatner episode Night Married twenty
Speaker 2: thousand feet shocking for me, I know, But man, Richard Matheson,
Speaker 2: I mean this was this is actually a question on
Speaker 2: one of these other Advent calendars, like who's your favorite
Speaker 2: non Rod Struggling Twild's one writer, And for me, yeah,
Speaker 2: Richard Matheson is my answer. I mean, you could. I mean,
Speaker 2: there's like a dozen episodes we could have said here
Speaker 2: that would have been good answers, leading to the last question,
Speaker 2: which I mean, there's like one hundred episodes we could pick.
Speaker 2: But curious to hear what you picked here.
Speaker 1: Tom, Okay, so you're thinking of best or favorite? You
Speaker 1: know that you're absolutely right. That's that's the distinction, and
Speaker 1: they can be two completely different things. But I feel
Speaker 1: that maybe on this occasion that the two things come
Speaker 1: together for me. I do think it's one of Rods
Speaker 1: Sailing's best, if not Z and it's it's shape enough
Speaker 1: to be my favorite, I think, mm hmm. And that
Speaker 1: is on Saturday with Leaf for Home.
Speaker 2: I suspected you might pick that one, and that's a
Speaker 2: great and I'm gonna go with the go to favorite,
Speaker 2: A stop at Willoughby?
Speaker 1: Okay? Yeah?
Speaker 2: Which which had you recorded this before you'd seen that episode?
Speaker 2: I think you may have picked that one, am I right?
Speaker 1: I was just gonna say the exact same thing. Yes, yeah,
Speaker 1: For years and years I always said Willoughby. But yeah,
Speaker 1: I just went for one with an even bleaker end.
Speaker 1: And oh, mind you, the book's pretty bleach.
Speaker 2: They are they are, Although what is it? I don't know.
Speaker 2: I saw these episodes when I was young, right, And
Speaker 2: what does it say about us when we're all relate
Speaker 2: to this burned out middle aged guy when we're young,
Speaker 2: But yeah, I relate to you gart Williams.
Speaker 1: So now I relate more to the guy who's on
Speaker 1: his own on a planet somewhere.
Speaker 2: Look at us, ten different answers to these five categories.
Speaker 2: I'm proud of us.
Speaker 1: Yeah, absolutely, In many PASSI