The Twilight Highlight Zone

Ben Hanson and Jeff Cork return from The Twilight Zone to talk about Jordan Peele's revival of Rod Serling's classic series, focusing with this episode on Nightmare at 30,000 Feet starring Adam Scott and how it compares to the original episode with William Shatner. You can listen to the podcast by subscribing to the show here or watch the YouTube version (audio only) below.

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Ben Hanson and Jeff Cork return from The Twilight Zone to talk about Jordan Peele's revival of Rod Serling's classic series, focusing with this episode on The Comedian starring Kumail Nanjiani. You can listen to the podcast by subscribing to the show here or watch the YouTube version (audio only) below.

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Surprise, here's a new episode of The Twilight Highlight Zone with Jeff Cork and Ben Hanson! Years ago, we hosted this podcast where we debated and dissected each and every episode of the classic TV show The Twilight Zone and now we've come back from the dead to give you a most unusual new episode. We were contacted by Brandon Cruz, who hosts another Twilight Zone podcast called Submitted For Your Approval, and he asked us if we'd want to record a cross-over episode where we take a closer look at the episode A Most Unusual Camera. Since Jeff Cork and I had zero strong feelings about the episode, we couldn't resist another look. We hope you enjoy this fun episode, and be sure to check out Brandon's podcast or just send him some thanks over Twitter. Also, check out our ongoing other podcast where we break down every album from the band AFI for some reason!

Listen to the podcast below (or subscribe to us on iTunes) to hear us reflect on the comedic tale of A Most Unusual Camera.

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Hello Twilight Zone fans! Jeff Cork and I haven't forgotten about you, we promise. I don't know how to break it to you, but there's somebody else. We'll always have feelings toward you, but there's a hot new love in our life, and it's the band AFI. We wanted to make sure fans of The Twilight Highlight Zone podcast know that we started a spiritual-successor podcast that breaks down each and every album of the band AFI. It's called A Fire Inside Out and it's available on iTunes. It's a fun romp chronicling a drastically changing band full of plenty of entertaining tangents, so give it a listen even if you don't know or care about the specific band. Anyway, we'll see you in the new podcast feed! Thanks!

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And we're back! I'm not sure if you recall, but fellow editor Jeff Cork and I recorded ourselves debating and dissecting each and every episode of the classic TV show The Twilight Zone. It took us a while to get back to it, but this is our first "bonus" episode of the podcast that goes above and beyond the original series. In 1983, and presumably made with the best intentions, Steven Spielberg produced a full-length movie dedicated to The Twilight Zone. Divided into four segments, mostly consisting of remakes of classic episodes, the movie has its highs and lows and is ripe for discussion. Feel free to watch the movie before you listen (it's available for streaming on Amazon) and join in on the dumb fun.

Listen to the podcast below (or subscribe to us on iTunes) to hear us review and analyze each segment of Twilight Zone: The Movie in this extra long bonus episode of our podcast.

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Well we did it. I'm sorry that it took so long for us to record and post this final episode, but we've finally come to the end of The Twilight Zone road. In our grand finale (not counting the bonus episodes that are on the way), Jeff Cork and I comb through all 156 episodes of the classic show and dish out some damning and praising awards. If you need a refresher on what we've been up to, our last episode was a recap and contains links to every episode of the podcast that we've recorded. So what is the best episode of The Twilight Zone? What is the worst? What's the dumbest thing from the entire series? Find out all that and more in our final awards show, which we lovingly call the "Mega-Franklins". Let us know what you think of our categories and winners in the comments below.

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Look, I know we promised that today we'd be unleashing our Mega-Franklins that awarded the best and worst episodes for the entire run of the series, but we needed a little more time to make it the greatest podcast in recorded history. Instead, we decided to give you this fun bonus episode. After recording The Franklins for the fifth season, I kept the mics rolling as I surprised Jeff Cork with a pop quiz. I read off the title for all 156 episodes of The Twilight Zone to test how well we remember this show that we've devoted so much time to studying and debating. You can listen to the podcast below or subscribe to us on iTunes. Stay tuned next week for our ultimate awards show, it'll be fun. I hope this episode serves as a nice reminder of some episodes you might have forgotten.

If you're interested in diving into our archives, here's a list of every episode of our podcast and which episodes of The Twilight Zone that it covers...

Season 1

Where Is Everybody, One for the Angels, Mr. Denton on Doomsday, The Sixteen-Millimeter Shrine, Walking Distance

Escape Clause, The Lonely, Time Enough at Last, Perchance to Dream, Judgment Night

And When the Sky Was Opened, What You Need, The Four of Us Are Dying, Third from the Sun, I Shot an Arrow into the Air

The Hitch-Hiker, The Fever, The Last Flight, The Purple Testament, Elegy

Mirror Image, The Monsters Are Due on Maple Street, A World of Difference, Long Live Walter Jameson, People Are Alike All Over

Execution, The Big Tall Wish, A Nice Place to Visit, Nightmare as a Child, A Stop at Willoughby

The Chaser, A Passage for Trumpet, Mr. Bevis, The After Hours, The Mighty Casey, A World of His Own

The Franklins Awards for Season 1

Season 2

King Nine Will Not Return, The Man in the Bottle, Nervous Man in a Four Dollar Room, A Thing About Machines, The Howling Man

The Eye of the Beholder, Nick of Time, The Lateness of the Hour, The Trouble with Templeton, A Most Unusual Camera

The Night of the Meek, Dust, Back There, The Whole Truth, The Invaders

A Penny for Your Thoughts, Twenty Two, The Odyssey of Flight 33, Mr. Dingle, the Strong, Static

The Prime Mover, Long Distance Call, A Hundred Yards Over the Rim, The Rip Van Winkle Caper, The Silence

Shadow Play, The Mind and the Matter, Will the Real Martian Please Stand Up?, The Obsolete Man

The Franklins Awards for Season 2

Season 3

Two, The Arrival, The Shelter, The Passersby, A Game of Pool

The Mirror, The Grave, It's a Good Life, Deaths-Head Revisited, The Midnight Sun

Still Valley, The Jungle, Once Upon a Time, Five Characters in Search of an Exit, A Quality of Mercy

Nothing in the Dark, One More Pallbearer, Dead Man's Shoes, The Hunt, Showdown with Rance McGrew

Kick the Can, A Piano in the House, The Last Rites of Jeff Myrtlebank, To Serve Man, The Fugitive

Little Girl Lost, Person or Persons Unknown, The Little People, Four O' Clock, Hocus-Pocus and Frisby

The Trade-Ins, The Gift, The Dummy, Young Man's Fancy, I Sing the Body Electric, Cavender is Coming, The Changing of the Guard

The Franklins Awards for Season 3

Season 4

In His Image, The Thirty-Fathom Grave, Valley of the Shadow

He's Alive, Mute, Death Ship

Jess-Belle, Miniature, Printer's Devil

No Time Like the Past, The Parallel, I Dream of Genie

The New Exhibit, Of Late I Think of Cliffordville

The Incredible World of Horace Ford, On Thursday We Leave for Home, Passage on the Lady Anne, The Bard

The Franklins Awards for Season 4

Season 5

In Praise of Pip, Steel, Nightmare at 20,000 Feet, A Kind of Stopwatch, The Last Night of a Jockey

Living Doll, The Old Man in the Cave, Uncle Simon, Probe 7, Over and Out, The 7th Is Made Up of Phantoms

A Short Drink from a Certain Fountain, Ninety Years Without Slumbering, Ring-a-Ding Girl, You Drive, The Long Morrow

The Self-Improvement of Salvadore Ross, Number 12 Looks Just Like You, Black Leather Jackets, Night Call, From Agnes - With Love

Spur of the Moment, An Occurence at Owl Creek Bridge, Queen of the Nile, What's in the Box, The Masks

I Am the Night - Color Me Black, Sounds and Silences, Caeser and Me, The Jeopardy Room, Stopover in a Quiet Town

The Encounter, Mr. Garrity and the Graves, The Brain Center at Whipple's, Come Wander with Me, The Fear, The Bewitchin' Pool

The Franklins Awards for Season 5

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Well we may have run out of new episodes of the original Twilight Zone, but that can't stop us from recording our dumb voices. Jeff Cork and I are capping off the fifth and final season of the show with our prestigious awards show. Which episodes will we hold above our heads and celebrate and which will we cast down into the dirt, forever to be forgotten? What is the best machine from the fifth season? Which episode's plot is needlessly complicated? Which great episode gets royally screwed due to our arbitrary rules? Find out by listening to the podcast below and feel free to subscribe to us on iTunes. Don't forget that we're on the hunt for new categories for our next episode, which will be an awards show for the entire five seasons. It's going to be a monster. Feed us your ideas in the comments below.

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Holy smokes, we did it! This episode of the Twilight Highlight Zone marks the end of the fifth and final season of The Twilight Zone. If you've been watching along with us, that means that you can now say that you've watched all 156 episodes of one of the most well-known TV shows around. Did it end with a bang or a whimper? Check out this episode of the podcast to hear our thoughts.

The final season had 36 episodes, so we're recapping six shows this week instead of our usual five. Think of that extra one as a bonus. Well, it's a bonus unless you realize that it's The Bewitchin' Pool. Bleargh.

We'll be back in two weeks with our special season-five installment of our Franklin Awards, which highlights the best, worst, and weirdest parts of the season. After that, we're going to do a series-wide special Franklin Award blowout, covering the entire run of the show. Leave your suggestions for categories in the comments, and we'll give you a shout-out (and our undying love). If you need to catch up on our podcast, you can subscribe to it on iTunes.

This episode covers the following episodes of the show:

31. The Encounter

32. Mr. Garrity and the Graves

33. The Brain Center at Whipple's

34. Come Wander with Me

35. The Fear

36. The Bewitchin' Pool

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We're close. We're so close to the finish line we can taste it. Unfortunately, that finish line only exists... in the twilight zone. Alongside my buddy Jeff Cork, I'm running down the classic version of The Twilight Zone and blathering on about every detail. We're on the home stretch with the fifth season, and this is the second-to-last recap episode. This is an interesting block of episodes, with hangings, dummies, and dim-witted assassins. Listen to the podcast below or subscribe to us on iTunes to find out.

The podcast above covers the following episodes from the fifth season...

26. I Am The Night, Color Be Black

27. Sounds And Silences

28. Caeser And Me

29. The Jeopardy Room

30. Stopover In A Quiet Town