The results are in and you voted “The Howling Man” as the best episode of The Twilight Zone penned by Charles Beaumont!
It was a tough competition!
Here’s a ranking of all the competing episodes:
"The Howling Man" (Season 2, Episode 5)
"Miniature" (Season 4, Episode 8)
"Shadow Play" (Season 2, Episode 26)
"Number 12 Looks Just Like You" (Season 5, Episode 17) [story; teleplay by John Tomerlin]
"A Nice Place to Visit" (Season 1, Episode 28)
"Dead Man's Shoes" (Season 3, Episode 18) [story; teleplay by OCee Ritch]
"The Fugitive" (Season 3, Episode 25)
"Person or Persons Unknown" (Season 3, Episode 27)
"Elegy" (Season 1, Episode 20)
"Perchance to Dream" (Season 1, Episode 9)
"In His Image" (Season 4, Episode 1)
"Long Live Walter Jameson" (Season 1, Episode 24)
"Long Distance Call" (Season 2, Episode 22) [co-written with William Idelson]
"Passage on the Lady Anne" (Season 4, Episode 17)
"The Prime Mover" (Season 2, Episode 21) [teleplay; story by George Clayton Johnson]
"The Jungle" (Season 3, Episode 12)
"Valley of the Shadow" (Season 4, Episode 3)
"Printer's Devil" (Season 4, Episode 9)
"Static" (Season 2, Episode 20) [teleplay; story by OCee Ritch]
Putting together this little exercise highlighted just how much range Charles Beaumont had as a speculative fiction writer. Though there are certainly a few shared themes, motifs, and pre-occupations across these episodes, they are all really different from one another!
Hope you all enjoyed this tournament and this year’s marathon!
P.S. Maybe I’ll get cooking on a similar tourney for Richard Matheson’s episodes? Or maybe I should make all the devils, robots, or aliens square up? Sound off!