Top 20 Worst Episodes

I could go with most of those episodes. But I really like "Escape Clause". Maybe it was David Wayne's portrayal of a self pitying jerk who got his comeuppance. Maybe it was because here was YET another human who thought he was more clever than Satan!

I donk know why, I just liked that episode. Walter Bedeker was a typical TZ type of character who was "long suffering" and self absorbed. He treated his devoted wife like dirt and only cared about himself.

This episode had a definte TZ type ending for the main character. He wanted everything his own way, but in the end he got nothing.

The same goes for "A Short Drink from a Certain Fountain." Flora was selfish and self centered. Her elderly husband's youth serum turned him into a baby. Now she was going to have to spend all her time tending to a child. Of course she would have had an escape clause of her own. She seemed too selfish and self involved to spend her life taking care of a child. I think she would have considered putting her husband up for adoption! Of course there was a clause that she would lose access to his money if she didn't care for him. But geez,he WAS a baby! He would have no idea what she was up to so I am sure that the crafty Flora would have found another sugar daddy while "raising her baby".

I also liked "No Time Like the Past." It was the typical time travel story where the protagonist tries to change the past but he can't. The past cannot be changed. It's very stubborn. Interesting how the main character tried to avert disaster, but he was thwarted at every turn. And the last segment was clever. He tried to stop a tragedy but it was actually his own actions which caused it.

Most of the other episodes on your list however, I agree!!

In alphabetical order:

1. Big Tall Wish, The
2. Caesar and Me
3. Dummy, The
4. Fever, The
5. Five Characters In Search of An Exit
6. Four O’Clock
7. From Agnes—With Love
8. Gift, The
9. Hocus-Pocus and Frisby
10. Incredible World of Horace Ford, The
11. Little Girl Lost
12. Long Morrow, The
13. Mighty Casey, The
14. Mirror, The
15. Mr. Dingle, the Strong
16. Perchance to Dream
17. Steel
18. Twenty-Two
19. What You Need
20. Whole Truth, The

Any list has to start with "In Praise of Pip" and "The Big Tall Wish"; those are really the worst of the worst.

I don't remember a TZ ep called "Mirror Mirror" though. There was "The Mirror," which was a pretty terrible ep featuring a Castro analog and "Mirror Image" about dopplegangers in a bus station (which was one of the best of the entire run) and there was a STAR TREK ep called "Mirror Mirror"--Spock with a beard--but I don't remember a TZ ep by that title.

I can't think of 20 but the ones that come to mind are
The Invaders
Spur Of The Moment
Black Leather Jackets
I Sing The Body Electric
The Monsters Are Due on Maple Street
Two
The Mighty Casey
The Obsolete Man