I forget which channel it was now, but for a long time they used to do a New Year’s marathon of those episodes back to back. So, it’s not strictly necessary for one to be all that old. I used to watch them for years and years until there weren’t any left I hadn’t seen so just got out of the habit.
The ones I remember best were the one where supposedly friendly aliens came and people are lining up to go in their ship. There’s a sign ( or a book, can’t remember) which says “To Serve Mankind”.
The humans have one idea of its meaning the aliens have quite another. Ha ha.
Then there was the one where a beautiful woman is undergoing plastic surgery so she can better fit into society and look like everyone else. Its not till the very end when the medical team takes off their surgical masks to reveal these big ol’ pig schnozzes.
Beauty is truly in the eye of the beholder.
And finally there’s bookworm Burgess Meredith who finds himself as the last living human after a huge catastrophic event.
Among the rubble, he finally finds the public library’s enormous stash of books. He’s delighted. Then he bends over to pick something up and his glasses fall to the ground. He stumbles around trying to find them. There’s a horrible crunching sound as he accidentally steps on them. The End.
Serling had a great sense of irony and great plot twists. Genius.