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The original Twilight Zone provides examples of:

• Beam Me Up, Scotty!: The popular "Submitted for your approval" occurs in the opening monologue just three times. In contrast "In just a moment" occurs in the opening monologue 25 times, which makes this the most said four-word phrase that doesn't include "Twilight Zone". "In a moment" also occurs quite often.
• The Danza: Burt Mustin as Burt the Bum in "Night of the Meek".
• Dueling Shows: With The Outer Limits during 1963-64, the only season both series were in production.
• Edited for Syndication: The Christmas Episode "The Night of the Meek" features a holiday greeting from Serling at the end of his wrap up narration that was generally edited out. Also the fourth season hour long episodes were generally ignored until the Scifi Channel started running the show. Between the sixties and the nighties they were mainly shown only as edited together two-hour "movie" specials.
• Hey, It's That Guy!: Almost too many examples to count. (Some are listed on the main page in the show description.) Many of them appeared more than once on the show.
• Hey, It's That Voice!:
  • June Foray played the Talking Tina doll in "Living Doll", essentially reprising the voice she did for the real life Chatty Cathy. She also dubbed over a child actor's voice in "The Bewitchin' Pool" using her Rocky voice.
  • If Kaa wasn't creepy enough, the creepy TV repairman in "What's in the Box" also has Winnie's voice.
    • On a related, but somewhat more pleasant note, John Fiedler (the voice of Piglet) appears as the mall owner in "Night of the Meek", as well as a subordinate angel in "Cavender is Coming".
  • Bob Crane, at the time an L.A. disc jockey, provided the voice of one on the radio in "Static".
  • The Mad Hatter was in "One For the Angels" and "Ninety Years Without Slumbering".
  • Malefecent can be heard briefly in "The Hitchhiker".
  • Lex Luthor was in "Cavender is Coming" and Sinestro was in "People Are Alike All Over" and "Ring-A-Ding Girl".
  • J. Pat O'Malley a.k.a: Tweedledee and Tweedledum, The Walrus and The Carpenter, Colonel Hathi and Buzzie the Vulture was in "The Chaser", "The Fugitive", "Mr. Garetty and The Graves" and "The Self Improvement of Salavdore Ross".
  • Cruella De Vill was in "Ring-A-Ding Girl".
  • The second voice of Fred Flintstone (formerly just his singing voice) was in "The Gift".
  • Wade The Duck was in "I Dream of Genie".
  • Barney Phillips, a.k.a: Shazzan! was in "The Purple Testimate", "A Thing About Machines", "Will the Real Martian Please Stand Up?" and "Miniature".
  • The Hookah Smoking Caterpillar was in "A Thing About Machines".
  • Batman was in "The Man in the Bottle" and "Ceasar and Me"
  • Duke Nukem (no not that one),George Liquor (American!) and Spock were in "A Quality of Mercy".
  • Sam Loomis was in "The Changing of the Guard".
  • Inspector Gadget (at least the second guy to do him in the pilot) was The titular angel in "Cavender is Coming".
  • David Banner was in "The Thirty-Fathom Grave".
    • His Father was in "Kick The Can" and "The Old Man in the Cave".
  • Endora was in "The Invaders".
    • Speaking of Bewitched, Darrin Stephens was in "The Purple Testament" and "A Penny for Your Thoughts".
  • Grandpa Smurf (Later Papa Smurf) was in "A Game of Pool".
  • Looten Plunder was in "The Old Man in the Cave".
  • Uncle Ben, Gomez Addams and The Chief were in "A Hundred Yards Over the Rim".
  • Quite a few people from Batman were in the series prior to the show:
    • The Penguin starred in "Time Enough At Last" as the meek Henry Bemis, "Mr. Dingle the Strong" as the titular meek character, "The Obsolete Man" as Romney Wordsworth, a librarian slated for execution for being well just read the title and "Printers Devil" as the devil himself, giving him the most starring roles on the show.
    • Alfred was in "Passage of The Lady Anne".
    • Police Cheif O'Hara was in "Nick of Time" as a mechanic, "The Grave" and "Ceasar and Me" as a pawnbroker.
    • The Mad Hatter was in "Escape Clause" as the devil.
    • Catwoman was a very sexy she-devil, in fact being the only female portrayal of the devil in this series in "Of Late I Think of Cliffordville".
    • The Bookworm was in "People Are Alike All Over".
    • The Archer was Santa Claus in "The Night of the Meek".
    • Shame was in "A Hundred Yards Over the Rim" and "The Dummy".
    • Dr. Cassandra Spellcraft was in "The Sixteen-Millimeter Shrine" as an aging film star longing to recapture her glory.
    • Cabala was in "A World of Difference".
  • Grandpa Joe and Amos Slade was in "The Shelter" and "I Dream of Genie".
  • Milburn Drysdale was in "Mr. Denton on Doomsday" and "No Time Like the Past".
  • Detective Milton was in "The Sixteen-Millimeter Shrine" and "The New Exhibit".
  • Roscoe P. Coltraine was in "The Chaser", "Kick The Can" and "No Time Like The Past".
  • Larry Blyden was in "A Nice Place To Visit" and "Showdown with Rance Mc Grew".
  • Colonel Matterson was in "The Four of Us Are Dying" and Hocus-Pocus and Frisby".
  • Gus Portokalos was in "I Am the Night - Color Me Black".
  • Elly May Clampett was in "Eye of the Beholder" and "Cavender is Coming".
  • Sid Fields was in "Mr. Denton on Doomsday", "Will the Real Martian Please Stand Up?", "Walking Distance" and "Mute".
  • Columbo was in "The Mirror".
  • Zou Chi and Prince Olympius, Christine Armstrong, Briscoe Darling and Uncle Jesse and Nate Scarboro were in "Black Leather Jackets".
  • Dr. Zachary Smith and Manny the Mantis was in "Twenty Two" and "The Silence".
  • Ted Baxter, Henry Rush and Judge Elihu Smails was in "The Lonely".
  • Maw Maw was in "It's A Good Life".
  • Charlie B. Barkin was in "The Bard".
  • Mr. Potato Head was in "Mr. Dingle the Strong".
  • John Arbuckle was in "The Shelter".
  • Uncle Chuck, Dr. Sam Hazlitt and Percy Crump were in "Five Characters in Search of an Exit"
  • Chester A. Riley was in the pilot "The Time Element".
  • Mark Twain, Elliot Carlson and Officer Ernie Brenner were in "On Thursday We Leave for Home".
  • Howard Payne and Judge Irwin A. Jessup were in "He's Alive" as a struggling new generation Nazi leader and Adolf Hitler respectively.
  • Roland Corben was in "Third From the Sun" and "You Drive".
  • Altaira Moribus was in "The After Hours" and "Jesse-Belle".
    • Speaking of Forbidden Planet, Robby The Robot was in "One for the Angels" as a tin toy, "The Brain Center at Whipple's" and "Uncle Simon".
• Recycled Script: Kept to a minimum for An Aesop anthology show. When it does happen, you'll frequently find that the moral of the story is a Family Unfriendly Aesop version of the previous episode's moral.
  • "Steel" was adapted into a feature film. Though it's somewhat subverted, as Real Steel, despite being based on the same story as "Steel," bears almost no resemblance to the story (outside of robot boxers). Additionally, the film is decisively more optimistic than the original story's dystopian setting.
• What Could Have Been: In the original script for "A Game Of Pool," Jesse Cardiff loses to Fats Brown, but he doesn't die and he immediately begins practicing for a rematch
  • Orson Welles was originally planed to be the narrator but was too expensive.
• Write What You Know: Many episodes took place in Upstate New York, where Rod Serling was from. Similarly, Serling was a vet of WWII (as were many of the other writers), which led to many a episode.

The Twilight Zone Movie, '80s revival, and 2003 revival provide examples of:

• Hey, It's That Guy!:
  • Bruce Willis stars in "Shatterday" [1980s Revival].
  • On the writing side, Harlan Ellison and J Michael Straczynski contributed to the 80's revival.