I remember many of these from the pictures but other than the one I commented on below, not the details. The reruns used to play around midnight when I was a teenager. Last year I wrote about an episode that stuck with me.

"A woman has been in a horrific accident. Until the ending, the entire episode contains nothing but the image of her completely bandaged face and conversation between her and the doctors and nurses about the accident and whether or not the reconstructive surgery would be successful and preparing her’s and the viewers’ expectations for the worst. The bandages come off revealing a drop-dead gorgeous face — classically and undeniably beautiful. My relief is met with horrific reactions from the doctors and nurses, who the camera then reveals" have an appearance that we would find the opposite of attractive."

That was actually a side bar to my essay, which asked the readers to write based on this prompt:

"'Imagine if you will,' I say in my best distinctive Rod Serling voice, 'a world in which we accept that date of death, but not the how, is determined before you are born.' How would that truth affect you, your thinking or your actions?”

Note I did not say imagine awareness of the date — just that the date is set in stone.

I answered my own prompt with my thoughts on how believing that, which I do, could lead to suicide attempt prevention. Here's the essay if you or other readers are interested. https://medium.com/know-thyself-heal-thyself/matters-of-life-and-death-bc9752a36bff