The aforementioned episode, which happened to be the seventeenth of the original series' first season, and "The Guests," episode twenty-six, share many similar plot elements: both have five major characters that are trapped in a "cage," of sorts, both have a malevolent misshapen alien controlling the characters' destinies, and both are steeped in the Gothic form of storytelling.
In addition to those three commonalities, each episode has a female character that seems to be trapped in a time era of her choosing (Miriam Hopkins' abandoned flapper in "Doomsday" and Gloria Grahame's silent movie queen in "Guests." Also, Nellie Bly appears in both, playing a controlling shrew of a wife.
Because of the connection in the two, it's not hard to see "The Guests" as a sort of sequel to "Doomsday," with the "creature" in the former as being a kindred spirit to the one in the latter.
Both compliment each other and, if one can only have a few episodes of the landmark series, then these two would play well off each other.
In addition to those three commonalities, each episode has a female character that seems to be trapped in a time era of her choosing (Miriam Hopkins' abandoned flapper in "Doomsday" and Gloria Grahame's silent movie queen in "Guests." Also, Nellie Bly appears in both, playing a controlling shrew of a wife.
Because of the connection in the two, it's not hard to see "The Guests" as a sort of sequel to "Doomsday," with the "creature" in the former as being a kindred spirit to the one in the latter.
Both compliment each other and, if one can only have a few episodes of the landmark series, then these two would play well off each other.