The BEST episodes of The Twilight Zone season 1
Every episode of The Twilight Zone season 1, ranked from best to worst by thousands of votes from fans of the show. The best episodes of The Twilight Zone season 1!
The Twilight Zone was a popular American anthology series. The series was a collection of various tales that range from the tragic to the comedic. They may be scary or just thought-provoking. Most episodes have unexpected endings and a moral lesson. But, no matter what, it's "a journey into a wondrous land, whose boundaries are that of the imagination."
#1 - Time Enough at Last
Season 1 - Episode 8 - Aired 11/20/1959
A bank teller, obsessed with reading, finds himself alone after a nuclear blast.
#2 - The Monsters Are Due on Maple Street
Season 1 - Episode 22 - Aired 3/4/1960
Paranoia strikes the residents of Maple Street when they believe human-looking aliens have invaded the neighborhood.
#3 - Walking Distance
Season 1 - Episode 5 - Aired 10/30/1959
Martin Sloan, driving through the country, leaves his car and starts to walk toward his hometown, Homewood. He finds things exactly as they were when he was a child. He soon realizes he's gone back in time.
#4 - The Hitch-Hiker
Season 1 - Episode 16 - Aired 1/22/1960
Alone on a cross-country trip, a woman continually sees the same hitch-hiker everywhere she looks.
#5 - And When the Sky Was Opened
Season 1 - Episode 11 - Aired 12/11/1959
Three astronauts have returned from this first space flight. Major Gart is hospitalized with a broken leg. The other two, Colonels Harrington and Forbes head for a bar. Harrington gets a strange feeling.
#6 - Third from the Sun
Season 1 - Episode 14 - Aired 1/8/1960
With all-out nuclear war about to ignite, a scientist and his pilot friend plot to escape on an experimental spaceship.
#7 - I Shot an Arrow into the Air
Season 1 - Episode 15 - Aired 1/15/1960
Three astronauts believe they have crashed on an asteroid.
#8 - Where Is Everybody?
Season 1 - Episode 1 - Aired 10/2/1959
Mike Ferris finds himself in a town strangely devoid of people. But despite the emptiness, he has the odd feeling that he's being watched...
#9 - People Are Alike All Over
Season 1 - Episode 25 - Aired 3/25/1960
When a space exploration crashes on Mars, the surviving passenger is surprised to find that Martians are human-looking, very friendly and apparently just like us...
#10 - The After Hours
Season 1 - Episode 34 - Aired 6/10/1960
A woman discovers that the floor of a department store, on which she bought a gold thimble, doesn't exist - and that her ""saleslady"" is really a mannequin!
#11 - A Stop at Willoughby
Season 1 - Episode 30 - Aired 5/6/1960
Riding home on the train one day, a man falls asleep and dreams it is 1880, and he is entering a small town called Willoughby.
#12 - A World of Difference
Season 1 - Episode 23 - Aired 3/11/1960
Businessman Arthur Curtis finds his phone dead. He is then surprised to hear a voice yell, "Cut!" and see that his office is just a set on a sound stage. Everyone tells him that he is Jerry Raigan, a drunken movie star on the decline, and "Arthur Curtis" is a character he is playing in the movie "The Private World of Arthur Curtis".
#13 - What You Need
Season 1 - Episode 12 - Aired 12/25/1959
A two-bit thug thinks he's found the key to a better life in an old sidewalk salesman who has the uncanny ability to tell people what they need the most.
#14 - A World of His Own
Season 1 - Episode 36 - Aired 7/1/1960
A playwright makes characters come to life.
#15 - Judgment Night
Season 1 - Episode 10 - Aired 12/4/1959
In 1942, a German wonders why he's on the deck of a British steamship, with no memory of how he got there, and an overwhelming sense of impending doom.
#16 - One for the Angels
Season 1 - Episode 2 - Aired 10/9/1959
A street salesman cleverly eludes Death. But if he lives, a little girl must die in his place.
#17 - Elegy
Season 1 - Episode 20 - Aired 2/19/1960
Three astronauts land on what looks like Earth 200 years before they left--only all of the people seem frozen in time.
#18 - Mirror Image
Season 1 - Episode 21 - Aired 2/26/1960
Millicent Barnes sees her double at a bus terminal.
#19 - The Last Flight
Season 1 - Episode 18 - Aired 2/5/1960
A World War I flying ace flies through a mysterious cloud - and lands at a modern U.S. air base in the year 1959!
#20 - Long Live Walter Jameson
Season 1 - Episode 24 - Aired 3/18/1960
Walter Jameson is an excellent history teacher who talks about the past as if he had lived it.
#21 - The Lonely
Season 1 - Episode 7 - Aired 11/13/1959
Corry, a man stranded on an asteroid after being convicted of a crime, receives a present of a robot who looks and sounds like a real woman.
#22 - A Nice Place to Visit
Season 1 - Episode 28 - Aired 4/15/1960
After being shot to death, Rocky Valentine encounters the amiable white-haired Mr. Pip, who gives Rocky everything he wishes for.
#23 - Mr. Denton on Doomsday
Season 1 - Episode 3 - Aired 10/16/1959
A has-been, drunk gunslinger finds his fast-draw abilities magically restored.
#24 - Perchance to Dream
Season 1 - Episode 9 - Aired 11/27/1959
A man is terrified of falling asleep for fear he might die.
#25 - Escape Clause
Season 1 - Episode 6 - Aired 11/6/1959
A hypochondriac exchanges his soul for immortality and indestructibility.