The BEST episodes of The Twilight Zone
Every episode of The Twilight Zone ever, ranked from best to worst by thousands of votes from fans of the show. The best episodes of The Twilight Zone!
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 - Mr. Garrity and the Graves
Season 5 - Episode 32 - Aired 5/8/1964
Jared Garrity arrives in the Old West town of Happiness, Arizona, proclaiming he can revive the dead.
#2 - Night Call
Season 5 - Episode 19 - Aired 2/7/1964
An elderly, wheelchair-bound lady receives strange anonymous phone calls overnight when she's alone.
#3 - Queen of the Nile
Season 5 - Episode 23 - Aired 3/6/1964
Columnist Jordan Herrick is startled to learn that a famous movie actress hasn't aged in years. Intrigued, he investigates... and soon learns a terrifying secret.
#4 - Spur of the Moment
Season 5 - Episode 21 - Aired 2/21/1964
After being chased on horseback by a terrifying, unidentified figure in black, Anne Henderson faces the biggest decision of her life.
#5 - Printer's Devil
Season 4 - Episode 9 - Aired 2/28/1963
The owner of a failing paper is given help by the Devil.
#6 - A Piano in the House
Season 3 - Episode 22 - Aired 2/16/1962
A cynical theater critic takes advantage of a player piano that reveals people's hidden selves.
#7 - Five Characters in Search of an Exit
Season 3 - Episode 14 - Aired 12/22/1961
A hobo, clown, bagpipe player, ballerina and military officer are trapped in a huge cylinder.
#8 - To Serve Man
Season 3 - Episode 24 - Aired 3/2/1962
The Kanamits, 9 foot tall aliens, arrive on Earth with one lofty goal: To Serve Man.
#9 - 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.
#10 - The Midnight Sun
Season 3 - Episode 10 - Aired 11/17/1961
The Earth's orbit has been changed, drawing ever closer to the sun and promising eminent destruction.
#11 - In His Image
Season 4 - Episode 1 - Aired 1/3/1963
A scientist creates an android that has the qualities which he feels he's lacking.
#12 - Deaths-Head Revisited
Season 3 - Episode 9 - Aired 11/10/1961
A former Nazi SS Captain returns to the ruins of a concentration camp to reminisce, and is met by one of his victims.
#13 - A Quality of Mercy
Season 3 - Episode 15 - Aired 12/29/1961
A soldier gets a new perspective on war when he is forced to experience it from his enemy's point of view.
#14 - I Am the Night - Color Me Black
Season 5 - Episode 26 - Aired 3/27/1964
On the day an unpopular idealist is to be executed for the killing of a racist bully, the townsfolk are shocked to see the skies have turned pitch black.
#15 - Will the Real Martian Please Stand Up?
Season 2 - Episode 28 - Aired 5/26/1961
State troopers follow tracks from an unidentified flying object to a diner where they try to determine which of the seven bus passengers stranded inside is really a Martian.
#16 - Number 12 Looks Just Like You
Season 5 - Episode 17 - Aired 1/24/1964
In a future where everyone must undergo an operation at the age of 19 to make them identical to everyone else, one woman desperately tries to hang onto her own identity.
#17 - Probe 7, Over and Out
Season 5 - Episode 9 - Aired 11/29/1963
The lone survivors of two annihilated worlds are stranded on a distant planet.
#18 - The Lateness of the Hour
Season 2 - Episode 8 - Aired 12/2/1960
Dr. Loren enjoys the faultless robot servants he has invented. His daughter, however, feels imprisoned by them--and soon learns how right she is.
#19 - The Fear
Season 5 - Episode 35 - Aired 5/29/1964
Two people in a remote cabin find signs of an extraterrestrial.
#20 - The Eye of the Beholder
Season 2 - Episode 6 - Aired 11/11/1960
A young woman undergoes ""experimental treatments"" in an attempt to make her appear ""normal"".
#21 - He's Alive
Season 4 - Episode 4 - Aired 1/24/1963
Peter Vollmer, a small-time neo-Nazi leader, yearns for more power. Advised by a shadowy benefactor, Vollmer's following grows, as does his ego...
#22 - Nick of Time
Season 2 - Episode 7 - Aired 11/18/1960
A superstitious newlywed becomes obsessed by a penny fortune-telling machine when he and his new wife are stranded with car trouble.
#23 - Steel
Season 5 - Episode 2 - Aired 10/4/1963
Boxing robot "Battling Maxo" breaks down before the scheduled bout, forcing his manager to take its place.
#24 - The Masks
Season 5 - Episode 25 - Aired 3/20/1964
A dying man demands his family wear masks that he's given them at a Mardi Gras party.
#25 - From Agnes - with Love
Season 5 - Episode 20 - Aired 2/14/1964
A computer technician must deal with the queen of all femme fatales: a computer named Agnes who wreaks havoc on his love life.