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 - 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 - 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.
#3 - 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.
#4 - 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.
#5 - 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...
#6 - Printer's Devil
Season 4 - Episode 9 - Aired 2/28/1963
The owner of a failing paper is given help by the Devil.
#7 - The Shelter
Season 3 - Episode 3 - Aired 9/29/1961
When a UFO invasion appears imminent, several suburban friends and neighbours fight over control of a single bomb shelter.
#8 - 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.
#9 - 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.
#10 - 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"".
#11 - 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...
#12 - Ring-A-Ding Girl
Season 5 - Episode 13 - Aired 12/27/1963
Bunny receives a ring from her fan club in her home town. In the ring she sees the faces of people from her hometown telling her she's needed there. She arrives in Howardville on the day of the annual Founder's Day picnic and tries to get the chairman of the picnic to postpone it a day, but he refuses. Will she be able to help them when they need her most?
#13 - 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.
#14 - 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.
#15 - 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.
#16 - 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.
#17 - Living Doll
Season 5 - Episode 6 - Aired 11/1/1963
Erich is displeased when his wife buys an expensive doll for his step-daughter. He becomes even more displeased when the doll tells him it doesn't like him!
#18 - 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.
#19 - 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.
#20 - It's a Good Life
Season 3 - Episode 8 - Aired 11/3/1961
Little Anthony Fremont controls an entire town with his ability to read minds and make people do as he wishes. Which is a real good thing.
#21 - 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.
#22 - Uncle Simon
Season 5 - Episode 8 - Aired 11/15/1963
Caregiver Barbara Polk receives a surprise after her uncle's death. His will stipulates that she must care for his latest invention - a robot.
#23 - The Silence
Season 2 - Episode 25 - Aired 4/28/1961
An aristocratic club member bets that a talkative acquaintance cannot stay silent for an entire year.
#24 - The Self-Improvement of Salvadore Ross
Season 5 - Episode 16 - Aired 1/17/1964
A man finds that he can trade characteristics with others.
#25 - 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.