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 - 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.
#2 - Printer's Devil
Season 4 - Episode 9 - Aired 2/28/1963
The owner of a failing paper is given help by the Devil.
#3 - 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.
#4 - 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.
#5 - 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.
#6 - 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"".
#7 - 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.
#8 - 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.
#9 - 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.
#10 - 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.
#11 - 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!
#12 - 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.
#13 - 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.
#14 - 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.
#15 - 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.
#16 - 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.
#17 - 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.
#18 - 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.
#19 - The Obsolete Man
Season 2 - Episode 29 - Aired 6/2/1961
In a future state where religion and books have been banned, a librarian (Burgess Meridith) is judged obsolete by the Chancellor (Fritz Weaver) and sentenced to death.
#20 - 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.
#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 - 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.
#23 - 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.
#24 - I Shot an Arrow into the Air
Season 1 - Episode 15 - Aired 1/15/1960
Three astronauts believe they have crashed on an asteroid.
#25 - 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.