The BEST episodes of The Twilight Zone (1985)
Every episode of The Twilight Zone (1985) ever, ranked from best to worst by thousands of votes from fans of the show. The best episodes of The Twilight Zone (1985)!
This show is based on Rod Serling's classic TV anthology show, The Twilight Zone. Redoing some episodes and doing new ones 20 years laters after the originals, these are made in color and in one-hour episodes. Most of the episodes contained two or three stories, and were broken up in half hour episodes for syndication. CBS cancelled the show in its second season, but it was picked up by a Canadian producer and aired in syndication in a half-hour format. The show contains mostly ironic or special situations with a twist at the end, which show the human nature, coupled with science fiction, horror or fantasy. Some of the show's writers are well known: Harlan Ellison, Stephen King, Ray Bradbury, Richard Matheson, Sidney Sheldon and J. Michael Straczynski. The opening and closing music was done by The Grateful Dead.
#1 - Night of the Meek
Season 1 - Episode 30 - Aired 12/20/1985
A drunken storefront Santa is terminally depressed by the many children who go gift less and starving during Christmas. He is fired from his job at a department store when he shows up late, and subsequently finds a bag that he can pull any present anyone wants from it.
#2 - I of Newton
Season 1 - Episode 29 - Aired 12/13/1985
A professor attempting to solve a difficult math problem finds himself matching wits with a demon.
#3 - Many, Many Monkeys
Season 3 - Episode 26 - Aired 3/18/1989
An epidemic breaks out and many people are struck blind. Something more happens, however: People have become cold and heartless toward each other.
#4 - A Game of Pool
Season 3 - Episode 20 - Aired 12/31/1989
A pool champion has defeated everyone at his local pool hall, except for the long dead legend, Fats Brown, who returns from the afterlife to challenge him to a high-stakes game.
#5 - There Was an Old Woman
Season 3 - Episode 13 - Aired 12/17/1988
A famous children's book writer visits a sick boy and reads him one of her stories. Later, at home, she is disturbed by children's voices throughout her house and learns from his parents that the boy has died.
#6 - The Curious Case of Edgar Witherspoon
Season 3 - Episode 1 - Aired 9/24/1988
An old man known as Uncle Edgar is ordered by a mysterious voice to collect junk in his apartment to keep the world in balance.
#7 - Dream Me a Life
Season 3 - Episode 5 - Aired 10/22/1988
A man in a retirement home is trapped in the dreams of a catatonic widow.
#8 - The Misfortune Cookie
Season 1 - Episode 35 - Aired 1/3/1986
A food critic receives fortune cookie messages that get fulfilled.
#9 - The Leprechaun Artist
Season 1 - Episode 47 - Aired 2/21/1986
Vacationing in the United States, an Irish leprechaun is caught by three boys. To be freed, he must grant them three wishes.
#10 - Dead Woman's Shoes
Season 1 - Episode 21 - Aired 11/22/1985
Shy Maddie finds a pair of shoes and after trying them on, is possessed by the vengeful spirit of a rich murdered woman.
#11 - Appointment on Route 17
Season 3 - Episode 15 - Aired 12/31/1988
After finishing a heart transplant, a man finds his personality has changed. He also discovers that he has a strange attraction to a waitress at a road diner.
#12 - The Trance
Season 3 - Episode 10 - Aired 11/26/1988
A scam artist purports to channel the spirit of Delos, a former inhabitant of Atlantis. Together with a partner, he makes a living off of it. The day of his big break, he channels another spirit, one who could cause him to lose everything.
#13 - The Hellgramite Method
Season 3 - Episode 7 - Aired 11/5/1988
An alcoholic goes through an extremely painful and potentially deadly cure for his drinking problem. He has to choose which is more important - the bottle or his life.
#14 - Need to Know
Season 1 - Episode 51 - Aired 3/21/1986
A government scientist/agent sent to a small town to help investigate a bizarre outbreak of insanity which is spreading through the town.
#15 - The Call
Season 3 - Episode 9 - Aired 11/19/1988
A lonely man accidentally phones the wrong number and finds an intriguing female to whom he grows attached. When she refuses to meet him, he investigates and finds the phone in a museum next to the statue of a woman.
#16 - The Trunk
Season 3 - Episode 14 - Aired 12/24/1988
A young man at a motel discovers an empty trunk that grants any wishes. He uses it for popularity, but at a party he discovers who his true friends are.
#17 - The Card
Season 2 - Episode 13 - Aired 2/21/1987
A woman with out-of-control spending habits finds her new credit card comes with unexpected penalties.
#18 - The World Next Door
Season 2 - Episode 9 - Aired 10/18/1986
Would-be inventor Barney Schlessinger is bored with his life until he meets another inventor in a parallel world who is far more successful than he is.
#19 - Shadow Play
Season 1 - Episode 56 - Aired 4/4/1986
A man is convinced that reality as we perceive it is dependent on his staying alive.
#20 - The Library
Season 1 - Episode 55 - Aired 3/28/1986
Landing a new job at a private library a girl is warned never to look at the books. Taking a peek she learns that there's a book for everyone alive. When a neighbor pesters her, she rewrites his biography.
#21 - Cold Reading
Season 1 - Episode 46 - Aired 2/14/1986
An actor arrives at a radio station to perform a radio play. An old voodoo stick is accidentally activated and the play becomes more real that anything anyone expected.
#22 - To See the Invisible Man
Season 1 - Episode 40 - Aired 1/31/1986
An uncaring man is sentenced to a year of social isolation.
#23 - Profile in Silver
Season 1 - Episode 49 - Aired 3/7/1986
A researcher from the future, a descendent of President John F. Kennedy goes back in time to witness his ancestor's death.
#24 - Extra Innings
Season 3 - Episode 2 - Aired 10/1/1988
Ex-baseball player Ed Hamler, lame from an injury and forced to retire early, is given a baseball card from the early 1900s that transports Hamler to the past to be the player he used to be.
#25 - Special Service
Season 3 - Episode 29 - Aired 4/8/1989
A man finds that his life has been on TV for the past five years.