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 - To See the Invisible Man
Season 1 - Episode 40 - Aired 1/31/1986
An uncaring man is sentenced to a year of social isolation.
#2 - Aqua Vita
Season 2 - Episode 4 - Aired 10/4/1986
A woman finds a method for eternal youth at a steep price.
#3 - 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.
#4 - 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.
#5 - 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.
#6 - 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.
#7 - Shelter Skelter
Season 2 - Episode 17 - Aired 5/21/1987
A survivalist traps himself in his bomb shelter when a nuclear blast finally comes.
#8 - 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.
#9 - 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.
#10 - A Saucer of Loneliness
Season 2 - Episode 2 - Aired 9/27/1986
A quiet waitress sees a glowing UFO, which gives her a message that everyone wants to know. She refuses to reveal exactly what the message is.
#11 - 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.
#12 - Her Pilgrim Soul
Season 1 - Episode 28 - Aired 12/13/1985
Two scientists create a holographic projector that has a woman appear in the display.
#13 - 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.
#14 - The Once and Future King
Season 2 - Episode 1 - Aired 9/27/1986
An Elvis impersonator is transported to the 1950s where he meets the real Elvis who thinks that the impersonator is his long dead brother.
#15 - 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.
#16 - A Matter of Minutes
Season 1 - Episode 38 - Aired 1/24/1986
A young married couple discovers that their home is being remodeled by blue-clad workers who are workers of time that build and move objects from one time period to another.
#17 - 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.
#18 - Button, Button
Season 1 - Episode 50 - Aired 3/7/1986
A mysterious man offers a couple a bizarre deal: if they will push a button on a box that will kill one person they don't know, they will get a million dollars.
#19 - The Elevator
Season 1 - Episode 39 - Aired 1/31/1986
Two brothers searching for their father discover a factory full of giant animal bodies.
#20 - 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.
#21 - What Are Friends For?
Season 2 - Episode 3 - Aired 10/4/1986
A lonely boy finds a strange friendship in the woods around his home.
#22 - Private Channel
Season 2 - Episode 16 - Aired 5/21/1987
On board an airplane, a lightning storm transforms a boy's walkman into a telepathic tuning device that informs him that the man sitting next to him is carrying a bomb.
#23 - Quarantine
Season 1 - Episode 43 - Aired 2/7/1986
An ill weapons designer is cryogenically frozen and awakened three centuries later..
#24 - The Toys of Caliban
Season 2 - Episode 10 - Aired 12/4/1986
A mentally challenged child has strange powers.
#25 - The Last Defender of Camelot
Season 1 - Episode 59 - Aired 4/11/1986
In modern-day England, the last of King Arthur's knights teams with Morgan le Fay to stop the return of Merlin.
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