The BEST episodes of The Twilight Zone (1985) season 1
Every episode of The Twilight Zone (1985) season 1, ranked from best to worst by thousands of votes from fans of the show. The best episodes of The Twilight Zone (1985) season 1!
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 - 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.
#4 - The Misfortune Cookie
Season 1 - Episode 35 - Aired 1/3/1986
A food critic receives fortune cookie messages that get fulfilled.
#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 - 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.
#7 - 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.
#8 - 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.
#9 - To See the Invisible Man
Season 1 - Episode 40 - Aired 1/31/1986
An uncaring man is sentenced to a year of social isolation.
#10 - 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.
#11 - Red Snow
Season 1 - Episode 52 - Aired 3/21/1986
A KGB investigator is sent to Siberia to investigate the deaths of communist party officials.
#12 - The Elevator
Season 1 - Episode 39 - Aired 1/31/1986
Two brothers searching for their father discover a factory full of giant animal bodies.
#13 - Devil's Alphabet
Season 1 - Episode 54 - Aired 3/28/1986
A group of friends in Victorian England find themselves haunted by an oath they took as young men.
#14 - Dead Run
Season 1 - Episode 48 - Aired 2/21/1986
An out-of-work trucker takes on a bizarre job upon the recommendation of a friend: deliveryman of souls to Hell.
#15 - 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.
#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 - 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.
#18 - Monsters!
Season 1 - Episode 36 - Aired 1/24/1986
A boy who loves monster movies has a strange neighbor move in.
#19 - Grace Note
Season 1 - Episode 57 - Aired 4/4/1986
An opera singer is having a hard time. Her sister is at the hospital dying. Her sick sister leaves a gift: a glimpse into the future when the singer is a world-famous star.
#20 - 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.
#21 - Still Life
Season 1 - Episode 33 - Aired 1/3/1986
A professional photographer discovers an old camera containing mysterious photos of a long-ago expedition.
#22 - Welcome to Winfield
Season 1 - Episode 42 - Aired 2/7/1986
The grim reaper arrives at a hospital to take possession of a dying man. The man's wife rescues him and takes him to the western town of Winfield where residents have been living for hundreds of years. Apparently, the reaper has failed to collect those living there.
#23 - A Day in Beaumont
Season 1 - Episode 58 - Aired 4/11/1986
In the 1950s a flying saucer crashes on Earth. The crash is seen by a couple. They run into town, but no one believes them.
#24 - The Star
Season 1 - Episode 32 - Aired 12/20/1985
Onboard a spaceship an astrophysicist and a priest learn they have discovered a planet long dead and a transmitter emitting a signal for eons.
#25 - Quarantine
Season 1 - Episode 43 - Aired 2/7/1986
An ill weapons designer is cryogenically frozen and awakened three centuries later..