The BEST episodes of The Twilight Zone (1985) season 3
Every episode of The Twilight Zone (1985) season 3, ranked from best to worst by thousands of votes from fans of the show. The best episodes of The Twilight Zone (1985) season 3!
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 - 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.
#2 - 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.
#3 - 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.
#4 - 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.
#5 - 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.
#6 - Acts of Terror
Season 3 - Episode 11 - Aired 12/3/1988
A battered wife living with her abusive husband finds the strength to leave him in the form of a Doberman pinscher statue.
#7 - Memories
Season 3 - Episode 6 - Aired 10/29/1988
A hypnotist who specializes in helping people relive their past lives tries to find her own history - and finds that everyone she ever helped hates their past lives..
#8 - Our Selena is Dying
Season 3 - Episode 8 - Aired 11/12/1988
A young woman and her dying mother switch bodies during a visit.
#9 - Father & Son Game
Season 3 - Episode 30 - Aired 4/15/1989
A 79-year-old man wants to keep on living so he transplants his brain into a younger body. His son, however, resents his father's continued life and tries to wrestle power from him.
#10 - Love is Blind
Season 3 - Episode 27 - Aired 3/25/1989
In a bar, a very mysterious blind man plays the piano, and gives some very special advice to a jealous boyfriend.
#11 - The Cold Equations
Season 3 - Episode 16 - Aired 1/7/1989
A shuttle pilot on the outer fringes of space finds a stowaway on board his ship. Because of the extra weight, he does not have enough fuel for his journey and faces a dilemma forcing him to consider jettisoning her into space.
#12 - The Mind of Simon Foster
Season 3 - Episode 23 - Aired 2/18/1989
In an impoverished future, Simon Foster goes to a pawnshop to sell some personal items to raise money for rent. The shop owner offers to buy some of his memories. In Simon Foster's life, what could be possibly be valuable?
#13 - 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.
#14 - Rendezvous in a Dark Place
Season 3 - Episode 25 - Aired 3/12/1989
An old woman with an obsession with death attends funerals for entertainment. One night when an injured thief breaks into her home, she lets him die and waits for Death to come and collect him.
#15 - Something in the Walls
Season 3 - Episode 19 - Aired 1/28/1989
A doctor arrives at his new job in a sanitarium. He discovers the case of a woman who is terribly frightened of things that appear on her walls.
#16 - The Crossing
Season 3 - Episode 3 - Aired 10/8/1988
A stressed-out priest repeatedly encounters a station wagon containing a young girl. The car keeps crashing and bursting into flames.
#17 - Stranger in Possum Meadows
Season 3 - Episode 17 - Aired 1/14/1989
A young boy playing in a field meets an old man who is really an alien collecting specimens to bring back to his planet.
#18 - 20/20 Vision
Season 3 - Episode 12 - Aired 12/10/1988
Newly promoted bank loan officer Warren Cribbens cracks his eyeglasses and discovers he can see the future through them. Faced with seeing the future of the farmers whose farms he must foreclose on, Warren can't bring himself to foreclose. Right away he's torn between doing his job and standing up for the people he helps.
#19 - Cat and Mouse
Season 3 - Episode 24 - Aired 3/4/1989
A shy woman finds that a cat is actually a cursed "Casanova". She falls for the man but finds that her Prince Charming is actually a scoundrel.
#20 - 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.
#21 - 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.
#22 - Room 2426
Season 3 - Episode 22 - Aired 2/11/1989
Martin Decker is confined to a special room for acts and thoughts against the state. They want the formula for a weapon he does not want to reveal. Escape for Martin comes from the mind.
#23 - 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.
#24 - The Hunters
Season 3 - Episode 4 - Aired 10/15/1988
A young boy falls into an undiscovered cave near a housing project. An archeologist studies strange paintings on its walls and then bizarre things begin to happen. Cave items move around and animals are killed and brought into the cave.
#25 - The Wall
Season 3 - Episode 21 - Aired 2/25/1989
A U.S. military experiment opens a portal to an unknown place. After sending through one team, the Army calls upon a career soldier to investigate, where he finds an idyllic planet. He has to decide whether to stay or go back to his old life.