The BEST episodes of The Twilight Zone (2002)

Every episode of The Twilight Zone (2002) ever, ranked from best to worst by thousands of votes from fans of the show. The best episodes of The Twilight Zone (2002)!

You're travelling to another dimension, a dimension not only of sight and sound... but of mind. A journey into a wondrous land, whose boundaries are only that of the imagination... you're entering... the Twilight Zone... What began in 1959 with the great Rod Serling continues into the 21st century with a new host, Forest Whitaker, on a new network and told with completely new stories. Although there are minor similarities to older episodes of TZ, and a remake or two tossed in, these are still new ideas, told with a fresh and modern approach and delivered in that same chilling yet romantic style that still manages to captivate, compel and enchant us all... The show aired on UPN for one season (44 episodes) and it aired double pack episodes every week.

Last Updated: 2/4/2024Network: UPNStatus: Ended
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Evergreen
star
7.19
262 votes

#1 - Evergreen

Season 1 - Episode 1 - Aired 9/18/2002

When rebellious teenager Jenna and her family move into an exclusive gated community that her parents hope will help them better control the troubled teen, Jenna soon discovers the dark truth behind how her new neighbors deal with discipline problems.

Directors: Allan Kroeker
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One Night at Mercy
star
7.05
147 votes

#2 - One Night at Mercy

Season 1 - Episode 2 - Aired 9/18/2002

A young doctor meets a suicide who claims to be Death incarnate. When Death insists he wants to stop his killing ways, the doctor is forced to contemplate what life would be like without death.

Directors: Peter O'Fallon
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Hunted
star
7.04
89 votes

#3 - Hunted

Season 1 - Episode 18 - Aired 11/13/2002

A futuristic society, without murder, discovers one of the old mutated apes, previously thought wiped out, is killing people. To save their society, a cop and his team have to track it down and kill it!

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Homecoming
star
7.02
130 votes

#4 - Homecoming

Season 1 - Episode 42 - Aired 5/7/2003

A teenager has a brief reunion with his father, returned from the war.

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Memphis
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6.97
69 votes

#5 - Memphis

Season 1 - Episode 33 - Aired 2/26/2003

A dying man is transported back to the South in 1968 on the day of Martin Luther King's assassination and tries to stop the killing.

Directors: Eriq La Salle
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The Placebo Effect
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6.90
70 votes

#6 - The Placebo Effect

Season 1 - Episode 35 - Aired 4/2/2003

A hypochondriac with the power to manifest his beliefs into reality poses a danger to the entire world.

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The Pool Guy
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6.87
93 votes

#7 - The Pool Guy

Season 1 - Episode 9 - Aired 10/16/2002

A pool cleaner loses the ability to distinguish dreams from reality.

Directors: Brad Turner
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Shades of Guilt
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6.87
114 votes

#8 - Shades of Guilt

Season 1 - Episode 3 - Aired 9/25/2002

Matt McGreevy is driving when a black man runs up to his car and begs for help. Matt drives away as a gang falls on the man and beat him to death. When he arrives home, Matt first bleeds from the cuts the dead man suffers, then his skin changes. By the time he gets back home he has transformed into the dead man, a college professor...

Directors: Perry Lang
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Mr. Motivation
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6.86
114 votes

#9 - Mr. Motivation

Season 1 - Episode 19 - Aired 11/20/2002

A sinister toy doll encourages a timid man to stand up to his boss and take control of his life.

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Sunrise
star
6.85
66 votes

#10 - Sunrise

Season 1 - Episode 43 - Aired 5/21/2003

Several college students are thrust into a virtual nightmare when they discover an Aztec artifact that causes the sun to vanish and the only solution is a human sacrifice.

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Chosen
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6.84
116 votes

#11 - Chosen

Season 1 - Episode 16 - Aired 11/6/2002

A man is annoyed by two tenacious people he believes to be evangelists and refuses to listen to their claims that the day is Armageddon, but as it transpires the day is Armageddon, and the ""evangelists"" are Angels in need of help...

Directors: Winrich Kolbe
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It's Still a Good Life
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6.84
70 votes

#12 - It's Still a Good Life

Season 1 - Episode 31 - Aired 2/19/2003

In this sequel to the original TZs ""It's a Good Life,"" an adult Anthony Fremont continues to terrorize the town of Peaksville.

Directors: Allan Kroeker
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Night Route
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6.84
106 votes

#13 - Night Route

Season 1 - Episode 6 - Aired 10/2/2002

A young woman's seemingly happy life unravels after a close call with a speeding car. The woman, Melina, begins to forget details of her lfie and how she met her fiance. Worse, she is haunted by strange phenomena: a mysterious bus that follows her and people who know her name that she's never met. Finally her fiance disappears without a trace, leaving her in a desolte life where she knows no one.

Directors: Jean de Segonzac
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Sanctuary
star
6.81
84 votes

#14 - Sanctuary

Season 1 - Episode 20 - Aired 11/20/2002

Stranded in a modern day Garden of Eden, a man and woman cannot resist the temptation of technology.

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The Pharaoh's Curse
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6.81
89 votes

#15 - The Pharaoh's Curse

Season 1 - Episode 37 - Aired 4/23/2003

A young magician becomes the protege of an elderly conjurer to learn the secret of an impossible escape - The Pharaoh's Curse.

Directors: Bob Balaban
Writer: Stephen Beck
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The Path
star
6.79
107 votes

#16 - The Path

Season 1 - Episode 25 - Aired 1/8/2003

Ally, a young writer for a tabloid, meets a man who claims he sees others the path they are destined to follow. His predictions for her prove uncannily accurate and she soon becomes dependent on his predictions to guide her life. When he gets hit by a car and killed she finds herself without hope.

Directors: Jerry Levine
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Cradle of Darkness
star
6.76
100 votes

#17 - Cradle of Darkness

Season 1 - Episode 5 - Aired 10/2/2002

Hoping to undo the horrors of WWII, a woman, Andre, sacrifices her own future when she goes back in time to stop Adolf Hitler by killing him when he is a baby.

Directors: Jean de Segonzac
Writer: Kamran Pasha
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Into the Light
star
6.71
72 votes

#18 - Into the Light

Season 1 - Episode 30 - Aired 2/12/2003

A teacher on her last few days of teaching high school suddenly starts seeing lights on peoples faces just before they die. When she starts seeing it on most of her students faces, she decides to find out what will happen.

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Future Trade
star
6.71
75 votes

#19 - Future Trade

Season 1 - Episode 21 - Aired 11/27/2002

A man with a dead-end job and a dysfunctional family is lured into trading his future for that of a seemingly privileged man with his trophy wife.

Directors: Bob Balaban
Writer: Clyde Hayes
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Tagged
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6.69
101 votes

#20 - Tagged

Season 1 - Episode 29 - Aired 2/12/2003

Marcus Fisher, a talented artist and street tagger, shoots a man painting over his spot at the insistence of his gang and the wall painting starts portraying the crime and filling in that he is the one who did the shooting.

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How Much Do You Love Your Kid?
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6.69
70 votes

#21 - How Much Do You Love Your Kid?

Season 1 - Episode 34 - Aired 2/26/2003

A woman's son is kidnapped and she becomes involved in a licensed reality TV show broadcasting her attempts to recover him.

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The Executions of Grady Finch
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6.66
68 votes

#22 - The Executions of Grady Finch

Season 1 - Episode 41 - Aired 5/7/2003

A prisoner, Grady Finch, who insists on his innocence discovers that he can't be killed. He survives multiple execution attempts and his attorney eventually manages to get him released. Finch is elated, but as he emerges he confesses to his attorney that he was really guilty...and then he is finally killed as a statue of Nemesis, the Goddess of Vengeance, falls on top of him.

Gabe's Story
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6.65
104 votes

#23 - Gabe's Story

Season 1 - Episode 23 - Aired 12/11/2002

A man suffering from consistent bad luck is given a surprising chance to change his destiny.

Directors: Allan Kroeker
Writer: Dusty Kay
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The Monsters Are On Maple Street
star
6.64
76 votes

#24 - The Monsters Are On Maple Street

Season 1 - Episode 32 - Aired 2/19/2003

In this remake of the original TZ's ""The Monsters Are Due on Maple Street,"" a neighborhood is terrorized by mysterious power outages and begin to turn on each other.

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Cold Fusion
star
6.63
98 votes

#25 - Cold Fusion

Season 1 - Episode 36 - Aired 4/2/2003

When the base staff at an Alaskan research base lose contact with the outside world, the military send a team in to investigate the disappearance.

Directors: Eli Richbourg
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