The BEST episodes of The Twilight Zone (2002) season 1
Every episode of The Twilight Zone (2002) season 1, ranked from best to worst by thousands of votes from fans of the show. The best episodes of The Twilight Zone (2002) season 1!
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.
#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.
#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.
#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!
#4 - Homecoming
Season 1 - Episode 42 - Aired 5/7/2003
A teenager has a brief reunion with his father, returned from the war.
#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.
#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.
#7 - 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.
#8 - 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.
#9 - 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...
#10 - The Pool Guy
Season 1 - Episode 9 - Aired 10/16/2002
A pool cleaner loses the ability to distinguish dreams from reality.
#11 - 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.
#12 - 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.
#13 - 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...
#14 - 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.
#15 - 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.
#16 - 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.
#17 - 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.
#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.
#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.
#20 - 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.
#21 - 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.
#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.
#23 - 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.
#24 - 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.
#25 - Rewind
Season 1 - Episode 28 - Aired 2/5/2003
Jonah, a gambler, never can beat ""the house"" no matter how hard he tries. But then he gets an interesting device that enables him to go back in time up to 5 minutes, and that means he has big chances for his gambling.