The BEST episodes of The Twilight Zone season 3
Every episode of The Twilight Zone season 3, ranked from best to worst by thousands of votes from fans of the show. The best episodes of The Twilight Zone season 3!
The Twilight Zone was a popular American anthology series. The series was a collection of various tales that range from the tragic to the comedic. They may be scary or just thought-provoking. Most episodes have unexpected endings and a moral lesson. But, no matter what, it's "a journey into a wondrous land, whose boundaries are that of the imagination."
#1 - To Serve Man
Season 3 - Episode 24 - Aired 3/2/1962
The Kanamits, 9 foot tall aliens, arrive on Earth with one lofty goal: To Serve Man.
#2 - Five Characters in Search of an Exit
Season 3 - Episode 14 - Aired 12/22/1961
A hobo, clown, bagpipe player, ballerina and military officer are trapped in a huge cylinder.
#3 - The Shelter
Season 3 - Episode 3 - Aired 9/29/1961
When a UFO invasion appears imminent, several suburban friends and neighbours fight over control of a single bomb shelter.
#4 - The Midnight Sun
Season 3 - Episode 10 - Aired 11/17/1961
The Earth's orbit has been changed, drawing ever closer to the sun and promising eminent destruction.
#5 - Deaths-Head Revisited
Season 3 - Episode 9 - Aired 11/10/1961
A former Nazi SS Captain returns to the ruins of a concentration camp to reminisce, and is met by one of his victims.
#6 - It's a Good Life
Season 3 - Episode 8 - Aired 11/3/1961
Little Anthony Fremont controls an entire town with his ability to read minds and make people do as he wishes. Which is a real good thing.
#7 - The Little People
Season 3 - Episode 28 - Aired 3/30/1962
An astronaut declares himself a god when his ship lands on a planet populated by people smaller than ants.
#8 - A Quality of Mercy
Season 3 - Episode 15 - Aired 12/29/1961
A soldier gets a new perspective on war when he is forced to experience it from his enemy's point of view.
#9 - Nothing in the Dark
Season 3 - Episode 16 - Aired 1/5/1962
A lonely old woman refuses to leave her apartment for fear of meeting ""Mr. Death.""
#10 - Two
Season 3 - Episode 1 - Aired 9/15/1961
A man and a woman, on opposite sides of a future war, encounter each other in a deserted town.
#11 - Little Girl Lost
Season 3 - Episode 26 - Aired 3/16/1962
A six-year-old girl rolls under her bed and vanishes into a fourth dimension. Her parents and a neighbor struggle to free her before the hole between the dimensions closes forever.
#12 - I Sing the Body Electric
Season 3 - Episode 35 - Aired 5/18/1962
A widower buys a robot grandmother for his three children.
#13 - The Passersby
Season 3 - Episode 4 - Aired 10/6/1961
On the road home from the Civil War, a Confederate soldier stops at a burned-out house and gets to know the owner, a recent widow.
#14 - The Dummy
Season 3 - Episode 33 - Aired 5/4/1962
A ventriloquist is convinced that his dummy, Willie, is alive and evil. He makes plans for a new act with a new dummy: plans that Willie doesn't support!
#15 - Kick the Can
Season 3 - Episode 21 - Aired 2/9/1962
The senior residents of Sunnyvale decide that the secret to youth is acting young, and in particular playing a childhood game called ""kick-the-can.""
#16 - The Trade-Ins
Season 3 - Episode 31 - Aired 4/20/1962
An elderly couple visit the New Life Corporation, hoping to transport their personalities into youthful artificial bodies.
#17 - Person or Persons Unknown
Season 3 - Episode 27 - Aired 3/23/1962
David Gurney wakes up to find that no one - his wife, his co-workers, his best friend, not even his own mother knows him.
#18 - A Piano in the House
Season 3 - Episode 22 - Aired 2/16/1962
A cynical theater critic takes advantage of a player piano that reveals people's hidden selves.
#19 - The Grave
Season 3 - Episode 7 - Aired 10/27/1961
Before he died, notorious gunslinger Pinto Sykes put a curse on hired-gun Conny Miller. Miller returns to town and is challenged to visit the grave of Sykes, despite the curse.
#20 - The Hunt
Season 3 - Episode 19 - Aired 1/26/1962
On a hunting trip, Hyder Simpson and his dog Rip dive into a lake after a raccoon. When he gets home he finds that no one can see or hear him.
#21 - A Game of Pool
Season 3 - Episode 5 - Aired 10/13/1961
Championship pool player Fats Brown returns from the grave for one last game.
#22 - Dead Man's Shoes
Season 3 - Episode 18 - Aired 1/19/1962
A vagrant steps into a murdered gangster's expensive shoes and is taken over by the dead man's ghost, who vows to remain on Earth to seek revenge against his killer.
#23 - The Fugitive
Season 3 - Episode 25 - Aired 3/9/1962
Old Ben, who is able to transform himself into anything, tries to help a crippled little girl.
#24 - The Arrival
Season 3 - Episode 2 - Aired 9/22/1961
A plane lands safely, but all its passengers, pilot and crew are missing!
#25 - Once Upon a Time
Season 3 - Episode 13 - Aired 12/15/1961
Woodrow, a janitor living in the year 1890, accidentally activates a time travelling helmet which transports him to 1962 - then promptly breaks down!