The BEST episodes written by Harlan Ellison
#1 - Demon with a Glass Hand
The Outer Limits - Season 2 - Episode 5
An amnesiac with a strange glass hand is pursued by alien assassins as he seeks the key to his true identity.
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#3 - The Price of Doom
Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea - Season 1 - Episode 5
A husband and wife Antarctic research team is killed by an experiment on plankton gone wild. Seaview arrives to investigate and take plankton samples. Soon the submarine is in danger of succumbing to the horrible, slimy growth. Nelson, Crane and crew face another problem: one of the three scientists on board the sub is an enemy agent.
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#4 - Crypt
Logan's Run - Season 1 - Episode 7
Logan, Jessica, and Rem discover a civilization that was devastated by a plague. 6 of the most brillant minds of the time were selected to be preserved. one of them is an imposter - but which one? Logan, Jessica, and Rem must uncover which of the survivors is not who they claim to be.
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#5 - The Sort of Do-It-Yourself Dreadful Affair
The Man From U.N.C.L.E. - Season 3 - Episode 2
Solo is nearly killed by a superhuman, robotlike girl, Margo Hayward, one of an army of such devices invented by Dr. Pertwee for THRUSH. Illya joins up with Margo's ex-roommate, Andy Francis, and finds the laboratory, where a roomful of robots attack them.
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#6 - Soldier
The Outer Limits - Season 2 - Episode 1
A soldier who knows nothing but killing and warfare struggles to adapt when he is transported back in time to a more peaceful era.
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#7 - One Life, Furnished in Early Poverty
The Twilight Zone (1985) - Season 1 - Episode 27
A man who returns to his childhood home is transported to his past.
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#8 - Memo from Purgatory
The Alfred Hitchcock Hour - Season 3 - Episode 10
Jay Shaw is a young writer interested in writing a book on juvenile delinquency. He changes his identity and infiltrates a particularly violent gang named "The Barons". He manages to get the trust of Tiger the leader of the gang but trouble arises, when Filene, Tiger's girl friend, falls in love with him. Filene's love, however, is not the only source of tension. Other gang members grow jealous of Jay's growing power within the gang. When gang members break into his room and find his notes, they tell Tiger that Jay's an undercover cop. Jay is sentenced to death by Tiger and the gang. He manages to get away, but in the process Filene is killed. The murder is witnessed and Tiger and the rest of the gang are hauled off to jail.
#9 - The Discarded
Masters of Science Fiction - Season 1 - Episode 4
A group of people are sentenced to drift in space forever so they take one final chance at returning back to Earth.
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#10 - The Pieces of Fate Affair
The Man From U.N.C.L.E. - Season 3 - Episode 23
Jacqueline Midcult writes a best selling novel, The Pieces of Fate, which U.N.C.L.E. recognizes as being based on a series of missing THRUSH diaries. She loses her memory during a THRUSH attempt to kill her, and THRUSH agents Ellipsis Zark and Jody Moore, a book critic, plot to kidnap her and find out where she found the diaries. Solo and Illya take Jacqueline to a small town where her Uncle Charly and Aunt Jessie live, to try and revive her memory, but Zark and Moore follow and they all converge on the attic where the diaries are hidden at the same time.
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#11 - Life Hutch
Love, Death & Robots - Season 2 - Episode 7
After crash-landing on a craggy planet, a pilot makes his way to shelter, only to face a threat within.
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#12 - The Face of Helene Bournouw
The Hunger - Season 1 - Episode 18
When three celebrities suffer tragedy, a reporter discovers that they were all involved with the same woman.
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#13 - Gramma
The Twilight Zone (1985) - Season 1 - Episode 44
A young boy is convinced his ailing grandmother is really a monster.
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#14 - Paladin of the Lost Hour
The Twilight Zone (1985) - Season 1 - Episode 17
A Vietnam Vet named Billy saves an old man named Gasper from a mugging at a cemetery. He discovers that this old man holds the future of time in his watch.
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#15 - Crazy as a Soup Sandwich
The Twilight Zone (1985) - Season 3 - Episode 28
A man sells his soul to a demon for some racing tips. After being terrified by the demon he goes for help from the criminal boss he borrowed the track money from.
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#16 - Shatterday
The Twilight Zone (1985) - Season 1 - Episode 1
A man accidentally phones his own home and winds up talking to his alter ego
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Tales from the Darkside - Season 1 - Episode 10
A couple inadvertently buy a magic lamp that contains a genie. Unfortunately, the genie is anything but amiably. Confined in the lamp for thousands of years and still trapped, he refuses to grant wishes and instead terrorizes the couples with plagues, rains of frogs, etc. The husband finally has himself committed, but a few days later his wife brings him home. Their apartment is now richly decorated and they have plenty of money. The genie is now an amiable and willing wish-granter. The wife's solution to freeing the genie: a can opener.
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