The BEST episodes written by Rod Serling
#1 - Lindemann's Catch
Night Gallery - Season 2 - Episode 46
A captured mermaid awakens emotions in a cold-hearted sea captain, who desperately seeks a way to keep her alive.
#2 - They're Tearing Down Tim Riley's Bar
Night Gallery - Season 1 - Episode 16
A has-been salesman is haunted by phantoms from a happier past.
#3 - The Caterpillar
Night Gallery - Season 2 - Episode 60
A bored colonial on a Malaysian plantation employs an exotic accomplice--an earwig--in his gruesome plot to assassinate a romantic rival.
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#4 - Cool Air
Night Gallery - Season 2 - Episode 35
A haunting love story of a young woman and her late father's colleague, a man clinging desperately to life in a refrigerated apartment.
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#5 - To Serve Man
The Twilight Zone - Season 3 - Episode 24
The Kanamits, 9 foot tall aliens, arrive on Earth with one lofty goal: To Serve Man.
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#6 - Time Enough at Last
The Twilight Zone - Season 1 - Episode 8
A bank teller, obsessed with reading, finds himself alone after a nuclear blast.
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#7 - Five Characters in Search of an Exit
The Twilight Zone - Season 3 - Episode 14
A hobo, clown, bagpipe player, ballerina and military officer are trapped in a huge cylinder.
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#8 - The Monsters Are Due on Maple Street
The Twilight Zone - Season 1 - Episode 22
Paranoia strikes the residents of Maple Street when they believe human-looking aliens have invaded the neighborhood.
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#9 - The Eye of the Beholder
The Twilight Zone - Season 2 - Episode 6
A young woman undergoes ""experimental treatments"" in an attempt to make her appear ""normal"".
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#10 - Will the Real Martian Please Stand Up?
The Twilight Zone - Season 2 - Episode 28
State troopers follow tracks from an unidentified flying object to a diner where they try to determine which of the seven bus passengers stranded inside is really a Martian.
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#11 - The Shelter
The Twilight Zone - Season 3 - Episode 3
When a UFO invasion appears imminent, several suburban friends and neighbours fight over control of a single bomb shelter.
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#12 - The Midnight Sun
The Twilight Zone - Season 3 - Episode 10
The Earth's orbit has been changed, drawing ever closer to the sun and promising eminent destruction.
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#13 - Deaths-Head Revisited
The Twilight Zone - Season 3 - Episode 9
A former Nazi SS Captain returns to the ruins of a concentration camp to reminisce, and is met by one of his victims.
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#14 - The Masks
The Twilight Zone - Season 5 - Episode 25
A dying man demands his family wear masks that he's given them at a Mardi Gras party.
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#15 - It's a Good Life
The Twilight Zone - Season 3 - Episode 8
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.
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#16 - The Waiting Room
Night Gallery - Season 2 - Episode 51
A gunfighter's final reckoning awaits him in a frontier saloon.
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#17 - Certain Shadows on the Wall
Night Gallery - Season 1 - Episode 10
An ailing woman dies under the care of her sinister brother, but her accusing shadow remains indelibly cast on the parlor wall.
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#18 - The Messiah on Mott Street
Night Gallery - Season 2 - Episode 38
Desperate to stay alive for the sake of his nine-year-old grandson, an elderly, near-penniless Jew on the brink of death pins his hopes for salvation on the coming of the Messiah.
#19 - Walking Distance
The Twilight Zone - Season 1 - Episode 5
Martin Sloan, driving through the country, leaves his car and starts to walk toward his hometown, Homewood. He finds things exactly as they were when he was a child. He soon realizes he's gone back in time.
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#20 - The Silence
The Twilight Zone - Season 2 - Episode 25
An aristocratic club member bets that a talkative acquaintance cannot stay silent for an entire year.
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#21 - The Hitch-Hiker
The Twilight Zone - Season 1 - Episode 16
Alone on a cross-country trip, a woman continually sees the same hitch-hiker everywhere she looks.
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#22 - The Obsolete Man
The Twilight Zone - Season 2 - Episode 29
In a future state where religion and books have been banned, a librarian (Burgess Meridith) is judged obsolete by the Chancellor (Fritz Weaver) and sentenced to death.
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#23 - And When the Sky Was Opened
The Twilight Zone - Season 1 - Episode 11
Three astronauts have returned from this first space flight. Major Gart is hospitalized with a broken leg. The other two, Colonels Harrington and Forbes head for a bar. Harrington gets a strange feeling.
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#24 - He's Alive
The Twilight Zone - Season 4 - Episode 4
Peter Vollmer, a small-time neo-Nazi leader, yearns for more power. Advised by a shadowy benefactor, Vollmer's following grows, as does his ego...
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#25 - The Lateness of the Hour
The Twilight Zone - Season 2 - Episode 8
Dr. Loren enjoys the faultless robot servants he has invented. His daughter, however, feels imprisoned by them--and soon learns how right she is.
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#26 - Third from the Sun
The Twilight Zone - Season 1 - Episode 14
With all-out nuclear war about to ignite, a scientist and his pilot friend plot to escape on an experimental spaceship.
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#27 - I Shot an Arrow into the Air
The Twilight Zone - Season 1 - Episode 15
Three astronauts believe they have crashed on an asteroid.
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#28 - I Am the Night - Color Me Black
The Twilight Zone - Season 5 - Episode 26
On the day an unpopular idealist is to be executed for the killing of a racist bully, the townsfolk are shocked to see the skies have turned pitch black.
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#29 - Mr. Garrity and the Graves
The Twilight Zone - Season 5 - Episode 32
Jared Garrity arrives in the Old West town of Happiness, Arizona, proclaiming he can revive the dead.
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#30 - Where Is Everybody?
The Twilight Zone - Season 1 - Episode 1
Mike Ferris finds himself in a town strangely devoid of people. But despite the emptiness, he has the odd feeling that he's being watched...
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#31 - The Little People
The Twilight Zone - Season 3 - Episode 28
An astronaut declares himself a god when his ship lands on a planet populated by people smaller than ants.
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#32 - A Quality of Mercy
The Twilight Zone - Season 3 - Episode 15
A soldier gets a new perspective on war when he is forced to experience it from his enemy's point of view.
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#33 - A Fear of Spiders
Night Gallery - Season 2 - Episode 12
A phobic gourmet columnist seeks help from a woman he spurned when he discovers a hairy--and obstinate--little guest crawling in his kitchen sink.
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#34 - People Are Alike All Over
The Twilight Zone - Season 1 - Episode 25
When a space exploration crashes on Mars, the surviving passenger is surprised to find that Martians are human-looking, very friendly and apparently just like us...
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#35 - The After Hours
The Twilight Zone - Season 1 - Episode 34
A woman discovers that the floor of a department store, on which she bought a gold thimble, doesn't exist - and that her ""saleslady"" is really a mannequin!
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#36 - A Stop at Willoughby
The Twilight Zone - Season 1 - Episode 30
Riding home on the train one day, a man falls asleep and dreams it is 1880, and he is entering a small town called Willoughby.
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#37 - The Rip Van Winkle Caper
The Twilight Zone - Season 2 - Episode 24
Thieves put themselves into suspended animation for 100 years after hiding a million dollars worth of gold bars.
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#38 - The Cemetery
Night Gallery - Season 1 - Episode 1
A black-sheep nephew murders his ailing uncle for the inheritance only to find some disturbing changes in the old man's painting of the family graveyard.
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#39 - A Hundred Yards Over the Rim
The Twilight Zone - Season 2 - Episode 23
In 1847 a western settler sets out to find medicine for his dying son - and stumbles into modern-day New Mexico.
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#40 - What You Need
The Twilight Zone - Season 1 - Episode 12
A two-bit thug thinks he's found the key to a better life in an old sidewalk salesman who has the uncanny ability to tell people what they need the most.
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#41 - Dust
The Twilight Zone - Season 2 - Episode 12
After selling the rope for a hanging, a conscienceless peddler tries to sell the condemned man's father a bag of "magic dust".
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#42 - Judgment Night
The Twilight Zone - Season 1 - Episode 10
In 1942, a German wonders why he's on the deck of a British steamship, with no memory of how he got there, and an overwhelming sense of impending doom.
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#43 - One for the Angels
The Twilight Zone - Season 1 - Episode 2
A street salesman cleverly eludes Death. But if he lives, a little girl must die in his place.
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#44 - The Fear
The Twilight Zone - Season 5 - Episode 35
Two people in a remote cabin find signs of an extraterrestrial.
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#45 - Back There
The Twilight Zone - Season 2 - Episode 13
It's April 14, 1961. Peter Corrigan and friends are discussing time travel at their men's club, Corrigan suddenly becomes dizzy. When his head clears, he has somehow traveled back to April 14, 1865 - the date of Lincoln's assassination. Knowing what is about to happen, he tries to warn everyone at Ford's Theater before it's too late.
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#46 - The Jeopardy Room
The Twilight Zone - Season 5 - Episode 29
Trying to defect, Major Ivan Kuchenko is trapped inside a hotel room with Commissar Vassiloff, a hitman, and Boris, his assistant, in the room across the street. Vassiloff has planted a bomb in the room and Ivan must find it within three hours or be blown to bits.
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#47 - The Diary
Night Gallery - Season 2 - Episode 22
A vicious gossip columnist receives a gift diary that appears to write its own fearful entries--before the events occur.
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#48 - Of Late I Think of Cliffordville
The Twilight Zone - Season 4 - Episode 14
A bored, wealthy businessman gets a chance to go back in time and start over, armed with all the knowledge he's acquired...an arsenal that's not as powerful as he thinks.
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#49 - Mirror Image
The Twilight Zone - Season 1 - Episode 21
Millicent Barnes sees her double at a bus terminal.
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#50 - The Passersby
The Twilight Zone - Season 3 - Episode 4
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.
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