The BEST episodes written by Rod Serling
#1 - Night of the Meek
The Twilight Zone (1985) - Season 1 - Episode 30
A drunken storefront Santa is terminally depressed by the many children who go gift less and starving during Christmas. He is fired from his job at a department store when he shows up late, and subsequently finds a bag that he can pull any present anyone wants from it.
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#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.
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#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 - 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.
#6 - 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.
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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.
#8 - 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.
#9 - Time Enough at Last
The Twilight Zone - Season 1 - Episode 8
A bank teller, obsessed with reading, finds himself alone after a nuclear blast.
#10 - 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.
#11 - 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.
#12 - 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.
#13 - 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.
#14 - 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.
#15 - Probe 7, Over and Out
The Twilight Zone - Season 5 - Episode 9
The lone survivors of two annihilated worlds are stranded on a distant planet.
#16 - 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.
#17 - The Fear
The Twilight Zone - Season 5 - Episode 35
Two people in a remote cabin find signs of an extraterrestrial.
#18 - 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"".
#19 - 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.
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#20 - 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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#21 - 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.
#22 - The Doll
Night Gallery - Season 1 - Episode 15
A hideous doll becomes an agent of revenge against an officer in Queen Victoria's colonial forces.
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#23 - 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.
#24 - The Dummy
The Twilight Zone - Season 3 - Episode 33
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!
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#25 - 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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#26 - 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.
#27 - 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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#28 - I Shot an Arrow into the Air
The Twilight Zone - Season 1 - Episode 15
Three astronauts believe they have crashed on an asteroid.
#29 - 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".
#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...
#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.
#32 - 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.
#33 - 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.
#34 - 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.
#35 - 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.
#36 - A Short Drink from a Certain Fountain
The Twilight Zone - Season 5 - Episode 11
Trying to keep up with his younger wife, Harmon convinces his brother to inject him with an experimental youth serum.
#37 - The Trade-Ins
The Twilight Zone - Season 3 - Episode 31
An elderly couple visit the New Life Corporation, hoping to transport their personalities into youthful artificial bodies.
#38 - 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.
#39 - Camera Obscura
Night Gallery - Season 2 - Episode 36
A heartless moneylender gets his just desserts with the help of a client's unusual telescopic device.
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#40 - Dr. Stringfellow's Rejuvenator
Night Gallery - Season 2 - Episode 27
An unscrupulous medicine man in the Old West promises restored health--or a resurrection--to a poor farmer's dying daughter.
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#41 - 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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#42 - Uncle Simon
The Twilight Zone - Season 5 - Episode 8
Caregiver Barbara Polk receives a surprise after her uncle's death. His will stipulates that she must care for his latest invention - a robot.
#43 - 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.
#44 - 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.
#45 - 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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#46 - Cavender is Coming
The Twilight Zone - Season 3 - Episode 36
A clumsy theater worker meets her equally bumbling guardian angel.
#47 - Sounds and Silences
The Twilight Zone - Season 5 - Episode 27
A man's wish to listen to loud noise backfires.
#48 - 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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#49 - 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.
#50 - 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.