The Best Episodes of The Twilight Zone

A young woman lying in a hospital bed awaits the outcome of an experimental treatment in an attempt to make her look normal.

Director: Douglas Heyes

Writer: Rod Serling

No one can see the gremlin tearing apart an airplane's wing, except a newly released mental patient.

Director: Richard Donner

Writer: Richard Matheson

A bank teller, obsessed with reading, faces conflicts at work and home because of his passion for literature.

Director: John Brahm

Writer: Rod Serling

Paranoia strikes the residents of Maple Street when they believe human-looking aliens have invaded the neighborhood.

Director: Ron Winston

Writer: Rod Serling

State Troopers follow the tracks from a frozen pond, into a diner. Inside they find a soda jerk, a bus driver and his seven passengers. The bus driver is certain only six people boarded his bus…

Director: Montgomery Pittman

Writer: Rod Serling

Erich is displeased when his wife buys an expensive doll for his step-daughter. He becomes even more displeased when the doll tells him it doesn't like him!

Director: Richard C. Sarafian

Writer: Charles Beaumont, Jerry Sohl

In a future state where religion and books have been banned, a librarian is judged obsolete and sentenced to death.

Director: Elliot Silverstein

Writer: Rod Serling

A wealthy dying man invites his family to a Mardi Gras party and insists that they wear masks specially made for them, threatening to cut off their inheritance if they refuse.

Director: Ida Lupino

Writer: Rod Serling

Riding home on the train one day, a stressed businessman falls asleep and dreams it is 1888, and he is entering a small, idyllic town called Willoughby.

Director: Robert Parrish

Writer: Rod Serling

The Kanamits, 9 foot tall aliens, arrive on Earth with one lofty goal: To Serve Man.

Director: Richard L. Bare

Writer: Rod Serling, Damon Knight

Puzzled and unsettled by the odd behavior of the salespeople, a woman discovers that the floor of a department store, on which she bought a gold thimble, doesn't exist.

Director: Douglas Heyes

Writer: Rod Serling

Recovering in the hospital after a space mission, Major William Gart is visited by his co-pilot Lieutenant Colonel Clegg Forbes, who insists on the existence of a third astronaut.

Director: Douglas Heyes

Writer: Richard Matheson, Rod Serling

A superstitious newlywed becomes obsessed by a penny fortune-telling machine when he and his new wife are stranded with car trouble.

Director: Richard L. Bare

Writer: Richard Matheson

A talkative man takes an offer to keep silent for a year for $500,000.

Director: Boris Sagal

Writer: Rod Serling

When a nuclear attack appears imminent, several suburban friends and neighbors fight over control of a single bomb shelter.

Director: Lamont Johnson

Writer: Rod Serling

As a Confederate spy is about to be hanged, the rope breaks and he falls to the water below. Finally free, he races for his home where his family awaits... as does the terrible truth of his future...

Director: Robert Enrico

Writer: N/A

A stressed advertising executive, 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.

Director: Robert Stevens

Writer: Rod Serling

Alone on a cross-country trip, a woman continually encounters the same mysterious hitch-hiker who inexplicably reappears at various points in her journey.

Director: Alvin Ganzer

Writer: Rod Serling, Lucille Fletcher

A man on a walking trip of post-World War I Europe gets caught in a storm. He comes across a remote monastery with a mysterious prisoner.

Director: Douglas Heyes

Writer: Charles Beaumont

In 2046, imprisoned for murder on a distant asteroid, Corry receives an unexpected present that brings a semblance of companionship during his isolation.

Director: Jack Smight

Writer: Rod Serling

With all-out nuclear war about to ignite, a scientist and his pilot friend plot to escape on an experimental spaceship.

Director: Richard L. Bare

Writer: Richard Matheson, Rod Serling

After a space exploration crash-lands on Mars, the lone surviving astronaut is surprised to find that Martians are human-looking and friendly.

Director: Mitchell Leisen

Writer: Rod Serling, Paul W. Fairman

Coming home, Victoria catches her husband Gregory flirting with a beautiful woman in his study. His explanation that characters come to life before his eyes when he speaks into his dictation machine, leads Victoria to question his sanity.

Director: Ralph Nelson

Writer: Richard Matheson

An old woman in an isolated farmhouse encounters tiny, hostile aliens.

Director: Douglas Heyes

Writer: Richard Matheson

In 1847 a western settler sets out to find medicine for his dying son - and stumbles into modern-day New Mexico.

Director: Buzz Kulik

Writer: Rod Serling