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The Best Episodes of The Twilight Zone

Every episode of The Twilight Zone ranked from best to worst. Let's dive into the Best Episodes of The Twilight Zone!

The Best Episodes of The Twilight Zone

A series of unrelated stories containing drama, psychological thriller, fantasy, science fiction, suspense, and/or horror, often concluding with a macabre or unexpected twist.

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  1. Background image for To Serve Man
    9.0/10(5.7k votes)

    #1 - To Serve Man

    S3:E24

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

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  2. Background image for The Shelter
    8.6/10(4.0k votes)

    #2 - The Shelter

    S3:E3

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

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  3. Background image for It's a Good Life
    8.6/10(5.0k votes)

    #3 - It's a Good Life

    S3:E8

    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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  4. Background image for Eye of the Beholder
    8.5/10(41 votes)

    #4 - Eye of the Beholder

    S2:E6

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

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    Director:Douglas Heyes
  5. Background image for Five Characters in Search of an Exit
    8.5/10(4.3k votes)

    #5 - Five Characters in Search of an Exit

    S3:E14

    A hobo, clown, bagpipe player, ballerina and military officer are trapped in a huge cylinder.

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  6. Background image for The Midnight Sun
    8.4/10(4.2k votes)

    #6 - The Midnight Sun

    S3:E10

    The Earth's orbit has been changed, drawing ever closer to the sun and promising eminent destruction.

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    Director:Anton Leader
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  8. Background image for The Masks
    8.4/10(16 votes)

    #7 - The Masks

    S5:E25

    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.

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    Director:Ida Lupino
  9. Background image for Nothing in the Dark
    8.3/10(3.8k votes)

    #8 - Nothing in the Dark

    S3:E16

    A lonely old woman refuses to leave her apartment for fear of meeting "Mr. Death."

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  10. Background image for The Changing of the Guard
    8.2/10(3.1k votes)

    #9 - The Changing of the Guard

    S3:E37

    An elderly private school teacher wonders if his life has meant anything as he contemplates suicide on Christmas Eve and is reminded by former students that he has, indeed, made an effect on the lives of his students over the years.

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  11. Background image for Nightmare at 20,000 Feet
    8.2/10(29 votes)

    #10 - Nightmare at 20,000 Feet

    S5:E3

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

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  12. Background image for Time Enough at Last
    8.1/10(58 votes)

    #11 - Time Enough at Last

    S1:E8

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

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    Director:John Brahm
  13. Background image for Deaths-Head Revisited
    8.1/10(3.5k votes)

    #12 - Deaths-Head Revisited

    S3:E9

    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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    Director:Don Medford
  14. Background image for The Monsters Are Due on Maple Street
    8.0/10(37 votes)

    #13 - The Monsters Are Due on Maple Street

    S1:E22

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

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    Director:Ron Winston
  15. Background image for A Penny For Your Thoughts
    8.0/10(22 votes)

    #14 - A Penny For Your Thoughts

    S2:E16

    The lucky flip of a coin seems to give a mild-mannered bank clerk the power to read minds. But he soon learns that you can't believe everything you read.

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  16. Background image for The Silence
    8.0/10(21 votes)

    #15 - The Silence

    S2:E25

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

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    Director:Boris Sagal
  17. Background image for Will the Real Martian Please Stand Up?
    8.0/10(27 votes)

    #16 - Will the Real Martian Please Stand Up?

    S2:E28

    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…

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  18. Background image for Little Girl Lost
    8.0/10(3.3k votes)

    #17 - Little Girl Lost

    S3:E26

    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.

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  19. Background image for Number 12 Looks Just Like You
    8.0/10(13 votes)

    #18 - Number 12 Looks Just Like You

    S5:E17

    In a future where everyone must undergo an operation at the age of 19 to make them identical to everyone else, one woman desperately tries to hang onto her own identity.

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  20. Background image for The Hunt
    7.9/10(3.2k votes)

    #19 - The Hunt

    S3:E19

    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.

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  21. Background image for An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge
    7.9/10(16 votes)

    #20 - An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge

    S5:E22

    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...

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    Director:Robert Enrico
    Writer:Unknown
  22. Background image for A Stop at Willoughby
    7.8/10(29 votes)

    #21 - A Stop at Willoughby

    S1:E30

    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.

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  23. Background image for Nick of Time
    7.8/10(27 votes)

    #22 - Nick of Time

    S2:E7

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

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  24. Background image for A Game of Pool
    7.8/10(3.4k votes)

    #23 - A Game of Pool

    S3:E5

    Championship pool player Fats Brown returns from the grave for one last game.

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  25. Background image for Person or Persons Unknown
    7.8/10(2.7k votes)

    #24 - Person or Persons Unknown

    S3:E27

    David Gurney wakes up to find that no one - his wife, his co-workers, his best friend, not even his own mother knows him.

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  26. Background image for The Little People
    7.8/10(3.0k votes)

    #25 - The Little People

    S3:E28

    An astronaut declares himself a god when his ship lands on a planet populated by people smaller than ants.

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Best Episodes Summary

"To Serve Man" is the best rated episode of "The Twilight Zone". It scored 9/10 based on 5722 votes. Directed by Richard L. Bare and written by Rod Serling, Damon Knight, it aired on 3/2/1962. This episode scored 0.4 points higher than the second highest rated, "The Shelter".