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The Best Episodes of The Twilight Zone

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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

An anthology series 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 Eye of the Beholder
    8.5/10(42 votes)

    #1 - 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.

    Director:Douglas Heyes
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  2. Background image for To Serve Man
    8.5/10(28 votes)

    #2 - 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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  3. Background image for The Shelter
    8.4/10(26 votes)

    #3 - 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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  4. Background image for The Masks
    8.4/10(16 votes)

    #4 - 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.

    Director:Ida Lupino
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  5. Background image for Nightmare at 20,000 Feet
    8.2/10(29 votes)

    #5 - 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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  6. Background image for Time Enough at Last
    8.1/10(59 votes)

    #6 - Time Enough at Last

    S1:E8

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

    Director:John Brahm
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  8. Background image for It's a Good Life
    8.1/10(24 votes)

    #7 - 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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  9. Background image for The Monsters are Due on Maple Street
    8.0/10(38 votes)

    #8 - 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.

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

    #9 - 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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  11. Background image for The Silence
    8.0/10(21 votes)

    #10 - The Silence

    S2:E25

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

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

    #11 - 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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  13. Background image for Five Characters in Search of an Exit
    8.0/10(21 votes)

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

    #13 - 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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  15. Background image for An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge
    7.9/10(16 votes)

    #14 - 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...

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

    #15 - 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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  17. Background image for Nick of Time
    7.8/10(27 votes)

    #16 - 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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  18. Background image for The Midnight Sun
    7.8/10(20 votes)

    #17 - The Midnight Sun

    S3:E10

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

    Director:Anton Leader
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  19. Background image for Nothing in the Dark
    7.8/10(22 votes)

    #18 - 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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  20. Background image for Valley of the Shadow
    7.8/10(13 votes)

    #19 - Valley of the Shadow

    S4:E3

    A reporter finds himself trapped in a small town where people can reverse time and do many other amazing things.

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  21. Background image for He's Alive
    7.8/10(12 votes)

    #20 - He's Alive

    S4:E4

    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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  22. Background image for Walking Distance
    7.7/10(52 votes)

    #21 - Walking Distance

    S1:E5

    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.

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  23. Background image for And When the Sky Was Opened
    7.7/10(40 votes)

    #22 - And When the Sky Was Opened

    S1:E11

    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.

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  24. Background image for People are Alike All Over
    7.7/10(24 votes)

    #23 - People are Alike All Over

    S1:E25

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

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  25. Background image for The After Hours
    7.7/10(26 votes)

    #24 - The After Hours

    S1:E34

    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
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  26. Background image for Death Ship
    7.7/10(12 votes)

    #25 - Death Ship

    S4:E6

    A three-man spacecraft lands on a planet only to discover the wreckage of a spacecraft identical to their own. Two of the crew are convinced that they are dead, but the captain refuses to see the truth.

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Best Episodes Summary

"Eye of the Beholder" is the best rated episode of "The Twilight Zone". It scored 8.5/10 based on 42 votes. Directed by Douglas Heyes and written by Rod Serling, it aired on 11/11/1960. This episode scored 0.0 points higher than the second highest rated, "To Serve Man".