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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. 9.1/10(6.8k votes)

    #1 - Eye of the Beholder

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    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
  2. 9.0/10(5.9k votes)

    #2 - Nightmare at 20,000 Feet

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    S5:E3

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

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  3. 8.9/10(8.5k votes)

    #3 - Time Enough at Last

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    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
  4. 8.9/10(6.7k votes)

    #4 - The Monsters Are Due on Maple Street

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    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
  5. 8.7/10(4.7k votes)

    #5 - Will the Real Martian Please Stand Up?

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    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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  6. 8.7/10(4.0k votes)

    #6 - Living Doll

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    S5:E6

    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!

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  8. 8.6/10(4.5k votes)

    #7 - The Obsolete Man

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    S2:E29

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

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  9. 8.6/10(27 votes)

    #8 - To Serve Man

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    S3:E24

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

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  10. 8.6/10(3.5k votes)

    #9 - The Masks

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    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
  11. 8.5/10(5.1k votes)

    #10 - A Stop at Willoughby

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    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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  12. 8.4/10(5.0k votes)

    #11 - The After Hours

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    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.

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    Director:Douglas Heyes
  13. 8.4/10(25 votes)

    #12 - The Shelter

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    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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  14. 8.3/10(5.5k votes)

    #13 - And When the Sky Was Opened

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    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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  15. 8.3/10(4.5k votes)

    #14 - Nick of Time

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    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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  16. 8.3/10(3.7k votes)

    #15 - The Silence

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    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. 8.3/10(2.9k votes)

    #16 - An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge

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    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
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  18. 8.2/10(6.6k votes)

    #17 - Walking Distance

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    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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  19. 8.2/10(5.7k votes)

    #18 - The Hitch-Hiker

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    S1:E16

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

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  20. 8.2/10(4.5k votes)

    #19 - The Howling Man

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    S2:E5

    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.

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  21. 8.1/10(5.9k votes)

    #20 - The Lonely

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    S1:E7

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

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    Director:Jack Smight
  22. 8.1/10(4.9k votes)

    #21 - Third from the Sun

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    S1:E14

    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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  23. 8.1/10(4.2k votes)

    #22 - Long Live Walter Jameson

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    S1:E24

    Walter Jameson, a popular history professor, is suspected by his fiancée's father, another professor at the college, to be an immortal.

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  24. 8.1/10(4.3k votes)

    #23 - People Are Alike All Over

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    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. 8.1/10(4.0k votes)

    #24 - A World of His Own

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    S1:E36

    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.

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  26. 8.1/10(4.4k votes)

    #25 - The Invaders

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    S2:E15

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

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Best Episodes Summary

"Eye of the Beholder" is the best rated episode of "The Twilight Zone". It scored 9.1/10 based on 6786 votes. Directed by Douglas Heyes and written by Rod Serling, it aired on 11/11/1960. This episode scored 0.1 points higher than the second highest rated, "Nightmare at 20,000 Feet".