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The Best Episodes of The Twilight Zone

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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 Eye of the Beholder
    9.1/10(6.9k 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.

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    Director:Douglas Heyes
  2. Background image for To Serve Man
    9.0/10(5.7k 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 Nightmare at 20,000 Feet
    9.0/10(6.0k votes)

    #3 - 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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  4. Background image for Time Enough at Last
    8.9/10(8.6k votes)

    #4 - 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
  5. Background image for The Monsters are Due on Maple Street
    8.9/10(6.9k votes)

    #5 - 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
  6. Background image for Will the Real Martian Please Stand Up?
    8.7/10(4.8k votes)

    #6 - 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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  8. Background image for Living Doll
    8.7/10(4.1k votes)

    #7 - Living Doll

    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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  9. Background image for The Obsolete Man
    8.6/10(4.5k votes)

    #8 - The Obsolete Man

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

    #9 - 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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  11. Background image for It's a Good Life
    8.6/10(5.0k votes)

    #10 - 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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  12. Background image for The Masks
    8.6/10(3.6k votes)

    #11 - 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
  13. Background image for A Stop at Willoughby
    8.5/10(5.2k votes)

    #12 - 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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  14. Background image for Five Characters in Search of an Exit
    8.5/10(4.3k votes)

    #13 - 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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  15. Background image for The After Hours
    8.4/10(5.0k votes)

    #14 - 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.

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    Director:Douglas Heyes
  16. Background image for The Midnight Sun
    8.4/10(4.2k votes)

    #15 - 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
  17. Background image for And When the Sky Was Opened
    8.3/10(5.6k votes)

    #16 - 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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  18. Background image for Nick of Time
    8.3/10(4.5k votes)

    #17 - 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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  19. Background image for The Silence
    8.3/10(3.7k votes)

    #18 - 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
  20. Background image for Nothing in the Dark
    8.3/10(3.8k votes)

    #19 - 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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  21. Background image for Walking Distance
    8.2/10(6.8k votes)

    #20 - 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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  22. Background image for The Hitch-Hiker
    8.2/10(5.8k votes)

    #21 - The Hitch-Hiker

    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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  23. Background image for The Howling Man
    8.2/10(4.5k votes)

    #22 - The Howling Man

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

    #23 - 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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  25. Background image for An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge
    8.2/10(3.0k votes)

    #24 - 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
  26. Background image for The Lonely
    8.1/10(6.0k votes)

    #25 - The Lonely

    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

Best Episodes Summary

"Eye of the Beholder" is the best rated episode of "The Twilight Zone". It scored 9.1/10 based on 6898 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, "To Serve Man".