Every season of The Twilight Zone ever, ranked from best to worst by thousands of votes from fans of the show. The best seasons of The Twilight Zone!

Mike Ferris finds himself in a town strangely devoid of people. But despite the emptiness, he has the odd feeling that he's being watched...

Where Is Everybody?

A street salesman cleverly eludes Death. But if he lives, a little girl must die in his place.

One for the Angels

A has-been, drunk gunslinger finds his fast-draw abilities magically restored.

Mr. Denton on Doomsday

An aging, former movie star lives and dreams in the past, constantly watching her old movies alone in her room.

The Sixteen-Millimeter Shrine

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.

Walking Distance

A hypochondriac exchanges his soul for immortality and indestructibility.

Escape Clause

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

The Lonely

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

Time Enough at Last

A man with a heart condition explains to his psychiatrist that he feels extremely tired, because he is terrified of falling asleep for fear he might die.

Perchance to Dream

In 1942, a German wonders why he's on the deck of a British steamship, with no memory of how he got there.

Judgment Night

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.

And When the Sky Was Opened

A two-bit thug thinks he's found the key to a better life in an old sidewalk salesman who has the uncanny ability to tell people what they need the most.

What You Need

In this noirish tale, a man with the ability to change his face to resemble others gets into hot water with gangsters.

The Four of Us are Dying

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

Third from the Sun

Three astronauts crash-land on an unknown planet and must confront survival challenges, unraveling their unity in the face of desperation.

I Shot an Arrow into the Air

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

The Hitch-Hiker

Tight fisted Franklin Gibbs is not pleased when his wife wins a trip for two to Las Vegas.  But things change when he falls under the spell of a slot machine that calls his name.

The Fever

A World War I flying ace flies through a mysterious cloud - and lands at a modern U.S. air base in the year 1959!

The Last Flight

Lieutenant Fitzgerald, serving in World War II, possesses the disquieting ability to foresee impending death by observing a strange glow on the faces of his men before battle.

The Purple Testament

Three astronauts land on what looks like Earth 200 years before they left--only all of the people seem frozen in time.

Elegy

In a bus depot, Millicent Barnes experiences odd events, leading to concerns about her sanity.

Mirror Image

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

The Monsters are Due on Maple Street

Arthur Curtis, a successful businessman sitting in his office discovers that he is on a film set and everyone refers to him as Gerry Reagan, a movie star struggling with alcoholism and a declining career.

A World of Difference

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

Long Live Walter Jameson

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

People are Alike All Over

Just before being hanged for shooting a man in the back, an outlaw cowboy in 1880 is transported into the future.

Execution

Washed-up boxer Bolie Jackson, with the help of a special wish from his young friend Henry, miraculously switches places with his opponent during a comeback fight, turning the tide in his favor.

The Big Tall Wish

After being shot to death, the criminal Rocky Valentine encounters the amiable white-haired Mr. Pip in the afterlife, who gives him everything he wishes for.

A Nice Place to Visit

Schoolteacher Helen Foley finds a strange and very serious little girl on the stairs outside her apartment, who tries to jog Helen's memory about a man she saw earlier that day.

Nightmare as a Child

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.

A Stop at Willoughby

A man, desperate to win the affection of a beautiful woman, seeks the help of an old professor, who provides him with a love potion.

The Chaser

A down-and-out trumpet player who's convinced he'll never amount to anything attempts suicide and finds himself in a world where no one can hear or see him.

A Passage for Trumpet

After losing his job, his car and his apartment on the same day, an eccentric loser gets a new lease on life from his guardian angel, but there is a price for keeping it.

Mr. Bevis

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.

The After Hours

A baseball manager takes his team to the championships thanks to a robot pitcher.

The Mighty Casey

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.

A World of His Own

A WWII captain finds himself in the desert, next to his crashed plane, and desperately tries to find out what happened to the rest of his crew.

King Nine Will Not Return

A discontented curio shop owner thinks he's finally found happiness when a genie he discovers in an old bottle grants him four wishes.

The Man in the Bottle

Ordered to commit a murder he doesn't want to perform, a smalltime hood nervously looks in the mirror and sees the man he could have been--confident, strong...and determined to get out.

Nervous Man in a Four Dollar Room

A writer feels that the machines in his house are conspiring against him.

A Thing About Machines

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.

The Howling Man

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

Eye of the Beholder

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

Nick of Time

Jana, the daughter of inventor Dr. Loren, struggles with her parents' reliance on lifelike robot servants, urging her father to dismantle them despite his attachment to his creations.

The Lateness of the Hour

Booth Templeton is an aging actor who longs for the old days when his wife was alive.  Miraculously, he is given a sobering glimpse of the past he holds so dear.

The Trouble with Templeton

Chester Diedrich and his wife Paula, after burglarizing a curio shop, end up with a camera that takes pictures of events five minutes into the future.

A Most Unusual Camera

A down-on-his-luck department store Santa Claus discovers a bottomless sack of toys.

The Night of the Meek

After selling the rope for a hanging, a greedy peddler, tries to sell the condemned man's father a bag of "magic dust."

Dust

It's April 14, 1961. Peter Corrigan and friends are discussing time travel at their men's club. Corrigan suddenly becomes dizzy. When his head clears, he has moved back to April 14, 1865 - the date of Lincoln's assassination.

Back There

A peculiar Model A automobile compels a used car dealer to tell only the truth.

The Whole Truth

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

The Invaders

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.

A Penny for Your Thoughts

Miss Powell has a recurring nightmare about room 22 – a morgue.

Twenty Two

A commercial aircraft mysteriously travels back through time.

The Odyssey of Flight 33

Martians give Luther Dingle the strength of 300 men.

Mr. Dingle, the Strong

Ed Lindsay hates television, so he gets his old radio out of the basement of the boardinghouse where he lives. He soon finds he can receive programs from the past when he's alone.

Static

Ace Larsen discovers his business partner has the ability to control objects with his mind. The pair head to Vegas to win big.

The Prime Mover

A young boy find he can communicate with his dead grandmother through a toy phone.

Long Distance Call

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

A Hundred Yards Over the Rim

Thieves put themselves into suspended animation for 100 years after hiding a million dollars worth of gold bars.

The Rip Van Winkle Caper

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

The Silence

Trapped in a recurring nightmare, a man tries to persuade those who are sentencing him to death that the whole scenario is not real.

Shadow Play

A book on the power of thought enables an irritable worker to re-create the world exactly as he wants it. But what he wants and what he gets are two different things!

The Mind and the Matter

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…

Will the Real Martian Please Stand Up?

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

The Obsolete Man

A man and a woman, on opposite sides of a future war, encounter each other in a deserted town.

A plane lands safely, but all its passengers, pilot and crew are missing!

The Arrival

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

The Shelter

On the road home from the Civil War, a Confederate soldier stops at a burned-out house and gets to know the owner, a recent widow.

The Passersby

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

A Game of Pool

After a poor but ambitious Central American farm worker overthrows his country's tyrannical leader, he believes he sees assassins everywhere. A look in the mirror reveals his most dangerous enemy.

The Mirror

Before he died, notorious gunslinger Pinto Sykes put a curse on hired-gun Conny Miller. Miller returns to town and is challenged to visit the grave of Sykes, despite the curse.

The Grave

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.

It's a Good Life

A former Nazi SS Captain returns to the ruins of a concentration camp to reminisce, and is met by one of his victims.

Deaths-Head Revisited

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

The Midnight Sun

Confederacy scout Sgt. Joseph Paradine finds a town full of Union soldiers, and an old man who claims he used witchcraft to paralyze them.

Still Valley

Alan Richards plans to build a dam in Africa on a tribe's ancestral land. The tribe's voodoo doctor puts a curse on him.

The Jungle

Woodrow, a janitor living in the year 1890, accidentally activates a time travelling helmet which transports him to 1962 - then promptly breaks down!

Once Upon a Time

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

Five Characters in Search of an Exit

A gung ho young soldier gets a new viewpoint on war when he inexplicably changes places with a Japanese officer trying to stop his superior from leading a charge against American forces.

A Quality of Mercy

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

Nothing in the Dark

Paul Radin has invited three people to join him in his bomb shelter.

One More Pallbearer

A vagrant steps into a murdered gangster's expensive shoes and is taken over by the dead man's ghost, who vows to remain on Earth to seek revenge against his killer.

Dead Man's Shoes

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.

The Hunt

The star of a Western TV series suddenly finds himself transported back in time to the real Wild West, and face-to-face with the real Jesse James.

Showdown with Rance McGrew

A retiree living in a rest home thinks he has discovered the secret of youth — acting young, and in particular playing a children's game called "kick-the-can".

Kick the Can

Fortune discovers that a piano he bought his wife for her birthday has magical properties - the music that it plays makes people reveal their true essence.

A Piano in the House

Jeff Myrtlebank comes back to life at his own funeral and soon begins to act very strangely...

The Last Rites of Jeff Myrtlebank

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

To Serve Man

Old Ben, who is able to transform himself into anything, tries to help a crippled little girl.

The Fugitive

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.

Little Girl Lost

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

Person or Persons Unknown

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

The Little People

Oliver Crangle is a bitter, prejudiced man. Through unknown means he intends to shrink every evil person in the world at four o'clock.

Four O'Clock

A loud-mouthed braggart's boasts attract the attention of some aliens.

Hocus-Pocus and Frisby

An elderly couple visit the New Life Corporation, hoping to transport their personalities into youthful artificial bodies.

The Trade-Ins

An alien who crash-lands into a remote mountain village stirs up the villagers' fears and animosity, but he befriends a little boy and gives him a mysterious present.

The Gift

A ventriloquist is convinced that his dummy, Willie, is alive and evil.  He makes plans for a new act with a new dummy:  plans that Willie doesn't support!

The Dummy

When a newlywed couple briefly return to the groom's childhood home, the ties of the past prove too strong to resist.

Young Man's Fancy

A widower buys a robot grandmother for his three children.

I Sing the Body Electric

An anthology series containing drama, psychological thriller, fantasy, science fiction, suspense, and/or horror, often concluding with a macabre or unexpected twist.

The Best Seasons of The Twilight Zone

The Best Seasons of The Twilight Zone

Season 1

Season 2

Season 3

Season 5

Season 4