The Best Episodes of The Twilight Zone Season 3
Every episode of The Twilight Zone Season 3 ranked from best to worst. Discover the Best Episodes of The Twilight Zone Season 3!
A series of unrelated stories containing drama, psychological thriller, fantasy, science fiction, suspense, and/or horror, often concluding with a macabre or unexpected twist.
Season 3 Ratings Summary
The best episode of "The Twilight Zone" season 3 is "Two", rated 7.5/10 from 3413 user votes. It was directed by Montgomery Pittman and written by Montgomery Pittman. "Two" aired on 9/15/1961 and is rated 0.3 point(s) higher than the second highest rated, "The Arrival".
7.5/10 3,413 votes#1 - Two
Season 3 Episode 1 - Aired 9/15/1961
A man and a woman, on opposite sides of a future war, encounter each other in a deserted town.
Director: Montgomery Pittman
Writer: Montgomery Pittman
7.2/10 2,765 votes#2 - The Arrival
Season 3 Episode 2 - Aired 9/22/1961
A plane lands safely, but all its passengers, pilot and crew are missing!
Director: Boris Sagal
Writer: Rod Serling
8.6/10 3,709 votes#3 - The Shelter
Season 3 Episode 3 - Aired 9/29/1961
When a nuclear attack appears imminent, several suburban friends and neighbors fight over control of a single bomb shelter.
Director: Lamont Johnson
Writer: Rod Serling
7.5/10 2,769 votes#4 - The Passersby
Season 3 Episode 4 - Aired 10/6/1961
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.
Director: Elliot Silverstein
Writer: Rod Serling
7.8/10 3,162 votes#5 - A Game of Pool
Season 3 Episode 5 - Aired 10/13/1961
Championship pool player Fats Brown returns from the grave for one last game.
Director: Buzz Kulik
Writer: George Clayton Johnson
6.5/10 2,543 votes#6 - The Mirror
Season 3 Episode 6 - Aired 10/20/1961
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.
Director: Don Medford
Writer: Rod Serling
7.4/10 2,818 votes#7 - The Grave
Season 3 Episode 7 - Aired 10/27/1961
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.
Director: Montgomery Pittman
Writer: Montgomery Pittman
8.6/10 4,726 votes#8 - It's a Good Life
Season 3 Episode 8 - Aired 11/3/1961
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.
Director: James Sheldon
Writer: Rod Serling, Jerome Bixby
8.1/10 3,267 votes#9 - Deaths-Head Revisited
Season 3 Episode 9 - Aired 11/10/1961
A former Nazi SS Captain returns to the ruins of a concentration camp to reminisce, and is met by one of his victims.
Director: Don Medford
Writer: Rod Serling
8.4/10 3,975 votes#10 - The Midnight Sun
Season 3 Episode 10 - Aired 11/17/1961
The Earth's orbit has been changed, drawing ever closer to the sun and promising eminent destruction.
Director: Anton Leader
Writer: Rod Serling
6.5/10 2,261 votes#11 - Still Valley
Season 3 Episode 11 - Aired 11/24/1961
Confederacy scout Sgt. Joseph Paradine finds a town full of Union soldiers, and an old man who claims he used witchcraft to paralyze them.
Director: James Sheldon
Writer: Rod Serling
6.8/10 2,409 votes#12 - The Jungle
Season 3 Episode 12 - Aired 12/1/1961
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.
Director: William Claxton
Writer: Charles Beaumont
7.2/10 2,720 votes#13 - Once Upon a Time
Season 3 Episode 13 - Aired 12/15/1961
Woodrow, a janitor living in the year 1890, accidentally activates a time travelling helmet which transports him to 1962 - then promptly breaks down!
Director: Norman Z. McLeod
Writer: Richard Matheson
8.5/10 4,000 votes#14 - Five Characters in Search of an Exit
Season 3 Episode 14 - Aired 12/22/1961
A hobo, clown, bagpipe player, ballerina and military officer are trapped in a huge cylinder.
Director: Lamont Johnson
Writer: Rod Serling
7.2/10 2,458 votes#15 - A Quality of Mercy
Season 3 Episode 15 - Aired 12/29/1961
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.
Director: Buzz Kulik
Writer: Rod Serling, Sam Rolfe
8.3/10 3,525 votes#16 - Nothing in the Dark
Season 3 Episode 16 - Aired 1/5/1962
A lonely old woman refuses to leave her apartment for fear of meeting "Mr. Death."
Director: Lamont Johnson
Writer: George Clayton Johnson
7.3/10 2,438 votes#17 - One More Pallbearer
Season 3 Episode 17 - Aired 1/12/1962
Paul Radin has invited three people to join him in his bomb shelter.
Director: Lamont Johnson
Writer: Rod Serling
7.4/10 2,418 votes#18 - Dead Man's Shoes
Season 3 Episode 18 - Aired 1/19/1962
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.
Director: Montgomery Pittman
Writer: Charles Beaumont
7.9/10 3,037 votes#19 - The Hunt
Season 3 Episode 19 - Aired 1/26/1962
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.
Director: Harold D. Schuster
Writer: Earl Hamner, Jr.
6.3/10 2,260 votes#20 - Showdown with Rance McGrew
Season 3 Episode 20 - Aired 2/2/1962
Actor Rance McGrew makes TV Westerns for a living, but he's a lousy actor and a worse cowboy. Despite that, each week he "wins" against the bad guys. Finally the bad guys have enough and send Jesse James to Earth to teach McGrew a lesson.
Director: Christian Nyby
Writer: Rod Serling
7.5/10 2,771 votes#21 - Kick the Can
Season 3 Episode 21 - Aired 2/9/1962
The senior residents of Sunnyvale decide that the secret to youth is acting young, and in particular playing a childhood game called "kick-the-can."
Director: Lamont Johnson
Writer: George Clayton Johnson
7.5/10 2,529 votes#22 - A Piano in the House
Season 3 Episode 22 - Aired 2/16/1962
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.
Director: David Greene
Writer: Earl Hamner, Jr.
7.1/10 2,425 votes#23 - The Last Rites of Jeff Myrtlebank
Season 3 Episode 23 - Aired 2/23/1962
Jeff Myrtlebank comes back to life at his own funeral and soon begins to act very strangely...
Director: Montgomery Pittman
Writer: Montgomery Pittman
9.0/10 5,412 votes#24 - To Serve Man
Season 3 Episode 24 - Aired 3/2/1962
The Kanamits, 9 foot tall aliens, arrive on Earth with one lofty goal: To Serve Man.
Director: Richard L. Bare
Writer: Rod Serling, Damon Knight
7.5/10 2,556 votes#25 - The Fugitive
Season 3 Episode 25 - Aired 3/9/1962
Old Ben, who is able to transform himself into anything, tries to help a crippled little girl.
Director: Richard L. Bare
Writer: Charles Beaumont