The Best Episodes of The Twilight Zone Season 3

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

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

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

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

Director: Lamont Johnson

Writer: Rod Serling

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

Director: Anton Leader

Writer: Rod Serling

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

Director: Lamont Johnson

Writer: George Clayton Johnson

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

Director: John Brahm

Writer: Charles Beaumont

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

Director: Elliot Silverstein

Writer: Rod Serling

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

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

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

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

Director: William Claxton

Writer: Rod Serling

A widower buys a robot grandmother for his three children.

Director: William Claxton, James Sheldon

Writer: Ray Bradbury

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

Director: Buzz Kulik

Writer: George Clayton Johnson

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.

Director: Paul Stewart

Writer: Richard Matheson

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.

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

Director: Boris Sagal

Writer: Rod Serling

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

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

Director: Lamont Johnson

Writer: Rod Serling

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".

Director: Lamont Johnson

Writer: George Clayton Johnson

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.

Director: Robert Ellis Miller

Writer: Rod Serling

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

Director: Lamont Johnson

Writer: Rod Serling

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!

Director: Abner Biberman

Writer: Rod Serling

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

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