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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!

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.

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  1. Background image for To Serve Man
    9.0/10(5.7k votes)

    #1 - 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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  2. Background image for The Shelter
    8.6/10(3.9k votes)

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

    #3 - 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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  4. Background image for Five Characters in Search of an Exit
    8.5/10(4.2k votes)

    #4 - 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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  5. Background image for The Midnight Sun
    8.4/10(4.2k votes)

    #5 - 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
  6. Background image for Nothing in the Dark
    8.3/10(3.7k votes)

    #6 - 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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  8. Background image for The Changing of the Guard
    8.2/10(3.1k votes)

    #7 - 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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  9. Background image for Deaths-Head Revisited
    8.1/10(3.5k votes)

    #8 - Deaths-Head Revisited

    S3:E9

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

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    Director:Don Medford
  10. Background image for Little Girl Lost
    8.0/10(3.3k votes)

    #9 - Little Girl Lost

    S3:E26

    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.

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  11. Background image for The Hunt
    7.9/10(3.2k votes)

    #10 - The Hunt

    S3:E19

    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.

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  12. Background image for A Game of Pool
    7.8/10(3.3k votes)

    #11 - A Game of Pool

    S3:E5

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

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  13. Background image for Person or Persons Unknown
    7.8/10(2.7k votes)

    #12 - Person or Persons Unknown

    S3:E27

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

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  14. Background image for The Little People
    7.8/10(2.9k votes)

    #13 - The Little People

    S3:E28

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

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  15. Background image for The Dummy
    7.7/10(2.9k votes)

    #14 - The Dummy

    S3:E33

    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!

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  16. Background image for The Trade-Ins
    7.6/10(2.6k votes)

    #15 - The Trade-Ins

    S3:E31

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

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  17. Background image for Two
    7.5/10(3.6k votes)

    #16 - Two

    S3:E1

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

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  18. Background image for The Passersby
    7.5/10(2.9k votes)

    #17 - The Passersby

    S3:E4

    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.

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  19. Background image for Kick the Can
    7.5/10(2.9k votes)

    #18 - Kick the Can

    S3:E21

    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".

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  20. Background image for A Piano in the House
    7.5/10(2.7k votes)

    #19 - A Piano in the House

    S3:E22

    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.

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    Director:David Greene
    Writers:Earl Hamner, Jr.
  21. Background image for The Fugitive
    7.5/10(2.7k votes)

    #20 - The Fugitive

    S3:E25

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

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  22. Background image for The Grave
    7.4/10(3.0k votes)

    #21 - The Grave

    S3:E7

    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.

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  23. Background image for Dead Man's Shoes
    7.4/10(2.6k votes)

    #22 - Dead Man's Shoes

    S3:E18

    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.

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  24. Background image for Hocus-Pocus and Frisby
    7.4/10(2.6k votes)

    #23 - Hocus-Pocus and Frisby

    S3:E30

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

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  25. Background image for One More Pallbearer
    7.3/10(2.6k votes)

    #24 - One More Pallbearer

    S3:E17

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

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  26. Background image for The Arrival
    7.2/10(2.9k votes)

    #25 - The Arrival

    S3:E2

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

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    Director:Boris Sagal

Season 3 Ratings Summary

"To Serve Man" is the best rated episode of "The Twilight Zone" season 3. It scored 9/10 based on 5690 votes. Directed by Richard L. Bare and written by Rod Serling, Damon Knight, it aired on 3/2/1962. This episode is rated 0.4 points higher than the second-best, "The Shelter".