The Worst Episodes of The Twilight Zone

An untalented would-be writer's career takes off when the ghost of William Shakespeare writes his script.

Director: David Butler

Writer: Rod Serling

A man's wish to listen to loud noise backfires.

Director: Richard Donner

Writer: Rod Serling

Cavender, an angel trying to win his wings, tries to help down-on-her-luck Agnes, who has just been fired.

Director: Christian Nyby

Writer: Rod Serling

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

Director: Robert Parrish, Alvin Ganzer

Writer: Rod Serling

A man considers several possibilities when offered one wish by a genie.

Director: Robert Gist

Writer: John Furia, Jr.

Toy designer Horace Ford spends most of his time reminiscing about his idyllic childhood. But when he gets a chance to go back to those years he gets a bitter taste of reality.

Director: Abner Biberman

Writer: Reginald Rose

A singer searches for an authentic folk song.

Director: Richard Donner

Writer: Anthony Wilson

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.

Director: Christian Nyby

Writer: Rod Serling

A computer technician must deal with the queen of all femme fatales: a computer named Agnes who wreaks havoc on his love life.

Director: Richard Donner

Writer: Bernard C. Schoenfeld

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

Director: David Orrick McDearmon

Writer: Rod Serling

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

Director: James Sheldon

Writer: Rod Serling

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!

Director: Buzz Kulik

Writer: Rod Serling

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

Director: Lamont Johnson

Writer: Rod Serling

Barred from the track for life, crooked jockey Grady boozily expresses the wish to escape his sordid surroundings and become a truly "big man." His wish is granted by his lookalike alter ego, but there's a heavy price to be paid at fadeout time.

Director: Joseph M. Newman

Writer: Rod Serling

Three tough-looking men on motorcycles disrupt a peaceful suburb when they move in. Yet the neighbors could never imagine just how dangerous these men really are.

Director: Joseph M. Newman

Writer: Earl Hamner, Jr.

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

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

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

Director: John Brahm

Writer: Richard Matheson

A 12-year-old girl who lost her parents in a fire doesn't speak because she has grown up in a secret telepathic community. The couple who take her in, and her teacher, are determined to help her adapt to their society, no matter the cost.

Director: Stuart Rosenberg

Writer: Richard Matheson

A ventriloquist's dummy goads him into committing burglaries.

Director: Robert Butler

Writer: Adele T. Strassfield

Two unhappy children find a happy escape in a swimming pool.

Director: Joseph M. Newman

Writer: Earl Hamner, Jr.

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.

Director: Robert Florey

Writer: Rod Serling

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.

Director: Ron Winston

Writer: Rod Serling

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.

Director: Buzz Kulik

Writer: Rod Serling

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.

Director: Douglas Heyes

Writer: Rod Serling