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The Best Episodes of The Twilight Zone

Every episode of The Twilight Zone ranked from best to worst. Let's dive into the Best Episodes of The Twilight Zone!

The Best Episodes of The Twilight Zone

A 2002 revival of Rod Serling's 1950/60s television series, The Twilight Zone, with actor Forest Whitaker assuming Serling's role as narrator and on-screen host.

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  1. 7.5/10(400 votes)

    #1 - The Placebo Effect

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    S1:E34

    A hypochondriac with the power to manifest his beliefs into reality poses a danger to the entire world.

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    Director:Jerry Levine
    Writer:N/A
  2. 7.4/10(535 votes)

    #2 - Cradle of Darkness

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    S1:E5

    Hoping to undo the horrors of WWII, a woman, Andre, sacrifices her own future when she goes back in time to stop Adolf Hitler by killing him when he is a baby.

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  3. 7.4/10(392 votes)

    #3 - Memphis

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    S1:E32

    A dying man is transported back to the South in 1968 on the day of Martin Luther King's assassination and tries to stop the killing.

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    Director:Eriq La Salle
    Writer:N/A
  4. 7.3/10(358 votes)

    #4 - The Pharaoh's Curse

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    S1:E36

    A young magician becomes the protégé of an elderly conjurer to learn the secret of an impossible escape - The Pharaoh's Curse.

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    Director:Bob Balaban
    Writer:N/A
  5. 7.2/10(408 votes)

    #5 - The Pool Guy

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    S1:E9

    A pool cleaner loses the ability to distinguish dreams from reality.

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    Director:Brad Turner
    Writer:N/A
  6. 7.2/10(343 votes)

    #6 - The Executions of Grady Finch

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    S1:E40

    A prisoner, Grady Finch, who insists on his innocence discovers that he can't be killed. He survives multiple execution attempts and his attorney eventually manages to get him released. Finch is elated, but as he emerges he confesses to his attorney that he was really guilty...and then he is finally killed as a statue of Nemesis, the Goddess of Vengeance, falls on top of him.

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    Director:N/A
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  8. 7.1/10(502 votes)

    #7 - One Night at Mercy

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    S1:E2

    A young doctor meets a suicide who claims to be Death incarnate. When Death insists he wants to stop his killing ways, the doctor is forced to contemplate what life would be like without death.

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  9. 7.1/10(358 votes)

    #8 - Upgrade

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    S1:E13

    Annie fantasizes about her ideal family, a far cry from the dysfunctional group of people she sees everyday. But when her fantasies seemingly become reality, she is horrored to discover she is next on the replacement list.

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  10. 7.0/10(445 votes)

    #9 - Night Route

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    S1:E6

    A young woman's seemingly happy life unravels after a close call with a speeding car. The woman, Melina, begins to forget details of her lfie and how she met her fiance. Worse, she is haunted by strange phenomena: a mysterious bus that follows her and people who know her name that she's never met. Finally her fiance disappears without a trace, leaving her in a desolate life where she knows no one.

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  11. 7.0/10(533 votes)

    #10 - It's Still a Good Life

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    S1:E30

    In this sequel to the original TZs "It's a Good Life", an adult Anthony Fremont continues to terrorize the town of Peaksville.

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  12. 7.0/10(371 votes)

    #11 - The Collection

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    S1:E37

    A babysitter must deal with a girl who has a collection of dolls that come to life.

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  13. 7.0/10(349 votes)

    #12 - Sunrise

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    S1:E42

    Several college students are thrust into a virtual nightmare when they discover an Aztec artifact that causes the sun to vanish and the only solution is a human sacrifice.

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    Director:Tim Matheson
    Writer:N/A
  14. 6.9/10(363 votes)

    #13 - Chosen

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    S1:E15

    A man is annoyed by two tenacious people he believes to be evangelists and refuses to listen to their claims that the day is Armageddon, but as it transpires the day is Armageddon, and the "evangelists" are Angels in need of help...

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  15. 6.9/10(293 votes)

    #14 - Into the Light

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    S1:E29

    A teacher on her last few days of teaching high school suddenly starts seeing lights on peoples faces just before they die. When she starts seeing it on most of her students faces, she decides to find out what will happen.

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  16. 6.8/10(361 votes)

    #15 - Mr. Motivation

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    S1:E18

    A sinister toy doll encourages a timid man to stand up to his boss and take control of his life.

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    Writer:N/A
  17. 6.8/10(362 votes)

    #16 - Sanctuary

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    S1:E19

    Stranded in a modern day Garden of Eden, a man and woman cannot resist the temptation of technology.

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  18. 6.8/10(426 votes)

    #17 - The Monsters Are on Maple Street

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    S1:E31

    In this remake of the original TZ's "The Monsters Are Due on Maple Street", a neighborhood is terrorized by mysterious power outages and begin to turn on each other.

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  19. 6.7/10(314 votes)

    #18 - Hunted

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    S1:E17

    A cop pursues the last known criminal in Earth's future society. But as it turns out, the criminal is fighting on the same side of the cop, to rid the world of androids.

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  20. 6.7/10(398 votes)

    #19 - Future Trade

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    S1:E20

    A man with a dead-end job and a dysfunctional family is lured into trading his future for that of a seemingly privileged man with his trophy wife.

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    Director:Bob Balaban
    Writer:N/A
  21. 6.7/10(340 votes)

    #20 - Gabe's Story

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    S1:E22

    A man suffering from consistent bad luck is given a surprising chance to change his destiny.

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    Director:Allan Kroeker
    Writer:Dusty Kay
  22. 6.7/10(309 votes)

    #21 - Rewind

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    S1:E27

    Jonah, a gambler, never can beat "the house" no matter how hard he tries. But then he gets an interesting device that enables him to go back in time up to 5 minutes, and that means he has big chances for his gambling.

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    Director:Kevin Bray
  23. 6.6/10(498 votes)

    #22 - Shades of Guilt

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    S1:E3

    Matt McGreevy is driving when a black man runs up to his car and begs for help. Matt drives away as a gang falls on the man and beat him to death. When he arrives home, Matt first bleeds from the cuts the dead man suffers, then his skin changes. By the time he gets back home he has transformed into the dead man, a college professor...

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  24. 6.6/10(287 votes)

    #23 - Homecoming

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    S1:E41

    A teenager has a brief reunion with his father, returned from the war.

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  25. 6.5/10(370 votes)

    #24 - Time Lapse

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    S1:E7

    After an unconscious high-security patient arrives in his ward, Doctor Zack Taylor finds himself suffering from blackouts. On each occasion he wakes up partway along a byzantine assassination plot to kill the President's daughter with a plastic gun. He gets to the target's location, pulls out his gun, and...shoots an assassin behind the girl...

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  26. 6.5/10(381 votes)

    #25 - Dead Man's Eyes

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    S1:E8

    A distraught widow and former rehab patient on the verge of a total mental collapse, heavily invested in finding her husband's killer, discovers that her murdered husband's eyeglasses reveal the last moments of his life and possibly the identity of his killer...

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    Director:Jerry Levine
    Writer:N/A

Best Episodes Summary

"The Placebo Effect" is the best rated episode of "The Twilight Zone". It scored 7.5/10 based on 400 votes. Directed by Jerry Levine and written by N/A, it aired on 4/2/2003. This episode scored 0.1 points higher than the second highest rated, "Cradle of Darkness".