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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. Background image for The Placebo Effect
    7.5/10(402 votes)

    #1 - The Placebo Effect

    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:Unknown
  2. Background image for Cradle of Darkness
    7.4/10(539 votes)

    #2 - Cradle of Darkness

    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. Background image for Memphis
    7.4/10(395 votes)

    #3 - Memphis

    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:Unknown
  4. Background image for The Pharaoh's Curse
    7.3/10(361 votes)

    #4 - The Pharaoh's Curse

    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:Unknown
  5. Background image for The Pool Guy
    7.2/10(413 votes)

    #5 - The Pool Guy

    S1:E9

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

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    Director:Brad Turner
    Writer:Unknown
  6. Background image for The Executions of Grady Finch
    7.2/10(346 votes)

    #6 - The Executions of Grady Finch

    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:Unknown
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  8. Background image for One Night at Mercy
    7.1/10(505 votes)

    #7 - One Night at Mercy

    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. Background image for Upgrade
    7.1/10(362 votes)

    #8 - Upgrade

    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. Background image for Night Route
    7.0/10(448 votes)

    #9 - Night Route

    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. Background image for It's Still a Good Life
    7.0/10(536 votes)

    #10 - It's Still a Good Life

    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. Background image for The Collection
    7.0/10(373 votes)

    #11 - The Collection

    S1:E37

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

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  13. Background image for Sunrise
    7.0/10(351 votes)

    #12 - Sunrise

    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:Unknown
  14. Background image for Chosen
    6.9/10(370 votes)

    #13 - Chosen

    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. Background image for Into the Light
    6.9/10(295 votes)

    #14 - Into the Light

    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. Background image for Mr. Motivation
    6.8/10(364 votes)

    #15 - Mr. Motivation

    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:Unknown
  17. Background image for Sanctuary
    6.8/10(366 votes)

    #16 - Sanctuary

    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. Background image for The Monsters Are on Maple Street
    6.8/10(427 votes)

    #17 - The Monsters Are on Maple Street

    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. Background image for Hunted
    6.7/10(317 votes)

    #18 - Hunted

    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. Background image for Future Trade
    6.7/10(401 votes)

    #19 - Future Trade

    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:Unknown
  21. Background image for Gabe's Story
    6.7/10(342 votes)

    #20 - Gabe's Story

    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. Background image for Rewind
    6.7/10(312 votes)

    #21 - Rewind

    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. Background image for Shades of Guilt
    6.6/10(501 votes)

    #22 - Shades of Guilt

    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. Background image for Homecoming
    6.6/10(291 votes)

    #23 - Homecoming

    S1:E41

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

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  25. Background image for Time Lapse
    6.5/10(376 votes)

    #24 - Time Lapse

    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. Background image for Dead Man's Eyes
    6.5/10(386 votes)

    #25 - Dead Man's Eyes

    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:Unknown

Best Episodes Summary

"The Placebo Effect" is the best rated episode of "The Twilight Zone". It scored 7.5/10 based on 402 votes. Directed by Jerry Levine and written by Unknown, it aired on 4/2/2003. This episode scored 0.1 points higher than the second highest rated, "Cradle of Darkness".