The Best Episodes of The Twilight Zone Season 1

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

Director: Jerry Levine

Writer: N/A

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.

Director: Jean de Segonzac

Writer: Kamran Pasha

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.

Director: Eriq La Salle

Writer: N/A

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

Director: Bob Balaban

Writer: N/A

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

Director: Brad Turner

Writer: N/A

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.

Director: N/A

Writer: Ira Steven Behr

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.

Director: Peter O'Fallon, Robert Parrish

Writer: Christopher Mack, Rod Serling

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.

Director: Joe Chappelle

Writer: Robert Hewitt Wolfe

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.

Director: Jean de Segonzac

Writer: Jill E. Blotevogel

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

Director: John T. Kretchmer

Writer: Erin Maher, Kay Reindl

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.

Director: Tim Matheson

Writer: N/A

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...

Director: Winrich Kolbe

Writer: Ira Steven Behr

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.

Director: Lou Diamond Phillips

Writer: Moira Kirland

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

Director: Allan Kroeker

Writer: Ira Steven Behr, Jerome Bixby

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

Director: Deran Sarafian

Writer: N/A

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

Director: Patrick R. Norris

Writer: James Crocker

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.

Director: Debbie Allen

Writer: Erin Maher, Kay Reindl

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.

Director: Patrick R. Norris

Writer: Christopher Mack

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.

Director: Bob Balaban

Writer: N/A

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

Director: Allan Kroeker

Writer: Dusty Kay

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.

Director: Kevin Bray

Writer: James Crocker

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...

Director: Perry Lang

Writer: Ira Steven Behr

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

Director: Risa Bramon Garcia

Writer: Michael Angeli

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...

Director: John T. Kretchmer

Writer: James Crocker

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...

Director: Jerry Levine

Writer: N/A