The Worst Episodes of The Twilight Zone
Every episode of The Twilight Zone ranked from worst to best. Explore the Worst 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.
Lowest Rated Episodes Summary
The worst episode of "The Twilight Zone" is "Last Lap", rated 5.3/10 from 317 user votes. It was directed by Brad Turner and written by N/A. "Last Lap" aired on 12/11/2002 and is rated 0.4 point(s) lower than the second lowest rated, "Azoth the Avenger is a Friend of Mine".
5.3/10 317 votes#1 - Last Lap
Season 1 Episode 23 - Aired 12/11/2002
A terminally ill young man and his best friend take a final ride in their souped-up racer that results in unexpected consequences for both.
Director: Brad Turner
Writer: N/A
5.7/10 377 votes#2 - Azoth the Avenger is a Friend of Mine
Season 1 Episode 10 - Aired 10/16/2002
A bullied boy, Craig, deciphers a coded message that allows him to summon his comic book hero, Azoth the Avenger. This long-haired Conan-like barbarian beats up the bullies that plague Craig, but is defenseless against his abusive father. Azoth returns to whence he came but inspires Craig to take a stand against his father - intoning the same spell as before and sending his father...somewhere, leaving him and his mother in peace.
Director: Brad Turner
Writer: Hans Beimler
5.7/10 323 votes#3 - To Protect and Serve
Season 1 Episode 14 - Aired 11/6/2002
A young cop falls madly in love with a prostitute, and he continues to protect her even when they are both killed.
Director: Joe Chappelle
Writer: N/A
5.8/10 284 votes#4 - Tagged
Season 1 Episode 28 - Aired 2/12/2003
Marcus Fisher, a talented artist and street tagger, shoots a man painting over his spot at the insistence of his gang and the wall painting starts portraying the crime and filling in that he is the one who did the shooting.
Director: James Head
Writer: Michael Angeli
5.9/10 303 votes#5 - Another Life
Season 1 Episode 26 - Aired 2/5/2003
Marvin Gardens, a rich and famous upcoming rap singer, begins to have visions of himself being interrogated by policemen in a shadowy room, and the visions begin to drive him crazy.
Director: Risa Bramon Garcia
Writer: N/A
6.1/10 422 votes#6 - Dream Lover
Season 1 Episode 4 - Aired 9/25/2002
To help overcome his writer's block and make his life easier and more relaxed, an artist named Andrew wills his dream woman Sondra to life, but the lines between reality and fantasy quickly begin to blur. Sondra soon starts hitting on the cable guy and gaining a life of her own.
Director: Peter O'Fallon
Writer: N/A
6.1/10 321 votes#7 - Harsh Mistress
Season 1 Episode 12 - Aired 10/30/2002
A struggling musician named Cory purchases a rather infamous guitar, which leads to him gaining vast international stardom and wealth, but both come with a surprising price tag.
Director: Brad Turner
Writer: David Weddle, Bradley Thompson
6.1/10 315 votes#8 - Fair Warning
Season 1 Episode 25 - Aired 1/8/2003
Tina, a flower shop clerk, finds herself threatened by a seemingly-deranged man named George who mysteriously disappears after asking him to stop from killing her. When she finds him he has a perfect alibi and claims he doesn't know her. George keeps visiting her and no one ever sees him except Tina. Tina begins to question her sanity.
Director: John T. Kretchmer
Writer: David Weddle, Bradley Thompson
6.1/10 303 votes#9 - How Much Do You Love Your Kid?
Season 1 Episode 33 - Aired 2/26/2003
A woman's son is kidnapped and she becomes involved in a licensed reality TV show broadcasting her attempts to recover him.
Director: Allison Liddi-Brown
Writer: Michael Angeli
6.2/10 285 votes#10 - Developing
Season 1 Episode 39 - Aired 4/30/2003
A widow finds photos of their dream house improving with each picture she takes.
Director: Allison Liddi-Brown
Writer: Moira Kirland
6.3/10 283 votes#11 - Cold Fusion
Season 1 Episode 35 - Aired 4/2/2003
When the base staff at an Alaskan research base lose contact with the outside world, the military send a team in to investigate the disappearance.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
6.4/10 574 votes#12 - Evergreen
Season 1 Episode 1 - Aired 9/18/2002
When rebellious teenager Jenna and her family move into an exclusive gated community that her parents hope will help them better control the troubled teen, Jenna soon discovers the dark truth behind how her new neighbors deal with discipline problems.
Director: Allan Kroeker
Writer: Jill E. Blotevogel
6.4/10 328 votes#13 - Found and Lost
Season 1 Episode 21 - Aired 11/27/2002
A successful businessman is given a second chance - to go back and be with his first love
Director: Vern Gillum
Writer: N/A
6.4/10 379 votes#14 - Eye of the Beholder
Season 1 Episode 38 - Aired 4/30/2003
Meet Mrs. Janet Tyler. She was born abnormally ugly and has undergone many plastic surgeries to change her appearance. None of them worked. Now after one last attempt the bandages are coming off. But will the latest surgery succeed where the others failed?
Director: David Ellis
Writer: Rod Serling
6.5/10 353 votes#15 - Time Lapse
Season 1 Episode 7 - Aired 10/9/2002
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
6.5/10 364 votes#16 - Dead Man's Eyes
Season 1 Episode 8 - Aired 10/9/2002
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
6.5/10 353 votes#17 - The Lineman
Season 1 Episode 11 - Aired 10/23/2002
Tyler inherits the power to hear people's thoughts after a freak lightening storm. Eventually, he begins to abuse his new gift, using it as a means of acquiring vast wealth and personal gain. But then Tyler learns that his new power comes with a price. Believing Shannon wants a rich man, Tyler uses his ability to play the stock market, but is surprised at the consequences, especially when he tries to touch others' minds when they grow distant from him.
Director: Jonathan Frakes
Writer: Pen Densham
6.5/10 328 votes#18 - Sensuous Cindy
Season 1 Episode 16 - Aired 11/13/2002
A man buys a "virtual girlfriend" online simply to satisfy his carnal needs, but ends up becoming somebody else's sex slave.
Director: John T. Kretchmer
Writer: James Crocker
6.5/10 325 votes#19 - The Path
Season 1 Episode 24 - Aired 1/8/2003
Ally, a young writer for a tabloid, meets a man who claims he sees others the path they are destined to follow. His predictions for her prove uncannily accurate and she soon becomes dependent on his predictions to guide her life. When he gets hit by a car and killed she finds herself without hope.
Director: Jerry Levine
Writer: James Crocker
6.5/10 285 votes#20 - Burned
Season 1 Episode 43 - Aired 5/21/2003
A crooked real estate mogul pays the price for having a building burned down to collect the insurance money.
Director: John T. Kretchmer
Writer: N/A
6.6/10 479 votes#21 - Shades of Guilt
Season 1 Episode 3 - Aired 9/25/2002
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
6.6/10 280 votes#22 - Homecoming
Season 1 Episode 41 - Aired 5/7/2003
A teenager has a brief reunion with his father, returned from the war.
Director: Risa Bramon Garcia
Writer: Michael Angeli
6.7/10 306 votes#23 - Hunted
Season 1 Episode 17 - Aired 11/13/2002
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
6.7/10 388 votes#24 - Future Trade
Season 1 Episode 20 - Aired 11/27/2002
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
6.7/10 332 votes#25 - Gabe's Story
Season 1 Episode 22 - Aired 12/11/2002
A man suffering from consistent bad luck is given a surprising chance to change his destiny.
Director: Allan Kroeker
Writer: Dusty Kay