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The Best Episodes of The Twilight Zone Season 3

Every episode of The Twilight Zone Season 3 ranked from best to worst. Discover the Best Episodes of The Twilight Zone Season 3!

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This 1980s revival of the classic sci-fi series features a similar style to the original anthology series. Each episode tells a tale (sometimes two or three) rooted in horror or suspense, often with a surprising

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  1. #1 Fan Favorite
    The Twilight Zone Season 3 Episode 1 - The Curious Case of Edgar Witherspoon
    6.9/10(299 votes)

    #1 - The Curious Case of Edgar Witherspoon

    S3:E1

    A woman tries to get her Uncle Edgar committed, believing that he is senile. The investigating doctor finds Edgar living in an apartment containing all kinds of junk. Edgar claims that a mysterious Voice tells him what junk to collect, and to assemble it into a device that constantly keeps the world in balance. The doctor has him committed, only to realize when a small Pacific island is destroyed as Edgar predicted that the "insane" man is anything but. The doctor has Edgar released, only to discover that he has been chosen to replace Edgar as the new "balancer" of the world.

    Director:René Bonnière
    Writer:Unknown

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  2. The Twilight Zone Season 3 Episode 2 - Extra Innings
    6.6/10(308 votes)

    #2 - Extra Innings

    S3:E2

    Ex-baseball player Ed Hamner, lame from an injury and forced to retire early, is given a 1909 baseball card of a player that looks exactly like him, Monte Hanks. The card is magical in that he becomes drawn into it and lives out the life of the player in the past. Hamner must choose between being healthy and playing his favorite sport in the past, or live in the present with his despairing wife who fears he'll never grow up.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Tom Palmer

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  3. The Twilight Zone Season 3 Episode 3 - The Crossing
    5.3/10(281 votes)

    #3 - The Crossing

    S3:E3

    A stressed-out priest repeatedly encounters a station wagon containing a young girl. The car keeps crashing and bursting into flames.

    Director:Paul Lynch
    Writer:Ralph Phillips

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  4. The Twilight Zone Season 3 Episode 4 - The Hunters
    5.7/10(288 votes)

    #4 - The Hunters

    S3:E4

    A young boy falls into an undiscovered cave near a housing project. An archeologist studies strange paintings on its walls and then bizarre things begin to happen. Cave items move around and animals are killed and brought into the cave.

    Director:Paul Lynch
    Writer:Paul Chitlik

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  5. The Twilight Zone Season 3 Episode 5 - Dream Me a Life
    6.2/10(298 votes)

    #5 - Dream Me a Life

    S3:E5

    Roger, a curmudgeonly man in a retirement home, has nightmares of an unknown woman trying to hold back some strange creature behind a door in a room filled with candles. He is shocked when that woman, a cataleptic, becomes his next-door neighbor. Roger soon comes to realize that he is somehow tied to the woman, and that even in the dream he can be hurt and possibly killed. The next time he is drawn into the dream he tries to help her, only to realize that she is holding something in - the spirit of her dead husband, as she can't let go of his memory. Roger releases him to pass on to the other side, and slowly begins to reconcile with the woman as she comes back to life.

    Director:Allan King
    Writer:J. Michael Straczynski

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  6. The Twilight Zone Season 3 Episode 6 - Memories
    6.3/10(281 votes)

    #6 - Memories

    S3:E6

    A hypnotist who specializes in helping people relive their past lives tries to find her own history. She hypnotizes herself and when she awakens, she learns that everyone can now remember their past lives. They also desperately want to forget them.

    Director:Ryszard Bugajski
    Writer:Unknown

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  7. The Twilight Zone Season 3 Episode 7 - The Hellgramite Method
    7.2/10(363 votes)

    #7 - The Hellgramite Method

    S3:E7

    An alcoholic, Miley Judson, is approached by a doctor who offers to provide him with a unique cure. Desperate, Judson agrees and is secretly given a "hellgramite" insect. The insect in his stomach will keep him sober no matter how much he drinks, and will feed on any alcohol he does drink. The more Judson drinks, the larger it will get until it is fatal. Judson can stop drinking, but if he does the insect will force him through terrible withdrawal pains until it goes into hibernation. Judson manages to make it, and offers a card for the doctor to another alcoholic buddy.

    Director:Gilbert M. Shilton
    Writer:Unknown

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  8. The Twilight Zone Season 3 Episode 8 - Our Selena is Dying
    6.6/10(282 votes)

    #8 - Our Selena is Dying

    S3:E8

    A young woman, Diane, comes to live with her family, including the dying patriarch Sylena. Much to the doctor's astonishment, Sylena begins to make an astonishing recovery, while Diane begins to show all the signs of rapid aging. The doctor soon deduces the truth: the Brockman's have discovered a way to assure immortality, at the sacrifice of their younger members. When the doctor confronts Sylena, a fire breaks out burning down the house. Diane is restored to her normal youth, and Sylena is taken in as a Jane Doe, and begins to heal herself as a nurse nearby complains of inexplicable burn injuries.

    Director:Bruce Pittman
    Writer:J. Michael Straczynski

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  9. The Twilight Zone Season 3 Episode 9 - The Call
    6.7/10(323 votes)

    #9 - The Call

    S3:E9

    A lonely man accidentally phones the wrong number and finds an intriguing female to whom he grows attached. When she refuses to meet him, he investigates and finds the phone in a museum next to the statue of a woman.

    Director:Gilbert M. Shilton
    Writer:J. Michael Straczynski

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  10. The Twilight Zone Season 3 Episode 10 - The Trance
    5.9/10(275 votes)

    #10 - The Trance

    S3:E10

    A scam artist purports to channel the spirit of Delos, a former inhabitant of Atlantis. Together with a partner, he makes a living off of it. The day of his big break, he channels another spirit, one who could cause him to lose everything. Is it punishment or a lesson from the twilight zone?

    Director:Randy Bradshaw
    Writer:J. Michael Straczynski

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  11. The Twilight Zone Season 3 Episode 11 - Acts of Terror
    6.8/10(283 votes)

    #11 - Acts of Terror

    S3:E11

    A woman terrorized by her abusive husband finds some small consolation in a statue of a dog given to her by her sympathetic sister. The woman soon discovers that she can summon the dog to life as a huge ferocious beast that will respond when her husband abuses her. He manages to break the statue but the dog is not sent away. Begging for his life, she decides to simply leave, accepting the dog into herself. He tries to stop her but the dog is still there when she needs it.

    Director:Brad Turner
    Writer:J. Michael Straczynski

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  12. The Twilight Zone Season 3 Episode 12 - 20/20 Vision
    6.7/10(300 votes)

    #12 - 20/20 Vision

    S3:E12

    Newly promoted bank loan officer Warren Cribbens cracks his eyeglasses and discovers he can see the future through them. Faced with seeing the future of the farmers whose farms he must foreclose on, Warren can't bring himself to foreclose. Right away he's torn into doing his job or standing up for the people he helps. He manages to get his way by using his knowledge of the future to blackmail his conniving boss and convincing him to let things go.

    Director:Jim Purdy
    Writer:Robert Walden

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  13. The Twilight Zone Season 3 Episode 13 - There Was an Old Woman
    6.4/10(290 votes)

    #13 - There Was an Old Woman

    S3:E13

    A famous children's book writer visits a sick boy and reads him one of her stories. Later, at home, she is disturbed by children's voices throughout her house and learns from his parents that the boy has died.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Tom J. Astle

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  14. The Twilight Zone Season 3 Episode 14 - The Trunk
    6.5/10(300 votes)

    #14 - The Trunk

    S3:E14

    A young man at a motel discovers an empty trunk that grants any wishes. He uses it for popularity, but at a party he discovers who his true friends are.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  15. The Twilight Zone Season 3 Episode 15 - Appointment on Route 17
    5.8/10(286 votes)

    #15 - Appointment on Route 17

    S3:E15

    After finishing a heart transplant, a man finds his personality has changed. He also discovers that he has a strange attraction to a waitress at a road diner.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  16. The Twilight Zone Season 3 Episode 16 - The Cold Equations
    7.1/10(348 votes)

    #16 - The Cold Equations

    S3:E16

    A shuttle pilot on the outer fringes of space finds a stowaway on board his ship. Because of the extra weight, he does not have enough fuel for his journey and faces a dilemma forcing him to consider jettisoning her into space.

    Director:Martin Lavut
    Writer:Alan Brennert

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  17. The Twilight Zone Season 3 Episode 17 - Stranger in Possum Meadows
    5.9/10(278 votes)

    #17 - Stranger in Possum Meadows

    S3:E17

    A young boy playing in a field meets an old man who is really an alien collecting specimens to bring back to his planet.

    Director:Sturla Gunnarsson
    Writer:Unknown

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  18. The Twilight Zone Season 3 Episode 18 - Street of Shadows
    6.1/10(282 votes)

    #18 - Street of Shadows

    S3:E18

    Walking taking a walk in a wealthy neighborhood an unemployed man living in a shelter experiences an unusual transformation.

    Director:Ryszard Bugajski
    Writer:Michael Reaves

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  19. The Twilight Zone Season 3 Episode 19 - Something in the Walls
    6.6/10(304 votes)

    #19 - Something in the Walls

    S3:E19

    A doctor arrives at his new job in a sanitarium. He discovers the case of a woman who is terribly frightened of things that appear on her walls.

    Director:Allan Kroeker
    Writer:J. Michael Straczynski

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  20. The Twilight Zone Season 3 Episode 20 - A Game of Pool
    6.4/10(297 votes)

    #20 - A Game of Pool

    S3:E20

    Young Jesse has spent his entire life mastering pool, and wants to beat the best: the deceased Fats Brown. Summoned, Fats Brown appears to challenge him to a game of pool. The stakes: Jesse's life. After a tense match, Jesse fails to make a critical shot. Fats tells him that he will indeed "die": he'll die as the second-rate player he always is. Fats departs as Jesse vows to keep playing until he's good enough to beat Brown.

    Director:Randy Bradshaw
    Writer:George Clayton Johnson

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  21. The Twilight Zone Season 3 Episode 21 - Room 2426
    6.5/10(281 votes)

    #21 - Room 2426

    S3:E21

    Martin Decker is confined to a special room for acts and thoughts against the state. They want the formula for a weapon he does not want to reveal. Escape for Martin comes from the mind.

    Director:Ryszard Bugajski
    Writer:Unknown

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  22. The Twilight Zone Season 3 Episode 22 - The Mind of Simon Foster
    7.2/10(304 votes)

    #22 - The Mind of Simon Foster

    S3:E22

    In an impoverished future, Simon Foster goes to a pawnshop to sell some personal items to raise money for rent. The shop owner offers to buy some of his memories. In Simon Foster's life, what could be possibly be valuable?

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:J. Michael Straczynski

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  23. The Twilight Zone Season 3 Episode 23 - The Wall
    6.1/10(379 votes)

    #23 - The Wall

    S3:E23

    At a lab a dimensional portal appears. Major Alex McAndrews is sent through the portal to learn what is on the other side. He discovers a pastoral paradise. When he returns to Earth, he discovers that the military has plans for the portal.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:J. Michael Straczynski

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  24. The Twilight Zone Season 3 Episode 24 - Cat and Mouse
    6.9/10(281 votes)

    #24 - Cat and Mouse

    S3:E24

    Andrea, a plain, shy, secluded girl longs for love. One day, love comes to her in the form of a cat who transforms into the man of her dreams. The man was cursed to become a cat by a scorned woman centuries ago. Unfortunately, the cursed prince is a little more than Andrea can handle, particularly when he starts "catting around". Andrea gets revenge by drugging him and then taking him to the vet to be neutered.

    Director:Eric Till
    Writer:Christy Marx

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  25. The Twilight Zone Season 3 Episode 25 - Rendezvous in a Dark Place
    6.7/10(283 votes)

    #25 - Rendezvous in a Dark Place

    S3:E25

    An old woman with an obsession with death attends funerals for entertainment. One night when an injured thief breaks into her home, she lets him die and waits for Death to come and collect him.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:J. Michael Straczynski

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Season 3 Ratings Summary

"The Curious Case of Edgar Witherspoon" is the best rated episode of "The Twilight Zone" season 3. It scored 6.9/10 based on 299 votes. Directed by René Bonnière and written by Unknown, it aired on 9/24/1988. This episode is rated 0.3 points higher than the second-best, "Extra Innings".