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The Worst Episodes of The Twilight Zone

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The Worst Episodes of The Twilight Zone

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...

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  1. 5.3/10(261 votes)

    #1 - The Crossing

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    S3:E3

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

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    Director:Paul Lynch
  2. 5.5/10(272 votes)

    #2 - Song of the Younger World / The Girl I Married

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    S2:E11

    In 1916 a girl and a young man from a reformatory for wayward boys fall in love and try to get away from her father, the superintendent. He finds out and doesn't approve of their love, locking away his daughter and punishing the boy. With the help of a wandering vagrant the girl finds a way to use a book to transfer both her and the boy into a primordial world where they become wolves and can live free and together. An attorney and his wife have successful careers. They feel something is lacking in their marriage. Soon, they encounter younger versions of their mates.

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  3. 5.5/10(253 votes)

    #3 - Love is Blind

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    S3:E28

    In a bar, a very mysterious blind man plays the piano, and gives some very special advice to a jealous boyfriend.

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  4. 5.7/10(270 votes)

    #4 - The Hunters

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    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.

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    Director:Paul Lynch
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  5. 5.8/10(417 votes)

    #5 - If She Dies / Ye Gods

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    A year after his wife died a man is involved in a car accident that leaves his young daughter in a coma. On his way home the man has a vision. Cupid arrives in the modern world. A love spell for his target does not work as well as he hopes.

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  6. 5.8/10(255 votes)

    #6 - The Trance

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    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?

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  8. 5.8/10(260 votes)

    #7 - Appointment on Route 17

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    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.

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  9. 5.9/10(260 votes)

    #8 - Stranger in Possum Meadows

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    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.

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  10. 6.0/10(264 votes)

    #9 - Street of Shadows

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    S3:E18

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

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  11. 6.0/10(358 votes)

    #10 - The Mind of Simon Foster

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    S3:E23

    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?

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  12. 6.2/10(351 votes)

    #11 - The After Hours / Lost and Found / The World Next Door

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    S2:E4

    A Woman goes to a mall for a doll, but encounters strange things after the closing hours... A young college student has been losing personal items for some time. The mystery is resolved when she finds two time-travelers in her closet. A hen-pecked man with a boring life and a secret yearn to build inventions finds a secret door in his basement that leads to a parallel world. In that world, his counterpart is a rich famous inventor in a Victorian-style setting who is equally bored with his life. The two switch lives and are happy ever after.

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  13. 6.2/10(281 votes)

    #12 - Dream Me a Life

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    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.

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  14. 6.2/10(251 votes)

    #13 - Father and Son Game

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    S3:E30

    A 79-year-old man wants to keep on living so he transplants his brain into a younger body. His son, however, resents his father's continued life and tries to wrestle power from him.

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  15. 6.3/10(318 votes)

    #14 - A Day in Beaumont / The Last Defender of Camelot

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    S1:E24

    In the 1950s a flying saucer crashes on Earth. The crash is seen by a couple. They run into town, but no one believes them. "The Last Defender of Camelot" takes place in 1986 in London and, eventually, Cornwall. An extension of the story by Sir Thomas Mallory, a mid-50's man is drawn toward Cornwall with a sense of urgency. He is jumped by 3 young men, who are thrown aside like playthings. The old man forces one of the younger ones to take him to the boss. The boss is a late-30's woman, who reveals herself as Morgana. Lancelot is quested by her to see Merlin, who is asleep in a cave in Cornwall. Lancelot finds Merlin awakened. Merlin has different plans to resurrect a new king. What does the world's oldest magician have up his sleeve? Who can save mankind? Perhaps the Last Defender of Camelot?

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  16. 6.3/10(296 votes)

    #15 - The Storyteller / Nightsong

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    In the early 20th century a young woman takes a job as a teacher in a one-room schoolhouse. One of her students, Mica, secretly takes extra books home to read. When the teacher confronts him, she finds that the boy is reading the books to his ailing grandfather - who claims to be more than a hundred and forty years old! A young DJ working the graveyard shift at a radio station rediscovers a record album by her boyfriend who disappeared five years ago. When he suddenly appears again, she is surprised and upset.

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  17. 6.3/10(298 votes)

    #16 - The Road Less Traveled

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    S2:E7

    A man who dodges the Vietnam draft is haunted by visions of his other life as a soldier during the war.

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  18. 6.3/10(265 votes)

    #17 - Memories

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    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.

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  19. 6.3/10(259 votes)

    #18 - Rendezvous in a Dark Place

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    S3:E26

    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.

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  20. 6.4/10(376 votes)

    #19 - The Once and Future King / A Saucer of Loneliness

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    An Elvis impersonator is transported to the 1950s where he meets the real Elvis who thinks that the impersonator is his long dead brother. A quiet waitress sees a glowing UFO, which gives her a message that everyone wants to know. She refuses to reveal exactly what the message is.

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  21. 6.4/10(274 votes)

    #20 - There Was an Old Woman

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    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.

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  22. 6.4/10(277 votes)

    #21 - A Game of Pool

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    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.

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  23. 6.5/10(445 votes)

    #22 - Gramma / Personal Demons / Cold Reading

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    S1:E18

    A young boy is left to care for his old, scary grandmother. He finally confronts his fears and steps up to her, finding that she has no pulse. Then Gramma reaches out and grabs him... A screenwriter is having writer's block when strange impish creatures start haunting him. Sadly, only he can see them. An actor arrives at a radio station to perform a radio play. An old voodoo stick is accidentally activated and the play becomes more real that anything anyone expected.

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  24. 6.5/10(364 votes)

    #23 - The Leprechaun-Artist / Dead Run

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    S1:E19

    Vacationing in the United States, an Irish leprechaun is caught by three boys. To be freed, he must grant them three wishes. An out-of-work trucker takes on a bizarre job upon the recommendation of a friend: deliveryman of souls to Hell. He soon begins to realize that Hell is essentially out of control, running on momentum, and that the current regime is way too harsh. Resolved, he decides to begin choosing which among the supposed "damned" should try to make their way to Heaven.

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  25. 6.5/10(340 votes)

    #24 - What Are Friends For? / Aqua Vita

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    Alex Mattingly wonders whether his son Jeff's new friend Mike is real or imaginary. This episode is a cruel "fountain of youth" spin-off. A fortyish reporter is at risk of losing her anchor position on a network evening news broadcast to a younger reporter. She hears about a special type of bottled water from a friend of hers. She orders some at a relatively low cost. It works. Yet she finds she must drink it every day in order to retain her youth. When she orders another 5-gallon container. The price jumps up to $200. She talks to the water deliveryman. He refers he to her as "girlie". She remarks "girlie" is an old term and asks for his actual age. He says something along the lines of "I don't think you'd want to know". She is halfway done with the second bottle and is tearing apart her place looking for items to pawn when her husband shows up. They have no kids. She explains what has happened and decides to end her dilemma by balancing their situations.

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  26. 6.5/10(280 votes)

    #25 - The Trunk

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    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.

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Worst Episodes Summary

"The Crossing" is the worst rated episode of "The Twilight Zone". It scored 5.3/10 based on 261 votes. Directed by Paul Lynch and written by Ralph Phillips, it aired on 10/8/1988. This episode scored 0.2 points lower than the second lowest rated, "Song of the Younger World / The Girl I Married".