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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. Background image for Song of the Younger World / The Girl I Married
    3.5/10(2 votes)

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

    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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  2. Background image for What Are Friends For? / Aqua Vita
    4.0/10(2 votes)

    #2 - What Are Friends For? / Aqua Vita

    S2:E2

    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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  3. Background image for The Storyteller / Nightsong
    4.0/10(2 votes)

    #3 - The Storyteller / Nightsong

    S2:E3

    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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  4. Background image for The Card / The Junction
    4.0/10(2 votes)

    #4 - The Card / The Junction

    S2:E8

    A compulsive spender accepts "The Card" to keep up her habit. Unfortunately stringent penalties kick in for late payments. A modern-day miner has an argument with his wife and then goes off to work in the local mine. A collapse traps him, but he finds another survivor - a miner who claims to be from 1912. The two men figure out that somehow they have become connected through time. The modern-day man helps the 1912 miner to survive, and the latter is rescued. The modern-day miner appears trapped...but the rescuers look in an unexpected spot and find him. It turns out the 1912 miner wrote a letter marked for delivery 74 years later directing them where to search.

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  5. Background image for Dream Me a Life
    5.0/10(1 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.

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  6. Background image for The Trunk
    5.0/10(1 votes)

    #6 - 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.

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    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown
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  8. Background image for The Wall
    5.0/10(1 votes)

    #7 - The Wall

    S3:E21

    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.

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  9. Background image for Rendezvous in a Dark Place
    5.0/10(1 votes)

    #8 - Rendezvous in a Dark Place

    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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  10. Background image for Crazy as a Soup Sandwich
    5.0/10(1 votes)

    #9 - Crazy as a Soup Sandwich

    S3:E29

    A man sells his soul to a demon for some racing tips. After being terrified by the demon he goes for help from the criminal boss he borrowed the track money from.

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    Director:Paul Lynch
  11. Background image for If She Dies / Ye Gods
    5.8/10(421 votes)

    #10 - If She Dies / Ye Gods

    S1:E5

    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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  12. Background image for The Once and Future King / A Saucer of Loneliness
    6.0/10(2 votes)

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

    S2:E1

    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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  13. Background image for The After Hours / Lost and Found / The World Next Door
    6.0/10(2 votes)

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

    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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  14. Background image for The Road Less Traveled
    6.0/10(1 votes)

    #13 - The Road Less Traveled

    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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  15. Background image for Time and Teresa Golowitz / Voices in the Earth
    6.0/10(1 votes)

    #14 - Time and Teresa Golowitz / Voices in the Earth

    S2:E10

    A Broadway composer, Bluestone, who has just died of a heart attack is visited by "Prince", who gives him one wish because of his contributions to entertainment. Bluestone wants to relive a youthful encounter with the girl of his dreams, Mary Ellen Kasgrove. When he returns to the high school party, nothing is as he remembers it but one girl, Teresa Golowitz, sits by herself. Prince, in a girl's body, reminds him that Teresa committed suicide that night. Bluestone gets her to sing and convinces her to meet him the next day. When he returns to the present, Bluestone finds out that Teresa went on to become a famous singer and that because of his interference he won't be going to the "higher place". He and "Prince" head off to lower fields to prepare some entertainment. In the far future an expedition returns to a desolate barren Earth where a scientist begins to see the ghosts of those who died years ago.

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  16. Background image for Extra Innings
    6.0/10(1 votes)

    #15 - 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.

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    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Tom Palmer
  17. Background image for The Crossing
    6.0/10(1 votes)

    #16 - 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.

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    Director:Paul Lynch
  18. Background image for The Hunters
    6.0/10(1 votes)

    #17 - 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.

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    Director:Paul Lynch
    Writer:Unknown
  19. Background image for Memories
    6.0/10(2 votes)

    #18 - 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.

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    Writer:Unknown
  20. Background image for Our Selena is Dying
    6.0/10(1 votes)

    #19 - 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.

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  21. Background image for The Call
    6.0/10(1 votes)

    #20 - 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.

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  22. Background image for The Trance
    6.0/10(1 votes)

    #21 - 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?

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    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown
  23. Background image for Acts of Terror
    6.0/10(1 votes)

    #22 - 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.

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  24. Background image for 20/20 Vision
    6.0/10(1 votes)

    #23 - 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.

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    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown
  25. Background image for There Was an Old Woman
    6.0/10(1 votes)

    #24 - 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.

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    Director:Unknown
  26. Background image for Appointment on Route 17
    6.0/10(1 votes)

    #25 - 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.

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    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

Worst Episodes Summary

"Song of the Younger World / The Girl I Married" is the worst rated episode of "The Twilight Zone". It scored 3.5/10 based on 2 votes. Directed by Noel Black and written by J. M. DeMatteis, Anthony Lawrence, it aired on 7/17/1987. This episode scored 0.5 points lower than the second lowest rated, "What Are Friends For? / Aqua Vita".