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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. 5.0/10(1 votes)

    #1 - 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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  2. 5.0/10(1 votes)

    #2 - 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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    Director:N/A
    Writer:N/A
  3. 5.0/10(1 votes)

    #3 - The Wall

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    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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    Director:N/A
  4. 5.0/10(1 votes)

    #4 - 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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    Director:N/A
  5. 5.0/10(1 votes)

    #5 - Crazy as a Soup Sandwich

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    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
  6. 5.5/10(273 votes)

    #6 - 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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  8. 5.8/10(418 votes)

    #7 - If She Dies / Ye Gods

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    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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  9. 6.0/10(1 votes)

    #8 - Extra Innings

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    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:N/A
    Writer:Tom Palmer
  10. 6.0/10(1 votes)

    #9 - 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
  11. 6.0/10(1 votes)

    #10 - 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
    Writer:N/A
  12. 6.0/10(2 votes)

    #11 - 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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  13. 6.0/10(1 votes)

    #12 - Our Selena is Dying

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    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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  14. 6.0/10(1 votes)

    #13 - The Call

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    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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  15. 6.0/10(1 votes)

    #14 - 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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  16. 6.0/10(1 votes)

    #15 - Acts of Terror

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    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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  17. 6.0/10(1 votes)

    #16 - 20/20 Vision

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    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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  18. 6.0/10(1 votes)

    #17 - 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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  19. 6.0/10(1 votes)

    #18 - 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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  20. 6.0/10(1 votes)

    #19 - 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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  21. 6.0/10(1 votes)

    #20 - 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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  22. 6.0/10(1 votes)

    #21 - Something in the Walls

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    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.

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  23. 6.0/10(1 votes)

    #22 - 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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  24. 6.0/10(1 votes)

    #23 - Room 2426

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    S3:E22

    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.

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  25. 6.0/10(1 votes)

    #24 - Cat and Mouse

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    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.

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    Director:Eric Till
  26. 6.0/10(1 votes)

    #25 - 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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Worst Episodes Summary

"Dream Me a Life" is the worst rated episode of "The Twilight Zone". It scored 5/10 based on 1 votes. Directed by Allan King and written by J. Michael Straczynski, it aired on 10/22/1988. This episode scored 0.0 points lower than the second lowest rated, "The Trunk".