8.0/1020 votes#1 - A Penny For Your Thoughts
Season 2 Episode 16 - Aired 2/3/1961
The lucky flip of a coin seems to give a mild-mannered bank clerk the power to read minds. But he soon learns that you can't believe everything you read.
Director: James Sheldon
Writer: George Clayton Johnson
7.7/1021 votes#2 - Nothing in the Dark
Season 3 Episode 16 - Aired 1/5/1962
A lonely old woman refuses to leave her apartment for fear of meeting "Mr. Death."
Director: Lamont Johnson
Writer: George Clayton Johnson
7.1/1013 votes#3 - A Game of Pool
Season 3 Episode 5 - Aired 10/13/1961
Championship pool player Fats Brown returns from the grave for one last game.
Director: Buzz Kulik
Writer: George Clayton Johnson
7.0/1072 votes#4 - The Man Trap
Season 1 Episode 1 - Aired 9/8/1966
Kirk and his crew are at deadly risk from an alien creature that feeds on the salt in a human body and can take on any form.
Director: Marc Daniels
Writer: George Clayton Johnson
6.9/109 votes#5 - Kick the Can
Season 3 Episode 21 - Aired 2/9/1962
A retiree living in a rest home thinks he has discovered the secret of youth — acting young, and in particular playing a children's game called "kick-the-can".
Director: Lamont Johnson
Writer: George Clayton Johnson
6.7/1028 votes#6 - The Four of Us Are Dying
Season 1 Episode 13 - Aired 1/1/1960
In this noirish tale, a man with the ability to change his face to resemble others gets into hot water with gangsters.
Director: John Brahm
Writer: George Clayton Johnson
6.5/1014 votes#7 - The Prime Mover
Season 2 Episode 21 - Aired 3/24/1961
Ace Larsen discovers his business partner has the ability to control objects with his mind. The pair head to Vegas to win big.
Director: Richard L. Bare
Writer: George Clayton Johnson
6.4/1022 votes#8 - Execution
Season 1 Episode 26 - Aired 4/1/1960
Just before being hanged for shooting a man in the back, an outlaw cowboy in 1880 is transported into the future.
Director: David Orrick McDearmon
Writer: George Clayton Johnson
6.1/107 votes#9 - Ninety Years Without Slumbering
Season 5 Episode 12 - Aired 12/20/1963
An old man fears that he will die if his grandfather clock stops running.
Director: Roger Kay
Writer: George Clayton Johnson
6.0/101 votes#10 - A Game of Pool
Season 3 Episode 20 - Aired 2/4/1989
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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"A Penny For Your Thoughts" is the best rated episode written by George Clayton Johnson. It scored 8/10 based on 20 votes. It was directed by James Sheldon. It aired on 2/3/1961 and is rated 0.3 points higher than their second-best episode, "Nothing in the Dark".