10.0/101 votes#1 - A Matter of Minutes
Season 1 Episode 38 - Aired 1/24/1986
A young married couple discovers that their home is being remodeled by blue-clad workers who are workers of time that build and move objects from one time period to another.
Director: Sheldon Larry
Writer: Harlan Ellison
10.0/102 votes#2 - Demon with a Glass Hand
Season 2 Episode 5 - Aired 10/17/1964
A man with a glass hand attempts to unravel the mystery of who he is.
Director: Byron Haskin
Writer: Harlan Ellison
9.0/102 votes#3 - Soldier
Season 2 Episode 1 - Aired 9/19/1964
Two soldiers from the future are thrust back through time to the present day.
Director: Gerd Oswald
Writer: Harlan Ellison
8.6/1054 votes#4 - The City on the Edge of Forever
Season 1 Episode 28 - Aired 4/6/1967
Kirk and Spock must travel into the past in order to correct a change that will alter history.
Director: Joseph Pevney
Writer: Harlan Ellison
7.9/108 votes#5 - Objects in Motion
Season 5 Episode 20 - Aired 11/11/1998
Tessa Holloran, former Number One of the Mars resistance, arrives with a warning for Lise and Michael: an assassin has been hired to kill them. Meanwhile, G'Kar gets ready to leave, though not everybody is happy about it.
Director: Jesús Salvador Treviño
Writer: Harlan Ellison
7.1/108 votes#6 - A View from the Gallery
Season 5 Episode 4 - Aired 2/11/1998
We see the action from the viewpoint of two maintenance workers as a race of savage aliens attacks the station.
Director: Janet Greek
Writer: Harlan Ellison
7.0/101 votes#7 - Memo from Purgatory
Season 3 Episode 10 - Aired 12/21/1964
Jay Shaw is a young writer interested in writing a book on juvenile delinquency. He changes his identity and infiltrates a particularly violent gang named "The Barons". He manages to get the trust of Tiger the leader of the gang but trouble arises, when Filene, Tiger's girl friend, falls in love with him. Filene's love, however, is not the only source of tension. Other gang members grow jealous of Jay's growing power within the gang. When gang members break into his room and find his notes, they tell Tiger that Jay's an undercover cop. Jay is sentenced to death by Tiger and the gang. He manages to get away, but in the process Filene is killed. The murder is witnessed and Tiger and the rest of the gang are hauled off to jail.
Director: Joseph Pevney
Writer: Harlan Ellison
7.0/102 votes#8 - The Hand
Season 1 Episode 2 - Aired 2/11/1966
Episode 2: La Mano. In the future the Earth has been invaded by an extraterrestrial race called Kyben. Unable to cope with its technological and weapons superiority, the human race leaves the planet unleashing an epidemic that leaves the world uninhabitable. The last human being on Earth, an individual named Trent, is an amnesic man, without a past, who has an artificial crystal hand connected to his brain.
Director: Byron Haskin
Writer: Harlan Ellison
6.8/105 votes#9 - A Case of the Stubborns
Season 1 Episode 9 - Aired 12/2/1984
In the backwoods, a family patriarch dies...only to come back, unaware that he's dead. The townspeople are up in arms, but the old man is too stubborn to admit he's dead, despite his rigor mortis, lack of appetite, and bad smell. His grandson Jody eventually goes to an old voodoo woman for a solution. Rather than magic, she provides him with a simple solution: pepper. Jody puts it in his grandpa's handkerchief. When the old man sneezes, his nose falls off, which finally convinces him to go lie down and give up life for good.
Director: Gerald Cotts
Writer: Harlan Ellison
6.1/109 votes#10 - Shatterday
Season 1 Episode 1 - Aired 9/27/1985
A man named Peter Jay Novins accidentally dials his home phone number, and it's answered by Peter Jay Novins.
Director: Wes Craven
Writer: Harlan Ellison
5.5/106 votes#11 - Gramma
Season 1 Episode 44 - Aired 2/14/1986
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...
Director: Bradford May
Writer: Harlan Ellison
5.0/101 votes#12 - Crazy as a Soup Sandwich
Season 3 Episode 29 - Aired 4/2/1989
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.
Director: Paul Lynch
Writer: Harlan Ellison
3.5/102 votes#13 - The Face of Helene Bournouw
Season 1 Episode 18 - Aired 2/27/1998
A reporter investigates a woman whose beauty literally drives men mad.
Director: Richard Ciupka
Writer: Harlan Ellison
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"A Matter of Minutes" is the best rated episode written by Harlan Ellison. It scored 10/10 based on 1 votes. It was directed by Sheldon Larry. It aired on 1/24/1986 and is rated 0.0 points higher than their second-best episode, "Demon with a Glass Hand".