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The Best Episodes Written By Harlan Ellison

Every TV Episode Written by Harlan Ellison Ranked from Best to Worst by Thousands of Voters

  • Demon with a Glass Hand
    10.0/10(2)

    #1 - 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

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  • Soldier
    9.0/10(2)

    #2 - 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

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  • The City on the Edge of Forever
    8.6/10(59)

    #3 - 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

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  • Earth, Air, Fire and Water
    8.0/10(1)

    #4 - Earth, Air, Fire and Water

    Season 1 Episode 16

    Aired 1/19/1973

    Six artists move into an abandoned storefront where they find a trunk containing six colorful glass containers filled with powerful black magic. Their artworks begin to take on a whole new meaning until, one by one, the artists vanish.

    Director: Alexander Singer

    Writer: Harlan Ellison

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  • Objects in Motion
    7.9/10(8)

    #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

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  • A Matter of Minutes
    7.5/10(2)

    #6 - 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

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  • A View from the Gallery
    7.1/10(9)

    #7 - 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

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  • Memo from Purgatory
    7.0/10(1)

    #8 - 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

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  • The Hand
    7.0/10(2)

    #9 - 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

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  • A Case of the Stubborns
    6.8/10(5)

    #10 - 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

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  • Shatterday
    6.1/10(9)

    #11 - 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

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  • Gramma
    5.5/10(6)

    #12 - 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

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  • Crazy as a Soup Sandwich
    5.0/10(1)

    #13 - 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

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  • The Discarded
    5.0/10(1)

    #14 - The Discarded

    Season 1 Episode 4

    Aired 8/25/2007

    A group of people are sentenced to drift in space forever so they take one final chance at returning back to Earth.

    Director: Jonathan Frakes

    Writer: Harlan Ellison

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  • The Face of Helene Bournouw
    3.5/10(2)

    #15 - 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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  • Footsteps
    3.5/10(2)

    #16 - Footsteps

    Season 1 Episode 22

    Aired 3/27/1998

    A lovely vampiress who seduces and drains a different man every night meets a man who claims to be a vegetarian.

    Director: Jim Kaufman

    Writer: Harlan Ellison

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Harlan Ellison Ratings Summary

"Demon with a Glass Hand" is the best rated episode written by Harlan Ellison. It scored 10/10 based on 2 votes. It was directed by Byron Haskin. It aired on 10/17/1964 and is rated 1.0 points higher than their second-best episode, "Soldier".