The Best Episodes Written By Rod Serling

Every TV Episode Written by Rod Serling Ranked from Best to Worst by Thousands of Voters

Episode Rankings

  1. #1 Fan Favorite
    undefined Season 1 Episode 5 - Pamela's Voice / Lone Survivor / The Doll
    10.0/10(1 votes)

    #1 - Pamela's Voice / Lone Survivor / The Doll

    S1:E5

    A harried husband murders his magpie wife only to find the arrangement less permanent than he'd hoped. A passing ship rescues an unconscious man in a lifeboat labeled "Titanic", three years after the liner sank. A hideous doll becomes an agent of revenge against an officer in Queen Victoria's colonial forces.

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  2. undefined Season 2 Episode 22 - The Caterpillar / Little Girl Lost
    9.0/10(1 votes)

    #2 - The Caterpillar / Little Girl Lost

    S2:E22

    A bored colonial on a Malaysian plantation employs an exotic accomplice, an earwig, in his gruesome plot to assassinate a romantic rival. Military strategists unwittingly plant the seeds of the apocalypse when they humor a scientific genius unbalanced by his daughter's death.

    Director:N/A

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  3. undefined Season 2 Episode 1 - The Boy Who Predicted Earthquakes / Miss Lovecraft Sent Me / The Hand of Borgus Weems / Phantom of What Opera?
    9.0/10(1 votes)

    #3 - The Boy Who Predicted Earthquakes / Miss Lovecraft Sent Me / The Hand of Borgus Weems / Phantom of What Opera?

    S2:E1

    A phenomenally successful young seer suddenly refuses to make further predictions. A vignette about a babysitter and her latest client. A desperate man seeks a surgeon's help when he discovers a presence that controls his right hand. The Phantom of the Opera gets the shock of his life when he menaces a beautiful young singer.

    Director:N/A

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  4. undefined Season 1 Episode 6 - They're Tearing Down Tim Riley's Bar / The Last Laurel
    9.0/10(2 votes)

    #4 - They're Tearing Down Tim Riley's Bar / The Last Laurel

    S1:E6

    A has-been salesman is haunted by phantoms from a happier past. Astral projection is the key to a crippled athlete's bid for revenge.

    Director:N/A

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  5. undefined Season 2 Episode 6 - Eye of the Beholder
    8.5/10(43 votes)

    #5 - Eye of the Beholder

    S2:E6

    A young woman lying in a hospital bed awaits the outcome of an experimental treatment in an attempt to make her look normal.

    Director:N/A

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  6. undefined Season 3 Episode 24 - To Serve Man
    8.5/10(28 votes)

    #6 - To Serve Man

    S3:E24

    The Kanamits, 9 foot tall aliens, arrive on Earth with one lofty goal: To Serve Man.

    Director:N/A

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  7. undefined Season 5 Episode 25 - The Masks
    8.4/10(17 votes)

    #7 - The Masks

    S5:E25

    A wealthy dying man invites his family to a Mardi Gras party and insists that they wear masks specially made for them, threatening to cut off their inheritance if they refuse.

    Director:N/A

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  8. undefined Season 3 Episode 3 - The Shelter
    8.4/10(26 votes)

    #8 - The Shelter

    S3:E3

    When a nuclear attack appears imminent, several suburban friends and neighbors fight over control of a single bomb shelter.

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  9. undefined Season 3 Episode 8 - It's a Good Life
    8.2/10(26 votes)

    #9 - It's a Good Life

    S3:E8

    Little Anthony Fremont controls an entire town with his ability to read minds and make people do as he wishes. Which is a real good thing.

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  10. undefined Season 1 Episode 8 - Time Enough at Last
    8.1/10(61 votes)

    #10 - Time Enough at Last

    S1:E8

    A bank teller, obsessed with reading, faces conflicts at work and home because of his passion for literature.

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  11. undefined Season 2 Episode 28 - Will the Real Martian Please Stand Up?
    8.0/10(27 votes)

    #11 - Will the Real Martian Please Stand Up?

    S2:E28

    State Troopers follow the tracks from a frozen pond, into a diner. Inside they find a soda jerk, a bus driver and his seven passengers. The bus driver is certain only six people boarded his bus…

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  12. undefined Season 2 Episode 25 - The Silence
    8.0/10(21 votes)

    #12 - The Silence

    S2:E25

    A talkative man takes an offer to keep silent for a year for $500,000.

    Director:N/A

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  13. undefined Season 3 Episode 14 - Five Characters in Search of an Exit
    8.0/10(21 votes)

    #13 - Five Characters in Search of an Exit

    S3:E14

    A hobo, clown, bagpipe player, ballerina and military officer are trapped in a huge cylinder.

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  14. undefined Season 1 Episode 3 - The House / Certain Shadows on the Wall
    8.0/10(2 votes)

    #14 - The House / Certain Shadows on the Wall

    S1:E3

    A former sanitarium patient discovers a house she has known all her life, but never dared enter, in a recurring dream. An ailing woman dies under the care of her sinister brother, but her accusing shadow remains indelibly cast on the parlor wall.

    Director:N/A

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  15. undefined Season 1 Episode 22 - The Monsters are Due on Maple Street
    7.9/10(41 votes)

    #15 - The Monsters are Due on Maple Street

    S1:E22

    Paranoia strikes the residents of Maple Street when they believe human-looking aliens have invaded the neighborhood.

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  16. undefined Season 3 Episode 10 - The Midnight Sun
    7.9/10(21 votes)

    #16 - The Midnight Sun

    S3:E10

    The Earth's orbit has been changed, drawing ever closer to the sun and promising imminent destruction.

    Director:N/A

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  17. undefined Season 1 Episode 30 - A Stop at Willoughby
    7.9/10(31 votes)

    #17 - A Stop at Willoughby

    S1:E30

    Riding home on the train one day, a stressed businessman falls asleep and dreams it is 1888, and he is entering a small, idyllic town called Willoughby.

    Director:N/A

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  18. undefined Season 1 Episode 11 - And When the Sky Was Opened
    7.8/10(42 votes)

    #18 - And When the Sky Was Opened

    S1:E11

    Recovering in the hospital after a space mission, Major William Gart is visited by his co-pilot Lieutenant Colonel Clegg Forbes, who insists on the existence of a third astronaut.

    Director:N/A

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  19. undefined Season 4 Episode 4 - He's Alive
    7.8/10(12 votes)

    #19 - He's Alive

    S4:E4

    Peter Vollmer, a small-time neo-Nazi leader, yearns for more power. Advised by a shadowy benefactor, Vollmer's following grows, as does his ego...

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  20. undefined Season 1 Episode 25 - People are Alike All Over
    7.7/10(25 votes)

    #20 - People are Alike All Over

    S1:E25

    After a space exploration crash-lands on Mars, the lone surviving astronaut is surprised to find that Martians are human-looking and friendly.

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  21. undefined Season 1 Episode 34 - The After Hours
    7.7/10(26 votes)

    #21 - The After Hours

    S1:E34

    Puzzled and unsettled by the odd behavior of the salespeople, a woman discovers that the floor of a department store, on which she bought a gold thimble, doesn't exist.

    Director:N/A

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  22. undefined Season 1 Episode 5 - Walking Distance
    7.7/10(53 votes)

    #22 - Walking Distance

    S1:E5

    A stressed advertising executive, driving through the country, leaves his car and starts to walk toward his hometown, Homewood. He finds things exactly as they were when he was a child.

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  23. undefined Season 5 Episode 15 - The Long Morrow
    7.7/10(9 votes)

    #23 - The Long Morrow

    S5:E15

    Before leaving on a decades long mission, astronaut Douglas Stansfield meets a woman and falls in love.

    Director:N/A

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  24. undefined Season 5 Episode 7 - The Old Man in the Cave
    7.7/10(10 votes)

    #24 - The Old Man in the Cave

    S5:E7

    A mysterious guardian helps a tiny community survive after the Bomb destroys much of the Earth.

    Director:N/A

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  25. undefined Season 1 Episode 1 - Where Is Everybody?
    7.6/10(75 votes)

    #25 - Where Is Everybody?

    S1:E1

    Mike Ferris finds himself in a town strangely devoid of people. But despite the emptiness, he has the odd feeling that he's being watched...

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Rod Serling Ratings Summary

"Pamela's Voice / Lone Survivor / The Doll" is the best rated episode written by Rod Serling. It scored 10/10 based on 1 votes. It was directed by N/A. It aired on 1/13/1971 and is rated 1.0 points higher than their second-best episode, "The Caterpillar / Little Girl Lost".