The Best Episodes Written By Rod Serling

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

  1. Background image for Pamela's Voice / Lone Survivor / The Doll
    10.0/10(1 votes)

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

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    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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    Director:Rudi Dorn
  2. Background image for They're Tearing Down Tim Riley's Bar / The Last Laurel
    9.0/10(2 votes)

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

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    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.

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    Director:Don Taylor
  3. Background image for 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?

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    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.

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  4. Background image for The Caterpillar / Little Girl Lost
    9.0/10(1 votes)

    #4 - The Caterpillar / Little Girl Lost

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    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.

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  5. Background image for The Rank and File
    9.0/10(1 votes)

    #5 - The Rank and File

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    S3:E34

    A powerful union leader is interrogated by a Senate committee. Testifying before a Senate, William Kilcoyne tells the story of his career. He began as a factory worker and his shrewdness and ambition carried him up through the ranks to his present position as head of a large union.

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  6. Background image for To Serve Man
    8.6/10(27 votes)

    #6 - To Serve Man

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    S3:E24

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

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  7. Background image for Eye of the Beholder
    8.5/10(41 votes)

    #7 - Eye of the Beholder

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    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.

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    Director:Douglas Heyes
  8. Background image for The Masks
    8.4/10(16 votes)

    #8 - The Masks

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    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.

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    Director:Ida Lupino
  9. Background image for The Shelter
    8.4/10(26 votes)

    #9 - The Shelter

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    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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  10. Background image for It's a Good Life
    8.1/10(24 votes)

    #10 - It's a Good Life

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    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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    Director:James Sheldon
  11. Background image for Time Enough at Last
    8.1/10(58 votes)

    #11 - Time Enough at Last

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    S1:E8

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

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    Director:John Brahm
  12. Background image for Will the Real Martian Please Stand Up?
    8.0/10(27 votes)

    #12 - Will the Real Martian Please Stand Up?

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    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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  13. Background image for The Monsters Are Due on Maple Street
    8.0/10(37 votes)

    #13 - The Monsters Are Due on Maple Street

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    S1:E22

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

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    Director:Ron Winston
  14. Background image for Five Characters in Search of an Exit
    8.0/10(21 votes)

    #14 - Five Characters in Search of an Exit

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    S3:E14

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

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  15. Background image for The Time Element
    8.0/10(4 votes)

    #15 - The Time Element

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    S1:E6

    A patient visiting a psychiatrist complains of recurrent dreams in which he imagines he is living in Hawaii just before the attack on Pearl Harbor. A series of flashbacks shows him living with his knowledge of what has happened in the seventeen years since, betting on sure winners in sports events, but also seeking to warn a newly-married couple, newspaper editors, and anyone else who will listen that they will be attacked by the Japanese. Everyone is either too interested in a good time or too determinedly patriotic to give heed; the man only gets punched on the jaw. In the end the psychiatrist is left looking at a blank couch, and to steady his own nerves he goes to a bar to get a drink. There he learns his patient was killed at Pearl Harbor.

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    Director:Allen Reisner
  16. Background image for The House / Certain Shadows on the Wall
    8.0/10(2 votes)

    #16 - The House / Certain Shadows on the Wall

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    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.

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    Director:Jeff Corey
  17. Background image for The Silence
    8.0/10(21 votes)

    #17 - The Silence

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    S2:E25

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

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    Director:Boris Sagal
  18. Background image for The Midnight Sun
    7.8/10(20 votes)

    #18 - The Midnight Sun

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    S3:E10

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

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    Director:Anton Leader
  19. Background image for He's Alive
    7.8/10(12 votes)

    #19 - He's Alive

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    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. Background image for A Stop at Willoughby
    7.8/10(29 votes)

    #20 - A Stop at Willoughby

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    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.

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  21. Background image for And When the Sky Was Opened
    7.7/10(40 votes)

    #21 - And When the Sky Was Opened

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    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.

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    Director:Douglas Heyes
  22. Background image for People Are Alike All Over
    7.7/10(24 votes)

    #22 - People Are Alike All Over

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    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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  23. Background image for The After Hours
    7.7/10(26 votes)

    #23 - The After Hours

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    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.

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    Director:Douglas Heyes
  24. Background image for The Old Man in the Cave
    7.7/10(10 votes)

    #24 - The Old Man in the Cave

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    S5:E7

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

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    Directors:Alan Crosland, Jr.
  25. Background image for The Long Morrow
    7.7/10(9 votes)

    #25 - The Long Morrow

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    S5:E15

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

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    Director:Robert Florey

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 Rudi Dorn. It aired on 1/13/1971 and is rated 1.0 points higher than their second-best episode, "They're Tearing Down Tim Riley's Bar / The Last Laurel".