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The Best Episodes Written By Rod Serling

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

  1. 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. 9.0/10(2 votes)

    #2 - 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.

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    Director:Don Taylor
  3. 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.

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  4. 9.0/10(1 votes)

    #4 - 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.

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  5. 8.5/10(39 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.

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    Director:Douglas Heyes
  6. 8.5/10(25 votes)

    #6 - To Serve Man

    S3:E24

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

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  7. 8.4/10(24 votes)

    #7 - 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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  8. 8.3/10(15 votes)

    #8 - 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.

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    Director:Ida Lupino
  9. 8.1/10(55 votes)

    #9 - 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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    Director:John Brahm
  10. 8.1/10(24 votes)

    #10 - 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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  11. 8.0/10(34 votes)

    #11 - 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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    Director:Ron Winston
  12. 8.0/10(19 votes)

    #12 - The Silence

    S2:E25

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

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    Director:Boris Sagal
  13. 8.0/10(23 votes)

    #13 - 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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    Director:James Sheldon
  14. 8.0/10(4 votes)

    #14 - The Time Element

    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
  15. 8.0/10(2 votes)

    #15 - 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.

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    Director:Jeff Corey
  16. 7.8/10(19 votes)

    #16 - 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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  17. 7.8/10(11 votes)

    #17 - 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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  18. 7.7/10(37 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.

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    Director:Douglas Heyes
  19. 7.7/10(27 votes)

    #19 - 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.

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  20. 7.7/10(18 votes)

    #20 - The Midnight Sun

    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
  21. 7.7/10(32 votes)

    #21 - What You Need

    S1:E12

    A two-bit thug thinks he's found the key to a better life in an old sidewalk salesman who has the uncanny ability to tell people what they need the most.

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    Director:Alvin Ganzer
  22. 7.6/10(68 votes)

    #22 - 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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  23. 7.6/10(49 votes)

    #23 - 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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  24. 7.6/10(47 votes)

    #24 - The Lonely

    S1:E7

    In 2046, imprisoned for murder on a distant asteroid, Corry receives an unexpected present that brings a semblance of companionship during his isolation.

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    Director:Jack Smight
  25. 7.6/10(27 votes)

    #25 - Third from the Sun

    S1:E14

    With all-out nuclear war about to ignite, a scientist and his pilot friend plot to escape on an experimental spaceship.

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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 Richard Benedict. 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".