The Best Episodes Written By Rod Serling

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1. #1 Fan Favorite
   

   10.0/10(1 votes)

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

   S1:E51/13/1971

   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 - The Caterpillar / Little Girl Lost

   S2:E223/1/1972

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

   S2:E19/15/1971

   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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   9.0/10(2 votes)

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

   S1:E61/20/1971

   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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   8.5/10(43 votes)

   #5 - Eye of the Beholder

   S2:E611/11/1960

   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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   8.5/10(28 votes)

   #6 - To Serve Man

   S3:E243/2/1962

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

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   8.4/10(17 votes)

   #7 - The Masks

   S5:E253/20/1964

   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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   8.4/10(26 votes)

   #8 - The Shelter

   S3:E39/29/1961

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

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   8.2/10(26 votes)

   #9 - It's a Good Life

   S3:E811/3/1961

   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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    8.1/10(61 votes)

    #10 - Time Enough at Last

    S1:E811/20/1959

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

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    8.0/10(27 votes)

    #11 - Will the Real Martian Please Stand Up?

    S2:E285/26/1961

    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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    8.0/10(21 votes)

    #12 - The Silence

    S2:E254/28/1961

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

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    8.0/10(21 votes)

    #13 - Five Characters in Search of an Exit

    S3:E1412/22/1961

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

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    8.0/10(2 votes)

    #14 - The House / Certain Shadows on the Wall

    S1:E312/30/1970

    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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    7.9/10(41 votes)

    #15 - The Monsters are Due on Maple Street

    S1:E223/4/1960

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

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    7.9/10(21 votes)

    #16 - The Midnight Sun

    S3:E1011/17/1961

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

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    7.9/10(31 votes)

    #17 - A Stop at Willoughby

    S1:E305/6/1960

    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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    7.8/10(42 votes)

    #18 - And When the Sky Was Opened

    S1:E1112/11/1959

    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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    7.8/10(12 votes)

    #19 - He's Alive

    S4:E41/24/1963

    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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    7.7/10(25 votes)

    #20 - People are Alike All Over

    S1:E253/25/1960

    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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    7.7/10(26 votes)

    #21 - The After Hours

    S1:E346/10/1960

    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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    7.7/10(53 votes)

    #22 - Walking Distance

    S1:E510/30/1959

    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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    7.7/10(9 votes)

    #23 - The Long Morrow

    S5:E151/10/1964

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

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    7.7/10(10 votes)

    #24 - The Old Man in the Cave

    S5:E711/8/1963

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

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    7.6/10(75 votes)

    #25 - Where Is Everybody?

    S1:E110/2/1959

    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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