Top 25 Best Twilight Zone Episodes
Twilight Zone Best 25 Episodes
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- 1959–196425mTV-PG8.9 (6.2K)TV EpisodeDirectorRon WinstonStarsRod SerlingClaude AkinsBarry AtwaterOn a peaceful suburban street, strange occurrences and mysterious people stoke the residents' paranoia to a disastrous intensity.For me, this episode is the best simply because it showcases the paranoia and distrust in ones family, neighbors, and friends.
- DirectorJohn BrahmStarsBurgess MeredithVaughn TaylorJacqueline deWitA henpecked book lover finds himself blissfully alone with his books after a nuclear war.
- DirectorElliot SilversteinStarsBurgess MeredithFritz WeaverJosip ElicIn a future totalitarian society, a librarian is declared obsolete and sentenced to death.
- DirectorRichard L. BareStarsLloyd BochnerSusan CummingsRichard KielAn alien race comes to Earth, promising peace and sharing technology. Linguists Michael Chambers, Patricia Brody, and their team set out to translate the aliens' language, using a book whose title they deduce to be "To Serve Man."
- DirectorJack SmightStarsArt CarneyJohn FiedlerRobert P. LiebAfter derelict Santa Claus Henry Corwin is fired from his department store on Christmas Eve, he finds a mysterious bag that gives out presents and fulfills his wish to help the less fortunate inherit the bounties of Christmas.
- DirectorRichard DonnerStarsWilliam ShatnerChristine WhiteEd KemmerA man, newly recovered from a nervous breakdown, becomes convinced that a monster only he sees is damaging the plane he's flying in.
- DirectorRichard C. SarafianStarsTelly SavalasMary LaRocheTracy StratfordFrustrated Erich Streator does battle with his stepdaughter Christie's talking doll Talky Tina, whose vocabulary includes such unconventional phrases as "I hate you" and "I'm going to kill you".
- 1959–196425mTV-PG8.5 (3.9K)TV EpisodeDirectorLamont JohnsonStarsSusan HarrisonWilliam WindomMurray MathesonAn Army major awakens in a small room with no idea of who he is or how he got there. He finds four other people in the same room, and they all begin to question how they each arrived there, and more importantly, how to escape.
- DirectorDouglas HeyesStarsJohn CarradineH.M. WynantRobin HughesSeeking refuge from a storm, a traveler comes upon a bizarre abbey of monks, who have imprisoned a man who begs for his help. When he confronts the head monk, he is told that the man is the Devil, and he must decide whom to believe.
- DirectorDouglas HeyesStarsMaxine StuartWilliam D. GordonJennifer HowardA young woman lying in a hospital bed, her head wrapped in bandages, awaits the outcome of a surgical procedure performed by the State in a last-ditch attempt to make her look "normal."
- DirectorLamont JohnsonStarsErnest TruexRussell CollinsJohn MarleyCharles Whitley living in the Sunnyvale Rest Home thinks he's found the secret of youth in playing child's games and exhorts his fellow seniors into joining in. His friend Ben Conroy and facility superintendent Cox want this stopped.
- DirectorRobert ParrishStarsRod SerlingJames DalyHoward SmithTired of his miserable job and wife, a businessman starts dreaming on the train each night, about an old, idyllic town called Willoughby. Soon he has to know whether the town is real and fancies the thought of seeking refuge there.
- DirectorLamont JohnsonStarsLarry GatesJoseph BernardJack AlbertsonA dinner party for Bill Stockton's birthday is interrupted by a bulletin warning of an impending nuclear attack. As the neighbors scramble to prepare, they turn against the Stockton's, the only family that installed a bomb shelter.
- 1959–196425mTV-PG8.7 (4.4K)TV EpisodeDirectorMontgomery PittmanStarsJohn HoytJean WillesJack ElamFollowing a frantic phone call about a crashed spaceship on a winter night, state troopers Bill Padgett and Dan Perry try to determine who among the bus passengers at a snowed-in roadside diner is a visitor from another world.
- DirectorDouglas HeyesStarsRod SerlingAnne FrancisElizabeth AllenA woman is treated badly by some odd salespeople on an otherwise empty department store floor.
- DirectorJack SmightStarsBarbara NicholsJonathan HarrisFredd WayneWhile in the hospital recovering from overwork, Liz Powell keeps dreaming about going down to the hospital morgue.
- 1959–196425mTV-PG6.6 (1.7K)TV EpisodeDirectorRichard DonnerStarsRichard DeaconPaul NewlanTed de CorsiaHeartless CEO Wallace V. Whipple automates his family-owned factory and lays off most of his workers over the objections of his foreman Dickerson and chief engineer Hanley.
- DirectorJustus AddissStarsJohn AndersonPaul ComiSandy KenyonPassing through the sound barrier, a commercial airliner inadvertently travels back in time.
- DirectorPaul StewartStarsSarah MarshallRobert SampsonCharles AidmanAwakened by the cries of their daughter Bettina, Chris and Ruth Miller enter her room to find that she has vanished - even though they still hear her crying for help. Chris' physicist friend Bill thinks she moved into another dimension.
- DirectorJack SmightStarsRod SerlingJack WardenJohn DehnerA convict, living alone on an asteroid, receives from the police a realistic woman-robot.
- DirectorRobert Ellis MillerStarsDonald PleasenceLiam SullivanPhilippa BevansHaving being forced to retire after teaching for fifty-one years in a New England university for boys, Professor Ellis Fowler contemplates suicide when he doesn't feel that he's made a positive difference in the world.
- DirectorMontgomery PittmanStarsLee MarvinJames BestStrother MartinAfter being hired to track down outlaw Pinto Sykes but failing, Old West lawman Conny Miller is challenged by the townsmen who killed Sykes to visit Sykes' freshly dug grave and prove how courageous he is.
- DirectorNorman Z. McLeodStarsBuster KeatonStanley AdamsJames FlavinJanitor Woodrow Mulligan gets a trip from 1890 to 1962 courtesy of his employer's time-machine helmet.
- DirectorAlvin GanzerStarsInger StevensAdam WilliamsLew GalloA young woman driving cross-country becomes frantic when she keeps passing the same man on the side of the road. No matter how fast she drives, the man is always up ahead, hitching her for a ride.
- DirectorJohn BrahmStarsLarry BlydenSebastian CabotJohn CloseWhen bad guy Henry Francis Valentine dies in a shootout with police, he wakes up in the next world where his every wish is granted forever, and ever.