Twilight Zone Episodes Ranked Best to Worst
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1.
The Twilight Zone (1959–1964)
Episode:
Eye of the Beholder
(1960)
TV-PG | 25 min | Drama, Fantasy, Horror
A 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."
Director: Douglas Heyes | Stars: Maxine Stuart, William D. Gordon, Jennifer Howard, George Keymas
Votes: 6,251
Season Two/Writer: Rod Serling
2.
The Twilight Zone (1959–1964)
Episode:
Nightmare at 20,000 Feet
(1963)
TV-PG | 25 min | Drama, Fantasy, Horror
A man, newly recovered from a nervous breakdown, becomes convinced that a monster only he sees is damaging the plane he's flying in.
Director: Richard Donner | Stars: William Shatner, Christine White, Ed Kemmer, Asa Maynor
Votes: 5,501
Season Five/Writer: Richard Matheson
3.
The Twilight Zone (1959–1964)
Episode:
To Serve Man
(1962)
TV-PG | 25 min | Drama, Fantasy, Horror
An alien race comes to Earth, promising peace and sharing technology. A linguist and his team set out to translate the aliens' language, using a book whose title they deduce is "To Serve Man."
Director: Richard L. Bare | Stars: Lloyd Bochner, Susan Cummings, Richard Kiel, Hardie Albright
Votes: 5,225
Season Three/Teleplay: Rod Serling, based on a short story by Damon Knight
4.
The Twilight Zone (1959–1964)
Episode:
Time Enough at Last
(1959)
TV-PG | 25 min | Drama, Fantasy, Horror
A henpecked book lover finds himself blissfully alone with his books after a nuclear war.
Director: John Brahm | Stars: Burgess Meredith, Vaughn Taylor, Jacqueline deWit, Lela Bliss
Votes: 7,784
Season One/Teleplay: Rod Serling, based on a short story by Lynn Venable
5.
The Twilight Zone (1959–1964)
Episode:
The Monsters Are Due on Maple Street
(1960)
TV-PG | 25 min | Drama, Fantasy, Horror
On a peaceful suburban street, strange occurrences and mysterious people stoke the residents' paranoia to a disastrous intensity.
Director: Ron Winston | Stars: Rod Serling, Claude Akins, Barry Atwater, Jack Weston
Votes: 6,152
Season One/Writer: Rod Serling
6.
The Twilight Zone (1959–1964)
Episode:
Will the Real Martian Please Stand Up?
(1961)
TV-PG | 25 min | Drama, Fantasy, Horror
Following a frantic phone call about a crashed spaceship, two policemen try to determine who among the bus passengers at a snowed-in roadside diner is from another world.
Director: Montgomery Pittman | Stars: John Hoyt, Jean Willes, Jack Elam, Barney Phillips
Votes: 4,326
Season Two/Writer: Rod Serling
7.
The Twilight Zone (1959–1964)
Episode:
Living Doll
(1963)
TV-PG | 26 min | Drama, Fantasy, Horror
A frustrated father does battle with his stepdaughter's talking doll, whose vocabulary includes such phrases as "I hate you" and "I'm going to kill you".
Director: Richard C. Sarafian | Stars: Telly Savalas, Mary LaRoche, Tracy Stratford, June Foray
Votes: 3,744
Season Five/Writer: Jerry Sohl
8.
The Twilight Zone (1959–1964)
Episode:
It's a Good Life
(1961)
TV-PG | 25 min | Drama, Fantasy, Horror
On an isolated family farm, a young boy with vast mental powers, but lacking emotional development, holds his terrified family in thrall to his every juvenile wish.
Director: James Sheldon | Stars: John Larch, Cloris Leachman, Don Keefer, Bill Mumy
Votes: 4,542
Season Three/Teleplay: Rod Serling, based on a short story by Jerome Bixby
9.
The Twilight Zone (1959–1964)
Episode:
The Obsolete Man
(1961)
TV-PG | 25 min | Drama, Fantasy, Horror
In a future totalitarian society, a librarian is declared obsolete and sentenced to death.
Director: Elliot Silverstein | Stars: Burgess Meredith, Fritz Weaver, Josip Elic, Harry Fleer
Votes: 4,089
Season Two/Writer: Rod Serling
10.
The Twilight Zone (1959–1964)
Episode:
The Shelter
(1961)
TV-PG | 25 min | Drama, Fantasy, Horror
A suburban dinner party is interrupted by a bulletin warning of an impending nuclear attack. As the neighbors scramble to prepare themselves, they turn against the one family that installed a permanent bomb shelter.
Director: Lamont Johnson | Stars: Larry Gates, Joseph Bernard, Jack Albertson, Peggy Stewart
Votes: 3,543
Season Three/Writer: Rod Serling
11.
The Twilight Zone (1959–1964)
Episode:
The Masks
(1964)
TV-PG | 25 min | Drama, Fantasy, Horror
Wealthy Jason Foster is dying and he invites his greedy heirs to a Mardi Gras party where they must wear the masks he specially had made for them or else be cut off from their inheritance.
Director: Ida Lupino | Stars: Robert Keith, Milton Selzer, Virginia Gregg, Brooke Hayward
Votes: 3,277
Season Five/Writer: Rod Serling
12.
The Twilight Zone (1959–1964)
Episode:
A Stop at Willoughby
(1960)
TV-PG | 25 min | Drama, Fantasy, Horror
Tired 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.
Director: Robert Parrish | Stars: Rod Serling, James Daly, Howard Smith, Patricia Donahue
Votes: 4,715
Season One/Writer: Rod Serling
13.
The Twilight Zone (1959–1964)
Episode:
Five Characters in Search of an Exit
(1961)
TV-PG | 25 min | Drama, Fantasy, Horror
An 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.
Director: Lamont Johnson | Stars: Susan Harrison, William Windom, Murray Matheson, Kelton Garwood
Votes: 3,870
Season Three/Teleplay: Rod Serling, based on a short story by Marvin Petal
14.
The Twilight Zone (1959–1964)
Episode:
The After Hours
(1960)
TV-PG | 25 min | Drama, Fantasy, Horror
A woman is treated badly by some odd salespeople on an otherwise empty department store floor.
Director: Douglas Heyes | Stars: Rod Serling, Anne Francis, Elizabeth Allen, James Millhollin
Votes: 4,526
Season One/Writer: Rod Serling
15.
The Twilight Zone (1959–1964)
Episode:
The Midnight Sun
(1961)
TV-PG | 25 min | Drama, Fantasy, Horror
When Earth deviates from its normal orbit, getting closer to the sun, two women try to cope with increasingly oppressive heat in a nearly abandoned city.
Director: Anton Leader | Stars: Lois Nettleton, Betty Garde, Tom Reese, Jason Wingreen
Votes: 3,802
Season Three/Writer: Rod Serling
16.
The Twilight Zone (1959–1964)
Episode:
The Silence
(1961)
TV-PG | 25 min | Drama, Fantasy, Horror
Annoyed by a club member's constant chatter, a man bets him he cannot remain silent for a year, living in a glass enclosure in the club basement.
Director: Boris Sagal | Stars: Franchot Tone, Liam Sullivan, Cyril Delevanti, Everett Glass
Votes: 3,348
Season Two/Writer: Rod Serling
17.
The Twilight Zone (1959–1964)
Episode:
And When the Sky Was Opened
(1959)
TV-PG | 25 min | Drama, Fantasy, Horror
Three astronauts return to Earth after seemingly having made an encounter that dooms them and their craft to erasure from existence itself.
Director: Douglas Heyes | Stars: Rod Taylor, Jim Hutton, Charles Aidman, Maxine Cooper
Votes: 5,036
Season One/Teleplay: Rod Serling, based on a short story by Richard Matheson
18.
The Twilight Zone (1959–1964)
Episode:
Nick of Time
(1960)
TV-PG | 25 min | Drama, Fantasy, Horror
A pair of newlyweds stopping in a small town are trapped by their own superstition when playing a fortune-telling machine in a local diner.
Director: Richard L. Bare | Stars: William Shatner, Patricia Breslin, Guy Wilkerson, Stafford Repp
Votes: 4,087
Season Two/Writer: Richard Matheson
19.
The Twilight Zone (1959–1964)
Episode:
Nothing in the Dark
(1962)
TV-PG | 25 min | Drama, Fantasy, Horror
An old woman has fought with death a thousand times and has always won. But now she finds herself afraid to let a wounded policeman in her door for fear he is Mr. Death. Is he?
Director: Lamont Johnson | Stars: Gladys Cooper, Robert Redford, R.G. Armstrong, Rod Serling
Votes: 3,395
Season Three/Writer: George Clayton Johnson
20.
The Twilight Zone (1959–1964)
Episode:
An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge
(1964)
TV-PG | 25 min | Drama, Fantasy, Horror
During the American Civil War in 1862, a condemned Confederate prisoner, Peyton Farquhar, is due to be hanged by Union troops.
Director: Robert Enrico | Stars: Roger Jacquet, Anne Cornaly, Anker-Spang Larsen, Stéphane Fey
Votes: 2,706
Season Five/Writer: Ambrose Bierce
21.
The Twilight Zone (1959–1964)
Episode:
Walking Distance
(1959)
TV-PG | 25 min | Drama, Fantasy, Horror
A man, fed up with where he's at in life, finds himself not only in his old hometown, but back to the time when he was a boy.
Director: Robert Stevens | Stars: Rod Serling, Gig Young, Frank Overton, Irene Tedrow
Votes: 6,068
Season One/Writer: Rod Serling
22.
The Twilight Zone (1959–1964)
Episode:
The Hitch-Hiker
(1960)
TV-PG | 25 min | Drama, Fantasy, Horror
A 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.
Director: Alvin Ganzer | Stars: Inger Stevens, Adam Williams, Lew Gallo, Leonard Strong
Votes: 5,228
Season One/Teleplay: Rod Serling, based on a radio play by Lucille Fletcher
23.
The Twilight Zone (1959–1964)
Episode:
The Howling Man
(1960)
TV-PG | 25 min | Drama, Fantasy, Horror
Seeking 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.
Director: Douglas Heyes | Stars: John Carradine, H.M. Wynant, Robin Hughes, Friedrich von Ledebur
Votes: 4,082
Season Two/Writer: Charles Beaumont
24.
The Twilight Zone (1959–1964)
Episode:
The Changing of the Guard
(1962)
TV-PG | 25 min | Drama, Fantasy, Horror
After being forced to retire, Professor Fowler contemplates suicide when he doesn't feel he's made a difference in the world.
Director: Robert Ellis Miller | Stars: Donald Pleasence, Liam Sullivan, Philippa Bevans, Tom Lowell
Votes: 2,780
Season Three/Writer: Rod Serling
25.
The Twilight Zone (1959–1964)
Episode:
The Lonely
(1959)
TV-PG | 25 min | Drama, Fantasy, Horror
A convict, living alone on an asteroid, receives from the police a realistic woman-robot.
Director: Jack Smight | Stars: Rod Serling, Jack Warden, John Dehner, Jean Marsh
Votes: 5,360
Season One/Writer: Rod Serling
26.
The Twilight Zone (1959–1964)
Episode:
Third from the Sun
(1960)
TV-PG | 25 min | Drama, Fantasy, Horror
Two families of Government employees plan to steal a spaceship and travel to another planet just prior to a nuclear war. They must also deal with a stooge who wants to stop them.
Director: Richard L. Bare | Stars: Fritz Weaver, Edward Andrews, Joe Maross, Denise Alexander
Votes: 4,490
Season One/Teleplay: Rod Serling, based on a short story by Richard Matheson
27.
The Twilight Zone (1959–1964)
Episode:
The Invaders
(1961)
TV-PG | 25 min | Drama, Fantasy, Horror
When a woman investigates a clamor in the attic of her rural house, she discovers a small UFO with little aliens emerging from it. Or so it seems.
Director: Douglas Heyes | Stars: Agnes Moorehead, Douglas Heyes, Rod Serling
Votes: 4,015
Season Two/Writer: Richard Matheson
28.
The Twilight Zone (1959–1964)
Episode:
People Are Alike All Over
(1960)
TV-PG | 25 min | Drama, Fantasy, Horror
Fearing the worst, the lone survivor of a crash-landing on Mars finds the native inhabitants, to his relief, very hospitable indeed, but there's a catch.
Director: Mitchell Leisen | Stars: Roddy McDowall, Susan Oliver, Paul Comi, Byron Morrow
Votes: 3,965
Season One/Teleplay: Rod Serling, based on a short story by Paul W. Fairman
29.
The Twilight Zone (1959–1964)
Episode:
Long Live Walter Jameson
(1960)
TV-PG | 25 min | Drama, Fantasy, Horror
A father forbids a history professor from marrying his daughter when he discovers that the captivating lecturer is actually an immortal who has lived for thousands of years.
Director: Anton Leader | Stars: Kevin McCarthy, Edgar Stehli, Estelle Winwood, Dodie Heath
Votes: 3,852
Season One/Writer: Charles Beaumont
30.
The Twilight Zone (1959–1964)
Episode:
A World of His Own
(1960)
TV-PG | 25 min | Drama, Fantasy, Horror
A writer demonstrates he can control reality simply by dictating changes.
Director: Ralph Nelson | Stars: Keenan Wynn, Phyllis Kirk, Mary LaRoche, Modoc
Votes: 3,625
Season One/Writer: Richard Matheson
31.
The Twilight Zone (1959–1964)
Episode:
A Hundred Yards Over the Rim
(1961)
TV-PG | 25 min | Drama, Fantasy, Horror
A settler from a wagon train in 1847 sets off to find something to help his ill son and stumbles into 1961 New Mexico.
Director: Buzz Kulik | Stars: Cliff Robertson, John Crawford, Evans Evans, Edward Platt
Votes: 3,192
Season Two/Writer: Rod Serling
32.
The Twilight Zone (1959–1964)
Episode:
Deaths-Head Revisited
(1961)
TV-PG | 25 min | Drama, Fantasy, Horror
A former German SS captain returns to Dachau concentration camp and begins reminiscing on the power he enjoyed there, until he finds himself on trial by those who died at his hands.
Director: Don Medford | Stars: Joseph Schildkraut, Oscar Beregi Jr., Karen Verne, Robert Boon
Votes: 3,127
Season Three/Writer: Rod Serling
33.
The Twilight Zone (1959–1964)
Episode:
Shadow Play
(1961)
TV-PG | 25 min | Drama, Fantasy, Horror
Adam Grant is trapped in a recurring nightmare, in which he is sentenced to death by execution. He tries to convince the people around him that they are imaginary and that they will cease to exist if the execution is carried out.
Director: John Brahm | Stars: Dennis Weaver, Harry Townes, Wright King, William Edmonson
Votes: 3,000
Season Two/Writer: Rod Serling
34.
The Twilight Zone (1959–1964)
Episode:
Number 12 Looks Just Like You
(1964)
TV-PG | 25 min | Drama, Fantasy, Horror
In a future society, everyone must undergo an operation at age 19 to become beautiful and conform to society. One young woman desperately wants to hold onto her own identity.
Director: Abner Biberman | Stars: Collin Wilcox Paxton, Richard Long, Pamela Austin, Suzy Parker
Votes: 2,703
Season Five/Writers: Charles Beaumont, John Tomerlin
35.
The Twilight Zone (1959–1964)
Episode:
Stopover in a Quiet Town
(1964)
TV-PG | 25 min | Drama, Fantasy, Horror
A hung-over couple awaken to find themselves not only in a strange house, but in a deserted town, where nothing is as it should be.
Director: Ron Winston | Stars: Barry Nelson, Nancy Malone, Denise Lynn, Karen Norris
Votes: 2,573
Season Five/Writer: Earl Hamner, Jr.
36.
The Twilight Zone (1959–1964)
Episode:
Night Call
(1964)
TV-PG | 25 min | Drama, Fantasy, Horror
Telephone calls begin to haunt a disabled elderly woman.
Director: Jacques Tourneur | Stars: Gladys Cooper, Nora Marlowe, Martine Bartlett, Rod Serling
Votes: 2,520
Season Five/Writer: Richard Matheson
37.
The Twilight Zone (1959–1964)
Episode:
On Thursday We Leave for Home
(1963)
TV-14 | 51 min | Drama, Fantasy, Horror
The first human space colony is about to be rescued from the forsaken planet they've been on for three decades. But their leader's having a hard time accepting that change will happen when they get back to Earth.
Director: Buzz Kulik | Stars: James Whitmore, Tim O'Connor, James Broderick, Paul Langton
Votes: 2,109
Season Four/Writer: Rod Serling
38.
The Twilight Zone (1959–1964)
Episode:
What You Need
(1959)
TV-PG | 25 min | Drama, Fantasy, Horror
A small time crook plans to exploit an old street peddler who has the uncanny knack of selling people exactly what they will shortly need.
Director: Alvin Ganzer | Stars: Steve Cochran, Ernest Truex, Read Morgan, Arlene Martel
Votes: 4,354
Season One/Teleplay: Rod Serling, based on a short story by Lewis Padgett
39.
The Twilight Zone (1959–1964)
Episode:
The Last Flight
(1960)
TV-PG | 25 min | Drama, Fantasy, Horror
A World War I British fighter pilot lands at an American air base in 1959 France.
Director: William F. Claxton | Stars: Kenneth Haigh, Alexander Scourby, Simon Scott, Robert Warwick
Votes: 4,066
Season One/Writer: Richard Matheson
40.
The Twilight Zone (1959–1964)
Episode:
A Penny for Your Thoughts
(1961)
TV-PG | 25 min | Drama, Fantasy, Horror
Gaining telepathic abilities when his coin lands on its edge, bank clerk Hector B. Poole learns about the difference between other people's plans and fantasies.
Director: James Sheldon | Stars: Dick York, June Dayton, Dan Tobin, Cyril Delevanti
Votes: 3,162
Season Two/Writer: George Clayton Johnson
41.
The Twilight Zone (1959–1964)
Episode:
Little Girl Lost
(1962)
TV-PG | 25 min | Drama, Fantasy, Horror
Awakened in the middle of the night by the cries of his daughter, a father enters the girl's room to find that she has vanished - even though he can still hear her crying out for help.
Director: Paul Stewart | Stars: Sarah Marshall, Robert Sampson, Charles Aidman, Rod Serling
Votes: 2,967
Season Three/Writer: Richard Matheson
42.
The Twilight Zone (1959–1964)
Episode:
Printer's Devil
(1963)
TV-PG | 51 min | Drama, Fantasy, Horror
A man sells his soul to the Devil to save his failing newspaper and gets more than he bargained for.
Director: Ralph Senensky | Stars: Robert Sterling, Pat Crowley, Burgess Meredith, Ray Teal
Votes: 2,112
Season Four/Writer: Charles Beaumon
43.
The Twilight Zone (1959–1964)
Episode:
Where Is Everybody?
(1959)
TV-PG | 25 min | Drama, Fantasy, Horror
Mike Ferris finds himself alone in the small Oakwood town and without recollection about his name, where he is or who he is. Mike wanders through the town trying to find a living soul. The tension increases and Mike has a breakdown.
Director: Robert Stevens | Stars: Earl Holliman, James Gregory, Paul Langton, James McCallion
Votes: 7,146
Season One/Writer: Rod Serling
44.
The Twilight Zone (1959–1964)
Episode:
Mirror Image
(1960)
TV-PG | 25 min | Drama, Fantasy, Horror
While waiting in a bus station, Millicent Barnes has the strange feeling that her doppelganger is trying to take over her life.
Director: John Brahm | Stars: Rod Serling, Vera Miles, Martin Milner, Joseph Hamilton
Votes: 4,329
Season One/Writer: Rod Serling
45.
The Twilight Zone (1959–1964)
Episode:
The Night of the Meek
(1960)
TV-PG | 25 min | Drama, Fantasy, Horror
After a derelict Santa Claus is fired on Christmas Eve, he finds a mysterious bag that gives out presents. With this bag he sets out to fulfill his one wish - to see the less fortunate inherit the bounties of Christmas.
Director: Jack Smight | Stars: Art Carney, John Fiedler, Robert P. Lieb, Val Avery
Votes: 3,611
Season Two/Writer: Rod Serling
46.
The Twilight Zone (1959–1964)
Episode:
The Hunt
(1962)
TV-PG | 25 min | Drama, Fantasy, Horror
Upon returning from a coon hunt, Hyder Simpson discovers that no one can see or hear him because he has passed on.
Director: Harold D. Schuster | Stars: Arthur Hunnicutt, Jeanette Nolan, Robert Foulk, Dexter Dupont
Votes: 2,928
Season Three/Writer: Earl Hamner, Jr.
47.
The Twilight Zone (1959–1964)
Episode:
The Little People
(1962)
TV-PG | 25 min | Drama, Fantasy, Horror
On a desolate planet, two astronauts discover an entire society populated by incredibly small beings. One of the astronauts decides to rule the society as a god.
Director: William F. Claxton | Stars: Joe Maross, Claude Akins, Michael Ford, Robert Eaton
Votes: 2,670
Season Three/Writer: Rod Serling
48.
The Twilight Zone (1959–1964)
Episode:
The New Exhibit
(1963)
TV-14 | 51 min | Drama, Fantasy, Horror
A wax-museum employee fights to preserve five figures of famous murderers.
Director: John Brahm | Stars: Martin Balsam, Will Kuluva, Margaret Field, William Mims
Votes: 2,001
Season Four/Writer: Charles Beaumont
49.
The Twilight Zone (1959–1964)
Episode:
A Nice Place to Visit
(1960)
TV-PG | 25 min | Drama, Fantasy, Horror
When 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.
Director: John Brahm | Stars: Larry Blyden, Sebastian Cabot, John Close, Louise De Carlo
Votes: 3,840
Season One/Writer: Charles Beaumont
50.
The Twilight Zone (1959–1964)
Episode:
The Odyssey of Flight 33
(1961)
TV-PG | 25 min | Drama, Fantasy, Horror
Passing through the sound barrier, a commercial airliner inadvertently travels back in time.
Director: Justus Addiss | Stars: John Anderson, Paul Comi, Sandy Kenyon, Wayne Heffley
Votes: 3,313
Season Two/Writer: Rod Serling
51.
The Twilight Zone (1959–1964)
Episode:
Twenty Two
(1961)
TV-PG | 25 min | Drama, Fantasy, Horror
While in the hospital recovering from overwork, Liz Powell keeps dreaming about going down to the hospital morgue.
Director: Jack Smight | Stars: Barbara Nichols, Jonathan Harris, Fredd Wayne, Arlene Martel
Votes: 3,155
Season Two/Writer: Rod Serling
52.
The Twilight Zone (1959–1964)
Episode:
A Game of Pool
(1961)
TV-PG | 25 min | Drama, Fantasy, Horror
A frustrated pool champion has beaten everyone. Everyone except one man - the legendary Fats Brown. Brown is dead and the champ can only curse his name. But guess who just walked in.
Director: Buzz Kulik | Stars: Jack Klugman, Jonathan Winters, Dee Sharon, Margie Liszt
Votes: 3,035
Season Three/Writer: George Clayton Johnson
53.
The Twilight Zone (1959–1964)
Episode:
Person or Persons Unknown
(1962)
TV-PG | 25 min | Drama, Fantasy, Horror
Paying homage to It's a Wonderful Life (1946), David Gurney wakes up to another ordinary day. Except today, nobody knows who he is including his own wife Wilma.
Director: John Brahm | Stars: Richard Long, Frank Silvera, Shirley Ballard, Julie Van Zandt
Votes: 2,468
Season Three/Writer: Charles Beaumont
54.
The Twilight Zone (1959–1964)
Episode:
Valley of the Shadow
(1963)
TV-PG | 51 min | Drama, Fantasy, Horror
A reporter stumbles into a peaceful town where miracles seem to occur due to technology and the townsfolk won't let him leave.
Director: Perry Lafferty | Stars: David Opatoshu, Ed Nelson, Natalie Trundy, Jacques Aubuchon
Votes: 2,099
Season Four/Writer: Charles Beaumont
55.
The Twilight Zone (1959–1964)
Episode:
The Dummy
(1962)
TV-PG | 25 min | Drama, Fantasy, Horror
Ventriloquist Jerry Etherson is convinced that his dummy, Willie, is alive and evil. He locks Willie in a trunk and makes plans for a new act with a new dummy. Too bad he didn't clear those plans with Willie first.
Director: Abner Biberman | Stars: Cliff Robertson, Frank Sutton, George Murdock, John Harmon
Votes: 2,634
Season Three/Teleplay: Rod Serling, based on a short story by Lee Polk
56.
The Twilight Zone (1959–1964)
Episode:
Ring-A-Ding Girl
(1963)
TV-PG | 25 min | Drama, Fantasy, Horror
Movie star Bunny Blake receives a ring from her hometown which is giving her warnings to come home while she flies cross country.
Director: Alan Crosland Jr. | Stars: Maggie McNamara, Mary Munday, David Macklin, George Mitchell
Votes: 2,196
Season Five/Writer: Earl Hamner, Jr.
57.
The Twilight Zone (1959–1964)
Episode:
One for the Angels
(1959)
TV-PG | 25 min | Drama, Fantasy, Horror
A pitchman is visited by Mr. Death and is forced to get his priorities in order.
Director: Robert Parrish | Stars: Rod Serling, Ed Wynn, Murray Hamilton, Dana Dillaway
Votes: 6,052
Season One/Writer: Rod Serling
58.
The Twilight Zone (1959–1964)
Episode:
I Shot an Arrow into the Air
(1960)
TV-PG | 25 min | Drama, Fantasy, Horror
Order breaks down between three surviving crewmen whose rocket ship crashes on an unknown world with limited water and supplies.
Director: Stuart Rosenberg | Stars: Dewey Martin, Edward Binns, Ted Otis, Harry Bartell
Votes: 4,012
Season One/Writer: Rod Serling
59.
The Twilight Zone (1959–1964)
Episode:
A World of Difference
(1960)
TV-PG | 25 min | Drama, Fantasy, Horror
A businessman sitting in his office inexplicably finds that he is on a production set and in a world where he is a movie star. Uninterested in the newfound fame, he fights to get back to his home and family.
Director: Ted Post | Stars: Howard Duff, David White, Frank Maxwell, Eileen Ryan
Votes: 3,626
Season One/Writer: Richard Matheson
60.
The Twilight Zone (1959–1964)
Episode:
The Rip Van Winkle Caper
(1961)
TV-PG | 25 min | Drama, Fantasy, Horror
After successfully stealing a gold shipment, a group of criminals and their scientist accomplice put themselves in suspended animation in a remote desert cave. When they awaken decades later, complications ensue when their truck is destroyed.
Director: Justus Addiss | Stars: Simon Oakland, Oscar Beregi Jr., Lew Gallo, John Mitchum
Votes: 2,747
Season Two/Writer: Rod Serling
61.
The Twilight Zone (1959–1964)
Episode:
The Trade-Ins
(1962)
TV-PG | 25 min | Drama, Fantasy, Horror
An elderly couple shop for younger replacement bodies, then resort to desperate measures to cover the cost.
Director: Elliot Silverstein | Stars: Joseph Schildkraut, Noah Keen, Alma Platt, Theodore Marcuse
Votes: 2,375
Season Three/Writer: Rod Serling
62.
The Twilight Zone (1959–1964)
Episode:
The Old Man in the Cave
(1963)
TV-PG | 25 min | Drama, Fantasy, Horror
In a post-apocalyptic settlement in 1974, the inhabitants' survival is dependent on the advice of an unseen man living in a nearby cave. This dependence is tested when a band of soldiers descends on their town.
Director: Alan Crosland Jr. | Stars: James Coburn, John Anderson, Josie Lloyd, John Craven
Votes: 2,273
Season Five/Teleplay: Rod Serling, based on a short story by Henry Slesar
63.
The Twilight Zone (1959–1964)
Episode:
Miniature
(1963)
TV-PG | 51 min | Drama, Fantasy, Horror
Mousey misfit Charley Parkes finds the world unfolding before him in a museum doll house to be more real than his boring job and overbearing mother.
Director: Walter Grauman | Stars: Robert Duvall, Pert Kelton, Barbara Barrie, William Windom
Votes: 2,020
Season Four/Writer: Charles Beaumont
64.
The Twilight Zone (1959–1964)
Episode:
Death Ship
(1963)
TV-PG | 51 min | Drama, Fantasy, Horror
An interplanetary expedition from Earth finds an exact duplicate of their ship and themselves crashed on the planet they were surveying. Should they stay or risk taking off and crashing?
Director: Don Medford | Stars: Jack Klugman, Ross Martin, Fred Beir, Mary Webster
Votes: 1,985
Season Four/Writer: Richard Matheson
65.
The Twilight Zone (1959–1964)
Episode:
The Parallel
(1963)
TV-14 | 51 min | Drama, Fantasy, Horror
Astronaut Robert Gaines returns from space to a world that is not exactly the one he left from.
Director: Alan Crosland Jr. | Stars: Steve Forrest, Jacqueline Scott, Frank Aletter, Paul Comi
Votes: 1,828
Season Four/Writer: Rod Serling
66.
The Twilight Zone (1959–1964)
Episode:
Elegy
(1960)
TV-PG | 25 min | Drama, Fantasy, Horror
Three astronauts touch down on an asteroid, where they discover a world of people that appear to be frozen in time. Confused, they theorize as to why everyone is motionless, until a man springs to life and explains.
Director: Douglas Heyes | Stars: Cecil Kellaway, Jeff Morrow, Don Dubbins, Kevin Hagen
Votes: 3,638
Season One/Writer: Charles Beaumont
67.
The Twilight Zone (1959–1964)
Episode:
Two
(1961)
TV-PG | 25 min | Drama, Fantasy, Horror
Two survivors of an apocalyptic battle, a man and a woman from opposing sides, approach each other suspiciously.
Director: Montgomery Pittman | Stars: Elizabeth Montgomery, Charles Bronson, Rod Serling
Votes: 3,268
Season Three/Writer: Montgomery Pittman
68.
The Twilight Zone (1959–1964)
Episode:
A Most Unusual Camera
(1960)
TV-PG | 25 min | Drama, Fantasy, Horror
When three unintelligent crooks get ahold of a camera that takes pictures of the future, they set out to make a quick fortune with their new toy.
Director: John Rich | Stars: Fred Clark, Jean Carson, Adam Williams, Marcel Hillaire
Votes: 3,104
Season Two/Writer: Rod Serling
69.
The Twilight Zone (1959–1964)
Episode:
Long Distance Call
(1961)
TV-PG | 25 min | Drama, Fantasy, Horror
A toy telephone becomes the link between a young boy and his dead grandmother.
Director: James Sheldon | Stars: Philip Abbott, Lili Darvas, Patricia Smith, Bill Mumy
Votes: 2,940
Season Two/Writers: Charles Beaumont and William Idelson
70.
The Twilight Zone (1959–1964)
Episode:
Back There
(1961)
TV-PG | 25 min | Drama, Fantasy, Horror
At a prominent club in Washington, D.C., a socialite argues about whether it would be possible to change history by traveling back in time. When he leaves the club he finds himself in 1865, on the night that President Lincoln will be shot.
Director: David Orrick McDearmon | Stars: Russell Johnson, Paul Hartman, Bartlett Robinson, John Lasell
Votes: 2,832
Season Two/Writer: Rod Serling
71.
The Twilight Zone (1959–1964)
Episode:
Kick the Can
(1962)
TV-PG | 25 min | Drama, Fantasy, Horror
An old man living in a rest home thinks he's found the secret of youth in children's games.
Director: Lamont Johnson | Stars: Ernest Truex, Russell Collins, John Marley, Hank Patterson
Votes: 2,682
Season Three/Writer: George Clayton Johnson
72.
The Twilight Zone (1959–1964)
Episode:
The Fugitive
(1962)
TV-PG | 25 min | Drama, Fantasy, Horror
Jenny and the other kids don't realize that the kindly yet magical old duffer they play with in the park is really an intergalactic fugitive hiding out till two serious men come looking for him, asking questions that test their friendship.
Director: Richard L. Bare | Stars: Susan Gordon, J. Pat O'Malley, Nancy Kulp, Wesley Lau
Votes: 2,452
Season Three/Writer: Charles Beaumont
73.
The Twilight Zone (1959–1964)
Episode:
A Piano in the House
(1962)
TV-PG | 25 min | Drama, Fantasy, Horror
Sadistic and hated theater critic Fitzgerald Fortune buys a player piano that has the power to reveal the souls of all who hear it.
Director: David Greene | Stars: Barry Morse, Joan Hackett, Don Durant, Muriel Landers
Votes: 2,438
Season Three: Writer: Earl Hamner, Jr.
74.
The Twilight Zone (1959–1964)
Episode:
A Kind of a Stopwatch
(1963)
TV-PG | 25 min | Drama, Fantasy, Horror
A man is given a stopwatch that halts time.
Director: John Rich | Stars: Richard Erdman, Herbie Faye, Leon Belasco, Doris Singleton
Votes: 2,280
Season Five/Teleplay: Rod Serling, based on a short story by Michael D. Rosenthal
75.
The Twilight Zone (1959–1964)
Episode:
In Praise of Pip
(1963)
TV-PG | 25 min | Drama, Fantasy, Horror
A wearied bookie, learning of his grown soldier son Pip dying in South Vietnam, gets to spend one last delightful hour with a ten-year-old version of him at an amusement park.
Director: Joseph M. Newman | Stars: Jack Klugman, Connie Gilchrist, Bobby Diamond, Bill Mumy
Votes: 2,241
Season Five/Writer: Rod Serling
76.
The Twilight Zone (1959–1964)
Episode:
He's Alive
(1963)
TV-PG | 51 min | Drama, Fantasy, Horror
A tiny neo-Nazi organization struggles pathetically to succeed in a big city. A mysterious figure begins to ruthlessly guide a young, insecure U.S. Nazi leader, and the group begins to draw more attention.
Director: Stuart Rosenberg | Stars: Dennis Hopper, Ludwig Donath, Paul Mazursky, Howard Caine
Votes: 2,177
Season Four/Writer: Rod Serling
77.
The Twilight Zone (1959–1964)
Episode:
The Long Morrow
(1964)
TV-PG | 25 min | Drama, Fantasy, Horror
Before leaving on a decades-long solo mission, astronaut Douglas Stansfield meets a woman and falls in love.
Director: Robert Florey | Stars: Robert Lansing, Mariette Hartley, Edward Binns, George Macready
Votes: 2,098
Season Five/Writer: Rod Serling
78.
The Twilight Zone (1959–1964)
Episode:
You Drive
(1964)
TV-PG | 25 min | Drama, Fantasy, Horror
After being involved with a hit-and-run accident that resulted in the death of a child, Oliver Pope is haunted by his car.
Director: John Brahm | Stars: Edward Andrews, Helen Westcott, Kevin Hagen, Totty Ames
Votes: 2,037
Season Five/Writer: Earl Hamner, Jr.
79.
The Twilight Zone (1959–1964)
Episode:
Queen of the Nile
(1964)
TV-PG | 25 min | Drama, Fantasy, Horror
A reporter interviews a Hollywood movie queen who has a secret to her eternal beauty.
Director: John Brahm | Stars: Ann Blyth, Lee Philips, Celia Lovsky, Frank Ferguson
Votes: 2,001
Season Five/Writer: Charles Beaumont
80.
The Twilight Zone (1959–1964)
Episode:
The Self-Improvement of Salvadore Ross
(1964)
TV-PG | 25 min | Drama, Fantasy, Horror
Salvadore Ross has a unique talent where he can trade physical characteristics with other people and will do anything to get the love of Leah Maitland.
Director: Don Siegel | Stars: Don Gordon, Gail Kobe, Vaughn Taylor, J. Pat O'Malley
Votes: 1,907
Season Five/Teleplay by : Jerry McNeely, based on a short story by Henry Slesar
81.
The Twilight Zone (1959–1964)
Episode:
The Jeopardy Room
(1964)
TV-PG | 25 min | Drama, Fantasy, Horror
A defector is trapped in a hotel room and given three hours to find a hidden bomb.
Director: Richard Donner | Stars: Martin Landau, John van Dreelen, Bob Kelljan, Rod Serling
Votes: 1,855
Season Five/Writer: Rod Serling
82.
The Twilight Zone (1959–1964)
Episode:
Mr. Garrity and the Graves
(1964)
TV-PG | 25 min | Drama, Fantasy, Horror
Mr. Garrity comes into town of Happiness, Arizona offering to resurrect the dead and to reunite the town-folk with their departed loved ones out of the goodness of his heart. Do the town-folk want these miracles?
Director: Ted Post | Stars: John Dehner, Stanley Adams, J. Pat O'Malley, Norman Leavitt
Votes: 1,821
Season Five/Teleplay: Rod Serling, based on a short story by Mike Korologos
83.
The Twilight Zone (1959–1964)
Episode:
Perchance to Dream
(1959)
TV-PG | 25 min | Drama, Fantasy, Horror
A fatigued man fights to stay awake as he explains to a psychiatrist that if he falls asleep it will trigger a nightmare, which will cause his heart to fail.
Director: Robert Florey | Stars: Richard Conte, John Larch, Suzanne Lloyd, Eddie Marr
Votes: 4,503
Season One/Writer: Charles Beaumont
84.
The Twilight Zone (1959–1964)
Episode:
The Man in the Bottle
(1960)
TV-PG | 25 min | Drama, Fantasy, Horror
A luckless couple stumbles upon fortune when a genie materializes from a bottle in their antique shop. The genie grants them four wishes but warns them, prophetically, to be careful what you wish for.
Director: Don Medford | Stars: Luther Adler, Vivi Janiss, Joseph Ruskin, Olan Soule
Votes: 3,108
Season Two/Writer: Rod Serling
85.
The Twilight Zone (1959–1964)
Episode:
The Grave
(1961)
TV-PG | 25 min | Drama, Fantasy, Horror
Old West lawman Conny Miller visits the grave of a man who he failed to track down to prove he was never afraid of him but gets more than he bargained for.
Director: Montgomery Pittman | Stars: Lee Marvin, James Best, Strother Martin, Elen Willard
Votes: 2,709
Season Three/Writer: Montgomery Pittman
86.
The Twilight Zone (1959–1964)
Episode:
The Passersby
(1961)
TV-PG | 25 min | Drama, Fantasy, Horror
While headed home, a Confederate soldier meets an anguished woman at the end of the Civil War.
Director: Elliot Silverstein | Stars: James Gregory, Joanne Linville, Rex Holman, David Garcia
Votes: 2,646
Season Three/Writer: Rod Serling
87.
The Twilight Zone (1959–1964)
Episode:
Dead Man's Shoes
(1962)
TV-PG | 25 min | Drama, Fantasy, Horror
A homeless man takes the shoes off a dead gangster and steps into his life.
Director: Montgomery Pittman | Stars: Warren Stevens, Richard Devon, Joan Marshall, Ben Wright
Votes: 2,337
Season Three/Writer: Charles Beaumont
88.
The Twilight Zone (1959–1964)
Episode:
I Am the Night - Color Me Black
(1964)
TV-PG | 25 min | Drama, Fantasy, Horror
The Sun doesn't rise on a small town where an execution is scheduled to take place.
Director: Abner Biberman | Stars: Michael Constantine, Paul Fix, George Lindsey, Ivan Dixon
Votes: 2,060
Season Five/Writer: Rod Serling
89.
The Twilight Zone (1959–1964)
Episode:
In His Image
(1963)
TV-PG | 51 min | Drama, Fantasy, Horror
A young man grapples with an urge to kill and confusion about his origins.
Director: Perry Lafferty | Stars: George Grizzard, Gail Kobe, Katherine Squire, Wallace Rooney
Votes: 1,833
Season Four/Writer: Charles Beaumont
90.
The Twilight Zone (1959–1964)
Episode:
Escape Clause
(1959)
TV-PG | 25 min | Drama, Fantasy, Horror
A hypochondriac man sells his soul to the devil, exchanging it for several thousand years of immortality.
Director: Mitchell Leisen | Stars: Rod Serling, David Wayne, Thomas Gomez, Virginia Christine
Votes: 4,643
Season One/Writer: Rod Serling
91.
The Twilight Zone (1959–1964)
Episode:
Judgment Night
(1959)
TV-PG | 25 min | Drama, Fantasy, Horror
It's 1942, and a man finds himself on a ship in the Atlantic, not knowing who he is, nor how he got there. He does know the ship will soon be attacked by a German U-boat.
Director: John Brahm | Stars: Rod Serling, Nehemiah Persoff, Deirdre Owens, Patrick Macnee
Votes: 4,129
Season One/Writer: Rod Serling
92.
The Twilight Zone (1959–1964)
Episode:
The Purple Testament
(1960)
TV-PG | 25 min | Drama, Fantasy, Horror
A U.S. Army lieutenant serving in the Philippines during WWII develops a harrowing ability to see in the faces of the men of his platoon, the men who will be the next ones to die.
Director: Richard L. Bare | Stars: Rod Serling, Dick York, William Reynolds, William Phipps
Votes: 3,470
Season One/Writer: Rod Serling
93.
The Twilight Zone (1959–1964)
Episode:
Nightmare as a Child
(1960)
TV-PG | 25 min | Drama, Fantasy, Horror
A schoolteacher keeps seeing a strange little girl in her apartment building.
Director: Alvin Ganzer | Stars: Rod Serling, Janice Rule, Shepperd Strudwick, Terry Burnham
Votes: 3,426
Season One/Writer: Rod Serling
94.
The Twilight Zone (1959–1964)
Episode:
Hocus-Pocus and Frisby
(1962)
TV-PG | 25 min | Drama, Fantasy, Horror
A rural gas station attendant given to telling tall tales about himself is kidnapped by aliens who believe him to be one of Earth's leading intellects.
Director: Lamont Johnson | Stars: Andy Devine, Milton Selzer, Howard McNear, Dabbs Greer
Votes: 2,378
Season Three/Teleplay: Rod Serling, based on a short story by Frederic Louis Fox
95.
The Twilight Zone (1959–1964)
Episode:
One More Pallbearer
(1962)
TV-PG | 25 min | Drama, Fantasy, Horror
Millionaire Paul Radin tries to convince three people who wronged him in the past to apologize to him by offering them shelter from a staged and phony nuclear war scenario.
Director: Lamont Johnson | Stars: Joseph Wiseman, Katherine Squire, Trevor Bardette, Gage Clarke
Votes: 2,356
Season Three/Writer: Rod Serling
96.
The Twilight Zone (1959–1964)
Episode:
Probe 7, Over and Out
(1963)
TV-PG | 25 min | Drama, Fantasy, Horror
Colonel Adam Cook, stranded on a distant planet with no hope for rescue, meets a woman who is the sole survivor from another planet.
Director: Ted Post | Stars: Richard Basehart, Antoinette Bower, Harold Gould, Barton Heyman
Votes: 2,058
Season Five/Writer: Rod Serling
97.
The Twilight Zone (1959–1964)
Episode:
No Time Like the Past
(1963)
TV-PG | 51 min | Drama, Fantasy, Horror
A scientist attempts to use a time machine to prevent tragedies, both in world history and in his own past.
Director: Justus Addiss | Stars: Dana Andrews, Patricia Breslin, Malcolm Atterbury, Robert Cornthwaite
Votes: 1,784
Season Four/Writer: Rod Serling
98.
The Twilight Zone (1959–1964)
Episode:
Passage on the Lady Anne
(1963)
TV-14 | 51 min | Drama, Fantasy, Horror
A young American couple, the Ransomes, who are trying to salvage their troubled marriage, insist on booking passage on an old trans-Atlantic cruise liner. But other passengers try to persuade them to disembark immediately.
Director: Lamont Johnson | Stars: Gladys Cooper, Wilfrid Hyde-White, Cecil Kellaway, Lee Philips
Votes: 1,712
Season Four/Writer: Charles Beaumont
99.
The Twilight Zone (1959–1964)
Episode:
Execution
(1960)
TV-PG | 25 min | Drama, Fantasy, Horror
When a 20th-century scientist tests out his time machine he accidentally retrieves a murderer from 1880, saving him from the hangman's noose. Unaware of the man's history, the scientist attempts to acclimatize him to his new surroundings.
Director: David Orrick McDearmon | Stars: Albert Salmi, Russell Johnson, Than Wyenn, George Mitchell
Votes: 3,258
Season One/Teleplay: Rod Serling, based on a short story by George Clayton Johnson
100.
The Twilight Zone (1959–1964)
Episode:
A Passage for Trumpet
(1960)
TV-PG | 25 min | Drama, Fantasy, Horror
A suicidally despondent trumpet player finds himself in a bizarre world where he seems to be invisible to everyone, except for one helpful other musician.
Director: Don Medford | Stars: Rod Serling, Jack Klugman, John Anderson, Frank Wolff
Votes: 3,104
Season One/Writer: Rod Serling
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