The Twilight Zone

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1. 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: 7,147

2. 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: 6,054

3. The Twilight Zone (1959–1964)
Episode: Mr. Denton on Doomsday (1959)

TV-PG | 25 min | Drama, Fantasy, Horror

The town drunk in the old-west faces his past when Fate lends a hand.

Director: Allen Reisner | Stars: Rod Serling, Dan Duryea, Martin Landau, Jeanne Cooper

Votes: 5,149

4. The Twilight Zone (1959–1964)
Episode: The Sixteen-Millimeter Shrine (1959)

TV-PG | 25 min | Drama, Fantasy, Horror

Barbara Jean Trenton is a faded film star who lives in the past by constantly re-watching her old movies instead of moving on with her life, so her associates try to lure her out of her self-imposed isolation.

Director: Mitchell Leisen | Stars: Rod Serling, Ida Lupino, Martin Balsam, Jerome Cowan

Votes: 5,000

5. 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: 6,069

6. 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

7. 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: 5,361

8. 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: 7,787

9. 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

10. 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

11. 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

12. 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

13. The Twilight Zone (1959–1964)
Episode: The Four of Us Are Dying (1960)

TV-PG | 25 min | Drama, Fantasy, Horror

A man who can change his face to look like other people uses his ability to improve his life, regardless of his effect on others.

Director: John Brahm | Stars: Harry Townes, Phillip Pine, Ross Martin, Don Gordon

Votes: 3,851

14. 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: 4,491

15. 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

16. 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: 5,230

17. The Twilight Zone (1959–1964)
Episode: The Fever (1960)

TV-PG | 25 min | Drama, Fantasy, Horror

A middle-aged man catches gambling fever from a slot machine that he believes is calling his name.

Director: Robert Florey | Stars: Rod Serling, Everett Sloane, Vivi Janiss, William Kendis

Votes: 3,824

18. 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

19. 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: 3,472

20. 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: 3,639

21. 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: 4,331

22. 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: 6,154

23. 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

24. 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

25. 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

26. 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: 3,259

27. The Twilight Zone (1959–1964)
Episode: The Big Tall Wish (1960)

TV-PG | 25 min | Drama, Fantasy, Horror

An aging boxer finds himself the winner of a match he thought he had lost, the result a six-year-old's frantic wish. But can a world-weary, embittered man still believe in miracles, or will he turn his back on them?

Director: Ron Winston | Stars: Rod Serling, Ivan Dixon, Steven Perry, Kim Hamilton

Votes: 3,224

28. 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

29. 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

30. 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

31. The Twilight Zone (1959–1964)
Episode: The Chaser (1960)

TV-PG | 25 min | Drama, Fantasy, Horror

A young man obsessed with winning over an uninterested beauty gets more than he bargained for when he buys a love potion to gain her affection.

Director: Douglas Heyes | Stars: John McIntire, Patricia Barry, George Grizzard, J. Pat O'Malley

Votes: 3,107

32. 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: 3,105

33. The Twilight Zone (1959–1964)
Episode: Mr. Bevis (1960)

TV-PG | 25 min | Drama, Fantasy, Horror

After losing his job, his car and his apartment on the same day, an eccentric loser gets a new lease on life from his guardian angel, but there is a price for keeping it.

Director: William Asher | Stars: Rod Serling, Orson Bean, Henry Jones, Charles Lane

Votes: 3,034

34. 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: 4,529

35. The Twilight Zone (1959–1964)
Episode: The Mighty Casey (1960)

TV-PG | 25 min | Drama, Fantasy, Horror

A down-and-out baseball team's fortunes are lifted by a mysterious but seemingly unbeatable young player.

Directors: Alvin Ganzer, Robert Parrish | Stars: Rod Serling, Jack Warden, Abraham Sofaer, Robert Sorrells

Votes: 3,013

36. 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: 3,628

37. The Twilight Zone (1959–1964)
Episode: King Nine Will Not Return (1960)

TV-PG | 25 min | Drama, Fantasy, Horror

A pilot of a downed WW II bomber comes to in the African desert and desperately tries to find out what happened to the rest of his crew.

Director: Buzz Kulik | Stars: Robert Cummings, Gene Lyons, Paul Lambert, Jenna McMahon

Votes: 2,970

38. 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: 3,110

39. The Twilight Zone (1959–1964)
Episode: Nervous Man in a Four Dollar Room (1960)

TV-PG | 25 min | Drama, Fantasy, Horror

Small time criminal Jackie Rhoades must face both his past and his conscience while waiting for his next assignment.

Director: Douglas Heyes | Stars: Joe Mantell, William D. Gordon, Rod Serling

Votes: 2,820

40. The Twilight Zone (1959–1964)
Episode: A Thing About Machines (1960)

TV-PG | 25 min | Drama, Fantasy, Horror

Bartlett Finchley's paranoia about the machines around proves true.

Director: David Orrick McDearmon | Stars: Richard Haydn, Barbara Stuart, Barney Phillips, Henry Beckman

Votes: 2,780

41. 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

42. 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

43. 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

44. The Twilight Zone (1959–1964)
Episode: The Lateness of the Hour (1960)

TV-PG | 25 min | Drama, Fantasy, Horror

The daughter of an inventor objects to their "perfect" home where they are waited on by mechanical servants.

Director: Jack Smight | Stars: Inger Stevens, John Hoyt, Irene Tedrow, Tom Palmer

Votes: 2,842

45. The Twilight Zone (1959–1964)
Episode: The Trouble with Templeton (1960)

TV-PG | 25 min | Drama, Fantasy, Horror

A nostalgic actor revisits his late wife and friends at their old haunt, only to find that he is now out of place there.

Director: Buzz Kulik | Stars: Brian Aherne, Pippa Scott, Sydney Pollack, Dave Willock

Votes: 2,697

46. 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: 3,105

47. 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: 3,612

48. The Twilight Zone (1959–1964)
Episode: Dust (1961)

TV-PG | 25 min | Drama, Fantasy, Horror

A sympathetic sheriff and a callous con man are among the many who gather in a desert town on a hot day to see a man hanged for killing a child while drunk.

Director: Douglas Heyes | Stars: Thomas Gomez, John Larch, Vladimir Sokoloff, John A. Alonzo

Votes: 2,652

49. 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: 2,833

50. The Twilight Zone (1959–1964)
Episode: The Whole Truth (1961)

TV-PG | 25 min | Drama, Fantasy, Horror

A used car salesman buys a car that dooms him to tell only the truth.

Director: James Sheldon | Stars: Jack Carson, Loring Smith, George Chandler, Jack Ging

Votes: 2,554

51. 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

52. 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: 3,163

53. 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

54. 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: 3,314

55. The Twilight Zone (1959–1964)
Episode: Mr. Dingle, the Strong (1961)

TV-PG | 25 min | Drama, Fantasy, Horror

A timid vacuum-cleaner salesman is given the strength of 300 men by some experimenting aliens.

Director: John Brahm | Stars: Burgess Meredith, James Westerfield, Eddie Ryder, Douglas Spencer

Votes: 2,658

56. The Twilight Zone (1959–1964)
Episode: Static (1961)

TV-PG | 25 min | Drama, Fantasy, Horror

An old radio is taking bitter bachelor Ed Lindsay back to a happier time before what he considers worthless tripe on television when he starts picking up radio programs from the 1930's and 1940's.

Director: Buzz Kulik | Stars: Dean Jagger, Carmen Mathews, Robert Emhardt, Arch Johnson

Votes: 2,492

57. The Twilight Zone (1959–1964)
Episode: The Prime Mover (1961)

TV-PG | 25 min | Drama, Fantasy, Horror

A compulsive gambler cajoles his friend to use his telekinesis to affect the results of the gambling tables in Las Vegas.

Director: Richard L. Bare | Stars: Dane Clark, Buddy Ebsen, Christine White, Nesdon Booth

Votes: 2,446

58. 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

59. 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: 3,195

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: 2,748

61. 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: 3,349

62. 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

63. The Twilight Zone (1959–1964)
Episode: The Mind and the Matter (1961)

TV-PG | 25 min | Drama, Fantasy, Horror

Using the power of mind over matter, Archibald Beechcroft remakes the world to his own specifications.

Director: Buzz Kulik | Stars: Shelley Berman, Jack Grinnage, Chet Stratton, David Armstrong

Votes: 2,337

64. 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

65. 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: 4,091

66. 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: 3,270

67. The Twilight Zone (1959–1964)
Episode: The Arrival (1961)

TV-PG | 25 min | Drama, Fantasy, Horror

Federal aviation investigator Grant Sheckly must deal with a mystery when a plane lands at an airport without pilots, passengers or luggage.

Director: Boris Sagal | Stars: Harold J. Stone, Fredd Wayne, Noah Keen, Robert Karnes

Votes: 2,655

68. 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: 3,545

69. 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: 2,647

70. 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: 3,037

71. The Twilight Zone (1959–1964)
Episode: The Mirror (1961)

TV-PG | 25 min | Drama, Fantasy, Horror

A Central American revolutionary comes into the possession of a mirror that shows him his potential assassins.

Director: Don Medford | Stars: Peter Falk, Will Kuluva, Antony Carbone, Arthur Batanides

Votes: 2,434

72. 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: 2,710

73. 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: 4,544

74. 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: 3,128

75. 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: 3,803

76. The Twilight Zone (1959–1964)
Episode: Still Valley (1961)

TV-PG | 25 min | Drama, Fantasy, Horror

In June 1863, Confederate soldiers come across a warlock who can help bring victory to the Southern cause.

Director: James Sheldon | Stars: Gary Merrill, Vaughn Taylor, Mark Tapscott, Jack Mann

Votes: 2,174

77. The Twilight Zone (1959–1964)
Episode: The Jungle (1961)

TV-PG | 25 min | Drama, Fantasy, Horror

A businessman who has recently returned from Africa is plagued by superstitions and the dire warnings of a native witch doctor.

Director: William F. Claxton | Stars: John Dehner, Walter Brooke, Jay Adler, Emily McLaughlin

Votes: 2,322

78. The Twilight Zone (1959–1964)
Episode: Once Upon a Time (1961)

TV-PG | 25 min | Drama, Fantasy, Horror

Janitor Woodrow Mulligan gets a trip from 1890 to 1962 courtesy of his employer's time-machine helmet.

Director: Norman Z. McLeod | Stars: Buster Keaton, Stanley Adams, James Flavin, Gil Lamb

Votes: 2,624

79. 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: 3,871

80. The Twilight Zone (1959–1964)
Episode: A Quality of Mercy (1961)

TV-PG | 25 min | Drama, Fantasy, Horror

Hot-shot new Lieutenant Katell tries to make his mark on the last day of World War II in the Pacific and gets a unique perspective on his actions.

Director: Buzz Kulik | Stars: Dean Stockwell, Albert Salmi, Rayford Barnes, Ralph Votrian

Votes: 2,368

81. 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

82. 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

83. 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

84. 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: 2,929

85. The Twilight Zone (1959–1964)
Episode: Showdown with Rance McGrew (1962)

TV-PG | 25 min | Drama, Fantasy, Horror

The star of a Western TV series suddenly finds himself transported back in time to the real Wild West, and face-to-face with the real Jesse James.

Director: Christian Nyby | Stars: Larry Blyden, Arch Johnson, Robert Cornthwaite, Robert Stevenson

Votes: 2,181

86. 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

87. 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: 2,439

88. The Twilight Zone (1959–1964)
Episode: The Last Rites of Jeff Myrtlebank (1962)

TV-PG | 25 min | Drama, Fantasy, Horror

A young man wakes up during his own funeral and wants to know what the hell is going on. The townsfolk are glad to see him back, but they begin to wonder if he's a man - or something else.

Director: Montgomery Pittman | Stars: James Best, Sherry Jackson, Edgar Buchanan, Lance Fuller

Votes: 2,338

89. 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

90. 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

91. 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

92. 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: 2,469

93. 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

94. The Twilight Zone (1959–1964)
Episode: Four O'Clock (1962)

TV-PG | 25 min | Drama, Fantasy, Horror

A very obsessed man wants to expose evil in the world, investigating people he sees as murderers, subversives, perverts and communists, then attempting to ruin their lives.

Director: Lamont Johnson | Stars: Theodore Bikel, Phyllis Love, Linden Chiles, Moyna MacGill

Votes: 2,172

95. 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

96. 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

97. The Twilight Zone (1959–1964)
Episode: The Gift (1962)

TV-PG | 25 min | Drama, Fantasy, Horror

A man from the stars comes with a gift to a small Mexican village whose residents do not welcome this stranger.

Director: Allen H. Miner | Stars: Geoffrey Horne, Nico Minardos, Cliff Osmond, Edmund Vargas

Votes: 2,065

98. 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

99. The Twilight Zone (1959–1964)
Episode: Young Man's Fancy (1962)

TV-PG | 25 min | Drama, Fantasy, Horror

Newlywed Alex Walker finds himself being pulled back to his childhood and back to his widowed mother in the house where he grew up.

Director: John Brahm | Stars: Phyllis Thaxter, Alex Nicol, Wallace Rooney, Helen Brown

Votes: 1,981

100. The Twilight Zone (1959–1964)
Episode: I Sing the Body Electric (1962)

TV-G | 25 min | Drama, Fantasy, Horror

A recent widower, needing loving care for his three young children, orders a cybernetic "grandmother". While two of the children accept her, one of his daughters fiercely rejects her, with near tragic consequences.

Directors: William F. Claxton, James Sheldon | Stars: Josephine Hutchinson, David White, Vaughn Taylor, Doris Packer

Votes: 2,458



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