25 great Twilight Zone episodes
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- 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.Season 1 - Episode 30
When life goes to hell there is always Willoughby. In reality there is no such place. But when there is no other way out it happens the train stops there...
My favorite TZ episode! - DirectorLamont JohnsonStarsGladys CooperRobert RedfordR.G. ArmstrongAn 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?Season 3 - Episode 16
An old lady is afraid that Death might be knocking on her door so she decides she won't let anybody in. But people won't let her be. They come knocking on her door.
Gave me many chills up my spine! - 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.Season 3 - Episode 14
Five funny characters find themselves trapped in circular room. Why are they there? How can they get out? And what is out there?
Another favorite! - DirectorJohn BrahmStarsDennis WeaverHarry TownesWright KingAdam 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.Season 2 - Episode 26
A man is sentenced to death in the electric chair. But he claims he is innocent and that all this has happened to him before.
This episode is a classic! - 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.Season 1 - Episode 16
A girl is driving along a road when she starts to see a strange man waving at her...
Very creepy atmosphere here! A chiller! - DirectorJohn BrahmStarsRod SerlingVera MilesMartin MilnerWhile waiting in a bus station, Millicent Barnes has the strange feeling that her doppelganger is trying to take over her life.Season 1 - Episode 26
A woman is losing her mind. There seems to be duplicates of her...
Creepy and bizarre episode! Very dreamlike. - DirectorJack SmightStarsBarbara NicholsJonathan HarrisFredd WayneWhile in the hospital recovering from overwork, Liz Powell keeps dreaming about going down to the hospital morgue.Season 2 - Episode 17
A young lady has nightmares. In her dreams she wakes up and follows somebody down to the cellar. At the end of the corridor down there is a mysterious door marked "22".
This episode is creepy!!! - DirectorPaul StewartStarsSarah MarshallRobert SampsonCharles AidmanAwakened 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.Season 3 - Episode 26
A little girl finds an entrance to another dimension in her house and gets trapped in there.
This is the original Poltergeist! - DirectorJames SheldonStarsPhilip AbbottLili DarvasPatricia SmithA toy telephone becomes the link between a young boy and his dead grandmother.Season 2 - Episode 22
A six year old boy has a special relationship with his grandmother. On his birthday she gives him a toy phone that he can use to call her after she is dead...
I found this episode scary. - DirectorBoris SagalStarsHarold J. StoneFredd WayneNoah KeenFederal aviation investigator Grant Sheckly must deal with a mystery when a plane lands at an airport without pilots, passengers or luggage.Season 3 - Episode 2
A mysterious airplane has landed but nobody leaves the aircraft...
Horror of the unknown! - DirectorJohn BrahmStarsBurgess MeredithVaughn TaylorJacqueline deWitA henpecked book lover finds himself blissfully alone with his books after a nuclear war.Season 1 - Episode 8
A middle-aged bank clerk has only one interest in his life: To read! When he reads books and newspapers it is the only time he is truly happy. It turns out it is both a blessing and a curse - DirectorElliot SilversteinStarsJoseph SchildkrautNoah KeenAlma PlattAn elderly couple shop for younger replacement bodies, then resort to desperate measures to cover the cost.Season 3 - Episode 31
If you could get a young persons body and live forever would you do it? - 1959–196451mTV-148.1 (2.1K)TV EpisodeDirectorBuzz KulikStarsJames WhitmoreTim O'ConnorJames BroderickThe 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.Season 4 - Episode 16
A group of workers are left on another planet unable to leave. Will they ever be able to return? To survive they need a leader that can give them hope and strenght...
This is the best long Twilight Zone episode! - DirectorAnton LeaderStarsLois NettletonBetty GardeTom ReeseWhen 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.Season 3 - Episode 10
Earth is getting warmer and warmer. It is unbearably hot. Everything melts. How long is people going to survive?
This is horror of temperature! - 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.Season 5 - Episode 3
A mental patient recently released seems to see strange things outside his airplane window
Probably the most wellknown TZ episode. Still very fun to watch. - 1959–196425mTV-PG8.7 (4.3K)TV EpisodeDirectorMontgomery PittmanStarsJohn HoytJean WillesJack ElamFollowing 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.Season 2 - Episode 28
A regular bus stops at a diner where the passengers learn that a spacecraft has crashed nearby. When the bus driver counts his passengers there is one extra passenger! But everyone of them claims to have been on the bus before...
Got to be the best title ever! This is lots of fun! - DirectorTed PostStarsHoward DuffDavid WhiteFrank MaxwellA 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.Season 1 - Episode 23
Something is wrong with reality... - DirectorRobert FloreyStarsRichard ConteJohn LarchSuzanne LloydA 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.Season 1 - Episode 9
Edward Hall has a special problem. If he goes to sleep he believes he's going to die. If he stays awake his heart will not take it anymore... - DirectorLamont JohnsonStarsJoseph WisemanKatherine SquireTrevor BardetteMillionaire 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.Season 3 - Episode 17
A man sets out to revenge on people that hurted him when he was younger. Now finally they'll get what they deserve! - DirectorJack SmightStarsRod SerlingJack WardenJohn DehnerA convict, living alone on an asteroid, receives from the police a realistic woman-robot.Season 1 - Episode 7
A man is deported to Mars to live in complete isolation. His only friend is an inflatable doll.
Very memorable episode about loneliness! - DirectorRichard C. SarafianStarsTelly SavalasMary LaRocheTracy StratfordA 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".Season 5 -Episode 6
"Hi! My name is Tina and I'm going to kill you!"
Forget about Chucky. Here is the original living doll horror: Talking Tina! - DirectorElliot SilversteinStarsBurgess MeredithFritz WeaverJosip ElicIn a future totalitarian society, a librarian is declared obsolete and sentenced to death.Season 2 - Episode 29
In a future society a man is found to be obsolete by the supreme court. People who doesn't fit the needs of the state are deemed obsolete and executed. - 1959–196425mTV-PG8.3 (5.1K)TV EpisodeDirectorDouglas HeyesStarsRod TaylorJim HuttonCharles AidmanThree astronauts return to Earth after seemingly having made an encounter that dooms them and their craft to erasure from existence itself.Season 1 - Episode 11
Something strange is going on! After a space journey, things and persons seems to be disappearing... - DirectorJacques TourneurStarsGladys CooperNora MarloweMartine BartlettTelephone calls begin to haunt a disabled elderly woman.Season 5 - Episode 19
A widow gets strange phone calls at night....
Chilling! - DirectorRichard DonnerStarsGary CrosbyBonnie BeecherJonathan BoltSinger Floyd Burney searches the backwoods for new songs and finds Mary Rachel and much more deep in the Twilight Zone.Season 5 - Episode 34
The reason I put this episode here is the theme song. Best song in entire Twilight Zone! The story is perhaps not that special but the song will enchant you into liking it.