Top Twilight Zone Episodes (plus the movies), according to IMDB Voters
Since there are episodes spread across multiple series, I decided to combine several of the most highly acclaimed ones onto one list.
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- 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."Ratings: 9.2/10 from 1,905 users
- 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.Ratings: 9.2/10 from 1,792 users
- DirectorRichard L. BareStarsLloyd BochnerSusan CummingsRichard KielAn 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."Ratings: 9.2/10 from 1,697 users
- DirectorJohn BrahmStarsBurgess MeredithVaughn TaylorJacqueline deWitA henpecked book lover finds himself blissfully alone with his books after a nuclear war.Ratings: 9.1/10 from 2,535 users
- 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.Ratings: 9.0/10 from 1,893 users
- DirectorJames SheldonStarsJohn LarchCloris LeachmanDon KeeferOn 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.Ratings: 9.0/10 from 1,429 users
- 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".Ratings: 9.0/10 from 1,192 users
- 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.Ratings: 8.8/10 from 1,550 users
- DirectorElliot SilversteinStarsBurgess MeredithFritz WeaverJosip ElicIn a future totalitarian society, a librarian is declared obsolete and sentenced to death.Ratings: 8.8/10 from 1,354 users
- 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.Ratings: 8.8/10 from 1,282 users
- 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.Ratings: 8.7/10 from 1,201 users
- 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.Ratings: 8.7/10 from 1,189 users
- DirectorLamont JohnsonStarsLarry GatesJoseph BernardJack AlbertsonA 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.Ratings: 8.7/10 from 1,014 users
- DirectorIda LupinoStarsRobert KeithMilton SelzerVirginia GreggWealthy 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.Ratings: 8.7/10 from 972 users
- DirectorDouglas 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.Ratings: 8.6/10 from 1,467 users
- 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?Ratings: 8.6/10 from 1,085 users
- 1959–196425mTV-PG8.3 (2.7K)TV EpisodeDirectorRobert EnricoStarsRoger JacquetAnne CornalyAnker-Spang LarsenDuring the American Civil War in 1862, a condemned Confederate prisoner, Peyton Farquhar, is due to be hanged by Union troops.Ratings: 8.6/10 from 784 users
- DirectorBoris SagalStarsFranchot ToneLiam SullivanCyril DelevantiAnnoyed 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.Ratings: 8.6/10 from 956 users
- 1985–19891hTV-PG7.8 (558)TV EpisodeDirectorJohn D. HancockPeter MedakStarsLane SmithAndrew RobinsonLouis Giambalvo"Profile in Silver": After preventing the assassination of President Kennedy, a historian from the future faces the consequences of his act. "Button, Button": A couple receives a box with a button -- and an unusual offer.Ratings: 8.1/10 from 198 users (The only episode from the '80s series to rate above an 8 out of 10.)
- DirectorJean de SegonzacStarsForest WhitakerKatherine HeiglJames RemarA woman goes back in time to the birth of Hitler and attempts to interfere so that World War II never happens.Ratings: 7.6/10 from 170 users (The highest-rated episode of the 2002 series.)
- DirectorJoe DanteJohn LandisGeorge MillerStarsDan AykroydAlbert BrooksVic MorrowFour horror and science fiction segments, directed by four famous directors, each of them being a new version of a classic story from Rod Serling's landmark television series.Ratings: 6.5/10 from 24,403 users
- 1997–20231h 29mUnrated6.2 (4.1K)TV EpisodeDirectorD.J. MacHaleStarsSteve GuttenbergNia PeeplesMichael McShaneA disgraced reporter investigates an abandoned luxury hotel where five people mysteriously disappeared sixty years earlier.Ratings: 6.2/10 from 2,507 users (Based on a Disney Parks ride, which is in turn loosely based on "The Twilight Zone.")