Favorite Twilight Zone Episodes
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1.
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: 5,363
2.
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: 7,789
3.
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: 4,355
4.
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: 4,013
5.
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: 3,640
6.
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: 6,156
7.
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: 3,966
8.
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: 6,253
9.
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: 2,843
10.
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: 2,654
11.
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: 2,559
12.
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: 3,164
13.
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
14.
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
15.
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: 3,350
16.
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: 4,092
17.
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
18.
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: 3,546
19.
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
20.
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: 3,804
21.
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
22.
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: 2,369
23.
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: 3,397
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