Favorite Twilight Zone episodes
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1.
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
2.
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
3.
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
4.
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: 4,083
5.
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
6.
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: 6,057
7.
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: 3,278
8.
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
9.
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: 5,154
10.
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: 5,039
11.
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
12.
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: 3,854
13.
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
14.
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: 3,428
15.
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
16.
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: 3,629
17.
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
18.
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
19.
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: 2,821
20.
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: 3,613
21.
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: 3,106
22.
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
23.
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
24.
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: 2,835
25.
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: 2,648
26.
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: 6,070
27.
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: 2,435
28.
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: 3,038
29.
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: 2,711
30.
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
31.
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: 5,227
32.
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
33.
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: 2,453
34.
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: 2,969
35.
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
36.
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: 2,377
37.
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: 2,379
38.
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
39.
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
40.
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
41.
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
42.
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: 2,706
43.
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: 3,745
44.
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: 2,005
45.
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: 2,062
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