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1.
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
2.
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: 4,492
3.
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
4.
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
5.
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
6.
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: 3,627
7.
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
8.
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
9.
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
10.
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
11.
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
12.
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
13.
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
14.
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: 3,113
15.
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
16.
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: 3,014
17.
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
18.
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: 4,088
19.
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: 2,698
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:
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
22.
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: 4,016
23.
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
24.
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: 3,157
25.
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
26.
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: 2,493
27.
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
28.
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: 2,749
29.
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
30.
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: 3,002
31.
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
32.
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: 2,656
33.
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
34.
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
35.
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
36.
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
37.
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
38.
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
39.
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: 2,340
40.
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: 2,672
41.
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
42.
The Twilight Zone (1959–1964)
Episode:
Cavender Is Coming
(1962)
TV-PG | 25 min | Drama, Fantasy, Horror
Inept guardian angel Harmon Cavender is given a chance to earn his wings by helping an unconventional big city woman, the young, awkward Agnes Grep.
Director: Christian Nyby | Stars: Jesse White, Carol Burnett, Howard Smith, Frank Behrens
Votes: 2,169
43.
The Twilight Zone (1959–1964)
Episode:
The Last Night of a Jockey
(1963)
TV-PG | 25 min | Drama, Fantasy, Horror
A washed-up jockey gets his wish while waiting for the results of his race fixing hearing.
Director: Joseph M. Newman | Stars: Mickey Rooney, Rod Serling
Votes: 1,861
44.
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
45.
The Twilight Zone (1959–1964)
Episode:
Probe 7, Over and Out
(1963)
TV-PG | 25 min | Drama, Fantasy, Horror
Colonel Adam Cook, stranded on a distant planet with no hope for rescue, meets a woman who is the sole survivor from another planet.
Director: Ted Post | Stars: Richard Basehart, Antoinette Bower, Harold Gould, Barton Heyman
Votes: 2,059
46.
The Twilight Zone (1959–1964)
Episode:
The Old Man in the Cave
(1963)
TV-PG | 25 min | Drama, Fantasy, Horror
In a post-apocalyptic settlement in 1974, the inhabitants' survival is dependent on the advice of an unseen man living in a nearby cave. This dependence is tested when a band of soldiers descends on their town.
Director: Alan Crosland Jr. | Stars: James Coburn, John Anderson, Josie Lloyd, John Craven
Votes: 2,273
47.
The Twilight Zone (1959–1964)
Episode:
A Short Drink from a Certain Fountain
(1963)
TV-PG | 25 min | Drama, Fantasy, Horror
An aging married man convinces his brother to inject him with a youth serum.
Director: Bernard Girard | Stars: Patrick O'Neal, Ruta Lee, Walter Brooke, Rod Serling
Votes: 1,764
48.
The Twilight Zone (1959–1964)
Episode:
Ring-A-Ding Girl
(1963)
TV-PG | 25 min | Drama, Fantasy, Horror
Movie star Bunny Blake receives a ring from her hometown which is giving her warnings to come home while she flies cross country.
Director: Alan Crosland Jr. | Stars: Maggie McNamara, Mary Munday, David Macklin, George Mitchell
Votes: 2,198
49.
The Twilight Zone (1959–1964)
Episode:
Ninety Years Without Slumbering
(1963)
TV-PG | 25 min | Drama, Fantasy, Horror
An old man believes that his life will end the moment his grandfather clock stops ticking.
Director: Roger Kay | Stars: Ed Wynn, Carolyn Kearney, James T. Callahan, Carol Byron
Votes: 1,835
50.
The Twilight Zone (1959–1964)
Episode:
Black Leather Jackets
(1964)
TV-PG | 25 min | Drama, Fantasy, Horror
Three leather-jacket-wearing, motorcycle-riding men invade a peaceful neighborhood.
Director: Joseph M. Newman | Stars: Lee Kinsolving, Shelley Fabares, Michael Forest, Denver Pyle
Votes: 1,971
51.
The Twilight Zone (1959–1964)
Episode:
From Agnes - with Love
(1964)
TV-PG | 25 min | Drama, Fantasy, Horror
A computer technician begins to take advice for his love life from Agnes, the computer he works with.
Director: Richard Donner | Stars: Wally Cox, Ralph Taeger, Sue Randall, Raymond Bailey
Votes: 1,848
52.
The Twilight Zone (1959–1964)
Episode:
What's in the Box
(1964)
TV-PG | 25 min | Drama, Fantasy, Horror
Philanderer Joe Britt sees his indiscretions shown on his own TV set after it was worked on by a unique repairman.
Director: Richard L. Bare | Stars: Joan Blondell, William Demarest, Sterling Holloway, Sandra Gould
Votes: 1,939
53.
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
54.
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
55.
The Twilight Zone (1959–1964)
Episode:
Sounds and Silences
(1964)
TV-PG | 25 min | Drama, Fantasy, Horror
Roswell Flemington enjoys loud noises, is an annoyance to others and is suitably punished.
Director: Richard Donner | Stars: John McGiver, Michael Fox, Renee Aubry, William 'Billy' Benedict
Votes: 1,665
56.
The Twilight Zone (1959–1964)
Episode:
The Encounter
(1964)
TV-PG | 25 min | Drama, Fantasy, Horror
Post-WWII Hawaii. Two men of once-opposing races are stuck in an attic full of war trophies, including a samurai sword waiting to dutifully avenge its slain master.
Director: Robert Butler | Stars: Neville Brand, George Takei, Rod Serling
Votes: 1,813
57.
The Twilight Zone (1959–1964)
Episode:
Mr. Garrity and the Graves
(1964)
TV-PG | 25 min | Drama, Fantasy, Horror
Mr. Garrity comes into town of Happiness, Arizona offering to resurrect the dead and to reunite the town-folk with their departed loved ones out of the goodness of his heart. Do the town-folk want these miracles?
Director: Ted Post | Stars: John Dehner, Stanley Adams, J. Pat O'Malley, Norman Leavitt
Votes: 1,826
58.
The Twilight Zone (1959–1964)
Episode:
Come Wander with Me
(1964)
TV-PG | 25 min | Drama, Fantasy, Horror
Singer Floyd Burney searches the backwoods for new songs and finds Mary Rachel and much more deep in the Twilight Zone.
Director: Richard Donner | Stars: Gary Crosby, Bonnie Beecher, Jonathan Bolt, Hank Patterson
Votes: 1,841
59.
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
60.
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
61.
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
62.
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
63.
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
64.
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
65.
The Twilight Zone (1959–1964)
Episode:
Of Late I Think of Cliffordville
(1963)
TV-14 | 51 min | Drama, Fantasy, Horror
Aging tycoon William Feathersmith is bored with life and makes arrangements through a devilish travel agency to return to the Cliffordville of his youth and start all over again.
Director: David Lowell Rich | Stars: Albert Salmi, John Anderson, Wright King, Guy Raymond
Votes: 1,758
66.
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: 7,150
67.
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
68.
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
69.
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: 4,645
70.
The Twilight Zone (1959–1964)
Episode:
The Brain Center at Whipple's
(1964)
TV-PG | 25 min | Drama, Fantasy, Horror
A heartless CEO completely automates his factory and lays off almost all of his workers over the objections of his employees.
Director: Richard Donner | Stars: Richard Deacon, Paul Newlan, Ted de Corsia, Thalmus Rasulala
Votes: 1,688
71.
The Twilight Zone (1959–1964)
Episode:
Steel
(1963)
TV-PG | 25 min | Drama, Fantasy, Horror
In 1974, boxing has been outlawed and is performed by mechanical robots. With his next and possibly last fight approaching and his robot in need of repair, he resorts to one last desperate gamble.
Director: Don Weis | Stars: Lee Marvin, Joe Mantell, Chuck Hicks, Merritt Bohn
Votes: 2,088
72.
The Twilight Zone (1959–1964)
Episode:
In Praise of Pip
(1963)
TV-PG | 25 min | Drama, Fantasy, Horror
A wearied bookie, learning of his grown soldier son Pip dying in South Vietnam, gets to spend one last delightful hour with a ten-year-old version of him at an amusement park.
Director: Joseph M. Newman | Stars: Jack Klugman, Connie Gilchrist, Bobby Diamond, Bill Mumy
Votes: 2,241
73.
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
74.
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
75.
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
76.
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: 2,447
77.
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: 3,316
78.
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
79.
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: 4,333
80.
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
81.
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: 5,001
82.
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
83.
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
84.
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
85.
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
86.
The Twilight Zone (1959–1964)
Episode:
Nightmare at 20,000 Feet
(1963)
TV-PG | 25 min | Drama, Fantasy, Horror
A man, newly recovered from a nervous breakdown, becomes convinced that a monster only he sees is damaging the plane he's flying in.
Director: Richard Donner | Stars: William Shatner, Christine White, Ed Kemmer, Asa Maynor
Votes: 5,501
87.
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: 2,683
88.
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
89.
The Twilight Zone (1959–1964)
Episode:
Caesar and Me
(1964)
TV-PG | 25 min | Drama, Fantasy, Horror
When Irish ventriloquist Jonathan West cannot find any work, his dummy Caesar suggests that he turn to burglary.
Director: Robert Butler | Stars: Jackie Cooper, Morgan Brittany, Sarah Selby, Don Gazzaniga
Votes: 1,827
90.
The Twilight Zone (1959–1964)
Episode:
The Jeopardy Room
(1964)
TV-PG | 25 min | Drama, Fantasy, Horror
A defector is trapped in a hotel room and given three hours to find a hidden bomb.
Director: Richard Donner | Stars: Martin Landau, John van Dreelen, Bob Kelljan, Rod Serling
Votes: 1,855
91.
The Twilight Zone (1959–1964)
Episode:
The Parallel
(1963)
TV-14 | 51 min | Drama, Fantasy, Horror
Astronaut Robert Gaines returns from space to a world that is not exactly the one he left from.
Director: Alan Crosland Jr. | Stars: Steve Forrest, Jacqueline Scott, Frank Aletter, Paul Comi
Votes: 1,832
92.
The Twilight Zone (1959–1964)
Episode:
I Dream of Genie
(1963)
TV-14 | 51 min | Drama, Fantasy, Horror
A wiseacre genie appears from a lamp to a meek man, George P. Hanley. Hanley is so used to bad luck, he imagines how each of three possible wishes could go very wrong - but the genie will ... See full summary »
Director: Robert Gist | Stars: Howard Morris, Patricia Barry, Loring Smith, Mark Miller
Votes: 1,579
93.
The Twilight Zone (1959–1964)
Episode:
No Time Like the Past
(1963)
TV-PG | 51 min | Drama, Fantasy, Horror
A scientist attempts to use a time machine to prevent tragedies, both in world history and in his own past.
Director: Justus Addiss | Stars: Dana Andrews, Patricia Breslin, Malcolm Atterbury, Robert Cornthwaite
Votes: 1,785
94.
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: 2,972
95.
The Twilight Zone (1959–1964)
Episode:
Valley of the Shadow
(1963)
TV-PG | 51 min | Drama, Fantasy, Horror
A reporter stumbles into a peaceful town where miracles seem to occur due to technology and the townsfolk won't let him leave.
Director: Perry Lafferty | Stars: David Opatoshu, Ed Nelson, Natalie Trundy, Jacques Aubuchon
Votes: 2,099
96.
The Twilight Zone (1959–1964)
Episode:
On Thursday We Leave for Home
(1963)
TV-14 | 51 min | Drama, Fantasy, Horror
The 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.
Director: Buzz Kulik | Stars: James Whitmore, Tim O'Connor, James Broderick, Paul Langton
Votes: 2,109
97.
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
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