Twilight Zone Best Of
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1.
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: 7,796
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: 4,493
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: 4,017
4.
The Twilight Zone (1959–1964)
Episode:
Judgment Night
(1959)
TV-PG | 25 min | Drama, Fantasy, Horror
It's 1942, and a man finds himself on a ship in the Atlantic, not knowing who he is, nor how he got there. He does know the ship will soon be attacked by a German U-boat.
Director: John Brahm | Stars: Rod Serling, Nehemiah Persoff, Deirdre Owens, Patrick Macnee
Votes: 4,138
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: 6,161
6.
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: 4,088
7.
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: 4,096
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: 6,260
9.
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: 4,023
10.
The Twilight Zone (1959–1964)
Episode:
Will the Real Martian Please Stand Up?
(1961)
TV-PG | 25 min | Drama, Fantasy, Horror
Following 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.
Director: Montgomery Pittman | Stars: John Hoyt, Jean Willes, Jack Elam, Barney Phillips
Votes: 4,330
11.
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: 5,504
12.
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: 2,281
13.
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: 3,746
14.
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: 3,286
15.
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: 6,063
16.
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: 5,044
17.
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: 4,093
18.
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: 3,041
19.
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: 2,673
20.
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: 3,876
21.
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: 2,372
22.
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: 3,549
23.
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: 5,228
24.
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: 3,808
25.
The Twilight Zone (1959–1964)
Episode:
Night Call
(1964)
TV-PG | 25 min | Drama, Fantasy, Horror
Telephone calls begin to haunt a disabled elderly woman.
Director: Jacques Tourneur | Stars: Gladys Cooper, Nora Marlowe, Martine Bartlett, Rod Serling
Votes: 2,527
26.
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: 2,635
27.
The Twilight Zone (1959–1964)
Episode:
The Hitch-Hiker
(1960)
TV-PG | 25 min | Drama, Fantasy, Horror
A 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.
Director: Alvin Ganzer | Stars: Inger Stevens, Adam Williams, Lew Gallo, Leonard Strong
Votes: 5,238
28.
The Twilight Zone (1959–1964)
Episode:
An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge
(1964)
TV-PG | 25 min | Drama, Fantasy, Horror
During the American Civil War in 1862, a condemned Confederate prisoner, Peyton Farquhar, is due to be hanged by Union troops.
Director: Robert Enrico | Stars: Roger Jacquet, Anne Cornaly, Anker-Spang Larsen, Stéphane Fey
Votes: 2,712
29.
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: 3,004
30.
The Twilight Zone (1959–1964)
Episode:
Death Ship
(1963)
TV-PG | 51 min | Drama, Fantasy, Horror
An interplanetary expedition from Earth finds an exact duplicate of their ship and themselves crashed on the planet they were surveying. Should they stay or risk taking off and crashing?
Director: Don Medford | Stars: Jack Klugman, Ross Martin, Fred Beir, Mary Webster
Votes: 1,988
31.
The Twilight Zone (1959–1964)
Episode:
Printer's Devil
(1963)
TV-PG | 51 min | Drama, Fantasy, Horror
A man sells his soul to the Devil to save his failing newspaper and gets more than he bargained for.
Director: Ralph Senensky | Stars: Robert Sterling, Pat Crowley, Burgess Meredith, Ray Teal
Votes: 2,118
32.
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: 4,335
33.
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: 4,072
34.
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: 3,478
35.
The Twilight Zone (1959–1964)
Episode:
A Stop at Willoughby
(1960)
TV-PG | 25 min | Drama, Fantasy, Horror
Tired 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.
Director: Robert Parrish | Stars: Rod Serling, James Daly, Howard Smith, Patricia Donahue
Votes: 4,719
36.
The Twilight Zone (1959–1964)
Episode:
Person or Persons Unknown
(1962)
TV-PG | 25 min | Drama, Fantasy, Horror
Paying homage to It's a Wonderful Life (1946), David Gurney wakes up to another ordinary day. Except today, nobody knows who he is including his own wife Wilma.
Director: John Brahm | Stars: Richard Long, Frank Silvera, Shirley Ballard, Julie Van Zandt
Votes: 2,472
37.
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: 3,358
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