Top 10 Favourite Twilight Zone Episodes
The list which in my opinion contains the best Twilight Zone episodes from 1959-1964.
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- 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.Just a nice story of a man trying to get away from his hectic life which he doesn't enjoy.
- 1959–196425mTV-PG8.7 (4.4K)TV EpisodeDirectorMontgomery PittmanStarsJohn HoytJean WillesJack ElamFollowing a frantic phone call about a crashed spaceship on a winter night, state troopers Bill Padgett and Dan Perry try to determine who among the bus passengers at a snowed-in roadside diner is a visitor from another world.I love this story. The setting, a little dinner in the middle of nowhere, the plot, one of them is a martian, disguised as a human.
- DirectorDon MedfordStarsJack KlugmanRoss MartinFred BeirAn 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?There is so much mystery in this episodes which keeps you on your toes. The ending is awesome and I love the setting and the feel of the whole episode.
- DirectorLamont JohnsonStarsGladys CooperWilfrid Hyde-WhiteCecil KellawayA young American couple, the Ransomes, who are trying to salvage their troubled marriage, insist on booking passage on an old trans-Atlantic cruise liner. But other passengers try to persuade them to disembark immediately.Lovely episode. You probably crack what the story is going to be about in the first 10 minutes but after that it's just a nice story with great characters and good actors.
- DirectorRichard L. BareStarsFritz WeaverEdward AndrewsJoe MarossTwo 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.This story is very similar to other Twilight Zone episodes but it is the ending which makes it one of the greats.
- 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.Great plot, great characters, great acting and great dialog. Its very interesting.
- DirectorAlvin GanzerStarsInger StevensAdam WilliamsLew GalloA 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.This is a pretty scary episode and the ending is what makes it great.
- DirectorRichard L. BareStarsWilliam ShatnerPatricia BreslinGuy WilkersonA pair of newlyweds stopping in a small town are trapped by their own superstition when playing a fortune-telling machine in a local diner.Another little eery episode that starts, as always, like a normal story but after that accelerate deeper and deeper into the Twilight Zone. It's a good story.
- DirectorTed PostStarsHoward DuffDavid WhiteFrank MaxwellA 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.Just another story where the lead character wakes up from one reality to another. A lot of these types of stories on Twilight Zone and they are pretty much all great so I had to pick one that justified them all. I like this story. The ending is nice.
- DirectorLamont JohnsonStarsLarry GatesJoseph BernardJack AlbertsonA dinner party for Bill Stockton's birthday is interrupted by a bulletin warning of an impending nuclear attack. As the neighbors scramble to prepare, they turn against the Stockton's, the only family that installed a bomb shelter.Just a nice character piece. Story about how people get crazy in situations between life and death, when they lose all regards for their fellow man.