Best Anthology Tv Episodes
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1.
Alfred Hitchcock Presents (1955–1962)
Episode:
Breakdown
(1955)
TV-14 | 26 min | Drama, Mystery
William Callew is involved in a bad traffic accident on a rural road, that leaves him so paralyzed he appears lifeless, and when help arrives they think he's really dead.
Director: Alfred Hitchcock | Stars: Alfred Hitchcock, Joseph Cotten, Raymond Bailey, Forrest Stanley
Votes: 1,982
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: 7,782
3.
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: 4,490
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: 4,012
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: 6,152
6.
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: 3,853
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: 6,248
9.
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: 2,107
10.
Hammer House of Horror (1980)
Episode:
The Thirteenth Reunion
(1980)
TV-14 | 52 min | Drama, Fantasy, Horror
Ruth, A reporter for the women's section of the newspaper, participates in a weight-loss course with a hidden secret behind it.
Director: Peter Sasdy | Stars: Julia Foster, Dinah Sheridan, Richard Pearson, Norman Bird
Votes: 709
11.
Hammer House of Horror (1980)
Episode:
Charlie Boy
(1980)
TV-14 | 52 min | Drama, Fantasy, Horror
A carved African fetish with voodoo powers has a dangerous mind of its own.
Director: Robert Young | Stars: Leigh Lawson, Angela Bruce, Marius Goring, Frances Cuka
Votes: 621
12.
Hammer House of Horror (1980)
Episode:
The Silent Scream
(1980)
TV-14 | 52 min | Drama, Fantasy, Horror
The episode starring Hammer's most prolific actor, Peter Cushing, as a pet store owner doing scientific experiments on an ex-con and his wife (Brian Cox and Elaine Donnelly).
Director: Alan Gibson | Stars: Peter Cushing, Brian Cox, Elaine Donnelly, Antony Carrick
Votes: 770
13.
Hammer House of Horror (1980)
Episode:
Children of the Full Moon
(1980)
TV-14 | 52 min | Drama, Fantasy, Horror
A married couple, lost in the woods, stumble across a creepy mansion and its inhabitants - an overly-kind old woman, and deadly wolf children that scour the countryside looking for victims.
Director: Tom Clegg | Stars: Christopher Cazenove, Celia Gregory, Diana Dors, Robert Urquhart
Votes: 664
14.
Hammer House of Horror (1980)
Episode:
The Two Faces of Evil
(1980)
TV-14 | 52 min | Drama, Fantasy, Horror
A family on holiday stop to pick up a mysterious hitch-hiker.
Director: Alan Gibson | Stars: Anna Calder-Marshall, Gary Raymond, Paul Hawkins, Pauline Delaney
Votes: 659
15.
Tales from the Crypt (1989–1996)
Episode:
The Man Who Was Death
(1989)
Not Rated | 26 min | Comedy, Crime, Fantasy
After the death penalty is abolished, an executioner continues his former job through freelancing...
Director: Walter Hill | Stars: William Sadler, J.W. Smith, Roy Brocksmith, David Wohl
Votes: 2,007
16.
Tales from the Crypt (1989–1996)
Episode:
Dig That Cat... He's Real Gone
(1989)
Not Rated | 28 min | Comedy, Crime, Fantasy
A bum displays his ability to resurrect himself.
Director: Richard Donner | Stars: John Kassir, Joe Pantoliano, Robert Wuhl, Kathleen York
Votes: 1,701
17.
Tales from the Crypt (1989–1996)
Episode:
Collection Completed
(1989)
Not Rated | 27 min | Comedy, Crime, Fantasy
Jonas has been forced into mandatory retirement. He can't relax, though, because Anita's friends are driving him crazy.
Director: Mary Lambert | Stars: John Kassir, M. Emmet Walsh, Audra Lindley, Martin Garner
Votes: 1,425
18.
Tales from the Crypt (1989–1996)
Episode:
The Sacrifice
(1990)
Not Rated | 28 min | Comedy, Crime, Fantasy
An insurance salesman murders an obnoxious tycoon to get his seductive wife and his fortune, but later is blackmailed by a rival.
Director: Richard Greenberg | Stars: Kim Delaney, Kevin Kilner, Don Hood, Michael Ironside
Votes: 1,077
19.
Tales from the Crypt (1989–1996)
Episode:
Television Terror
(1990)
Not Rated | 21 min | Comedy, Crime, Fantasy
A TV shock journalist gives an on-air tour of an eerie haunted house.
Director: Charlie Picerni | Stars: Morton Downey Jr., Dorothy Parke, Peter Van Norden, John Kassir
Votes: 1,292
20.
Tales from the Crypt (1989–1996)
Episode:
My Brother's Keeper
(1990)
Not Rated | 30 min | Comedy, Crime, Fantasy
Siamese twins, one timid and kind-hearted and the other reckless and sadistic, must make a decision on whether or not to allow an experimental surgery to have them separated even though one of them doesn't want to be split from the other.
Director: Peter S. Seaman | Stars: Timothy Stack, Jonathan Stark, Jessica Harper, Ron Orbach
Votes: 1,003
21.
Tales from the Crypt (1989–1996)
Episode:
Carrion Death
(1991)
Not Rated | 27 min | Comedy, Crime, Fantasy
A sadistic serial killer has unforeseen complications when pursued by a determined motorcycle cop in a barren desert.
Director: Steven E. de Souza | Stars: Kyle MacLachlan, George DelHoyo, John Kassir
Votes: 1,163
22.
Fear Itself (2008–2009)
Episode:
Family Man
(2008)
TV-14 | 42 min | Horror
A prisoner must protect his family when he inadvertently switches bodies with a serial killer after a near-death experience.
Director: Ronny Yu | Stars: Clifton Collins Jr., Colin Ferguson, Josie Davis, Stephen Lobo
Votes: 915
23.
Black Mirror (2011– )
Episode:
The National Anthem
(2011)
TV-MA | 44 min | Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi
Prime Minister Michael Callow faces a shocking dilemma when Princess Susannah, a much-loved member of the Royal Family, is kidnapped.
Director: Otto Bathurst | Stars: Rory Kinnear, Lindsay Duncan, Donald Sumpter, Tom Goodman-Hill
Votes: 62,639
24.
Black Mirror (2011– )
Episode:
Fifteen Million Merits
(2011)
TV-MA | 62 min | Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi
In a world where people's lives consist of riding exercise bikes to gain credits, Bing tries to help a woman get on to a singing competition show.
Director: Euros Lyn | Stars: Daniel Kaluuya, Jessica Brown Findlay, Rupert Everett, Julia Davis
Votes: 62,759
25.
Black Mirror (2011– )
Episode:
The Entire History of You
(2011)
TV-MA | 49 min | Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi
In the near future, everyone has access to a memory implant that records everything they do, see and hear. You need never forget a face again - but is that always a good thing?
Director: Brian Welsh | Stars: Toby Kebbell, Jodie Whittaker, Tom Cullen, Amy Beth Hayes
Votes: 64,730
26.
Black Mirror (2011– )
Episode:
Be Right Back
(2013)
TV-MA | 48 min | Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi
After learning about a new service that lets people stay in touch with the deceased, a lonely, grieving Martha reconnects with her late lover.
Director: Owen Harris | Stars: Hayley Atwell, Domhnall Gleeson, Claire Keelan, Sinead Matthews
Votes: 53,155
27.
Black Mirror (2011– )
Episode:
White Christmas
(2014)
TV-MA | 73 min | Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi
Three interconnected tales of technology run amok during the Christmas season are told by two men at a remote outpost in a frozen wilderness.
Director: Carl Tibbetts | Stars: Jon Hamm, Rafe Spall, Oona Chaplin, Natalia Tena
Votes: 68,192
28.
Black Mirror (2011– )
Episode:
Nosedive
(2016)
TV-MA | 63 min | Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi
A woman desperate to boost her social media score hits the jackpot when she's invited to a swanky wedding, but the trip doesn't go as planned.
Director: Joe Wright | Stars: Bryce Dallas Howard, Alice Eve, Cherry Jones, James Norton
Votes: 64,134
29.
Black Mirror (2011– )
Episode:
Shut Up and Dance
(2016)
TV-MA | 52 min | Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi
When withdrawn Kenny stumbles headlong into an online trap, he is quickly forced into an uneasy alliance with shifty Hector, both at the mercy of persons unknown.
Director: James Watkins | Stars: Alex Lawther, Jerome Flynn, Susannah Doyle, Frankie Wilson
Votes: 56,708
30.
Black Mirror (2011– )
Episode:
San Junipero
(2016)
TV-MA | 61 min | Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi
When Yorkie and Kelly visit San Junipero, a fun-loving beach town full of surf, sun and sex, their lives are changed.
Director: Owen Harris | Stars: Gugu Mbatha-Raw, Mackenzie Davis, Denise Burse, Raymond McAnally
Votes: 66,899
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