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A series of unrelated stories containing drama, psychological thriller, fantasy, science fiction, suspense, and/or horror, often concluding with a macabre or unexpected twist.

5 Seasons
156 Episodes
Ended
Sci-Fi & Fantasy Mystery Drama
Cast & Characters
episode image Eye of the Beholder
9.1/10 (6714 votes)

#1 Eye of the Beholder

S2:E6

A young woman lying in a hospital bed awaits the outcome of an experimental treatment in an attempt to make her look normal.

episode image To Serve Man
9.0/10 (5601 votes)

#2 To Serve Man

S3:E24

The Kanamits, 9 foot tall aliens, arrive on Earth with one lofty goal: To Serve Man.

episode image Nightmare at 20,000 Feet
9.0/10 (5867 votes)

#3 Nightmare at 20,000 Feet

S5:E3

No one can see the gremlin tearing apart an airplane's wing, except a newly released mental patient.

episode image Time Enough at Last
8.9/10 (8385 votes)

#4 Time Enough at Last

S1:E8

A bank teller, obsessed with reading, faces conflicts at work and home because of his passion for literature.

episode image The Monsters Are Due on Maple Street
8.9/10 (6662 votes)

#5 The Monsters Are Due on Maple Street

S1:E22

Paranoia strikes the residents of Maple Street when they believe human-looking aliens have invaded the neighborhood.

episode image Living Doll
8.7/10 (3984 votes)

#6 Living Doll

S5:E6

Erich is displeased when his wife buys an expensive doll for his step-daughter. He becomes even more displeased when the doll tells him it doesn't like him!

episode image The Shelter
8.6/10 (3846 votes)

#7 The Shelter

S3:E3

When a nuclear attack appears imminent, several suburban friends and neighbors fight over control of a single bomb shelter.

episode image It's a Good Life
8.6/10 (4901 votes)

#8 It's a Good Life

S3:E8

Little Anthony Fremont controls an entire town with his ability to read minds and make people do as he wishes. Which is a real good thing.

episode image The Masks
8.6/10 (3507 votes)

#9 The Masks

S5:E25

A wealthy dying man invites his family to a Mardi Gras party and insists that they wear masks specially made for them, threatening to cut off their inheritance if they refuse.

episode image Five Characters in Search of an Exit
8.5/10 (4160 votes)

#10 Five Characters in Search of an Exit

S3:E14

A hobo, clown, bagpipe player, ballerina and military officer are trapped in a huge cylinder.

episode image The Midnight Sun
8.4/10 (4136 votes)

#11 The Midnight Sun

S3:E10

The Earth's orbit has been changed, drawing ever closer to the sun and promising eminent destruction.

episode image And When the Sky Was Opened
8.3/10 (5433 votes)

#12 And When the Sky Was Opened

S1:E11

Recovering in the hospital after a space mission, Major William Gart is visited by his co-pilot Lieutenant Colonel Clegg Forbes, who insists on the existence of a third astronaut.

episode image Nick of Time
8.3/10 (4418 votes)

#13 Nick of Time

S2:E7

A superstitious newlywed becomes obsessed by a penny fortune-telling machine when he and his new wife are stranded with car trouble.

episode image The Silence
8.3/10 (3621 votes)

#14 The Silence

S2:E25

A talkative man takes an offer to keep silent for a year for $500,000.

episode image Nothing in the Dark
8.3/10 (3676 votes)

#15 Nothing in the Dark

S3:E16

A lonely old woman refuses to leave her apartment for fear of meeting "Mr. Death."

episode image An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge
8.3/10 (2900 votes)

#16 An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge

S5:E22

As a Confederate spy is about to be hanged, the rope breaks and he falls to the water below. Finally free, he races for his home where his family awaits... as does the terrible truth of his future...

episode image Walking Distance
8.2/10 (6553 votes)

#17 Walking Distance

S1:E5

A stressed advertising executive, driving through the country, leaves his car and starts to walk toward his hometown, Homewood. He finds things exactly as they were when he was a child.

episode image The Hitch-Hiker
8.2/10 (5662 votes)

#18 The Hitch-Hiker

S1:E16

Alone on a cross-country trip, a woman continually encounters the same mysterious hitch-hiker who inexplicably reappears at various points in her journey.

episode image The Howling Man
8.2/10 (4409 votes)

#19 The Howling Man

S2:E5

A man on a walking trip of post-World War I Europe gets caught in a storm. He comes across a remote monastery with a mysterious prisoner.

episode image The Lonely
8.1/10 (5817 votes)

#20 The Lonely

S1:E7

In 2046, imprisoned for murder on a distant asteroid, Corry receives an unexpected present that brings a semblance of companionship during his isolation.

episode image Third from the Sun
8.1/10 (4862 votes)

#21 Third from the Sun

S1:E14

With all-out nuclear war about to ignite, a scientist and his pilot friend plot to escape on an experimental spaceship.

episode image Long Live Walter Jameson
8.1/10 (4141 votes)

#22 Long Live Walter Jameson

S1:E24

Walter Jameson, a popular history professor, is suspected by his fiancée's father, another professor at the college, to be an immortal.

episode image People Are Alike All Over
8.1/10 (4276 votes)

#23 People Are Alike All Over

S1:E25

After a space exploration crash-lands on Mars, the lone surviving astronaut is surprised to find that Martians are human-looking and friendly.

episode image The Invaders
8.1/10 (4325 votes)

#24 The Invaders

S2:E15

An old woman in an isolated farmhouse encounters tiny, hostile aliens.

episode image A Hundred Yards Over the Rim
8.1/10 (3486 votes)

#25 A Hundred Yards Over the Rim

S2:E23

In 1847 a western settler sets out to find medicine for his dying son - and stumbles into modern-day New Mexico.

episode image Deaths-Head Revisited
8.1/10 (3401 votes)

#26 Deaths-Head Revisited

S3:E9

A former Nazi SS Captain returns to the ruins of a concentration camp to reminisce, and is met by one of his victims.

episode image Printer's Devil
8.1/10 (2291 votes)

#27 Printer's Devil

S4:E9

A wily old man, hired by a bankrupt newspaper editor, has the knack of predicting headline stories and claims to be the Devil.

episode image On Thursday We Leave For Home
8.1/10 (2277 votes)

#28 On Thursday We Leave For Home

S4:E16

The leader of an expedition on an asteroid tries to convince the others that Earth is not worth returning to.

episode image Number 12 Looks Just Like You
8.1/10 (2899 votes)

#29 Number 12 Looks Just Like You

S5:E17

In a future where everyone must undergo an operation at the age of 19 to make them identical to everyone else, one woman desperately tries to hang onto her own identity.

episode image Night Call
8.1/10 (2693 votes)

#30 Night Call

S5:E19

An elderly, wheelchair-bound lady receives strange anonymous phone calls in the middle of the night.

episode image What You Need
8.0/10 (4724 votes)

#31 What You Need

S1:E12

A two-bit thug thinks he's found the key to a better life in an old sidewalk salesman who has the uncanny ability to tell people what they need the most.

episode image The Last Flight
8.0/10 (4429 votes)

#32 The Last Flight

S1:E18

A World War I flying ace flies through a mysterious cloud - and lands at a modern U.S. air base in the year 1959!

episode image A Penny For Your Thoughts
8.0/10 (3434 votes)

#33 A Penny For Your Thoughts

S2:E16

The lucky flip of a coin seems to give a mild-mannered bank clerk the power to read minds. But he soon learns that you can't believe everything you read.

episode image Where Is Everybody?
7.9/10 (7794 votes)

#34 Where Is Everybody?

S1:E1

Mike Ferris finds himself in a town strangely devoid of people. But despite the emptiness, he has the odd feeling that he's being watched...

episode image Mirror Image
7.9/10 (4659 votes)

#35 Mirror Image

S1:E21

In a bus depot, Millicent Barnes experiences odd events, leading to concerns about her sanity.

episode image The Night of the Meek
7.9/10 (3895 votes)

#36 The Night of the Meek

S2:E11

A down-on-his-luck department store Santa Claus discovers a bottomless sack of toys.

episode image The Hunt
7.9/10 (3166 votes)

#37 The Hunt

S3:E19

On a hunting trip, Hyder Simpson and his dog Rip dive into a lake after a raccoon. When he gets home he finds that no one can see or hear him.

episode image The New Exhibit
7.9/10 (2154 votes)

#38 The New Exhibit

S4:E13

The curator of a murderers' row in a soon-to-be-defunct wax museum persuades the owner to let him keep the figures for awhile. When his wife attempts to destroy them, a new murderous rampage begins...

episode image The Odyssey of Flight 33
7.8/10 (3594 votes)

#39 The Odyssey of Flight 33

S2:E18

A commercial aircraft mysteriously travels back through time.

episode image A Game of Pool
7.8/10 (3287 votes)

#40 A Game of Pool

S3:E5

Championship pool player Fats Brown returns from the grave for one last game.

Cast & Chracters

character image Self - Host

Self - Host

Actor: Rod Serling

The highest rated episode of The Twilight Zone is "Eye of the Beholder" (S2E6) with a rating of 9.10.

This episode received 6,714 votes.


The lowest rated episode is "The Bard" (S4E18) with a rating of 5.60.

This episode received 1,688 votes.

The highest rated episode is "Time Enough at Last" (S1E8) with a rating of 8.90.

This episode received 8,385 votes.


The lowest rated episode is "The Fever" (S1E17) with a rating of 6.60.

This episode received 4,122 votes.

The highest rated episode is "Eye of the Beholder" (S2E6) with a rating of 9.10.

This episode received 6,714 votes.


The lowest rated episode is "A Thing About Machines" (S2E4) with a rating of 6.40.

This episode received 2,997 votes.

The highest rated episode is "To Serve Man" (S3E24) with a rating of 9.00.

This episode received 5,601 votes.


The lowest rated episode is "Showdown with Rance McGrew" (S3E20) with a rating of 6.30.

This episode received 2,356 votes.

The highest rated episode is "Printer's Devil" (S4E9) with a rating of 8.10.

This episode received 2,291 votes.


The lowest rated episode is "The Bard" (S4E18) with a rating of 5.60.

This episode received 1,688 votes.

The highest rated episode is "Nightmare at 20,000 Feet" (S5E3) with a rating of 9.00.

This episode received 5,867 votes.


The lowest rated episode is "From Agnes – With Love" (S5E20) with a rating of 6.30.

This episode received 1,974 votes.

Name Department Job
Buck Houghton Production Producer
Herbert Hirschman Production Producer
Rod Serling Production Executive Producer

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