THE TWILIGHT ZONE: My Favorite Episodes
by MichaelMartinDeSapio | created - 8 months ago | updated - 7 months ago | PublicMy list of favorite "Twilight Zone" episodes. These are not necessarily the "greatest" episodes, but rather those that I love best and that most speak to me personally. The first 12 episodes are my "top 12," and the next 10 are "runners-up."
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1.
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
2.
The Twilight Zone (1959–1964)
Episode:
What You Need
(1959)
TV-PG | 25 min | Drama, Fantasy, Horror
A small time crook plans to exploit an old street peddler who has the uncanny knack of selling people exactly what they will shortly need.
Director: Alvin Ganzer | Stars: Steve Cochran, Ernest Truex, Read Morgan, Arlene Martel
Votes: 4,357
3.
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: 3,197
4.
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
5.
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: 4,068
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: 3,629
7.
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
8.
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: 3,107
9.
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: 3,166
10.
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: 2,836
11.
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
12.
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: 4,716
13.
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: 6,061
14.
The Twilight Zone (1959–1964)
Episode:
Miniature
(1963)
TV-PG | 51 min | Drama, Fantasy, Horror
Mousey misfit Charley Parkes finds the world unfolding before him in a museum doll house to be more real than his boring job and overbearing mother.
Director: Walter Grauman | Stars: Robert Duvall, Pert Kelton, Barbara Barrie, William Windom
Votes: 2,024
15.
The Twilight Zone (1959–1964)
Episode:
Number 12 Looks Just Like You
(1964)
TV-PG | 25 min | Drama, Fantasy, Horror
In a future society, everyone must undergo an operation at age 19 to become beautiful and conform to society. One young woman desperately wants to hold onto her own identity.
Director: Abner Biberman | Stars: Collin Wilcox Paxton, Richard Long, Pamela Austin, Suzy Parker
Votes: 2,708
16.
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: 5,005
17.
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
18.
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: 3,855
19.
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: 2,781
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