What Are The Best Twilight Zone Episodes?

By Carl Slaughter: As ranked or discussed in the video essay Top 10 Best Twilight Zone episodes, by Watch Mojo.

Nightmare at 20,000 Feet

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cnZYuLv7wcs

Time Enough at Last

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nOg4uq44psY

The Monsters Are Due on Maple Street

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wdsvqAc5cQU

Eye of the Beholder

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j677bRNp3Zo

To Serve Man

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OMTyreRNgA0

The Masks

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3QHaRq6CJCM

The Hitch-hiker

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OkJzwHdu6ew

It’s a Good Life

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PVOQ09rfst4

Five Characters in Search of an Exit

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h__WUZurB8E

Living Doll

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OZtVWBlSnk8

The Invaders

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=abjrHtU2XM0

Walking Distance

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_rkIhKXpwFM

The Howling Man

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GtWjd_7er6E

The Obsolete Man

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZUmn8r769rI

Nick of Time

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wQhsGsQ_abo


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7 thoughts on “What Are The Best Twilight Zone Episodes?

  1. When my baby came home from the 6th grade, fifteen years ago. She asked me if I had every heard of a TV show called The Twilight Zone. It was a rare rainy day here in California and her teacher showed, The Monsters are due on Mable Street. during play time.

  2. A good list, but I’d put Five Characters In Search Of An Exit much higher, and replace The Hitchhiker with The Invaders. Agnes Moorehead was brilliant in that one.

  3. I know it’s not part of Twilight Zone’s reputation, but I enjoy some of the sentimental episodes like The Changing of the Guard and I Sing the Body Electric. If it were filmed better, you could add The Night of the Meek. It works better as a short story.

    The Brain Center at Whipple’s is still topical and it has an appearance by Robby the Robot.

  4. Mm-Rod S was and still is one of my TV SF heroes. For me, amongst those B+W TZ eps listed, Eye Of TB and Time Enough AL jointly head up my list with The Inv coming up 3rd.

  5. Pretty good list, but I’d add “The Invaders” too. Moorehead did an amazing job with a solo wordless script.

  6. “It’s a Good Life” had a sequel on the new Twilight Zone, and used as many of the original cast as they could find. It found it good, but not as impacting as the original.

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