THE TWILIGHT ZONE: My Favorite Episodes
My 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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- DirectorJohn BrahmStarsRod SerlingVera MilesMartin MilnerWhile waiting in a bus station, Millicent Barnes has the strange feeling that her doppelganger is trying to take over her life.
- DirectorAlvin GanzerStarsSteve CochranErnest TruexRead MorganA small time crook plans to exploit an old street peddler who has the uncanny knack of selling people exactly what they will shortly need.
- 1959–196425mTV-PG8.1 (3.2K)TV EpisodeDirectorBuzz KulikStarsCliff RobertsonJohn CrawfordEvans EvansIn 1847, settler Christian Horn from a wagon train sets out to locate medicine to help his gravely ill son and somehow stumbles into a greasy spoon cafe in 1961 New Mexico.
- DirectorBuzz KulikStarsBrian AhernePippa ScottSydney PollackLong-widowed nostalgic stage actor Booth Templeton reunites with his late wife Laura and their friends at their old haunt, only to find that he is now hopelessly out of place there.
- DirectorWilliam F. ClaxtonStarsKenneth HaighAlexander ScourbySimon ScottA World War I British fighter pilot lands at an American air base in 1959 France.
- 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.
- 1959–196425mTV-PG6.9 (1.8K)TV EpisodeDirectorRoger KayStarsEd WynnCarolyn KearneyJames T. CallahanLovable seventy-six-year-old clock maker Sam Forstman believes that his life will end at the very moment that his cherished family heirloom grandfather clock stops ticking.
- DirectorDon MedfordStarsRod SerlingJack KlugmanJohn AndersonA suicidally despondent trumpet player finds himself in a bizarre world where he seems to be invisible to everyone, except for one helpful other musician.
- DirectorJames SheldonStarsDick YorkJune DaytonDan TobinGaining 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.
- DirectorDavid Orrick McDearmonStarsRussell JohnsonPaul HartmanBartlett RobinsonAt a Washington, D.C. club, socialite Peter Corrigan argues whether it would be possible to change history via time travel. When he leaves, he lands in 1865 on the night of President Abraham Lincoln's assassination and tries to stop it.
- DirectorJohn BrahmStarsRichard LongFrank SilveraShirley BallardAfter a night of excess drinking during a neighbor's party, bank teller David Andrew Gurney wakes up to another ordinary day. Except today, nobody knows who he is - including his own wife Wilma.
- 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.
- DirectorRobert ParrishStarsRod SerlingEd WynnMurray HamiltonA pitchman is visited by Mr. Death and is forced to get his priorities in order.
- DirectorWalter GraumanStarsRobert DuvallPert KeltonBarbara BarrieMousey 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.
- 1959–196425mTV-PG8.1 (2.7K)TV EpisodeDirectorAbner BibermanStarsCollin Wilcox PaxtonRichard LongPamela AustinIn a future society, everyone must undergo an operation at age 19 to become beautiful and conform to society. Since her father killed himself after his surgery, 18-year-old Marilyn Cubberle desperately wants to hold on to her identity.
- 1959–196425mTV-PG6.8 (5.1K)TV EpisodeDirectorMitchell LeisenStarsRod SerlingIda LupinoMartin BalsamBarbara 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.
- DirectorJoseph M. NewmanStarsJack KlugmanConnie GilchristBobby DiamondWearied bookie Max Phillips, learning of his grown soldier son Pip getting killed during combat in South Vietnam, gets to spend one last delightful hour with a ten-year-old version of Pip at an amusement park after dark.
- DirectorAnton LeaderStarsKevin McCarthyEdgar StehliEstelle WinwoodA 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.
- DirectorRobert Ellis MillerStarsDonald PleasenceLiam SullivanPhilippa BevansHaving being forced to retire after teaching for fifty-one years in a New England university for boys, Professor Ellis Fowler contemplates suicide when he doesn't feel that he's made a positive difference in the world.