Ranking Every Episode Of “The Twilight Zone” (156)

[Omaha Steve]

http://www.buzzfeed.com/ariannarebolini/ranking-every-episode-of-the-twilight-zone?bftw#.tfYmGQBle

One hundred and fifty-six episodes, countless twists. Here’s how they stack up, from worst to best.

posted on Dec. 30, 2014, at 1:29 p.m.

Arianna Rebolini
BuzzFeed Staff



156. “The Jungle” (Season 3, Episode 12)



CBS / Via pinterest.com
Writer(s): Charles Beaumont
Director: William F. Claxton

If we could set aside the episode’s blatant discomfort with African people and cultures — it follows a couple who have returned from a work trip to Africa (just “Africa”) with bewitched talismans — we’d have a truly spooky story of a man trying to outrun some demons. But we probably shouldn’t set all of that aside!

155. “The Chaser” (Season 1, Episode 31)



CBS / Via twilightzonevortex.blogspot.com
Writer(s): Robert Presnell Jr., based on the short story by John Collier
Director: Douglas Heyes

Roger Shackleforth cannot deal with the fact that the woman of his affection isn’t interested, so he gives her a love potion, becomes fed up with her devotion, and then buys poison to kill her. It could’ve MAAAAAYBE worked as a criticism of all the abusive would-be Romeos out there, except Roger ends up not using the poison because he finds out Leila is pregnant? And his punishment is that they stay together? So? No thanks?

154. “From Agnes — With Love” (Season 5, Episode 20)

FULL list at link.

[Logical]

1. Thanks for the list. But some of those clips give away the plot. Not good. Nt

[lunasun]

4. So true and the twists are important like the photo for #4 To serve man -not good

[exboyfil]

2. The Obsolete Man should be much higher than #65

[lunasun]

3. 35. “Nightmare at 20,000 Feet” (Season 5, Episode 3) really scared me as a kid

Not sure why but as an adult I would see many episodes and realize >So many good ones and so much talent thanks for the memories

[MannyGoldstein]

5. Agree on #1, "It's a Good Life"

Very scary.

[Liberal_in_LA]

17. i always get bill mumy mixed up with the kid on andy griffen

They filmed a follow up episode in the 2000s with
The grown up actor playing the father to a girl w the same.power.

[C Moon]

6. Not good with titles of these, but I loved the Hitchhiker, and my fav is probably...

The William Shatner one with the coin machine that predicts the future. Outside of the plot, I love just looking at the background, the people, the food served, etc. Great episode!

As far as scary: One Memorial Day afternoon, when I was by myself in my room, the “The Thirty-Fathom Grave” (I had to look the title up), scared the hell out of me!

I wouldn't disagree with anyone's top-ten order. There are so many great episodes, that I think many could be made into very good full length movies.

Yesterday, I finally saw one I had never seen: "Dead Man's Shoes," I think it was called.
I'm sure there are others I've yet to see, and I look forward to seeing more.

[Manifestor_of_Light]

7. My favorites:

The Changing of the Guard, with Donald Pleasance as the Professor.
The Eye of the Beholder. I believe this episode is the first TV show I remember.
The Hunt.
A Stop at Willoughby.
The Night of the Meek
The Lateness of the Hour

Bernard Herrmann wrote a lot of their music, and he was one of the great European composers who fled the Nazis, went to Hollywood and wrote movie music. There are several of them. Bernard Herrmann wrote the music for Citizen Kane as part of the Mercury Theater, The Day the Earth Stood Still, Psycho, and many others.

[etherealtruth]

13. The Hunt wins my vote for number 1 n/t

[eppur_se_muova]

15. Thanks, I didn't know that -- though I should have.

I need to order some BH CD's -- I used to have some old reel-to-reel tapes made from LP's -- can't play them now.

[Manifestor_of_Light]

20. Lots of German and Russian composers went to Hollywood.

And the age of glorious movie music was born. Max Steiner wrote the music for "Gone With The Wind". Erich Wolfgang Korngold wrote music for Errol Flynn Movies. Miklos Rosza wrote for a lot of scores: Ben Hur, Quo Vadis, Lust for Life, El Cid, and his last was Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid.

"All by Myself" by Eric Carmen is stolen from Sergei Rachmaninoff's most famous composition, the Piano Concerto Number 2. Steal from the best, I say.

Lucille Fletcher wrote the Twilight Zone episode about the Hitchhiker and she was married to Bernard Herrmann. She had previously written it for Orson Welles. Herrmann said that the only movie director that knew anything about classical music was Orson Welles.

[Kalidurga]

9. Awesome

I didn't get to see most of these episodes as they were before my time. But, I did get to read some of the stories and they were among my favorites.

[corkhead]

10. I've been watching these in consecutive order as they were broadcast

I am about in the middle of the 3rd season. I am looking forward to reading. Thanks for posting this.

[TexasProgresive]

11. Too bad the link is broke

I wanted to see where the one episode I remember as a child ranked, "Little Girl Lost". It was about a little girl who had a portal to another dimension open next to her bed. She became lost and her parents could hear her calling to them. Perhaps because I was young but it really resonated with me, so much so, that I remember it after all these years.

[Logical]

12. Link is fine. Nt

[pinboy3niner]

14. “Little Girl Lost” came in at #12

Try the link again, and if it doesn't work, try refreshing the page. That worked for me.

[Ino]

16. That's the one episode I remember, too!

I was little. It was terrifying!

[TexasProgresive]

18. I wasn't so little maybe 12 but for some reason

it was terrifying.

[sendero]

19. I recently started watching..

... TTZ starting from the beginning. I'm done with season 1 and 2 and at the beginnings of season 3. This is iconic stuff from my childhood here. I love every episode, including the ones that don't really work.

It's hard to imagine how this was done at all. 25 or so episodes a year. There were the scripts, the sets, the everything to get done in an incredibly short period of time. Some of the episodes are clunkers I agree, but overall what an accomplishment.

I don't agree entirely with these rankings but then who would> There are nuances to each episode, some that work and some that do not. But this is an important series in the history of television, and one that I love.

[MrMickeysMom]

21. Damn! The link's broken!

I missed the marathon, too. Oh well, always next year...

[Omaha Steve]

22. The link is working again