The Five Best Twilight Zone Episodes EVER!

Yes, it’s an oldie that never really gets old, at least for me. Much respect for that iconic series. Like another sci-fi forerunner, the venerable “Star Trek – The Original Series,” I’d say The Twilight Zone was humanity’s first television intro to the genre of science fiction.

Serling served as executive producer and head writer; he wrote or co-wrote 92 of the show's 156 episodes. He was also the show's host and narrator, delivering monologues at the beginning and end of each episode.

Rarely violent, unlike today's sci-fi, I loved that it tempered the realm of human psychology with science fiction.  And who among us hasn’t seen any of its shows?  I’d venture to say no one.

So, for fun, name your five most favorite Twilight Zone episodes.  

Here’s the full list to consider, along with my personal choices:

My Top 25 Contenders:

1. The Monsters Are Due on Maple Street
2. The After Hours
3. People Are Alike All Over
4. Nick of Time
5. A Hundred Yards Over the Rim
6. The Silence
7. Nightmare at 20,000 Feet
8. The Masks
9. Eye of the Beholder
10. The Grave
11. The Living Doll
12. To Serve Man
13. The Howling Man
14. Changing of the Guard
15. The Dummy
16. Nothing in the Dark
17. The Shelter
18. The Lonely
19. Where is Everybody
20. Queen of the Nile
21. The Hitch-hiker
22. Little Girl Lost
23. The Invaders
24. The Obsolete Man
25. The Invades

My 10 Semi Finalists:

1. The Howling Man
2. Little Girl Lost
3. The Monsters Are Due on Maple Street
4. To Serve Man
5. Eye of the Beholder
6. Nick of Time
7. Where is Everybody
8. The Silence
9. Nightmare at 20,000 Feet
10. The After Hours

And My Winners (in no certain order) Are:

• The Howling Man
• Little Girl Lost
• The Monsters Are Due on Maple Street
• To Serve Man
• Nightmare at 20,000 Feet

"A sickness known as hate. Not a virus, not a microbe, not a germ - but a sickness nonetheless, highly contagious, deadly in its effects. Don't look for it in the Twilight Zone - look for it in a mirror. Look for it before the light goes out altogether." - Rod Serling, from "I am the night, color me black."

Thanks for posting and recommending!

(by Primordial Soup)