My Twilight Zone Personal Favorite to Least Favorite Complete Episode List
I finally did it. I look at the list and obviously debated a lot about preferential order. This is clearly not written in stone. I could watch a few of these episodes and move them up and down the list. For instance, I look at "The Shelter" and could easily see it move up my current list. So with any favorite's list, it is subject to change. But as of now, this list feels as right as it can considering the great depth and quality of an entire series with a whole bunch of episodes that differ in opinion according to each TZ fan. One episode I left off is "Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge".
The episodes in red are my "top tier". The episodes I consider the cream of the crop (5 to 4.5 stars).
The episodes in blue are my "middle tier". The episodes I consider quite good. These are episodes I really like to watch during the day of marathons in the past. You have the prime time iconic episodes and those in blue are what I think make for good "lead up" episodes to them. (4 to 3.5 stars)
The episodes in green are my "filler tier". The episodes I consider perfectly viable as the "nocturnal" and "early bird" variety that fills up a marathon lineup and perhaps offer some candidates for "under the radar" or what many might consider as undervalued. These are episodes I might not like as much as other tiers but still remain easily watchable on a rainy day where I am just looking to pop in an episode of the TZ. (3 to 2.5 stars)
The episodes in purple are just okay to me. I don't really watch them a whole lot and if they are on during marathons, they serve mostly as background noise/content. Some of these do seem to be at all kinds of hours of the day or evening during marathons. But Zoners are a peculiar lot...you will see episodes I'm not keen on often make other fans top lists. Still, I could easily change my mind on some of these. (2 stars, some 2.5)
The burnt orange at the bottom are just nope. Don't like them. They are painful to me. No fun at all. But I've seen them favored by some Zoners. Again, we are a peculiar lot. (1 to 1.5 stars)
Because I'm always yo-yoing and see-sawing about Twilight Zone episodes, even now I can see an episode in another tier and kvetch about it. But, this is where I'm at as of now.
Without further ado:
The Monsters Are Due on Maple Street
Walking Distance
The Hitch-Hiker
Nick of Time
Will the Real Martian Please Stand Up?
The Masks
The Grave
Night Call
Mirror Image
Eye of the Beholder
Deaths-Head Revisited
The Obsolete Man
The After Hours
Nightmare at 20,000 Feet
A Hundred Yards Over the Rim
The Dummy
Living Doll
The Hunt
The Odyssey of Flight 33
The Midnight Sun
A Stop at Willoughby
Five Characters in Search of an Exit
To Serve Man
The Lonely
Judgment Night
A World of Difference
Changing of the Guard
Two
And the Sky Was Opened
I Shot an Arrow into the Air
Time Enough At Last
Where is Everybody?
The Howling Man
Stopover in a Quiet Town
A Game of Pool
I Am the Night - Color Me Black
The Encounter
It’s a Good Life
The Passersby
The Invaders
Perchance to Dream
Nothing in the Dark
The Night of the Meek
Back There
King Nine Will Not Return
The Last Flight
Kick the Can
On Thursday We Leave For Home
The Fear
Mr. Garrity and the Graves
The 7th is Made Up of Phantoms
The Old Man in the Cave
A Quality of Mercy
The Arrival
Death Ship
The Silence
Shadow Play
The Thirty-Fathom Grave
Third from the Sun
Passage on the Lady Anne
The New Exhibit
Little Girl Lost
Twenty-Two
A Passage for Trumpet
In Praise of Pip
Person or Persons Unknown
The Purple Testament
The Little People
The Brain Center at Whipple’s
Ninety Years Without Slumbering
Mr. Denton on Doomsday
Dust
Elegy
One for the Angels
A Penny for Your Thoughts
The Parallel
I Sing the Body Electric
Probe 7, Over and Out
In His Image
Still Valley
Spur of the Moment
One More Pallbearer
Once Upon a Time
A Piano in the House
The Jungle
The Shelter
The Jeopardy Room
Ring-a-Ding Girl
The Rip Van Winkle Caper
Nightmare as a Child
Printer’s Devil
Valley of the Shadow
Hocus-Pocus and Frisby
Execution
Long Live Walter Jameson
The Long Morrow
He’s Alive
Miniature
What You Need
Mute
The Trade-Ins
You Drive
Mr. Bevis
A World of His Own
People Are Alike All Over
The Big Tall Wish
No Time Like the Past
Four O’Clock
The Last Rites of Jeff Myrtlebank
Jess-Belle
Showdown with Rance McGrew
A Most Unusual Camera
A Thing About Machines
The Trouble with Templeton
A Short Drink from a Certain Fountain
Number 12 Looks Just Like You
The Four of Us Are Dying
The Sixteen-Millimeter Shrine
Come Wander with Me
The Incredible World of Horace Ford
The Last Night of a Jockey
Of Late I Think of Cliffordville
The Mind and the Matter
The Mirror
Long Distance Call
Nervous Man in a Four Dollar Room
Queen of the Nile
A Kind of Stopwatch
The Gift
The Fugitive
Prime Mover
The Whole Truth
Lateness of the Hour
The Self-Improvement of Salvatore Ross
A Nice Place to Visit
The Mighty Casey
Young Man’s Fancy
The Man in the Bottle
Steel
The Fever
The Bard
Static
Dead Man’s Shoes
Uncle Simon
Escape Clause
Black Leather Jackets
Sounds and Silences
Cavender is Coming
From Agnes - With Love
I Dream of Genie
Mr. Dingle, the Strong
The Chaser
Caesar and Me
What’s in the Box
The Bewitchin’ Pool
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