The best episodes of The Twilight Zone Season 3
Season 3 only — ranked by viewer rating, highs first. Vote on a placement to back it or contest it.
- 01
An elderly boys school teacher faces mandatory retirement and questions whether he's done anything with his life.
- 02
A former Nazi SS Captain arrives in a small Bavarian town, looking to visit Dachau, an old Concentration camp, wanting to remember what it was like during the war. However, the ghosts of the men he put to death soon arrive, looking to put him on trial for the part he played in their deaths and other crimes against humanity.
- 03
An alien race, the Kanamits, come to Earth providing technology and guidance to turn the planet into a utopia. But one man questions their benevolence.
- 04
When a suburban dinner party is interrupted by an announcement that a nuclear attack on the U.S. is imminent, the party goers scramble home to try and find a way to survive. However, when several families discover that their neighbor, Dr. Stockton has built a bomb shelter for just such an occasion, everyone turns against one another in an attempt to be invited inside the shelter. Will things be able to return to normal if warning turns out to be false?
- 05
A six-year-old boy terrorizes the residents of Peaksville, Ohio, with special powers that control reality.
- 06
The dispirited residents of a nursing home are urged by one of their number to believe that they can recapture their youth by playing a children's game.Note: Steven Spielberg remade this as Segment II of Twilight Zone: The Movie, showing the nursing-home residents being offered a second chance at youth by their new arrival, Mr. Bloom (Scatman Crothers).
- 07
A janitor (Buster Keaton) travels from 1890 to 1962, courtesy of a time helmet.
- 08
An elderly woman living in a condemned building is scared of leaving her home and finding a new place to live, because she fears that "Mr. Death" is out to kill her. When she finds a wounded young police officer outside her door, she is uncertain if she should help him, fearing that if she does, it would lead to her death.
- 09
The earth gets thrown off its orbit, and as a result, is getting pulled closer to the sun. Unable to leave their apartment building to find a cooler place to live, two women attempt to acclimate to their new living conditions. However, it soon appears to be nothing but a bad dream of one of the women, as they live on a freezing earth that is being pulled away from the sun.
- 10
An old man and his hound dog drown while out raccoon and soon begin trying to find out where they belong in the afterlife. When the first place they come to along the road appears too good to be true, old Hyder Simpson is ready to walk through the gate. However, when he discovers that his dog won't be allowed to join him, he soon has second thoughts and eventually continues on down the road to the Promised Land.
- 11
When two astronauts (Claude Akins, Joe Maross) land on a distant planet, one of them becomes a "God" to a race of tiny people.
- 12
A fanatical one-man moral crusader (Theodore Bikel) decides to shrink those he deems evil to a height of two feet at four o'clock.
- 13
A recent widower, needing loving care for his three young children, orders a cybernetic "grandmother". While two of the children accept her, one of his daughters fiercely rejects her, with near tragic consequences.
- 14
When parents Chris and Ruth Miller wake up in the middle of the night to the cries of their daughter Tina, they are shocked to discover that she somehow fell through the wall of her bedroom into another dimension. They then call Chris' physicist friend Bill for help in rescuing Tina before the portal she fell through closes for good.
- 15
David Allen Gurney wakes up on morning and discovers that no one knows who he is and that he doesn't exist in the new world that he finds himself in.
- 16
A rural gas station attendant given to telling tall tales about himself is kidnapped by aliens who believe him to be one of Earth's leading intellects.
- 17
An elderly couple look to trade-in their aging bodies for younger models. However, they only have enough money for one to go through the process, and the husband decides to go through it and then earn the money for his wife. However, upon going through with it, he realizes he made a mistake.
- 18
Five Characters in Search of an Exit
Five individuals--a major, a clown, a ballerina, a hobo, and a piper--find themselves trapped in a metal cylinder with no memory of how they came there or their past lives... and no apparent hope of a future.
- 19
A ventriloquist (Cliff Robertson) believes his dummy is alive ... and is beginning to take over not just the act.
- 20
Two soldiers from opposing sides cross paths in a city demolished by a devastating war that occurred years before. While they approach one another with suspicion and some hostility, they soon realize they need one another to survive.
- 21
During World War II, a gung-ho young American lieutenant is forced to see the enemy's side of the battlefield... whether he wants to or not.
- 22
A wealthy man sets out to get revenge on three people that he thinks have wronged him... by convincing them that he's the only one who can protect them from a coming nuclear war.
- 23
Inept guardian angel Harmon Cavender is given a chance to earn his wings by helping an unconventional big city woman, the young, awkward Agnes Grep.
- 24
An engineer in Africa returns to the States... and a tribesman's curse follows him.
- 25
Sadistic and hated theater critic Fitzgerald Fortune buys a player piano that has the power to reveal the souls of all who hear it.
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