10 Best Twilight Zone Episodes
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12/02/2014
Everyone has their favorites, but these 10 are some of the best-known and loved. via CBS News
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"Eye of the Beholder" A woman, seen with her face bandaged, has undergone the final surgery to try to make her hideous appearance more acceptable to the world. The medical staff assures her that, if the operation is a failure, she will be sent away to a village of outcasts with similar deformities. But once the bandages are unwrapped and the result of the surgery is seen, we realize that, yes, beauty IS in the eye of the beholder. -
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"The Hitch-Hiker" Adapted from the popular radio play by Lucille Fletcher, this episode starred Inger Stevens as a woman driving cross-country who repeatedly encounters the same ominous man hitch-hiking along the road. -
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"The Invaders" A scary tale of a solitary farm woman who encounters strange, miniature beings from outer space. The episode contains no dialogue. -
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"It's a Good Life" Based on the classic short story by Jerome Bixby, the story features the most horrifying creature you can imagine: A cute, six-year-old tyke who can read your thoughts - and if you're not thinking really good thoughts, he can magically wish you off to the cornfield, or worse. -
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"The Lonely" Jack Warden played Corry, a convict sentenced to a solitary life on an asteroid millions of miles from Earth. When the crew of the yearly supply ship leaves him a special package, he finds it contains a life-like robot. Though initially contemptuous of a mechanical creature that appears to only mimic the emotions of a woman, Corry and "Alicia" develop a relationship. -
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"The Monsters Are Due on Maple Street" Maple Street is just another bucolic, tree-lined setting, until the town's lights and power go out. Strange electrical outbursts fuel panic, fear and recrimination among the street's residents. Talk of alien invasion, at first deemed crackpot, now take on urgency in the darkness, as neighbor turns against neighbor. -
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"Nightmare at 20,000 Feet" The story of an airline passenger who just recovered from a nervous breakdown and is convinced he has spotted a bizarre creature tearing apart the plane. It's a story full of energy anchored by a man desperate to prove to himself that he is not going crazy. -
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"Time Enough at Last" An episode which starred Burgess Meredith as a bookworm who would much rather escape into the worlds of Dickens, Shaw and Shakespeare than deal with testy bank customers or a hen-pecking wife. As he hides out in his bank's vault to read during a lunch break, a nuclear bomb wipes out said wife, customers, and every other human being, leaving him alone in a decimated city with his treasured literary classics - until the climactic ending. -
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"Twenty-Two" A tale of a woman who repeatedly dreams that she walks down a long, dark corridor to the hospital morgue, where she is greeted by a nurse who says, "Room for one more, honey." Of course, it's only a dream, right? -
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"Walking Distance" Martin Sloan, a 36-year-old ad man tired of his life, finds himself transported to the hometown of his boyhood. There he not only basks in the remembered pleasures of carousel rides and chocolate sodas with three scoops, but also encounters himself as a child - and his parents, who understandably question his sanity.
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