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The 7 Most Notable Episodes In Twilight Zone History, Ranked
By JACOB HALL
7. Flight 33
Maddening and mysterious, it's never made entirely clear in “The Odyssey of Flight 33” how or why the airplane travels through time, from the prehistoric age to 1939.
With the story confined in a plane, Rod Serling's script forces our imagination to work. We don't know if Flight 33 will get home, but that hanging puts a brick in your stomach.
6. Time Enough
"Time Enough at Last," is about a nebbish whose love of literature derails his job and relationships but a nuclear war clears his life of those pesky details.
The sole survivor of a devastating H-bomb attack, a man (Burgess Meredith), has just him, plenty of canned food, and all the books in the ruined world. Time enough at last, indeed.
5. the Beholder
The slow burn and the sheer jolt of the twist ending are perhaps more famous than “The Eye Of The Beholder” itself, but it retains an undiminished powerful episode.
Superbly directed, the use of shadows and framing was downright shocking for the '60s. You’ll spend the whole episode leaning forward, fully absorbed in the mystery as it unravels.
4. The Invaders
This alien invasion story with a single lead character (Agnes Moorehead) without any spoken dialogue was written by sci-fi and horror legend Richard Matheon.
As a thriller, the episode is top-notch — a home invasion horror story with a sci-fi twist and a brilliant rug-pull of a twist ending. "The Invaders" surprises you like no other.
3. Nightmare
In “Nightmare at 20,000 Feet,” William Shatner plays a nervous flier who sees something on the aircraft wing mid-flight. No one believes him, and paranoia escalates.
Even those disappointed with the look of the creature (it's a bit hokey) can't deny the chilling power of the episode, which ratchets up the tension to unbearable levels.