Twenty Favorite Twilight Zone Episodes
(from the original five-season Rod Serling run, in order of preference)
Eye of the Beholder (Season 2, Episode 6)
Walking Distance (Season 1, Episode 5)
Five Characters in Search of an Exit (Season 3, Episode 14)
The Long Morrow (Season 5, Episode 15)
Nothing in the Dark (Season 3, Episode 16)
The Midnight Sun (Season 3, Episode 10)
Miniature (Season 4, Episode 8)
The Changing of the Guard (Season 3, Episode 37)
And When the Sky Was Opened (Season 1, Episode 11)
Nightmare at 20,000 Feet (Season 5, Episode 3)
A Passage for Trumpet (Season 1, Episode 32)
A Game of Pool (Season 3, Episode 5)
The Last Flight (Season 1, Episode 18)
Time Enough at Last (Season 1, Episode 8)
Little Girl Lost (Season 3, Episode 26)
The Masks (Season 5, Episode 25)
Night Call (Season 5, Episode 19)
The Lonely (Season 1, Episode 7)
The Parallel (Season 4, Episode 11)
Will the Real Martian Please Stand Up? (Season 2, Episode 28)
Bonus episode: An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge (Season 5, Episode 22), which is certainly among the best and most artful episodes of the series but was originally shot independently, as a French short film, and purchased later by Serling for broadcast
(The final episode of the last season, “The Bewitchin’ Pool,” is, alas, the worst in the entire series: #156 of 156.)
— December 4, 2020