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The Best Episodes of The Twilight Zone Season 3

Every episode of The Twilight Zone Season 3 ranked from best to worst. Discover the Best Episodes of The Twilight Zone Season 3!

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  1. #1 Fan Favorite
    The Twilight Zone Season 3 Episode 24 - To Serve Man
    9.0/10(6237 votes)

    S3:E24

    An alien race comes to Earth, promising peace and sharing technology. A team of linguists sets out to translate the aliens' language, using a book whose title they deduce to be "To Serve Man."

    Director:Richard L. Bare
    Writers:Rod Serling, Damon Knight

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  2. The Twilight Zone Season 3 Episode 3 - The Shelter
    8.6/10(4359 votes)

    S3:E3

    When a nuclear attack appears imminent, several suburban friends and neighbors fight over control of a single bomb shelter.

    Director:Lamont Johnson
    Writer:Rod Serling

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  3. The Twilight Zone Season 3 Episode 8 - It's a Good Life
    8.6/10(5400 votes)

    S3:E8

    On an isolated family farm in Peakesville, Ohio, young Anthony Fremont, who has vast mental powers but lacks emotional development, holds his terrified family and neighbors in thrall to his every juvenile wish.

    Director:James Sheldon
    Writers:Rod Serling, Jerome Bixby

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  4. The Twilight Zone Season 3 Episode 10 - The Midnight Sun
    8.4/10(4667 votes)

    S3:E10

    The Earth's orbit has been changed, drawing ever closer to the sun and promising imminent destruction.

    Director:Anton Leader
    Writer:Rod Serling

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  5. The Twilight Zone Season 3 Episode 14 - Five Characters in Search of an Exit
    8.4/10(4657 votes)

    S3:E14

    A hobo, clown, bagpipe player, ballerina and military officer are trapped in a huge cylinder.

    Director:Lamont Johnson
    Writer:Rod Serling

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  6. The Twilight Zone Season 3 Episode 16 - Nothing in the Dark
    8.3/10(4209 votes)

    S3:E16

    A lonely old woman refuses to leave her apartment for fear of meeting "Mr. Death."

    Director:Lamont Johnson
    Writer:George Clayton Johnson

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  7. The Twilight Zone Season 3 Episode 37 - The Changing of the Guard
    8.2/10(3413 votes)

    S3:E37

    An elderly private school teacher wonders if his life has meant anything as he contemplates suicide on Christmas Eve and is reminded by former students that he has, indeed, made an effect on the lives of his students over the years.

    Director:Robert Ellis Miller
    Writer:Rod Serling

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  8. The Twilight Zone Season 3 Episode 9 - Deaths-Head Revisited
    8.1/10(3803 votes)

    S3:E9

    A former Nazi SS Captain returns to the ruins of a concentration camp to reminisce, and is met by one of his victims.

    Director:Don Medford
    Writer:Rod Serling

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  9. The Twilight Zone Season 3 Episode 19 - The Hunt
    8.0/10(3520 votes)

    S3:E19

    On a hunting trip, Hyder Simpson and his dog Rip dive into a lake after a raccoon. When he gets home he finds that no one can see or hear him.

    Director:Harold D. Schuster
    Writers:Earl Hamner, Jr.

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  10. The Twilight Zone Season 3 Episode 26 - Little Girl Lost
    8.0/10(3564 votes)

    S3:E26

    Awakened by the cries of their daughter Bettina, Chris and Ruth Miller enter her room to find that she has vanished, even though they still hear her crying for help. Chris' physicist friend Bill thinks she moved into another dimension.

    Director:Paul Stewart
    Writer:Richard Matheson

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  11. The Twilight Zone Season 3 Episode 5 - A Game of Pool
    7.8/10(3665 votes)

    S3:E5

    Championship pool player Fats Brown returns from the grave for one last game.

    Director:Buzz Kulik
    Writer:George Clayton Johnson

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  12. The Twilight Zone Season 3 Episode 27 - Person or Persons Unknown
    7.8/10(2971 votes)

    S3:E27

    David Gurney wakes up to find that no one - his wife, his co-workers, his best friend, not even his own mother knows him.

    Director:John Brahm
    Writer:Charles Beaumont

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  13. The Twilight Zone Season 3 Episode 28 - The Little People
    7.8/10(3209 votes)

    S3:E28

    An astronaut declares himself a god when his ship lands on a planet populated by people smaller than ants.

    Director:William F. Claxton
    Writer:Rod Serling

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  14. The Twilight Zone Season 3 Episode 33 - The Dummy
    7.7/10(3178 votes)

    S3:E33

    A ventriloquist is convinced that his dummy, Willie, is alive and evil. He makes plans for a new act with a new dummy: plans that Willie doesn't support!

    Director:Abner Biberman
    Writer:Rod Serling

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  15. The Twilight Zone Season 3 Episode 31 - The Trade-Ins
    7.6/10(2853 votes)

    S3:E31

    An elderly couple visit the New Life Corporation, hoping to transport their personalities into youthful artificial bodies.

    Director:Elliot Silverstein
    Writer:Rod Serling

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  16. The Twilight Zone Season 3 Episode 1 - Two
    7.5/10(3955 votes)

    S3:E1

    A man and a woman, on opposite sides of a future war, encounter each other in a deserted town.

    Director:Montgomery Pittman
    Writer:Montgomery Pittman

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  17. The Twilight Zone Season 3 Episode 4 - The Passersby
    7.5/10(3242 votes)

    S3:E4

    On the road home from the Civil War, a Confederate soldier stops at a burned-out house and gets to know the owner, a recent widow.

    Director:Elliot Silverstein
    Writer:Rod Serling

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  18. The Twilight Zone Season 3 Episode 21 - Kick the Can
    7.5/10(3210 votes)

    S3:E21

    A retiree living in a rest home thinks he has discovered the secret of youth — acting young, and in particular playing a children's game called "kick-the-can".

    Director:Lamont Johnson
    Writer:George Clayton Johnson

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  19. The Twilight Zone Season 3 Episode 22 - A Piano in the House
    7.5/10(2939 votes)

    S3:E22

    Fortune discovers that a piano he bought his wife for her birthday has magical properties - the music that it plays makes people reveal their true essence.

    Director:David Greene
    Writers:Earl Hamner, Jr.

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  20. The Twilight Zone Season 3 Episode 25 - The Fugitive
    7.5/10(2962 votes)

    S3:E25

    Old Ben, who is able to transform himself into anything, tries to help a crippled little girl.

    Director:Richard L. Bare
    Writer:Charles Beaumont

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  21. The Twilight Zone Season 3 Episode 7 - The Grave
    7.3/10(3298 votes)

    S3:E7

    Before he died, notorious gunslinger Pinto Sykes put a curse on hired-gun Conny Miller. Miller returns to town and is challenged to visit the grave of Sykes, despite the curse.

    Director:Montgomery Pittman
    Writer:Montgomery Pittman

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  22. The Twilight Zone Season 3 Episode 17 - One More Pallbearer
    7.3/10(2828 votes)

    S3:E17

    Paul Radin has invited three people to join him in his bomb shelter.

    Director:Lamont Johnson
    Writer:Rod Serling

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  23. The Twilight Zone Season 3 Episode 18 - Dead Man's Shoes
    7.3/10(2775 votes)

    S3:E18

    A vagrant steps into a murdered gangster's expensive shoes and is taken over by the dead man's ghost, who vows to remain on Earth to seek revenge against his killer.

    Director:Montgomery Pittman
    Writer:Charles Beaumont

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  24. The Twilight Zone Season 3 Episode 30 - Hocus-Pocus and Frisby
    7.3/10(2854 votes)

    S3:E30

    A loud-mouthed braggart's boasts attract the attention of some aliens.

    Director:Lamont Johnson
    Writer:Rod Serling

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  25. The Twilight Zone Season 3 Episode 2 - The Arrival
    7.2/10(3199 votes)

    S3:E2

    A plane lands safely, but all its passengers, pilot and crew are missing.

    Director:Boris Sagal
    Writer:Rod Serling

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Season 3 Ratings Summary

"To Serve Man" is the best rated episode of "The Twilight Zone" season 3. It scored 9/10 based on 6237 votes. Directed by Richard L. Bare and written by Rod Serling, Damon Knight, it aired on 3/2/1962. This episode is rated 0.4 points higher than the second-best, "The Shelter".