Top 10 Favorite 1980's Twilight Zone Episodes 

I never knew Wes Craven did some Twilight Zones

I loved that last episode of forced shunning. The utter irony was that the main character was a selfish jerk, but when he comes out of his punishment, he reaches out in kindness to a woman who is also ‘invisible’. So he’ll serve his time again, simply for being a decent human being.

My favorite episode from the 80's seriers is Her Pilgrim Soul, it is a beautiful story and one of my favorites from the whole Twilight Zone.

My favorites are "The Shadow Man", "The Toys of Caliban", "Acts of Terror", and "Button, Button".

Dealers choice is on everyone’s top ten. Great episode

Peace & Quiet, Night Crawlers, The card game.👍 There was one called The Shadow Man

So glad I found this channel. I love listening to this type of thing while I’m at home doing chores.

Profile in Silver was a great episode. Who'd have thought the Scorpio killer would become president? Nightcrawlers also featured Exene Cervenka, co-lead singer of one of my favorite bands, X.

I loved the episodes "Too see the Invisible Man" and "The Shadow Man". 😊

Love twilight Zone such a great anthology show ever made. Huge fan of the 80's version

Great list, I also enjoyed "The Shadow man" and "A message from Charity" from the 80's series.

That last shot of #3 always stuck with me from my kidhood too. It took me ages to find it again because there were so many anthology horror shows in the 80s and I couldn't remember the rest of the story or which show it was. Very glad I found it again.

Wow! Only one of these, "A Little Peace and Quiet" is an episode I remember seeing! It, along with "Wordplay" and "Shadowman" are the three I remember freaking me out as a kid.

Great review, I've updated my top 15 since 3-4 years ago here they are... but first honorable mentions 18 Saucer of loneliness 17 Time and Teresa Gerowitz 16 The Library Now Top 15 The Road Less Traveled 14 A matter of Minutes 13 Kentucky rye (reminds me alot of a nice place to visit) 12 Grace Note 11 To See the Invisible Man 10 Wordplay (like a mandella effect) 9 Night Crawlers 8 Wong's lost and Found Emporium 7 Memories 6 The Mind of Simon Foster 5 Toys of Caliban 4 The Helgramite Method 3 Paladin of the Last Hour 2 Dealer's Choice 1 Her Pilgrim Soul

Another great episode with your usual humor, Anthony. I saw all these as a kid. At first, I remembered the one with the zoo of parents and the magic lamp one. But, this video brought back a LOT of memories. Such a great show.

Another great list! I desperately need to watch this 80 series. I'm very fascinated by it.

Fever Bro , ya did it. Proud of ya u come along wY and i agree with the list fully. One these days man ima get you on board with the Night Gallery. Thanks man enjoy your week

Can't believe we both had the same favorite episode. I was fully expecting you not to even mention it so I was prepared to comment that you overlooked it. I'm glad you didn't in the end. Just one other episode that always stuck with me was the one about the demonic Grandma if I recall correctly who is taken care of by her grandson played by the same child actor from the Never Ending Story I think. The fear I had for the grandmother built up over the entire episode until they finally showed her towards the end with an effective practical creature. It must have been effective to still be with me decades later.

'The Shadow Man' will forever be my favorite. Great twist, and you can't go wrong with Joe Dante.

Ive not seen the 80's TZ since it first aired. I'll have to track down these episodes. The theme music is creepy and awesome too.

I loved the episode where veteran actor John Glover played an 👽 threatening to destroy all of humanity because they weren't effective as war soldiers.

Good Job. A little Peace & Quiet is my favorite...The ending is very memorable!!!

Plenty of frights and delights! :) Awesome selection of terror!!

To see the Invisible Man was my number #1 too. It had the necessary Twilight Zone creepiness. But this one had an absolutely beautiful ending. I cried.

Favourite episode would be "Gramma", much better telling of the Stephen King short story than the not so good movie version Mercy . "Gramma" seemed out of place for TZ , it had more of a Night Gallery feel . All of the choices in your list sound great , some I haven't seen , thanks for not spoiling them .

Great list. I also love, "Paladin of the Lost Hour", "The Burning Man", "Her pilgrim Soul", and "Dead Run"... but honestly, looking through the episodes to find the titles, I saw half a dozen others I really enjoy...so many good episodes on the iteration! ❤

"Examination Day" darn near broke my heart.

Not a year goes by without a casual thought about the JFK episode. Great time travel story. Edit: Haven't seen the end, but I have a feeling Invisible Man is #1.

The Shadow Man, Children's Zoo, Dealer's Choice and Button, Button are my favorites

"Profile In Silver" was one of my favorite episodes too. I also remember an episode (don't remember the name) where some astronauts landed on a dead star. They figured out that it was the actual Star that led the Magi in the Bible. Also another favorite (again I don't remember the name of the episode) was where a couple was pulled out of time and they found "elves' (probably not the right term) that were responsible for creating every moment of time we experience. Finally there was an episode where a man found himself in a world very much like his own but the language was different. At the end he got out a Primer and started learning the language from scratch. These might have been in a 90s version of The Twilight Zone though.

Submitted for your approval....Really great to see new content from you brother. The card game with the devil was my fave. Appreciate your vids... keep sharing please.

Great list! I recently finished watching this series after seeing the 60s series for the first time. My top 10 favorites counting up to my number 1 are: 10) Grace Note 9) The Cold Equations 8) The Storyteller 7) Wordplay 6) Examination Day 5) Little Boy Lost 4) Her Pilgrim Soul 3) Shadow Play 2) A Message from Charity 1) The Call

Among my favorites, "Paladin of the Lost Hour," "Dead Run," and "A Matter of Minutes."

To see the invisible man is one of my favourites! The short story by Silverberg is pretty great too! Love the channel and your reviews of The Twilight Zone!

I think of A Little Peace and Quiet daily. DAILY!

Amazing work as always on this one! Man, I really need to revisit some of these episodes and finally get around to watching some for the first time. I always love seeing Wes on screen even though he isn't the greatest actor, lol.

Great list my friend and I love all your picks. Although the original Twilight Zone will always be my favorite incarnation, I still enjoy the 80s series.

I watched all of these when they were new. It was called "The New Twilight Zone," by the way ~~~~ A memorable early episode starred Robert Klein. His use of language starts to erode --- Over the course of a few days, all the words he uses, (and the audience understands,) now have different meanings to everyone around him. In the end he must start from scratch to learn to communicate. Disorientation, isolation, and (slow) recovery. Touching, and relatable.

This was certainly an unexpected surprise! Excellent as always and extremely helpful as someone who is still finding their footing with this show. Since I haven't made my way through the entire series yet, this list will definitely help give me some highlights to either look forward to or to skip ahead to. I have to say, the show is growing on me but was a bit difficult to get into at first. I've seen a couple of these since some of them are early in the run and the ones that helped me ease into the show like Nightcrawlers & Kentucky Rye. Maybe one day we'll also get a retrospective on the 2000s revival series? Keep up the strong work and looking forward to getting back to the original series.

Great video as always man! The 1980s reboot is so underrated. You picked some great ones for this list. I especially love Dealer's Choice, Shelter Skelter, and Kentucky Rye (which I completely forgot about until you mentioned it here.) Lots of other good ones too: Aqua Vita and The Misfortune Cookie are both favorites of mine and Gramma and The Elevator both have some great scares in them. Love the 1960s shows they remade as well. Excellent job!

I have the series on DVD. Favorite episodes are "Shadow Man," "I Of Newton," & " Red Snow."

Eventually I'll need to to watch the entirety of the original and this series. Really cool sounding stories, excellent video FDT.

Yo!!! Some very interesting and creepy episodes... Not familiar with many .. but intriguing for sure...great job and take care...👍💀

Excellent overview of these episodes. Now I want to find the series streaming somewhere to check them out! I like how you dig into where various actors are known from (as a fan of Deep Space 9 I can't believe I never noticed that Andrew Robinson was in the 80's TZ as well as Dirty Harry). Great job with this!

My favorites are Gramma, Examination Day, The Childrens Zoo and The After Hours. I need to rewatch the whole series.

Such an awesome video dude! This is the greatest channel for Twilight Zone content. These all look amazing. Love all your highlighting of the actors and where I've seen them before, it really helps the old memory when thinking "Where have I seen her before?" or "Oh, it's that guy... whatshisname from thingymajig!" 😆 So cool Anthony. I still have all these to look forward to and lots of the original series to see also, and Fever Dreamland's journeys to the fifth dimension is excellent inspiration to get on with it! Cheer man, be well dude! Greg.

Love what you did at @12:53 😁

Great list! The 80's twilight zone series was underrated. One of my favorite episodes was the toys of Caliban from Season 2 episode 5. Written by George R.R. Martin.

All very good

Good list

I think A Little Peace And Quiet was the very first episode of the show I ever saw. Blew my mind as a kid. Dealers Choice is a personal fave of mine. Nightcrawlers was very memorable. Great list. Most I have yet to see. TZ got aired at odd times here in the UK without much care so it was difficult to really follow it. Other favourites of mine is Wordplay and A Small Talent For War. Which might be my favourite from the 80s series. Top class video as always. Love what you did with the sound during your section on A Little Peace And Quiet. Terrific!

Im surprised Her Pilgrim Soul didnt make the list...my number one choice. Good picks on your end though..thankyou for sharing

I don't think I ever caught an episode of this one back in the day. But I've had the set on my Amazon list for a long while now. I've heard it's good and from this video that clearly appears to be the case. Some great actors too. Lain Smith is great. Nice DS9 reference too. That's Andrew Robinson's role best role in my book. Another great, well edited, well researched episode. Though you might want to stop recording in other people's kitchens. A little loud. And a little weird that you're hanging out there.

Wonderful picks.

"Wordplay", "The Misfortune Cookie"

Need to catch up on your coverage of the classics, but this was the series I grew up with, so it makes me delighted to see you discuss them, including a couple I'd forgotten. My favourite will always be the Stephen McHattie/Janet Leigh episode, Rendezvous In A Dark Place, which you'd referenced awhile back. Keep up the kickass work, mate!

Oh man I really need to watch the rest of these; excellent video as always man, nothing but the best wishes to you.

Wow these all look very interesting!! And so many great actors! M Emmet Walsh. Joe Mantegna. I never knew there were 80’s Zones until recently. I’m gonna watch all these eps. Great vid!! 👍📽️📽️📽️📽️📽️

Awesome video. I really enjoyed it. Great thumbnail btw… Theres plenty of raging alcoholics in TZ lol 🤦. The one I remember was with the worm/parasite that every “recovered” alcoholic must “pass on”

Don't mind me, just offering up my comment to the algorithm Gods. 😘 Love your channel bud. Edit: you should totally do a critical breakdown of the latest reboot from Jordan Peele because it just sucked so badly.

Children's Zoo is my favorite from the 80s TZ.

Anthony this was so fun to watch, great commentary as usual! I’ve seen a few of these but not all.. time for me to revisit them. All the great actors too. Hope you’re weekend is going well🙌🙌

Wish this was streaming some where…

I liked the one where Colleen Dewhurst was the author of children's stories who felt obsolete. It had the same sweet vibe of "a Changing of the Guard", from TOS. The latter featured Donald Pleasance as an academy teacher also feeling obsolete after being nudged into retirement. Both of these gave happy tears and chills. A special mention of Meg Foster's sad, heartbreaking performance in "the Picnic" [ I BELIEVE that was the title, anyway...]

Good list. I have Nightcrawlers at 1 and Her Pilgrim Soul at 2. To See the Invisible Man I'd probably put at 3. Kentucky Rye and The Cold Equations would round out my Top 5.

Best episode was “I of Newton” with the late great Ron Glass and Sherman Hemsley. Very deep philosophical, Faustian story.

So, what I'd add. Cold Equations - led me down the path of old radio shows like X Minus One when I found out it was produced decades before for radio I of Newton - amazing performances By Sherman Helmsley and Ron Glass rock this one out of the park Paladin of the Lost Hour - Another great performance by Danny Kaye, one of my favourite actors of all time The Shadow man - Haunted this little kid's brain for years A Small Talent for War - Nice twist

Granmma and the shadow man. THE REDO of the afterhours was pretty good to.

Fantastic Research and Review, Thanks

I love these movies

An excellent selection. I think my two favorites are: “Dead Run” and “The Devil’s Alphabet”. Dead Run follows a young truck driver who is blackballed from commercial trucking because of too many accidents (insurance companies won’t touch him) so he goes to his father’s friend for help. The job? Carting souls to Hell. It’s a haunting and yet touching look into the themes of rigidity, morality, sinfulness and redemption. The Devil’s Alphabet on the other hand is a period piece involving 7 members of a college fraternity who swear to not only continue meeting but get together every year even after death. One of the members commits suicide and the survivors come to realize that their oaths are still binding. It’s a spooky ghost story combined with a cautionary tale and will leave you haunted. Fun fact: The Devil’s Alphabet is based on a short story (The Everlasting Club) by Sir Arthur Gray, a contemporary of MR James, who is credited as the father of the modern day ghost story.

That's an impressive video . Thanks for creating this content 😊

9:58- I'd slice away my memories of Middle and High School.

looks great and beautiful film. i love that. thank you for this great video of yours. have a nice day

Shelter Skelter was excellent and holds up well! There’s an episode of Monsters with vampires that’s similar.

I'm shocked Caliban's Toys didn't make your list.

I think this show it's awesome. The second best TTZ "version". Obviously not as good as the original, but I still got excited to watch every episode at the end of the day just as much as the original. It's really "80s" and the image quality it's awfully, but I still feel like everyone put their max and I appreciate that.

The Shadow Man and Shelter Skelter 🤘🏻

Little Peace and Quiet terrified me as a kid

Great list.....is the series hosted by Forest Whittaker??? So many solid guest stars as well...

My top 10 favourites are 10. The Convict's Piano 9. Extra Inning 8. Misfortune Cookie ( it should have been longer ) 7. Wong's Lost And Found Emporium 6. The Card 5. The Hellgrammite Method 4. The Shadowman 3. What Are Friends For 2. The Mind Of Simon Foster 1. A Message From Charity My honourable mentions are 5. Eye Of Newton 4. Little Boy Lost 3. Profile In Silver 2. Examination Day 1. Her Pilgrim Soul February 25th 2024 9:34 PM Central Time

We must be on the same wavelength, my three favorites are a little peace and quiet, Kentucky rye and of course to see the invisible man

"To See the Invisible Man" is probably #2 on my personal list. My #1 is "The Cold Equations", which is for my money the best version of this particular story, though the comic precursor, "A Weighty Decision", is also very good. The pilot of an emergency dispatch spaceship carrying medicine needed to treat a disease outbreak on a distant colony discovers he has an extra passenger: a 14-year-old girl who stowed away to visit her brother. I also like "Button, Button" a lot; it changes the ending from the Richard Matheson short story, and in the process improves it quite a bit. The original ending depends on some not so clever wordplay, while the Twilight Zone version changes it to be a logical, if horrifying, extension of the premise.

truly did not know as well Wes Craven did the only episode I've ever seen from the 80s series dealers choice. Surprisingly as hell he didnt direct the faces in the wall episode though being with nightmare on elm street lol.

Great review. Great series

I love Monsters and the Walking Distance remake.

80s Zone is better than it's often given credit for. Certainly better than the 2001 and 2022 series. It's hard for me to choose the best of the 80s series, but you touched most of them. I do have an issue with Dealer's Choice - they explain how to play Lowball as if we're children and there's too much dialogue - but the episode itself is classic. Dan Hedaya is perfect as Nick, but the entire cast is wonderful. Nick: Norman's out visiting a sick uncle. [checks his watch] 'scuse me - make that a dead uncle. A Little Peace and Quiet is kinda 80s Zone's version of A Kind of a Stopwatch, and it's SO much better. We actually cares what happens to Penny, and no one cares about McNulty in the original. Nice little gag at the end of the episode. About the only flaw I have with To See the Invisible Man is that the Mark of Invisibility looks ridiculous, IMO. Other than that, the special effects are cheap, but effective - especially the watcher droids. Cotter Smith starts out very obnoxious, but as the punishment begins to take its toll, you really start to feel for him. He learns his lesson and the story works - it's a classic second chance story, and, in many ways, that's what the Twilight Zone is all about. Very good take on these classics. I am looking forward to your reviews of the individual episodes.

Dealer’s Choice is totally fun! Great list Anthony!

I haven't watched the 80s Twilight Zone but I am almost done watching the originals , now I have to add these to the watch list 😅 excellent video Anthony 🙏

That's totally terrifying

Nice sharing❤❤

Good look at this one. I may have missed a couple on its original run, but I definitely recall the Melinda Dillon episode. I would pick A Saucer of Loneliness as best, from the story by Theodore Sturgeon. It's certainly darker in tone than the original series. Reflection of the times maybe?

Fantastic job. You put in your research and it shows. I have to pick up the box set and dig back into this version of TZ. Like the original this series had some very well established talents and actors who would go on to make a great name for themselves. Cheers!

You need to do Outer Limits, 60s and 90s.

I completely forgot about the JFK episode. Interesting because I really liked Stephen King's novel 11-22-63.

I always like the episode Chameleon, where a NASA space probe brings a shape shifting alien back to Earth, the alien absorbs people or anything and assumes its identity but the things it absorbs are not destroyed in the sense that we understand but become part of the alien the alien is not a evil entity but a space explorer or scientist that has been exploring the universe for eons

I love Paladin of the Lost Hour and A Small Talent For War

A good list from one of the better revisits to the 5th Dimension, but I could be biased cause I watched this one before the original as a little kid back when it aired. I know The Twilight Zone is kind of your bread and butter here but I'm curious if you've checked iut similar shows? Tales From The Crypt Creepshow Tales From The Darkside Night Gallery Amazing Stories (Go To The Head of The Class is just superb) Heck I'm even tempted to encourage you to check out The Storyteller by Jim Henson. And while it's not exactly an anthology series Nightmare Cafe by Wes Craven is an interesting watch if you can find it. Again, i grew up with all of these so i freely admit my biases but you'll probably enjoy them.

My favorite is the Burning Man, that was not on the list. But worth watching it’s only 10mins or so.

Great list! Love 80s TZ 👽🤙