Rod Serling did, after all, help write the screenplay for the original Planet of the Apes, which arguably has one of the greatest endings in the history of cinema.
But not all of its episodes are heady, thought experiments.
So, while some of these episodes below don’t tackle any of the important “isms,” they’re still the greatest and most memorable episodes in the entire series.
Some are just thoroughly engaging stories, many of which have little twists at the end that I’m sure inspired M. Night Shyamalan a great deal.