As of July 2026, The Twilight Zone Season 3 aired in 1988 with 30 episodes. Full episode guide and where to watch below.
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The Twilight Zone Season 3

1988 30 Episodes Sci-Fi & Fantasy · Drama ⭐ 8/10

If you want science fiction that respects its own premise, The Twilight Zone Season 3 is available on streaming right now. Across 1 season, the show has had time to find its rhythm and keep it. An 8/10 rating says what the writing already makes obvious: this one works. Robin Ward leads a cast that never lets the concept overwhelm the characters. There is no real reason to keep putting it off.

Whatever else is competing for your attention this week, The Twilight Zone Season 3 is worth clearing space for. The world-building is meticulous, but it is the characters who carry The Twilight Zone Season 3 through its more ambitious moments. Season 3 of The Twilight Zone includes 30 episodes. It aired from September 1988 to April 1989. This season stars Robin Ward. Robin Ward leads a cast that brings real weight to the material. It was aired in 1988. The world-building is meticulous enough to sustain multiple rewatches, with details early on that only make sense later. The consistency throughout is what elevates it — not every moment is the best, but none of them are a reason to stop watching.

For late-night viewing or a proper weekend binge, The Twilight Zone Season 3 fits the bill. If you have run out of similar titles to watch, this is a strong next pick. A contained run means every episode is doing real work. Robin Ward grounds the bigger ideas in something human. Once you are in, you will want to talk about it.

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🎬 The Twilight Zone Season 3 — Episode Guide

E1
The Curious Case of Edgar Witherspoon
1988-09-24
A woman tries to get her Uncle Edgar committed, believing that he is senile. The investigating doctor finds Edgar living in an apartment containing all kinds of junk. Edgar claims that a mysterious Voice tells him what junk to collect, and to assemble it into a device that constantly keeps the world...
E2
Extra Innings
1988-10-01
Ex-baseball player Ed Hamner, lame from an injury and forced to retire early, is given a 1909 baseball card of a player that looks exactly like him, Monte Hanks. The card is magical in that he becomes drawn into it and lives out the life of the player in the past. Hamner must choose between being he...
E3
The Crossing
1988-10-08
A stressed-out priest repeatedly encounters a station wagon containing a young girl. The car keeps crashing and bursting into flames.
E4
The Hunters
1988-10-15
A young boy falls into an undiscovered cave near a housing project. An archeologist studies strange paintings on its walls and then bizarre things begin to happen. Cave items move around and animals are killed and brought into the cave.
E5
Dream Me a Life
1988-10-22
Roger, a curmudgeonly man in a retirement home, has nightmares of an unknown woman trying to hold back some strange creature behind a door in a room filled with candles. He is shocked when that woman, a cataleptic, becomes his next-door neighbor. Roger soon comes to realize that he is somehow tied t...
E6
Memories
1988-10-29
A hypnotist who specializes in helping people relive their past lives tries to find her own history. She hypnotizes herself and when she awakens, she learns that everyone can now remember their past lives. They also desperately want to forget them.
E7
The Hellgramite Method
1988-11-05
An alcoholic, Miley Judson, is approached by a doctor who offers to provide him with a unique cure. Desperate, Judson agrees and is secretly given a "hellgramite" insect. The insect in his stomach will keep him sober no matter how much he drinks, and will feed on any alcohol he does drink. The more ...
E8
Our Selena is Dying
1988-11-12
A young woman, Diane, comes to live with her family, including the dying patriarch Sylena. Much to the doctor's astonishment, Sylena begins to make an astonishing recovery, while Diane begins to show all the signs of rapid aging. The doctor soon deduces the truth: the Brockman's have discovered a wa...
E9
The Call
1988-11-19
A lonely man accidentally phones the wrong number and finds an intriguing female to whom he grows attached. When she refuses to meet him, he investigates and finds the phone in a museum next to the statue of a woman.
E10
The Trance
1988-11-26
A scam artist purports to channel the spirit of Delos, a former inhabitant of Atlantis. Together with a partner, he makes a living off of it. The day of his big break, he channels another spirit, one who could cause him to lose everything. Is it punishment or a lesson from the twilight zone?
E11
Acts of Terror
1988-12-03
A woman terrorized by her abusive husband finds some small consolation in a statue of a dog given to her by her sympathetic sister. The woman soon discovers that she can summon the dog to life as a huge ferocious beast that will respond when her husband abuses her. He manages to break the statue but...
E12
20/20 Vision
1988-12-10
Newly promoted bank loan officer Warren Cribbens cracks his eyeglasses and discovers he can see the future through them. Faced with seeing the future of the farmers whose farms he must foreclose on, Warren can't bring himself to foreclose. Right away he's torn into doing his job or standing up for t...
E13
There Was an Old Woman
1988-12-17
A famous children's book writer visits a sick boy and reads him one of her stories. Later, at home, she is disturbed by children's voices throughout her house and learns from his parents that the boy has died.
E14
The Trunk
1988-12-24
A young man at a motel discovers an empty trunk that grants any wishes. He uses it for popularity, but at a party he discovers who his true friends are.
E15
Appointment on Route 17
1988-12-31
After finishing a heart transplant, a man finds his personality has changed. He also discovers that he has a strange attraction to a waitress at a road diner.
E16
The Cold Equations
1989-01-07
A shuttle pilot on the outer fringes of space finds a stowaway on board his ship. Because of the extra weight, he does not have enough fuel for his journey and faces a dilemma forcing him to consider jettisoning her into space.
E17
Stranger in Possum Meadows
1989-01-14
A young boy playing in a field meets an old man who is really an alien collecting specimens to bring back to his planet.
E18
Street of Shadows
1989-01-21
Walking taking a walk in a wealthy neighborhood an unemployed man living in a shelter experiences an unusual transformation.
E19
Something in the Walls
1989-01-28
A doctor arrives at his new job in a sanitarium. He discovers the case of a woman who is terribly frightened of things that appear on her walls.
E20
A Game of Pool
1989-02-04
Young Jesse has spent his entire life mastering pool, and wants to beat the best: the deceased Fats Brown. Summoned, Fats Brown appears to challenge him to a game of pool. The stakes: Jesse's life. After a tense match, Jesse fails to make a critical shot. Fats tells him that he will indeed "die": he...

🎭 Cast of The Twilight Zone Season 3

Robin Ward
Robin Ward
Narrator (voice)

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