"The Twilight Zone"

-created by rod serling
1959-1964
Crap.
Okay, that's not fair.
Crappy?
Yes, that's it. "Crap" would imply that its very essence is fecal, whereas "crappy" implies that shittyness is simply one quality. There were good episodes, maybe even a few that qualify as great. I say maybe because i couldn't watch it all. I'd been saving that supposed pleasure for decades, but the shittyness of the show slaps you in the face almost instantly. I was soon reduced to cherry-picking only the most attractive-looking episodes (mostly based on cast juiciness...and by that i of course mean shatner...nah, just kidding - sort of).
I am sure there are many out there who worship at the altar of TZ as the greatest sci fi show ever. Do NOT procreate with these people! To love TZ, you have to love dipsy wipsy magical wagical mumbo jumbo. To even call it science fiction is a stretch, as it's often an insult to the very notion of science. Maybe i always intuited that, and that's the subconscious reason it took me decades to get around to watching? For a devotee of the genre though, there is much here to love. FORBIDDEN PLANET is where modern sci fi was born, but TZ took it one important step further, in humanizing its characters. FP + TZ = STAR TREK, sort of.
I didn't watch nearly enough to offer any "best of". I might get around to that someday...