9 Secret Episodes TV Shows Don't Want You To Find

9. The Twilight Zone - The Encounter

The Twilight Zone, while often terrifying, was also a platform in which the creators put forward their two cents on controversial topics. Sometimes it worked, sometimes... it didn't. When it comes to The Encounter, it definitely didn't work out the way they planned.

The episode saw two men, a Japanese-American man named Arthur Takamori and a white WWII veteran called Fenton, trapped in an attic with a seemingly haunted samurai sword. The sword seemed to have mystical powers that influenced the two men to engage in heated arguments and a fight to the death.

The episode could have been great, but the questionable dialogue and an offensive subplot foiled these plans.

After the episode aired, complaints piled in from Japanese-Americans because of the slurs used in the episode and the subplot that described Takamori's late father as a traitor of war that spied on the Japanese navy during the Pearl Harbour attack.

As a result, the episode was removed from syndication.

Where can I find it: The episode can be found on the DVD boxset.