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- The Theme. We recently placed the spoken-word intro of The Twilight Zone at number one on our list of classic show-openers, and with good reason. There’s never been a more effective scene-setter than Serling’s ever-evolving narrations and Marius Constant’s eerie tune.
- The Writers and Directors. The assembly of talent behind the various iterations of The Twilight Zone remains impressive. For the original four-season series, Serling, a decorated World War II veteran who used the G.I.
- The Actors. The list of actors who graced individual episodes of the original series reads like a Who’s Who of Hollywood. Some were young and unknown, while others were well-established at the time.
- The Twists. Despite its prodigious reputation in this regard, not every episode of The Twilight Zone deployed a shocking twist ending. However, those that did produced some incredibly memorable conclusions, which helped build that reputation for the show.
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TV writer Rod Serling pens the one-hour “The Time Element” for Lucille Ball and Desi Arnaz’s Westinghouse Desilu Playhouseon CBS. Plot: An NYC bartender (William Bendix) repeatedly dreams he’s in Honolulu the night before Pearl Harbor.
In the wake of the episode’s success, CBS green-lights a Serling anthology called The Twilight Zone; he would write 92 of its 156 episodes (including Season 5’s “The Masks”). Despite killer hooks and a loyal fanbase, the series is in frequent danger of cancellation. By 1964, the burned-out creator finally OKs its ending.
Doomed from the start? Actor Vic Morrow and two children are killed during the making of the Steven Spielberg–produced Twilight Zone: The Movie (with John Lithgowstarring in one of four segments). It grosses $29 million.
The works of top-shelf writers Stephen King, Ray Bradbury, Harlan Ellison and George R.R. Martin contribute to this CBS iteration. But The Twilight Zone can’t beat Websterin the ratings and is relegated to syndication within two years.
“I decided that if we could make the shows the kind of quality they were before, then I would feel proud,” host and narrator Forest Whitakersays before this second reboot’s premiere on then UPN network. It’s axed after one season.
Jordan Peele, who cocreated the sketch series Key & Peele before auteuring the films Get Out and Us, signs on to exec-produce a CBS All Access reboot. The Twilight Zone,Streaming now, CBS All Access
Apr 14, 2018 · Rod Serling's The Twilight Zone stood out in the "vast wasteland" of television in the early 1960s and still resonates today.
Jordan Peele's reboot of The Twilight Zone included some interesting entries, including a story of virtual reality with a very cryptic ending.
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Apr 3, 2019 · The Twilight Zone is a study in contrasts, and one that almost always works on multiple levels simultaneously. But the secret to its success is its overall simplicity.
Aug 31, 1986 · For the past four years, the Twilight Zone case has slowly wended its way through the legal system, delayed by appeals that reached the state Supreme Court after closed-door grand jury...
May 30, 1987 · The low-key one-time student body president at Banning High School in Wilmington began acting at the Pasadena Playhouse in the mid-1960s and later starred in several Chicago theater productions.
