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May 28, 2024 · An early favorite from the first season, this episode was one of the first to define just how out of the norm Rod Serling and the various writers involved (this one based on a short story by longtime Twilight Zone contributor Richard Matheson) tried to make their situations and messages for the show.
May 12, 2024 · Written by Richard Matheson and directed by Richard Donner, the episode follows a salesman (William Shatner) with a fear of flying, who, of course, finds himself on a plane, forced to confront his fears. Things become more complicated when he sees a figure on the aircraft’s wing that nobody else seems to notice.
8 hours ago · His influence was overwhelming, to the point that, according to one Twilight Zone writer, he could even use words that other writers could not. The legendary genre writer Richard Matheson was also a major presence in Twilight Zone history. Over the course of the show's five-season run, he scripted more than a dozen episodes, and even more were ...
May 23, 2024 · "Third from the Sun" is an episode of the American television anthology series The Twilight Zone. It is based on a short story of the same name by Richard Matheson which first appeared in the first issue of the magazine Galaxy Science Fiction in October 1950.
May 23, 2024 · Besides Shatner in front of the camera, the episode is one of several adapted from an equally classic short story by Richard Matheson, author of Hell House and I Am Legend, and it's also the first of six episodes directed by Richard Donner (also known for The Omen, The Goonies, Lethal Weapon ).
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May 9, 2024 · The tense half-hour, directed by Richard Donner, preys on the universal fear of flying and the torment of having to decide whether the ominous feeling you have is valid self-preserving intuition...
May 11, 2024 · More importantly, this episode features one of the most effective sequences in Twilight Zone history; a Cat People-like prolonged walk through the city in which Richards is pursued by the...
