The Twilight Zone
Premiered: October 2, 1959; Final Episode: September 18, 1964; Network: CBS
Created, Hosted and written (more often than not) by Rod Serling
Guest Stars: Roddy McDowall, Jack Warden, Cliff Robertson, Robert Redford, Earl Holliman, Burgess Meredith, Ed Wynn, Agnes Moorehead, Carol Burnett, Robert Duvall, William Shatner and others, many of whom had not yet achieved fame.
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Arguably the best science fiction anthology show ever created, The Twilight Zone was known for its unique theme music and the introductions delivered each week by its creator and host, Rod Serling. Serling was one of TV's most acclaimed writers and was responsible for many of the finest dramas of television's "Golden Age," including "Requiem For A Heavyweight" and "Patterns."
At the beginning of each Twilight Zone episode, he invited viewers to travel along with him "to another dimension... beyond that which is known to man." Serling, a six-time Emmy Award winner (two for The Twilight Zone), wrote eighty-nine of the 151 Twilight Zone episodes, most of which included a surprise ending or twist that would unravel in the closing moments of the program and turn what you had just been watching inside out.
The Twilight Zone was much more than a sci-fi drama dealing with the odd, the bizarre and the unexpected... it's depiction of the downtrodden, the depressed, the greedy, the stupid, the lucky, the evil, the saintly and the righteous was a reflection of the fears and anxieties America was facing during the Cold War. The stories may have dealt with aliens from the outer space, ventriloquists, gamblers, mannequins or children at play, but the real issues were the space race, nuclear war, race relations and conformity. It was a rareTwilight Zone episode that would not make you question your own beliefs and fears.
This is how Serling himself described the Twilight Zone in TV Guide (November, 1959), shortly after the show premiered:
"We want to tell stories that are different. We want to prove that television, even in its half-hour form, can be both commercial and worthwhile. The half-hour film can probe effectively, dramatize and present a well-told and well-filmed story; at the same time, perhaps only as a side effect, a point can be made that the fresh and untried can carry more infinite appeal than a palpable imitation of the already proved. The Twilight Zone is a wondrous land of the very different. No luggage is required for the trip. All that the audience need bring is imagination."
Serling insisted that he made up the phrase "twilight zone," but later learned that the term was widely used among pilots to refer to the final point in an aircraft's descent when one can no longer view the horizon. The half-hour TV series we know as The Twilight Zone began in 1959 and was never a runaway hit by any means. In fact, it was dropped after three seasons, only to return early in 1963 in an hour-long format. Eighteen hour-long episodes were produced, but they did not fare well with critics or TV viewers. The show returned to its original thirty-minute format for its final season.
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