The Twilight Zone

Rod Serling created & hosted the CBS tv series 10-2-59 to 9-5-65, with the exception of the 1 hour pilot, which was hosted by Desi Arnaz (a story in which the subject kept waking up in a Pearl Harbor waterfront bar on 12-7-41, but couldn't get anyone to believe him: not bartender Jesse White in 1941 or psychiatrist Martin Balsom in the present), and is not seen on the Sci-Fi channel (TV Land has exclusive rights). Though Ray Bradbury was not credited for it, one of his novels was adapted for a classic episode in which a man is on trial for not turning in his books to be burned as ordered by a government.
All the other episodes were half hour with the exception of 1963 when CBS tried hour-long episodes. But the fans seemed to prefer the more concentrated writing and suspense of 30 minutes and the series returned to half-hour stories the remaining 2 years. When Twilight Zone ended its run in 1965, Serling went on to other projects and CBS assigned the writers & directors to a new science fiction-western project called Wild Wild West. When West ended its run in 1970, Rod Serling needed them back for a new series on NBC called Night Gallery starting with a 3-segment Night Gallery movie.

A few Twilight Zone episodes, the TZ movie, and a couple of recent versions of Rod Serling stories are available on video or on DVD, followed by this month's episode titles showing on the Sci-Fi channel:

Treasures of the Twilight Zone

Twilight Zone - Vol. 1-43 (1959/62)

Twilight Zone - Season 1 is available on DVD from Amazon.com

2 regular 30-minute or 1 hour-long episode(s) are sometimes broadcast in a 1-hour timeslot unless noted. 5am episodes are usually followed by a 5:30 episode without commercials (see separate list below). Up to 6am is night of date shown; it's not morning until the sun comes up

This month's listings, sometimes on Sat & Sundays only:

Jun 3  05:30 AM  The Silence 
Jun 7  04:30 AM  Time Enough At Last 
Jun 9  05:00 AM  The Last Rights Of Jeff Myrtlebank 
Jun 9  05:30 AM  Spur Of The Moment 
Jun 10 04:30 AM  Perchance To Dream 
Jun 10 05:00 AM  Judgement Night 
Jun 10 05:30 AM  Shadow Play 
Jun 13 08:00 AM  And When The Sky Was Opened 
Jun 16 05:00 AM  What's In The Box 
Jun 16 05:30 AM  Sounds And Silences 
Jun 17 05:00 AM  Come Wander With Me 
Jun 17 05:30 AM  The Mind And The Matter 
Jun 21 04:30 AM  The Fear 
Jun 22 08:00 AM  Where Is Everybody 
Jun 23 05:00 AM  One For The Angels 
Jun 23 05:30 AM  Mr. Denton On Doomsday 
Jun 24 09:00 AM  Walking Distance 
Jun 24 05:30 AM  Will The Real Martian Please Stand Up 
Jun 28 08:00 AM  Escape Clause 
Jun 29 08:00 AM  The Lonely 

You're a very bad man
Congress passed a 1200-page bill without reading it. Unfortunately, it's a cook book!
Watch entire episodes of the Twilight Zone and Night Gallery online!

Entire seasons of Twilight Zone and Night Gallery are available on DVD

On other channels:
The Dick Van Dyke Show: It May Look like a Walnut
Rob discovers Earth's been invaded by aliens (they have one flaw) 
in this b/w TZ spoof from 1963, as aired on TVLAND and HULU

     Previous episode titles broadcast (2003-09)
July 4th marathon for 2011
12/31/2010 Twilight Zone marathon for 2010/2011
           There was no Twilight Zone marathon for July 2010.
12/31/2009 last New Year's marathon (2009/2010)
7/2/2009 July 4th marathon (2009)
12/31/2008 New Year's marathon (2008/2009)
7/3/2008 July 4th marathon (2008)
12/31/2007 New Year's marathon (2007/2008)
07/03/2007 July 4th marathon (2007)
12/31/2006 New Year's marathon (2006/2007)
2006 July 4th Twilight Zone-thon (Global Flight 33 is Lost)

Making of Kick The Can episode & movie segment

"Planet Of The Apes" done as a Twilight Zone episode: Click here (Rod Serling intro & parting comments, on the beach)

"Twilight Zone: The Movie" is occasionally on cable

Did they ever have that atomic war?

In 2006, WE network reran the 1-23-00 episode of Felicity directed by Twilight Zone veteran Lamont Johnson (he's Lost now) in black/white. Several attempts have been made over the years to recapture the feel of the original Twilight Zone, but this hour-long episode is the only one that has succeeded. In the episode, a young woman goes to "The Clinic" for her problem, heartache, after the most recent breakup with a boyfriend. Then she has second thoughts, but is told it's too late: the treatment has already begun. Then a corpse with it's heart missing warns her to get out while she can...
Have you ever been trapped on the 13th floor of a closed department store that doesn't have a 13th floor? Well, have you?

Monstervision Host Segments of Forbidden Planet including interview with in-studio guest Anne Francis about her Twilight Zone episode (she still has the head)

Interview with Rod Serling on 60 Minutes
The Twilight Zone is also currently scheduled (2 episodes a day) on Sundays
in 40 states on the myRTN cable network channel.


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Previous Twilight Zone broadcasts on the Sci-Fi channel (2002)

Twilight Zone episode list, all 5 seasons
Ted Cassidy served TV's Addams Family as their butler Lurch; before that, he served Man

Outer Limits page (the original black & white series)

Results of SciFi.com's survey: best Science Fiction tv series of each decade.
Rod Serling Bio at the Sci-Fi channel's website
Email: scifans@twilight.zone

UFOs, Spider eggs in gum, Santa Claus stuck in the chimney: all your favorite Urban Legends can be found if you click here (just how much cocaine is there is Coca-Cola?)

Edward The Less final episode is now online

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