The Twilight Zone

This page is devoted to Rod Serling and the Twilight Zone, a tv series so popular 3 episodes were remade into a popular motion picture almost 20 years after it left tv, not counting William Shatner's movie Horror At 37000 Feet.
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There have even been books written about Rod Serling and 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.
haunted tombstone 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

Combined listings including 5:30am Cable In The Classroom TZ eps (no commercials)

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

07/01/2009 01:00 AM  SPUR OF THE MOMENT       
07/01/2009 01:30 AM  THE JEOPARDY ROOM
07/02/2009 08:00 AM  Annual July 4 Weekend TWILIGHT ZONE marathon Zonethon
07/05/2009 05:00 AM  WHAT'S IN THE BOX     
07/05/2009 05:30 AM  THE CHASER     
07/06/2009 08:00 AM  SOUNDS AND SILENCES    
07/11/2009 05:00 AM  CAESAR AND ME    
07/11/2009 05:30 AM  THE BRAIN CENTER AT WHIPPLE'S    
07/12/2009 01:00 AM  PERCHANCE TO DREAM    
07/12/2009 01:30 AM  JUDGEMENT NIGHT    
07/12/2009 05:00 AM  COME WANDER WITH ME    
07/12/2009 05:30 AM  KING NINE WILL NOT RETURN     
07/19/2009 09:00 AM  THE SILENCE     
07/19/2009 01:00 AM  AND WHEN THE SKY WAS OPENED    
07/19/2009 01:30 AM  WHAT YOU NEED    
07/19/2009 05:00 AM  A THING ABOUT MACHINES     
07/19/2009 05:30 AM  A MAN IN THE BOTTLE     
07/25/2009 05:00 AM  DUST     
07/25/2009 05:30 AM  BACK THERE    
07/26/2009 01:00 AM  THE FOUR OF US ARE DYING    
07/26/2009 01:30 AM  THE WHOLE TRUTH    
07/26/2009 05:00 AM  STATIC    
07/26/2009 05:30 AM  NERVOUS MAN IN A FOUR DOLLAR ROOM 
07/29/2009  TWILIGHT ZONE mini-marathon of 1-hour episodes:
           08:00 AM  IN HIS IMAGE    
           09:00 AM  HE'S ALIVE    
           10:00 AM  MUTE    
           11:00 AM  DEATH SHIP    
           12:00 PM  JESS-BELLE    
           01:00 PM  MINIATURE    
           02:00 PM  PRINTER'S DEVIL     
           03:00 PM  NO TIME LIKE THE PAST 
08/01/2009 09:00 AM  THE PARALLEL
08/01/2009 05:00 AM  THE PRIME MOVERS
08/01/2009 05:30 AM  SHADOW PLAY
08/02/2009 05:00 AM  THE MIRROR
08/02/2009 05:30 AM  THE HOWLING MAN  
08/06/2009 08:00 AM  ONCE UPON A TIME
08/06/2009 08:30 AM  A QUALITY OF MERCY
08/06/2009 09:00 AM  ONE MORE PALLBEARER
08/06/2009 09:30 AM  SHOWDOWN WITH RANCE MCGREW
08/06/2009 10:00 AM  A PIANO IN THE HOUSE
08/06/2009 10:30 AM  THE LAST RIGHTS OF JEFF MYRTLEBANK
08/06/2009 11:00 AM  PERSON OR PERSONS UNKNOWN
08/06/2009 11:30 AM  THE TRADE-INS
08/06/2009 12:00 PM  YOUNG MAN'S FANCY
08/06/2009 12:30 PM  STEEL
08/06/2009 01:00 PM  UNCLE SIMON
08/06/2009 01:30 PM  NINETY YEARS WITHOUT SLUMBERING
08/06/2009 02:00 PM  RING-A-DING GIRL
08/06/2009 02:30 PM  THE LONG MIRROR
08/06/2009 03:00 PM  THE SELF-IMPROVEMENT OF SALVADORE ROSS
08/06/2009 03:30 PM  WHAT'S IN THE BOX
08/08/2009 05:00 AM  THE FUGITIVE
08/08/2009 05:30 AM  FOUR O'CLOCK
08/09/2009 09:00 AM  OF LATE I THINK OF CLIFFORDVILLE
08/09/2009 01:30 AM  THE ARRIVAL
08/09/2009 05:00 AM  THE GIFT
08/09/2009 05:30 AM  EYE OF THE BEHOLDER  
08/15/2009 09:00 AM  THE SHELTER
08/15/2009 05:00 AM  CAVENDER IS COMING
08/15/2009 05:30 AM  THE LAST NIGHT OF A JOCKEY
08/16/2009 01:00 AM  THE MIND AND THE MATTER
08/16/2009 01:30 AM  THE ARRIVAL
08/16/2009 05:00 AM  YOU DRIVE
08/16/2009 05:30 AM  NICK OF TIME  
08/17/2009 08:00 AM  I DREAM OF GENIE (not Barbara Eden)
08/17/2009 09:00 AM  THE NEW EXHIBIT
08/22/2009 05:00 AM  BLACK LEATHER JACKETS
08/22/2009 05:30 AM  FROM AGNES WITH LOVE
08/23/2009 05:00 AM  SPUR OF THE MOMENT
08/23/2009 05:30 AM  THE LATENESS OF THE HOUR  
08/25/2009 08:00 AM  THE INCREDIBLE WORLD OF HORACE FORD
08/25/2009 09:00 AM  ON THURSDAY WE LEAVE FOR HOME
08/25/2009 10:00 AM  I AM THE NIGHT - COLOR ME BLACK
08/25/2009 10:30 AM  CAESAR AND ME
08/25/2009 11:00 AM  THE BRAIN CENTER AT WHIPPLE'S
08/25/2009 11:30 AM  COME WANDER WITH ME
08/25/2009 12:00 PM  THE FEAR
08/25/2009 12:30 PM  I SHOT AN ARROW INTO THE AIR
08/25/2009 01:00 PM  THE FEVER
08/25/2009 01:30 PM  THE PURPLE TESTAMENT
08/25/2009 02:00 PM  ELEGY
08/25/2009 02:30 PM  A WORLD OF DIFFERENCE
08/25/2009 03:00 PM  LONG LIVE WALTER JAMESON
08/25/2009 03:30 PM  EXECUTION
08/29/2009 05:00 AM  QUEEN OF THE NILE
08/29/2009 05:30 AM  SOUNDS AND SILENCES
08/30/2009 01:00 AM  STILL VALLEY
08/30/2009 01:30 AM  THE JUNGLE
08/30/2009 05:00 AM  THE JEOPARDY ROOM 
08/30/2009 05:30 AM  THE TROUBLE WITH TEMPLETON

You're a very bad man

Congress passed the 1200-page "Cap In Trade" bill in 2009 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 also 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, has aired on TVLAND and HULU

     Previous episode titles broadcast (2003-09)
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)

"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?

Anne Francis head 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.

Return to MonsterVision or Scifans.com
Previous Twilight Zone broadcasts on the Sci-Fi channel (2002)

Twilight Zone episode list, all 5 seasons
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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