
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
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11/07/2009 05:00 AM THE PASSERSBY
11/07/2009 05:30 AM STILL VALLEY
11/08/2009 05:00 AM ONCE UPON A TIME
11/08/2009 05:30 AM THE RIP VAN WINKLE CAPER
11/14/2009 05:00 AM A QUALITY OF MERCY
11/14/2009 05:30 AM ONE MORE PALLBEARER
11/15/2009 05:00 AM SHOWDOWN WITH RANCE MCGREW
11/15/2009 05:30 AM THE SILENCE
11/18/2009 TWILIGHT ZONE Mini-marathon
08:00 AM FOUR O'CLOCK
08:30 AM CAVENDER IS COMING
09:00 AM THE LAST NIGHT OF A JOCKEY
09:30 AM THE OLD MAN IN THE CAVE
10:00 AM YOU DRIVE
10:30 AM BLACK LEATHER JACKETS
11:00 AM NIGHT CALL
11:30 AM FROM AGNES WITH LOVE
12:00 PM SPUR OF THE MOMENT
12:30 PM QUEEN OF THE NILE
01:00 PM THE MASKS
01:30 PM SOUNDS AND SILENCES
02:00 PM THE JEOPARDY ROOM
02:30 PM STOPOVER IN A QUIET TOWN
03:00 PM MR. GARRITY AND THE GRAVES
03:30 PM ONE FOR THE ANGELS
11/21/2009 05:30 AM A PIANO IN THE HOUSE
11/22/2009 05:00 AM THE LAST RIGHTS OF JEFF MYRTLEBANK
11/22/2009 05:30 AM SHADOW PLAY
11/24/2009 08:00 AM THE MIRROR
11/25/2009 08:00 AM THE 7TH IS MADE UP OF PHANTOMS
11/26/2009 05:30 AM UNCLE SIMON
11/27/2009 05:30 AM NINETY YEARS WITHOUT SLUMBERING
11/28/2009 05:00 AM RING-A-DING GIRL
11/28/2009 05:30 AM THE LONG MIRROR
11/29/2009 05:00 AM THE SELF-IMPROVEMENT OF SALVADORE ROSS
11/29/2009 05:30 AM THE MIND AND THE MATTER
You're a very bad man
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)
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)
"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
Monstervision Host Segments of Forbidden Planet including interview with in-studio guest Anne Francis about her Twilight Zone episode (she still has the head)
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