
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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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
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
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