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| Title: | The Twilight Zone |
| Format: | Live-Action |
| Running time: | 30 min. |
| country: | USA |
| Network: | 
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| Seasons: | 5 |
| Episodes: | 156 |
| Production | |
| Production company: | Cayuga Productions, Inc. |
| Executive producers: | Rod Serling |
| Producers: | Buck Houghton; William Froug; Bert Granet; Herbert Hirschman |
| Principal cast: | Rod Serling |
| Air dates | |
| First aired: | October 2nd, 1959 |
| Last aired: | June 19th, 1964 |
The Twilight Zone was an American science fiction anthology series created by producer/screenwriter Rod Serling, who also served as host for the series. The original series aired for five seasons between 1959 and 1964 spanning a total of 156 episodes. Each episode was a mixture of self-contained fantasy, science fiction, suspense, or horror, often concluding with a macabre or unexpected twist. A popular and critical success, it introduced many Americans to serious science fiction and abstract ideas through television and also through a wide variety of Twilight Zone literature. The program followed in the tradition of earlier radio programs such as The Weird Circle and X Minus One and the radio work of Serling's hero, dramatist Norman Corwin.
The series was produced by Cayuga Productions, Inc. a production company owned and named by Serling. It reflects his background in upper New York State and is named after the local Lake Cayuga where Cornell University is located.
The success of the original series led to the creation of two revival series: one series that ran for several seasons on CBS and in syndication in the 1980s, and another series that ran on UPN from 2002 to 2003. It would also lead to a feature film, a radio series, a comic book, a magazine and various other spin-offs that would span five decades.
Aside from Serling himself, who crafted nearly two-thirds of the series' total episodes, writers for The Twilight Zone included leading genre authors such as Charles Beaumont, Richard Matheson, Jerry Sohl, George Clayton Johnson, Earl Hamner, Jr., Reginald Rose, Harlan Ellison and Ray Bradbury. Many episodes also featured adaptations of classic stories by such writers as Ambrose Bierce, Lewis Padgett, Jerome Bixby and Damon Knight.
The term "twilight zone" predates the television program, and originally meant simply a "gray area." Rod Serling himself chose the title of the series, and said that only after the series aired did he discover that the "twilight zone" was also a term applied by the US Air Force to the terminator, the border between "night" and "day" on a planetary body.
Episodes[]
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Season One[]
Season Two[]
| Episode | Title | Airdate |
|---|---|---|
| 2x01 | King Nine Will Not Return | September 30th, 1960 |
| 2x02 | The Man in the Bottle | October 7th, 1960 |
| 2x03 | Nervous Man in a Four Dollar Room | October 14th, 1960 |
| 2x04 | A Thing About Machines | October 28th, 1960 |
| 2x05 | The Howling Man | November 4th, 1960 |
| 2x06 | Eye of the Beholder | November 11th, 1960 |
| 2x07 | Nick of Time | November 18th, 1960 |
| 2x08 | The Lateness of the Hour | December 2nd, 1960 |
| 2x09 | The Trouble with Templeton | December 9th, 1960 |
| 2x10 | A Most Unusual Camera | December 16th, 1960 |
| 2x11 | The Night of the Meek | December 23rd, 1960 |
| 2x12 | Dust | January 6th, 1961 |
| 2x13 | Back There | January 13th, 1961 |
| 2x14 | The Whole Truth | January 20th, 1961 |
| 2x15 | The Invaders | January 27th, 1961 |
| 2x16 | A Penny for Your Thoughts | February 3rd, 1961 |
| 2x17 | Twenty-Two | February 10th, 1961 |
| 2x18 | The Odyssey of Flight 33 | February 24th, 1961 |
| 2x19 | Mr. Dingle, the Strong | March 3rd, 1961 |
| 2x20 | Static | March 10th, 1961 |
| 2x21 | The Prime Mover | March 24th, 1961 |
| 2x22 | Long Distance Call | March 31st, 1961 |
| 2x23 | A Hundred Yards Over the Rim | April 7th, 1961 |
| 2x24 | The Rip Van Winkle Caper | April 21st, 1961 |
| 2x25 | The Silence | April 28th, 1961 |
| 2x26 | Shadow Play | May 5th, 1961 |
| 2x27 | The Mind and the Matter | May 12th, 1961 |
| 2x28 | Will the Real Martin Please Stand Up? | May 26th, 1961 |
| 2x29 | The Obsolete Man | June 2nd, 1961 |
Season Three[]
| Episode | Title | Airdate |
|---|---|---|
| 3x1 | Two | September 15th, 1961 |
| 3x2 | The Arrival | September 22nd, 1961 |
| 3x3 | The Shelter | September 29th, 1961 |
| 3x4 | The Passersby | October 6th, 1961 |
| 3x5 | A Game of Pool | October 13th, 1961 |
| 3x6 | The Mirror | October 20th, 1961 |
| 3x7 | The Grave | October 27th, 1961 |
| 3x8 | It's a Good Life | November 3rd, 1961 |
| 3x9 | Deaths-Head Revisited | November 10th, 1961 |
| 3x10 | The Midnight Sun | November 17th, 1961 |
| 3x11 | Still Valley | November 24th, 1961 |
| 3x12 | The Jungle | December 1st, 1961 |
| 3x13 | Once Upon a Time | December 8th, 1961 |
| 3x14 | Five Characters in Search of an Exit | December 15th, 1961 |
| 3x15 | A Quality of Mercy | December 22nd, 1961 |
| 3x16 | Nothing in the Dark | January 5th, 1962 |
| 3x17 | One More Pallbearer | January 12th, 1962 |
| 3x18 | Dead Man's Shoes | January 19th, 1962 |
| 3x19 | The Hunt | January 26th, 1962 |
| 3x20 | Showdown with Rance McGrew | February 2nd, 1962 |
| 3x21 | Kick the Can | February 9th, 1962 |
| 3x22 | A Piano in the House | February 16th, 1962 |
| 3x23 | The Last Rites of Jeff Myrtlebank | February 23rd, 1962 |
| 3x24 | To Serve Man | March 2nd, 1962 |
| 3x25 | The Fugitive | March 9th, 1962 |
| 3x26 | Little Girl Lost | March 16th, 1962 |
| 3x27 | Person or Persons Unknown | March 23rd, 1962 |
| 3x28 | The Little People | March 30th, 1962 |
| 3x29 | Four O'Clock | April 6th, 1962 |
| 3x30 | Hocus-Pocus and Frisby | April 13th, 1962 |
| 3x31 | The Trade-Ins | April 20th, 1962 |
| 3x32 | The Gift | April 27th, 1962 |
| 3x33 | The Dummy | May 4th, 1962 |
| 3x34 | Young Man's Fancy | May 11th, 1962 |
| 3x35 | I Sing the Body Electric | May 18th, 1962 |
| 3x36 | Cavender Is Coming | May 25th, 1962 |
| 3x37 | The Changing of the Guard | June 1st, 1962 |
Season Four[]
| Episode | Title | Airdate |
|---|---|---|
| 4x1 | In His Image | January 3rd, 1963 |
| 4x2 | The Thirty Fathom Grave | January 10th, 1963 |
| 4x3 | Valley of the Shadow | January 17th, 1963 |
| 4x4 | He's Alive | January 24th, 1963 |
| 4x5 | Mute | January 31st, 1963 |
| 4x6 | Death Ship | February 7th, 1963 |
| 4x7 | Jess-Belle | February 14th, 1963 |
| 4x8 | Miniature | February 21st, 1963 |
| 4x9 | Printer's Devil | February 28th, 1963 |
| 4x10 | No Time Like the Past | March 7th, 1963 |
| 4x11 | The Parallel | March 14th, 1963 |
| 4x12 | I Dream of Genie | March 21st, 1963 |
| 4x13 | The New Exhibit | April 4th, 1963 |
| 4x14 | Of Late I Think of Cliffordville | April 11th, 1963 |
| 4x15 | The Incredible World of Horace Ford | April 18th, 1963 |
| 4x16 | On Thursday World of Horace Ford | May 2nd, 1963 |
| 4x17 | Passage on the Lady Anne | May 9th, 1963 |
| 4x18 | The Bard | May 23rd, 1963 |
Season Five[]
| Episode | Title | Airdate |
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| 5x1 | In Praise of Pip | September 27th, 1963 |
| 5x2 | Steel | October 4th, 1963 |
| 5x3 | Nightmare at 20,000 Feet | October 11th, 1963 |
| 5x4 | A Kind of a Stopwatch | October 18th, 1963 |
| 5x5 | The Last Night of a Jockey | October 25th, 1963 |
| 5x6 | Living Doll | November 1st, 1963 |
| 5x7 | The Old Man in the Cave | November 8th, 1963 |
| 5x8 | Uncle Simon | November 15th, 1963 |
| 5x9 | Probe 7, Over and Out | November 29th, 1963 |
| 5x10 | The 7th Is Made Up of Phantoms | December 6th, 1963 |
| 5x11 | A Short Drink from a Certain Fountain | December 13th, 1963 |
| 5x12 | Ninety Years Without Slumbering | December 20th, 1963 |
| 5x13 | Ring-a-Ding Girl | December 27th, 1963 |
| 5x14 | You Drive | January 3rd, 1964 |
| 5x15 | The Long Morrow | January 10th, 1964 |
| 5x16 | The Self-Improvement of Salvadore Ross | January 17th, 1964 |
| 5x17 | Number 12 Looks Just Like You | January 24th, 1964 |
| 5x18 | Black Leather Jackets | January 31st, 1964 |
| 5x19 | Night Call | February 6th, 1964 |
| 5x20 | From Agnes - With Love | February 13th, 1964 |
| 5x21 | Spur of the Moment | February 20th, 1964 |
| 5x22 | An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge | February 27th, 1964 |
| 5x23 | Queen of the Nile | March 6th, 1964 |
| 5x24 | What in the Box | March 13th, 1964 |
| 5x25 | The Masks | March 20th, 1964 |
| 5x26 | I'am the Night-Color Me Black | March 27th, 1964 |
| 5x27 | Sounds and Silences | April 3rd, 1964 |
| 5x28 | Caesar and Me | April 10th, 1964 |
| 5x29 | The Jeopardy Room | April 17th, 1964 |
| 5x30 | Stopover in a Quiet Town | April 24th, 1964 |
| 5x31 | The Encounter | May 1st, 1964 |
| 5x32 | Mr. Garrity and the Graves | May 8th, 1964 |
| 5x33 | The Brain Center at Whipple's | May 15th, 1964 |
| 5x34 | Come Wander with Me | May 22nd, 1964 |
| 5x35 | The Fear | May 29th, 1964 |
| 5x36 | The Bewitchin' Pool | June 19th, 1964 |
Notes & Trivia[]
See also[]
- Twilight Zone (disambiguation)
- Twilight Zone (1985 TV series)
- Twilight Zone (2002 TV series)
- Twilight Zone: The Movie (1983)
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