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The Twilight Zone (marketed as Twilight Zone for its final two seasons) is an American fantasy science fiction horror anthology television series created and presented by Rod Serling, which ran for five seasons on CBS from October 2, 1959, to June 19, 1964. [1]
Title card. The original incarnation of The Twilight Zone anthology series began on October 2, 1959, and ended on June 19, 1964, with five seasons and 156 episodes. It was created by Rod Serling and broadcast on CBS.
Serling's original pilot for The Twilight Zone was "The Happy Place", which revolved around a society in which people were executed upon reaching the age of 60, being considered no longer useful. CBS executive William Self rejected the story, feeling it was too dark; Serling eventually relented and wrote "Where is Everybody?"
In March 1992, Midway Games released a wide-body pinball game, Twilight Zone, based on the original TV series, as a Bally title. Conceived by Pat Lawlor, it uses Golden Earring's hit song "Twilight Zone" (1982) as its theme song. The game sold 15,235 units. [37] It is often regarded as one of the greatest pinball machines of all time. [38]
"Come Wander with Me" is the 154th episode of the American television series The Twilight Zone. It was the last episode produced in the original run, although two episodes (including the finale "The Bewitchin' Pool") were broadcast after this one. This episode introduced Bonnie Beecher in her television debut.
The Twilight Zone creator and screenwriter Rod Serling would celebrate his 100th birthday on Dec. 25, 2024. Rod's daughter, Anne Serling, and TV writer, Marc Scott Zicree, each published books ...
The Twilight Zone was then replaced by a comedy series called Fair Exchange. However, in January 1963, Serling was invited back to his original timeslot as Fair Exchange never became popular, and ...
As for other Twilight Zone episodes, Bernard Herrmann—also composer of the first season's main title music and some of its stock music—wrote the music for this one. The intimate score has an isolated running time of about 19 minutes, and it is played by a 19-piece-orchestra consisting of strings (violins, violas, cellos, basses) and one harp.