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| Even non-devotees of The Twilight Zone are able to distinguish the series' first-season episodes from the later installments. Instead of the familiar "dee-dee-dee-doo, dee-dee-dee-doo" theme music by Marius Constant, each season-one Twilight Zone was introduced with a more lugubrious, string-dominated theme by the great Bernard Herrmann, who also composed the incidental music for such classic first-season episodes as "The Lonely" and "Walking Distance." Also, series creator and host narrator Rod Serling does not appear on camera to deliver his opening and closing narration -- except for a delightful gag appearance at the end of the season's final episode, "A World of His Own." The series' two most frequent guest stars make their inaugural Twilight Zone appearances in the course of season one. Burgess Meredith is poignantly cast as a myopic bookworm who ends up a sole survivor of a nuclear holocaust in "Time Enough at Last," while Jack Klugman is seen as a luckless musician whose life is turned around by a remarkable near-death experience in "A Passage for Trumpet." Other notable actors appearing in this season's 36 episodes include Martin Landau, Fritz Weaver, Ed Wynn, David Wayne, Vera Miles, Ida Lupino, Anne Francis, and Roddy McDowall. Among the best and most memorable episodes of the first-season Twilight Zone crop are "Third From the Sun," "The Monsters Are Due on Maple Street," "People Are Alike All Over," and "A Stop at Willoughby." Lesser episodes, though still worthy of special mention, include the series opener "Where Is Everybody?," one of the few Zones with a "logical" rather than supernatural ending; "The Hitch-Hiker," a haunting adaptation of Lucille Fletcher's classic radio play; "The Mighty Casey," a baseball fantasy which had to be filmed twice so that Jack Warden could replace the original story by Paul Douglas, who fell ill during shooting and died shortly afterward; and "Mr. Bevis," which Rod Serling intended as the pilot for a series about a bumbling guardian angel. ~ All Movie Guide | |
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| Mike Ferris ("Earl Holliman") doesn't know where he's been or where he's going,... Full Synopsis "Ed Wynn" guest stars as Lew Bookman, an aging and not altogether successful... Full Synopsis First telcast October 16, 1959, this episode stars "Dan Duryea" as Al Denton, a... Full Synopsis "Ida Lupino" stars as Barbara Jean Trenton, a 1930s movie queen who refuses to... Full Synopsis One the finest of all Twilight Zone episodes, "Walking Distance" benefits not... Full Synopsis Hypochondriac Walter Bedecker ("David Wayne") would do anything to feel better... Full Synopsis Discounting the pilot "Where Is Everybody?", "The Lonely" was the first Twilight... Full Synopsis In his first Twilight Zone appearance, "Burgess Meredith" stars as Henry Bemis,... Full Synopsis Originally telecast November 27, 1959, "Perchance to Dream" was writer "Charles... Full Synopsis "Nehemiah Persoff" stars as Lanser, who inexplicably finds himself aboard a... Full Synopsis "Richard Matheson" was first represented on the Twilight Zone with the December... Full Synopsis Appropriately telecast December 25, 1959, this Twilight Zone episode focuses on... Full Synopsis Even non-devotees of The Twilight Zone are able to distinguish the series'... Full Synopsis Once seen in childhood, the January 1, 1960 Twilight Zone episode "The Four of... Full Synopsis Director "Richard L. Bare" made an impressive Twilight Zone debut with this... Full Synopsis During a manned space flight, a spaceship crashlands on a distant, desolate... Full Synopsis First telecast January 22, 1960, this Twilight Zone episode was adapted by "Rod... Full Synopsis "Everett Sloane", who previously starred in "Rod Serling"'s award-winning TV... Full Synopsis "Richard Matheson"'s first full-fledged Twilight Zone script was written for... Full Synopsis "William Reynolds" stars as Fitzgerald, a WWII army lieutenant with an unusual... Full Synopsis Adapted for television by "Charles Beaumont" from his own short story, the... Full Synopsis While waiting in a lonely bus station, Millicent Barnes ("Vera Miles") is... Full Synopsis A neighborhood full of friendly people degenerates into a mob when Maple Street... Full Synopsis While sitting in his office and discussing business matters with his secretary,... Full Synopsis College professor Kittridge ("Edgar Stehli") cannot understand why the history... Full Synopsis Having scoffed at his colleague Warren Marcusson's ("Paul Comi") assertion that... Full Synopsis After a brief production hiatus, the Twilight Zone staff resumed the series'... Full Synopsis A predominantly black cast appears in this episode of Twilight Zone, which was... Full Synopsis Shot down while escaping the cops, two-bit hoodlum Rocky Valentine ("Larry... Full Synopsis While visiting the apartment house where she grew up, schoolteacher Helen Foley... Full Synopsis First telecast May 6, 1960, A Stop at Willoughby was scripter "Rod Serling"'s... Full Synopsis Scripted by "Robert Presnell, Jr." from a short story by "John Collier", this... Full Synopsis Written by "Rod Serling", this episode represented the joint Twilight Zone debut... Full Synopsis Scriptwriter "Rod Serling" had intended the June 3, 1960, Twilight Zone episode... Full Synopsis Bearing traces of the classic "John Collier" short story "Evening Primrose",... Full Synopsis This episode was based on an earlier "Rod Serling" TV play, in which a losing... Full Synopsis The first season Twilight Zone came to a delightful conclusion on July 1, 1960,... Full Synopsis As had been the case with the first season's inaugural episode "Where Is... Full Synopsis This variation of the old "Aladdin and the Magic Lamp" yarn stars "Luther Adler"... Full Synopsis Though obviously an episode designed to absorb the costs of the more expensive... Full Synopsis Magazine critic Bartlett Finchley ("Richard Haydn") despises all things... Full Synopsis Adapted by "Charles Beaumont" from his own short story, this is one of a handful... Full Synopsis An irreducable masterpiece, the "Rod Serling"-scripted Twilight Zone episode... Full Synopsis Future Star Trek captain "William Shatner" stars as Don Carter, who is on his... Full Synopsis The scene is the magnificent but isolated home of scientist Dr. Loren ("John... Full Synopsis The past and present collide with poignant results in this handsomely mounted... Full Synopsis Having just robbed a pawnshop, two-bit crooks Chester and Paula Diedrich ("Fred... Full Synopsis Twilight Zone's Yuletide offering for the 1960-61 season was this videotaped... Full Synopsis Although The Twilight Zone suffered from anemic ratings and a certain degree of... Full Synopsis Wandering into the small Mexican town where Luis Gallegos ("John Alonso") is... Full Synopsis After speculating on the possibility that a person can travel back in time and... Full Synopsis "Jack Carson" stars as Harvey Hunnicutt, a fast-talking used car salesman to... Full Synopsis Written by "Richard Matheson", this is one of those classic Twilight Zone... Full Synopsis Long before he costarred in "Bewitched", "Dick York" was forced to contend with... Full Synopsis This videotaped Twilight Zone episode is a variation on a most familiar theme.... Full Synopsis Thrown off course by a freak tailwind, a passenger jet finds itself flying over... Full Synopsis First telecast March 3, 1961, this is a deft reworking of the first-season... Full Synopsis "Dean Jagger" stars as Ed Lindsay, a cranky middle-aged man living in a boarding... Full Synopsis Upon discovering that his business partner Jimbo Cobb ("Buddy Ebsen") possesses... Full Synopsis The last of the six videotaped Twilight Zone installments of the 1960-61 season,... Full Synopsis After briefly experimenting with the videotape format, The Twilight Zone wisely... Full Synopsis Having successfully robbed a train shipment of gold bullion, four thieves,... Full Synopsis Fed up with the loud and incessant talking of fellow men's club member Jamie... Full Synopsis One of the best of the "existential" Twilight Zone episodes, "Charles... Full Synopsis First telecast May 12, 1961, this amusing Twilight Zone entry was purely and... Full Synopsis Originally titled "Nobody Here but Us Martians," this darkly comic Twilight Zone... Full Synopsis The second season of Twilight Zone came to a powerful conclusion with this "Rod... Full Synopsis Season Three of Twilight Zone got off to a flying start with this episode,... Full Synopsis FAA investigator Grant Sheckly ("Harold J. Stone") is called to the scene when... Full Synopsis One of the few Twilight Zone episodes with virtually no sci-fi/fantasy trappings... Full Synopsis As the Civil War limps to a close, Confederate widow Lavinia Godwin ("Joanne... Full Synopsis In his second Twilight Zone appearance, "Jack Klugman" stars as pool hustler... Full Synopsis This sledgehammer attack on Cuban dictator Fidel Castro stars "Peter Falk" as... Full Synopsis Originally filmed for Twilight Zone's second season, writer-director "Montgomery... Full Synopsis Adapted by "Rod Serling" from a story by "Jerome Bixby", "It's a Good Life"... Full Synopsis The ongoing trial of Nazi war criminal Adolph Eichmann was the obvious... Full Synopsis For reasons beyond comprehension, the Earth has changed its orbit and is moving... Full Synopsis This episode was adapted by "Rod Serling" from "The Valley Was Still," a short... Full Synopsis Adapted by "Charles Beaumont" from his own short story, this episode stars "John... Full Synopsis Twilight Zone's only foray into old-time slapstick comedy, this episode stars... Full Synopsis This episode was adapted by "Rod Serling" from "Marvin Petal"'s short story "The... Full Synopsis In the last days of WWII, "90-day wonder" Lieutenant Katell ("Dean Stockwell")... Full Synopsis Surviving several defecting sponsors and vacillating ratings, Twilight Zone... Full Synopsis "Ambrose Bierce"'s classic hallucinatory short story An Occurrence at Owl Creek... Full Synopsis Writer-director "Montgomery Pittman"'s final Twilight Zone offering was the... Full Synopsis Written by "George Clayton Johnson", this elegiac Twilight Zone episode stars... Full Synopsis An atypical Twilight Zone entry from scriptwriter "Earl Hamner, Jr.", this... Full Synopsis Everybody knows the "punchline" of this classic Twilight Zone episode, but that... Full Synopsis One of "Charles Beaumont"'s most charming Twilight Zone scripts, this episode... Full Synopsis Though it is often assumed that Twilight Zone was rife with special-effects... Full Synopsis Awakening with "the grandaddy of all hangovers," David Gurney ("Richard Long")... Full Synopsis Though it casts all known laws of physics to the four winds, this "Rod... Full Synopsis "Rod Serling" adapted the teleplay for this Twilight Zone episode from a short... Full Synopsis "Andy Devine" stars as Mr. Frisby, the biggest liar in three counties. Despite... Full Synopsis In his second Twilight Zone apperance of the 1961-62 season, "Joseph... Full Synopsis Released just in time for Easter on April 27, 1962, this "Rod Serling"-scripted... Full Synopsis Bearing traces of such earlier film offerings as "The Great Gabbo" and "Dead of... Full Synopsis According to this "Richard Matheson"-scripted Twilight Zone episode, there... Full Synopsis Though he'd originally intended to write several scripts for the original... Full Synopsis A reworking of the first-season Twilight Zone episode "Mr. Bevis," "Cavender Is... Full Synopsis Written by "Rod Serling", this nostalgic Twilight Zone episode was clearly... Full Synopsis Written by "George Clayton Johnson", this low-key Twilight Zone episode stars... Full Synopsis Hoping to get even with several old enemies, millionaire Paul Radin ("Joseph... Full Synopsis Written by "Charles Beaumont" with the uncredited assistance of "OCee Ritch"),... Full Synopsis Originally telecast January 26 1962, this episode was the first of several... Full Synopsis "Larry Blyden" stars in this hilarious Twilight Zone entry as egocentric TV... Full Synopsis Two episodes of the popular television series are compiled on "Twilight Zone,... Full Synopsis When Alan Talbot ("George Grizzard") returns to his home town after a week's... Full Synopsis Written by "Rod Serling", this 60-minute Twilight Zone episode gets under way... Full Synopsis Stranded in the remote mountain town of Peaceful Valley, reporter Philip... Full Synopsis The leader of a ragtag American neo-Nazi organization, Peter Vollmer ("Dennis... Full Synopsis Scripted by "Richard Matheson" from his own short story, this episode stars... Full Synopsis Landing on a distant planet, astronauts Paul Ross ("Jack Klugman"), Ted Mason... Full Synopsis A haunting folk song written by "Van Cleave" serves as a framing device for this... Full Synopsis "Robert Duvall" stars as Charley Parkes, a shy and lonely man who spends his... Full Synopsis In his last Twilight Zone appearance, "Burgess Meredith" stars as Mr. Smith, a... Full Synopsis Disillusioned with the present, Paul Driscoll ("Dana Andrews") builds a time... Full Synopsis While on an orbital flight, American astronaut Robert Gaines ("Steve Forrest")... Full Synopsis Written by "John Furia, Jr.", this hilarious 60-minute Twilight Zone entry stars... Full Synopsis First telecast April 4, 1963, this grim 60-minute Twilight Zone installment... Full Synopsis This 60-minute Twilight Zone entry was adapted by "Rod Serling" from "Malcolm... Full Synopsis "Reginald Rose" adapted the script for this Twilight Zone episode from his own... Full Synopsis Thirty years after leaving Earth, a group of space colonists live a spartan... Full Synopsis "Charles Beaumont" adapted this hauntingly-poignant 60-minute Twilight Zone... Full Synopsis Former streetcar conductor Julius Moomer ("Jack Weston") aspires to be a highly... Full Synopsis After a brief flirtation with the 60-minute form, Twilight Zone wisely returned... Full Synopsis By the year 1974, robots have replaced humans in the boxing ring. Travelling... Full Synopsis Cited by many aficionados as the all-time best Twilight Zone episode, "Nightmare... Full Synopsis First telecast October 18, 1963, the pedestrian Twilight Zone episode "A Kind of... Full Synopsis In the tradition of his earlier Alcoa/Goodyear Theater episode "Eddie," "Mickey... Full Synopsis Though credited to "Charles Beaumont", this Twilight Zone episode was actually... Full Synopsis Several years after a nuclear war, a handful of survivors are compelled to... Full Synopsis Resentful over having to wait on her invalid Uncle Simon ("Cedric Hardwicke")... Full Synopsis Having embarked upon a long-range space probe, astronaut Col. Cook ("Richard... Full Synopsis While on maneuvers near the site of Custer's Last Stand, a modern-day Army tank... Full Synopsis "Rod Serling" scripted this minimalist Twilight Zone episode from an idea by... Full Synopsis "Bernard Herrmann" composed his final Twilight Zone musical score for the... Full Synopsis Famous for her collection of valuable rings, movie star Bunny Blake ("Maggie... Full Synopsis Canceled by CBS at the end of its third season, the weekly, half-hour fantasy... Full Synopsis Although CBS' decision to rescue Rod Serling's classic fantasy anthology The... Full Synopsis When businessman Oliver Pope ("Edward Andrews") strikes down a young bicyclist... Full Synopsis Just before embarking upon a 40-year space journey, Cmdr. Douglas Stansfield... Full Synopsis "Don Gordon" stars as Salvatore Ross, a repulsively arrogant young man who... Full Synopsis A jaunty harmonica-music score by "Tommy Morgan" was the main redeeming feature... Full Synopsis Ruthlessly efficient businessman Wallace V. Whipple ("Richard Deacon") runs... Full Synopsis Written by "Anthony Wilson", this episode stars "Gary Crosby" as cynical... Full Synopsis Investigating a strange series of occurences -- eerie noises, flashing lights,... Full Synopsis Written by "Earl Hamner, Jr.", this late Twilight Zone episode shows evidence of... Full Synopsis This Twilight Zone episode was purportedly adapted by "Charles Beaumont" from... Full Synopsis Three leather-jacketed motorcyclists converge upon a small town and immediately... Full Synopsis This eerie Twilight Zone entry was scripted by "Richard Matheson" from his own... Full Synopsis Written by "Bernard Schoenfeld", this moderately amusing Twilight Zone outing... Full Synopsis A typical "wrinkle in time" drama from the pen of "Richard Matheson", this... Full Synopsis Clearly inspired by the then-current publicity blitz surrounding the "Elizabeth... Full Synopsis As a repairman ("Sterling Holloway") works on his malfunctioning television set,... Full Synopsis On the eve of Mardi Gras in New Orleans, dying millionaire Jason Foster ("Robert... Full Synopsis Hate hangs heavy in the air in the small midwestern town where accused murderer... Full Synopsis "John McGiver" stars as ex-Navy man Roswell G. Flemington, who insists upon... Full Synopsis This episode stars "Jackie Cooper" as Jonathan West, a pathetically unsuccessful... Full Synopsis Having just defected from an Iron Curtain country, Major Ivan Kuchenko ("Martin... Full Synopsis Awakening from a mutual hangover, Bob and Millie Frazier ("Barry Nelson" and... Full Synopsis One of three fifth-season Twilight Zone episodes written by "Martin M.... Full Synopsis | |
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