The New Twilight Zone

The New Twilight Zone, also known as simply The Twilight Zone, is an American television series from 1985. It was the first revival of the original series. The series ran for three seasons, with a total of 110 episodes.



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[hide] *1 History  ==History[ Edit] == ===Production[ Edit] === Rod Serling, creator of the original series, itself decided to sell its share in the series to a network so that new life could be breathed into the series. CBS showed for a revival of the series, it took a while before they actually started with the production. This is because the original series despite his success had never been able to achieve the success where CBS had hoped.
 * 1.1 Production
 * 1.2 season 1 (1985-1986)
 * 1.3 season 2 (1986-1987)
 * 1.4 season 3 (1988-1989)
 * 2 guest appearances
 * 3 Episodes
 * 4 References

The battle finally ended because the original series a growing cult status. And despite the mixed reactions to the recently published film Twilight Zone: The Movie gave CBS the series green light in 1984.

Many of the writers who participated in the new series looked at the original series in their teen time, including Harlan Ellison, j. Michael Straczynski, George r. r. Martin and Rockne s. O'Bannon. The series was under the supervision of Carla Singer, then Vice President of Drama Development. The Director was usually done by Wes Craven and William Friedkin. New intro music was composed by Jerry Garcia. ===Season 1 (1985-1986)[ Edit] === The New Twilight Zone debuted the night of september 27, 1985, and was well received. Episodes featured adaptations of stories stories of Greg Bear, Ray Bradbury, Arthur c. Clarke, Harlan Ellison, Robert r. McCammon and Stephen King. In addition, there were a few remakes of classic Twilight Zone episodes such as between "Dead man's Shoes", "Shadow Play" and "The Night of The Meek". Although the producers thought to be on the right track, names the ratings later in season 1 anyway.

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">The producers even cited Harlan Ellison in the series. He'd appeared in a Christmas special, but this was rejected by CBS midway through the production. This cost the program between $ 150,000 and $ 300,000.

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">Episodes from this season which are typically seen as the best "Her Pilgrim Soul", "Nightcrawlers", "Profile in Silver" and "Dead Run".

<p lang="en" len="101" style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">The episodes of season 1 lasted an hour, but were split into several short stories. ===Season 2 (1986-1987)<span class="mw-editsection" len="349" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[ Edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] === <p style="margin-top:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">Despite the poor ratings, the series was renewed for another season. Also appeared In episodes this season with a 1-hour story instead of 2 or 3 short stories in 1 episode. Season 2 was already after 11 episodes interrupted by CBS. Many of the unfinished episodes were later adapted for season 3. ===Season 3 (1988-1989)<span class="mw-editsection" len="349" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[ Edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] === <p style="margin-top:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">CBS fired the original production team in the third season, and left a new group to take over the work. The series was shortened to half an hour per episode. Robin Ward took over the role of the Narrator about. ==Guest Roles<span class="mw-editsection" len="338" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;font-family:sans-serif;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[ Edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] == <p style="margin-top:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">Just like the original series made this series use a lot of well-known guest stars such as Bruce Willis, Morgan Freeman, Martin Landau, Jonathan Frakes, and Fred Savage. ==Episodes<span class="mw-editsection" len="340" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;font-family:sans-serif;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[ Edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] ==