The Twilight Zone (1959)

The Twilight Zone is an American television series created by Rod Serling. The series ran from 1959 to 1964, with a total of 156 episodes. The series is today still aired from time to time.



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[hide] *Building 1  ==Building[ Edit] == The series centers per episode to another story, with other characters. These characters usually come in strange situations, the moment they according to Narrator Rod Serling enter "the Twilight Zone". ==History[ Edit] == ===Development[ Edit] === In the late 1950s was Rod Serling in the television world. He was annoyed, however, settled to the censorship that often applied on networks and shows his work. According to him, was herself a show start the only way to get around this.
 * 2 History
 * 2.1 Development
 * 2.2 season 1 (1959-1960)
 * 2.3 season 2 (1960-1961)
 * 2.4 season 3 (1961-1962)
 * 2.5 season 4 (1963)
 * 2.6 season 5 (1963-1964)
 * 3 Music
 * 4 guest roles
 * 5 Episodes
 * 6 external links

His first attempt was "The Time Element". The script of this episode by Bert Granet retrieved. ===Season 1 (1959-1960)<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 lang="en" len="423" style="margin-top:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">The Twilight Zone debuted the night of October 2, 1959, and was met with positive comments were received.

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">The original black and white series always started with an intro by Rod Serling. His opening sentence was usually. <p style="margin-top:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">Although the show happened to successful at the critics, took the trouble to find an appropriate target audience. The series quickly came in danger by disappointing viewing figures. After a somewhat difficult start the series eventually got enough viewers to be allowed to stay.

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">On one episode after Season 1 contained only stories written by Rod Serling himself. Some notable episodes from season 1 were "Time Enough at Last", "Walking Distance" and "The After Hours". The season earned Serling an Emmy Award and a Hugo Award on. ===Season 2 (1960-1961)<span class="mw-editsection" len="352" 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;">The second season premiered on 30 september 1960 with the episode "King Nine Will Not Return", Serling of the pilot episode "Where Is Everybody?". The show got a new intro composed by Marius Constant.

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">A new sponsor, Colgate-Palmolive, replaced Kimberly-Clark and a new CBS network producer, James Aubrey took over. James proved to be troublesome for the show, said producer Del Reisman. This because the show relatively expensive in production. So he forced the producers to shorten season 2 with seven episodes, and that six of the episodes produced on video tape would be included instead of on film.

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">Knew of the second season episodes including "The Eye of The Beholder" and "The Invaders". The writing team was expanded with new writers. The season also marked the debut of George Clayton Johnson. Emmys were won by Serling and George t. Clemens. The series also won the Hugo Award for the second time. ===Season 3 (1961-1962)<span class="mw-editsection" len="352" 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;">In the third year began to hit his ideas a little back by Serling. In addition, it demanded work as both producer, Narrator and writer of the series its toll. For season 3, he was only 56% of all scripts.

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">Despite the setback Serling succeeded in again to produce a number of now classic episodes including "it's a Good Life", "To Serve Man" and "Five Characters in Search of an Exit". Scripts were partly by Montgomery Pittman and Earl Hamner Jr. delivered.

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">The Twilight Zone was nominated for two Emmy Awards this year. Also got the show again the Hugo Award.

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">In the spring of 1962, the series still find a producer for the fourth season. Bitches, the series was replaced by the sitcom Fair Exchange. There the series apparently ended, departed producer Buck Houghton. Serling took a job at Antioch College. Although the series was continued in the end, Serling contribution significantly declined. ===Season 4 (1963)<span class="mw-editsection" len="347" 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;">In november 1962 the Twilight Zone 's contract (now without The) extended and again took the place of Fair Exchange. To fill the hole extended from the traditional episodes were 30 minutes to an hour. This idea did not fall on good soil in the production crew, since the stories now had to be worked out much further.

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">Herbert Hirschman was hired to replace Buck Houghton. One of his first decisions was a new opening movie.

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">This season of the Twilight Zone had to do largely with the writers again trio Serling, Matheson and Beaumont. Serling contribution this season was limited because of his new job. He did still the lion's share in terms of the writers ' work, but on all other fronts, he was virtually absent.

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">With five more episodes to go Hirschman left for a job at the NBC Espionageseries. Bert Granet took his task.

<p lang="en" len="77" style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">The show was nominated for an Emmy Award and the Hugo Award in this season. ===Season 5 (1963-1964)<span class="mw-editsection" len="352" 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;">In season 5, the show back to its old format of 30 minutes. Beaumont left the team, and let his work do so by the ghostwriters Jerry Sohl and John Tomerlin. Bert Granet left for 13 episodes, and was replaced by William Froug.

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">Froug made a few decisions that were not really good with the rest of the crew. So he rejected some scripts, or left them whole rewrite by other writers. Even under these circumstances were still a few episodes made which today are regarded as classics such as "Nightmare at 20,000 Feet", "A Kind of a Stopwatch" and "Living Doll". In this season, the show was not nominated for the Emmy Awards for the first time.

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">At the end of January 1964 the message came that the show would be stopped. For some reason made Jim Aubrey familiar enough to have the series, according to Froug. According to Serling wanted to buy and rename the show ABC called to Witches, Warlocks and Werewolves, but Serling saw anything in here. ==Music<span class="mw-editsection" len="337" 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;">The music of the series was composed by Jerry Goldsmith, Nathan Van Cleave, Leonard Rosenman, Fred Steiner, and Franz Waxman. Marty Manning released an album inspired by the 1961 series. ==Guest Roles<span class="mw-editsection" len="342" 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;">The Twilight zone is known for its many guest roles. So did Charles Bronsonamong others, Carol Burnett, Robert Duvall, a very young Ron Howard and Bill Mumy isan even younger, Buster Keaton, Jack Klugman,Cloris Leachman, Lee Marvin, Burgess Meredith, Elizabeth Montgomery, Agnes Moorehead, Suzy Parker, Robert Redford, Mickey Rooney, Don Rickles, Telly Savalas, William Shatner, Peter Falk and Dick York in the series.

<p lang="en" len="89" style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">Really fixed actors knew the series not there every episode turned to other characters. ==Episodes<span class="mw-editsection" len="344" 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);">] ==