Twilight Zone, The (1959)

Created by Rod Serling, THE TWILIGHT ZONE originally ran on US television from 1969 to 1964, following by 2 revivals, one in the 1980s and one in the early 2000s. The show was a science fiction anthology show, meaning that you didn't get recurring characters, instead each episode was a complete story in itself. The stories were always excellent, written by highly respected writers such as Richard Matheson (who wrote the source novel for all 3 versions of the I AM LEGEND film), Harlan Ellison and Jerry Sohl, along with many stories written by Serling himself. High quality was also seen in the cast for the stories too, with such fantastic actors as ...  Read the complete review

'There is a fifth dimension beyond that which is known to man. It is a dimension as vast as space and timeless as infinity. It is the middle ground between light and shadow, between science and superstition, and it lies between the pit of man's fears and the summit of his knowledge. This is the dimension of imagination. It is an area which we call "The Twilight Zone.'' Rod Serling's Voiceover Theme for The Twilight Zone ~~~~Background~~~~ In 1959, writer Rod Serling brought a new, and oft imitated, type show to television screens It was an half hour anthology show called The Twilight Zone, and it used fantasy and science fiction to critique ...  Read the complete review

THE TWILIGHT ZONE originally ran on US television from 1959 until 1965. It was an anthology show presented by Rod Serling, who also produced and wrote some of the best episodes of the series. It featured mainly science fiction stories, but also included fantasy and horror themes too. In this show Serling created a series through which he could transmit a message coated in the sugar of a science-fiction/fantasy/ horror based series. For example, one of the best episodes was called THE MONSTERS ARE DUE ON MAPLE STREET, which featured a small community on which two alien invaders wreck havoc but whose message concerns mans’s prejudices, and another was THE EYE OF THE ...  Read the complete review

The history of television is long and varied, with many science fiction programmes having come and gone, some of them fortunate enough to live on in popular mythos and be remembered as ‘classics’. Among them Star Trek, Doctor Who, Quatermass … and The Twilight Zone. Even among the classic sf TV shows, it is expected that some episodes will turn out, upon viewing by a modern audience many years later, to have dated very badly: the pacing may be excruciatingly slow, the acting may be twee, the characters may be stereotypes, perhaps even presented in an un-PC way which seems slightly offensive to modern sensibilities. Star Trek and Doctor Who, for ...  Read the complete review

"There is a fifth dimension beyond that which is known to man. It is a dimension as vast as space and as timeless as infinity. It is the middle ground between light and shadow, between science and superstition, and it lies between the pit of man's fears, and the summit of his knowledge. This is the dimension of imagination. It is an area which we call... THE TWILIGHT ZONE." So began THE TWILIGHT ZONE, which ran from 1959-1964. Fortunately for those of us not around at the time of the orginal broadcasts, the series has retained a cult following, with frequent television repeats, and now a staggered DVD release that will see the release of all 159 ...  Read the complete review