The Twilight Zone - wikipedia The Twilight Zone This article is about The Twilight Zone as a franchise. For the original TV series, see The Twilight Zone ( 1959 TV series ). For other uses, see Twilight Zone ( disambiguation ). The Twilight Zone Created by Rod Serling Original work The Twilight Zone ( 1959 TV series ) Print publications Book ( s ) Twilight Zone : 19 Original Stories on the 50th Anniversary Films and television Film ( s ) Twilight Zone : The Movie Television series Original series ( 1959 -- 64 ) First revival ( 1985 -- 89 ) Second revival ( 2002 -- 03 ) Games Traditional Twilight Zone pinball machine Audio Radio program ( s ) The Twilight Zone Radio Dramas Original music Marius Constant ( Composer ) Miscellaneous Theme park attractions The Twilight Zone Tower of Terror The Twilight Zone is an American media franchise based on the anthology television series created by Rod Serling. The episodes are in various genres, including fantasy, science fiction, suspense, and psychological thriller, often concluding with a macabre or unexpected twist, and usually with a moral. A popular and critical success, it introduced many Americans to common science fiction and fantasy tropes. The original series, shot entirely in black and white, ran on CBS for five seasons from 1959 to 1964. The Twilight Zone followed in the tradition of earlier television shows such as Tales of Tomorrow ( 1951 -- 53, which also dramatized the short story `` What You Need '' ) and Science Fiction Theatre ( 1955 -- 57 ) ; radio programs such as The Weird Circle, Dimension X, and X Minus One ; and the radio work of one of Serling 's inspirations, Norman Corwin. The success of the series led to a feature film, a radio series, a comic book, a magazine, and various other spin - offs that spanned five decades, including two revival television series. The first revival ran on CBS and in syndication in the 1980s, while the second ran on UPN from 2002 to 2003. TV Guide ranked the original TV series # 5 in their 2013 list of the 60 greatest dramas of all time. In December 2017, CBS All Access officially ordered the third Twilight Zone revival to series, which is scheduled to be helmed by Jordan Peele. Contents 1 Television history 1.1 Background 1.2 `` The Time Element '' ( 1958 ) 1.2. 1 Plot 1.2. 2 Production 1.3 Original series ( 1959 -- 1964 ) 1.4 First revival ( 1985 -- 1989 ) 1.5 Rod Serling 's Lost Classics ( 1994 ) 1.6 Second revival ( 2002 -- 2003 ) 1.7 Third revival 2 Other media 2.1 Film 2.1. 1 Potential film 2.2 Games 2.3 Literature 2.3. 1 Comic books 2.4 Music 2.4. 1 Television series 2.4. 2 Film 2.4. 3 Influence in popular music 2.5 Radio 2.6 Scripts 2.7 Stage productions 2.8 Theme park attractions 2.9 Syndication 3 See also 4 References 5 Bibliography 6 External links Television history Background This section does not cite any sources. Please help improve this section by adding citations to reliable sources. Unsourced material may be challenged and removed. ( February 2013 ) As a boy, Rod Serling was a fan of pulp fiction stories. As an adult, he sought topics with themes such as racism, government, war, society, and human nature in general. Serling decided to combine these two interests as a way to broach these subjects on television at a time when such issues were not commonly addressed. Throughout the 1950s, Serling established himself as one of the most popular names in television. He was as famous for writing televised drama as he was for criticizing the medium 's limitations. His most vocal complaints concerned censorship, which was frequently practiced by sponsors and networks. `` I was not permitted to have my senators discuss any current or pressing problem, '' he said of his 1957 production The Arena, intended to be an involving look into contemporary politics. `` To talk of tariff was to align oneself with the Republicans ; to talk of labor was to suggest control by the Democrats. To say a single thing germane to the current political scene was absolutely prohibited. '' `` The Time Element '' ( 1958 ) CBS purchased a teleplay in 1958 that writer Rod Serling hoped to produce as the pilot of a weekly anthology series. `` The Time Element '' marked Serling 's first entry in the field of science fiction. Plot Several years after the end of World War II, a man named Peter Jenson ( William Bendix ) visits a psychoanalyst, Dr. Gillespie ( Martin Balsam ). Jenson tells him about a recurring dream in which he tries to warn people about the `` sneak attack '' on Pearl Harbor before it happens, but the warnings are disregarded. Jenson believes the events of the dream are real, and each night he travels back to 1941. Dr. Gillespie insists that time travel is impossible given the nature of temporal paradoxes. While on the couch, Jenson falls asleep once again and dreams that the Japanese planes shoot and kill him. In Dr. Gillespie 's office, the couch Jenson was lying on is now empty. Dr. Gillespie goes to a bar where he finds Jenson 's picture on the wall. The bartender tells him that Jenson had tended there, but he was killed during the Pearl Harbor attack. William Bendix and Martin Balsam in `` The Time Element '' Production With the `` Time Element '' script, Serling drafted the fundamental elements that would distinguish the series still to come : a science - fiction / fantasy theme, opening and closing narration, and an ending with a twist. `` The Time Element '' was purchased immediately, but shelved indefinitely. This is where things stood when Bert Granet, the new producer for Westinghouse Desilu Playhouse, discovered `` The Time Element '' in CBS ' vaults while searching for an original Serling script to add prestige to his show. `` The Time Element '' ( introduced by Desi Arnaz ) debuted on November 24, 1958, to an overwhelmingly delighted audience of television viewers and critics alike. `` The humor and sincerity of Mr. Serling 's dialogue made ' The Time Element ' consistently entertaining, '' offered Jack Gould of The New York Times. Over 6000 letters of praise flooded Granet 's offices. Convinced that a series based on such stories could succeed, CBS again began talks with Serling about the possibilities of producing The Twilight Zone. `` Where Is Everybody ? '' was accepted as the pilot episode and the project was officially announced to the public in early 1959. Other than reruns at the time `` The Time Element '' was not aired on television again until it was shown as part of a 1996 all - night sneak preview of the new cable channel TVLand. It is available in an Italian DVD boxed set titled Ai confini della realtà -- I tesori perduti. The Twilight Zone Season 1 Blu - ray boxed set released on September 14, 2010, offers a remastered high - definition version of the original Desilu Playhouse production as a special feature. Original series ( 1959 -- 1964 ) Main article : The Twilight Zone ( 1959 TV series ) Rod Serling working on his script with a dictating machine, 1959 The series was produced by Cayuga Productions, Inc., a production company owned and named by Serling. It reflects his background in Central New York State and is named after Cayuga Lake, on which Ithaca College is located. Aside from Serling, who wrote or adapted nearly two - thirds of the series ' total episodes, writers for The Twilight Zone included leading authors such as Charles Beaumont, Ray Bradbury, Earl Hamner, Jr., George Clayton Johnson, Richard Matheson, Reginald Rose, and Jerry Sohl. Many episodes also featured new adaptations of classic stories by such writers as Ambrose Bierce, Jerome Bixby, Damon Knight, John Collier, and Lewis Padgett. Twilight Zone 's writers frequently used science fiction as a vehicle for social comment, as networks and sponsors who censored controversial material from live dramas were less concerned with seemingly innocuous fantasy and sci - fi stories. Frequent themes on The Twilight Zone included nuclear war, McCarthyism, and mass hysteria, subjects that were avoided on less serious primetime television. Episodes such as `` The Monsters Are Due on Maple Street '' and `` I Am the Night -- Color Me Black '' offered specific commentary on current events and social issues. Other stories, such as `` The Masks '', `` I Dream of Genie '', or `` Mr. Denton on Doomsday '' were allegories, parables, or fables that reflected the moral and philosophical choices of the characters. Despite his esteem in the writing community, Serling found the series difficult to sell. Few critics felt that science fiction could transcend empty escapism and enter the realm of adult drama. In a September 22, 1959, interview with Serling, Mike Wallace asked a question illustrative of the times : ``... ( Y ) ou 're going to be, obviously, working so hard on The Twilight Zone that, in essence, for the time being and for the foreseeable future, you 've given up on writing anything important for television, right ? '' While Serling 's appearances on the show became one of its most distinctive features, with his clipped delivery still widely imitated today, he was reportedly nervous about it and had to be persuaded to appear on camera. Serling often steps into the middle of the action while the characters remain oblivious to him, but on one notable occasion, they are aware of his presence : In the episode `` A World of His Own '', a writer ( Keenan Wynn ) with the power to alter his reality objects to Serling 's narration, and promptly erases Serling from the show. In season two, due to budgetary constraints, the network decided -- against Serling 's wishes -- to cut costs by shooting some episodes on videotape rather than film. The requisite multicamera setup of the videotape format precluded location shooting, severely limiting the potential scope of the storylines, and the experiment was abandoned after just six episodes ( `` Twenty Two '', `` Static '', `` The Whole Truth '', `` The Lateness of the Hour '', `` The Night of the Meek '', and `` Long Distance Call '' ). The original series contains 156 episodes. The episodes in seasons one through three are 30 minutes long. Season four ( 1962 -- 63 ) consists of one - hour episodes. Season five returned to the half - hour format. First revival ( 1985 -- 1989 ) Main article : The Twilight Zone ( 1985 TV series ) It was Serling 's decision to sell his share of the series back to the network that eventually allowed for a Twilight Zone revival. As an in - house production, CBS stood to earn more money producing The Twilight Zone than it could by purchasing a new series produced by an outside company. Even so, the network was slow to consider a revival, turning down offers from the original production team of Rod Serling and Buck Houghton and later from American filmmaker Francis Ford Coppola. CBS gave the new Twilight Zone a greenlight in 1984 under the supervision of Carla Singer, then Vice President of Drama Development. While the show did not come close to matching the enduring popularity of the original, some episodes -- particularly Allan Brennert 's love story `` Her Pilgrim Soul '' and J. Neil Schulman 's Profile in Silver -- were critically acclaimed. In a tribute to the original series, the opening credits include a brief image of Rod Serling. Four episodes are remakes of those from the original series : `` Night of the Meek '', `` Shadow Play '', `` The After Hours '' and `` A Game of Pool '', while `` Dead Woman 's Shoes '' is an adaptation of `` Dead Man 's Shoes ''. Unlike the original series and the second revival, this series does not include the opening monologue during the title sequence. As well, the narration is all strictly voice - over and the narrator never appears on - screen. Rod Serling 's Lost Classics ( 1994 ) Main article : Rod Serling 's Lost Classics In the early 1990s, Richard Matheson and Carol Serling produced an outline for a two - hour made - for - TV movie which would feature Matheson adaptations of three yet - unfilmed Rod Serling short stories. Outlines for such a production were rejected by CBS until early 1994, when Serling 's widow discovered a complete shooting script ( `` Where the Dead Are '' ) authored by her late husband, while rummaging through their garage. Serling showed the forgotten script to producers Michael O'Hara and Laurence Horowitz, who were significantly impressed by it. `` I had a pile of scripts, which I usually procrastinate about reading. But I read this one right away and, after 30 pages, called my partner and said, `` I love it, '' recalled O'Hara. `` This is pure imagination, a period piece, literate -- some might say wordy. If Rod Serling 's name were n't on it, it would n't have a chance at getting made. '' Eager to capitalize on Serling 's celebrity status as a writer, CBS packaged `` Where the Dead Are '' with Matheson 's adaptation of `` The Theatre '', debuting as a two - hour feature on the night of May 19, 1994, under the name Twilight Zone : Rod Serling 's Lost Classics. The title represents a misnomer, as both stories were conceived long after Twilight Zone 's cancellation. Written just months before Serling 's death, `` Where the Dead Are '' starred Patrick Bergin as a 19th - century doctor who stumbles upon a mad scientist 's medical experiments with immortality. `` The Theatre '' starred Amy Irving and Gary Cole as a couple who visits a cineplex where they discover the feature presentation depicts their own lives. James Earl Jones provided opening and closing narrations. Critical response was mixed. Gannett News Service described it as `` taut and stylish, a reminder of what can happen when fine actors are given great words. '' USA Today was less impressed, even suggesting that Carol Serling `` should have left these two unproduced mediocrities in the garage where she found them. '' Ultimately, ratings proved insufficient to justify a proposed sequel featuring three scripts adapted by Matheson. Second revival ( 2002 -- 2003 ) Main article : The Twilight Zone ( 2002 TV series ) A second revival was attempted by UPN in 2002, hosted by Forest Whitaker. Broadcast in a one - hour format with two half - hour stories, it was canceled after one season. `` It 's Still a Good Life '' is a sequel to `` It 's a Good Life '', `` The Monsters Are on Maple Street '' is an adaptation of `` The Monsters Are Due on Maple Street '' and `` Eye of the Beholder '' is a remake of an episode from the original series, with Serling still credited as writer. Third revival In December 2012, it was reported that Bryan Singer was developing and executive producing a third revival television series for CBS Television Studios. A writer for the series was not chosen and the program was not pitched to any networks. CBS, which broadcast the original series and first revival, was reportedly interested. In February 2013, Singer told TG Daily that the project was still in development and that he hoped to direct the pilot and have A-list actors appear on the revival. The following month, he told IGN that a writer with whom he had previously worked was in negotiations to join the revival and that he felt `` passionate '' towards the original series and the planned revival. In February 2016, it was reported that Ken Levine would write and direct the pilot episode of the revival series. It was also reported that the series would be interactive. In November 2017, it was reported that Jordan Peele was developing a reboot of the series for streaming service CBS All Access with Marco Ramirez serving as potential showrunner. In December 2017, CBS All Access ordered the third The Twilight Zone revival to series. It was announced that the series would be produced by CBS Television Studios in association with Monkeypaw Productions and Genre Films. Jordan Peele, Marco Ramirez, and Simon Kinberg will serve as executive producers for the series and collaborate on the premiere episode. Win Rosenfeld and Audrey Chon will also serve as executive producers. Other media This section needs additional citations for verification. Please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources. Unsourced material may be challenged and removed. ( May 2013 ) Film Main article : Twilight Zone : The Movie Twilight Zone : The Movie is a 1983 feature film produced by Steven Spielberg. It starred Dan Aykroyd, Albert Brooks, John Lithgow, and the late Vic Morrow and Scatman Crothers. The film remade three classic episodes of the original series and included one original story. John Landis directed the prologue and the first segment, Steven Spielberg directed the second, Joe Dante the third, and George Miller directed the final segment. Landis 's episode became notorious for a helicopter accident during filming that caused the deaths of Morrow and two child actors. Potential film Actor Leonardo DiCaprio is planning to make a new movie with Warner Bros., citing The Twilight Zone as his favorite TV series. Unlike the first film, which was an anthology feature, it will be a big - budget, SFX - laden continuous story possibly based on classic episodes of the series such as `` The Eye of the Beholder '', `` To Serve Man '', or any of the 92 scripts written by Rod Serling, to which Warner Bros. owns the rights. One plot leaked from the script tells about a pilot who time - travels 96 years into the future. Cloverfield director Matt Reeves was signed in 2011 to direct the movie, but left in 2012 to direct Dawn of the Planet of the Apes. On August 16, 2013, Joseph Kosinski was announced to direct. The studio hired Aron Eli Coleite to pen the screenplay for the film and will not be an anthology but use various elements from the Twilight Zone universe. In June 2017, Christine Lavaf was hired to pen the script. Games In 1964, Ideal released a board game, The Twilight Zone Game, at the height of the show 's popularity. The game consisted of a cardboard playing surface, four colored playing pieces, a colored spinning wheel, and 12 `` door '' playing cards. In 1988, Gigabit Systems, Inc. published a text adventure video game for Amiga and the PC. 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. On September 17, 2014, Legacy Interactive and Spark Plug Games released a casual adventure game based on The Twilight Zone. Literature Main article : Twilight Zone literature Serling novelized several of his original scripts, which were published in the anthologies Stories from the Twilight Zone ( 1960 ), More Stories from the Twilight Zone ( 1961 ) and New Stories from the Twilight Zone ( 1962 ) ; these have all been reprinted several times, including in an omnibus, The Twilight Zone : Complete Stories ( 1980 ). In 1995, DAW Books published the anthology books Journeys to the Twilight Zone ( 16 stories edited by Carol Serling including Rod Serling 's `` Suggestion '' ), Return to the Twilight Zone ( 18 stories edited by Carol Serling including Rod Serling 's `` The Sole Survivor '' ), and Adventures in the Twilight Zone ( 24 stories edited by Carol Serling including Rod Serling 's `` Lindemann 's Catch '' ). In September 2009, Tor Books published Twilight Zone : 19 Original Stories on the 50th Anniversary, to mark the 50th anniversary of the series. It contains stories by 20 authors such as R.L. Stine and Timothy Zahn, and an introduction by Carol Serling. Comic Books Western Publishing published a Twilight Zone comic book, first under their Dell Comics imprint for four issues, one in 1961 and three further issues in 1962, with the first two published as part of their long - running Four Color anthology series as issue numbers 1173 and 1288, and then two further one - shots numbered separately in Dell 's unique fashion as 01 - 860 - 207 and 12 - 860 - 210 ( numbered as 01 - 860 - 210 on the inside ) respectively. Western then restarted the series under their Gold Key imprint with a formal issue No. 1, which ran 92 issues from 1962 to 1979, with the final issue being published in 1982. Several of the stories were reprinted in their Mystery Comics Digest, which mentioned the title on the covers. A wide range of artists worked on the title, including Jack Sparling, Reed Crandall, Lee Elias, George Evans, Russ Jones, Joe Orlando, Jerry Robinson, Mike Sekowsky, Dan Spiegle, Frank Thorne, and Alex Toth. In 1990, NOW Comics published a new comic series with using the title logo from the 1985 revival. The publisher made great efforts to sign established sci - fi / fantasy writers, including Harlan Ellison, adapting his story `` Crazy as a Soup Sandwich ''. In 2008, students at the Savannah College of Art and Design partnered with Walker & Co. to create graphic novels based on eight episodes of the series through 2009. The first four, `` Walking Distance '', `` The After Hours '', `` The Monsters Are Due on Maple Street '', and `` The Odyssey of Flight 33 '', were released in December 2011. The other four were `` The Midnight Sun '', `` Deaths - Head Revisited '', `` The Big Tall Wish '' and `` Will the Real Martian Please Stand Up ? '' Comics publisher Dynamite Entertainment ran a multiple - issue series, written by J. Michael Straczynski and with art by Guiu Vilanova, beginning in December 2013. Music Television series Bernard Herrmann composed season one 's moody title theme. Other music contributors for the original television show are Jerry Goldsmith, Leonard Rosenman, Nathan Scott, Fred Steiner, Nathan Van Cleave, and Franz Waxman. CBS television CBS session musicians Howard Roberts Avant garde composer Marius Constant wrote the well - known theme introduced in the second season. The Grateful Dead performed the theme for the 1985 revival series. Jonathan Davis of Korn composed the theme music for the 2002 revival series. Film Jerry Goldsmith composed the music for Twilight Zone : The Movie ( 1983 ). Influence in popular music This section does not cite any sources. Please help improve this section by adding citations to reliable sources. Unsourced material may be challenged and removed. ( March 2015 ) The Marketts ' biggest hit, `` Out of Limits '', originally entitled `` Outer Limits '', was named after the 1963 TV series, The Outer Limits. Rod Serling sued the Marketts for quoting the four - note motif from The Twilight Zone, without his approval, which resulted in the change of the title to `` Out of Limits ''. It reached number 3 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart in 1964. It sold over one million copies, and was awarded a gold disc. Many other musicians have written and performed music based on the Twilight Zone, including : 2 Unlimited ( Twilight Zone ), Anthrax ( Intro to Reality ), Average White Band, John Cale, Dr. John, David Dubowski ( To Serve Man ), Golden Earring ( Twilight Zone ), Michael Hurley, Tech N9ne, Iron Maiden ( Twilight Zone ), Mekong Delta ( Twilight Zone ), Van Morrison ( Twilight Zone ), Rush ( The Twilight Zone ), Raymond Scott, Sly & Robbie, Magneto Dayo, The Manhattan Transfer ( Twilight Zone ), The Residents, The Ventures ( Twilight Zone ), Panic ! at the Disco and John Williams. Radio Main article : The Twilight Zone ( radio series ) Beginning in 2002, episodes of the original The Twilight Zone were adapted for radio, with Stacy Keach taking Serling 's role as narrator and produced by Carl Amari of Falcon Picture Group. Each episode features a current Hollywood celebrity, including Jason Alexander, Blair Underwood, Lou Gossett, Jr., Michael York, Jim Caviezel, Jane Seymour, Don Johnson, Sean Astin, Luke Perry and others in the title roles. The series is broadcast on hundreds of radio stations from coast - to - coast and over Sirius / XM. The station list and episodes for download, including 3 Free episodes are available at the official website at www.twilightzoneradio.com Scripts Beginning in 2001, Gauntlet Press began publishing collections of original scripts from The Twilight Zone by Charles Beaumont, Richard Matheson, and Rod Serling. A ten - volume signed, limited edition series of all 92 of Rod Serling 's scripts, authorized by his wife, Carol Serling, began yearly publication in 2004. Many of the scripts contain handwritten edits by Serling himself and differ in significant ways from the aired versions ; most volumes contain an alternate version of a selected script. The script for `` The Monsters Are Due on Maple Street '' has been published into 7th grade reading books in the form of a play. Stage Productions Live theatre productions of the original episodes can be seen in Los Angeles and Seattle, where Theater Schmeater has continuously produced a late night series, `` The Twilight Zone -- Live '' with permission of the Serling estate, since 1996. In 2009, Masquerade, A Chennai based theater group produced ' Dystopia ', loosely based on the episodes `` The Obsolete Man '' and `` Five Characters in Search of an Exit ''. In 2011, the Penn State University theatre group, No Refund Theatre, produced a stage adaptation of The Twilight Zone. It included the episodes `` The Eye of the Beholder '', `` The Midnight Sun '', and `` Nothing in the Dark ''. It was directed by Anthony Arbaiza. In 2017, Bethesda - Chevy Chase High School produced a live adaptation directed by Adam Graham with permission from CBS, with two shows containing four episodes each. These episodes included `` Will The Real Martian Please Stand Up ? '' and `` The Monsters Are Due On Maple Street. '' as well as more technically challenging episodes such as `` Penny For Your Thoughts '' and `` The Eye of the Beholder. '' In December 2017 the Almeida Theatre in London are staging the World Premiere production of ' The Twilight Zone '. Adapted by Anne Washburn and directed by Laurence Olivier Award winner Richard Jones, and will be based on stories from the original series by Rod Serling, Charles Beaumont and Richard Matheson. Theme park attractions Main article : The Twilight Zone Tower of Terror The MGM Tower of Terror The Twilight Zone Tower of Terror is a theme park attraction based on the original Twilight Zone series. Designed by Walt Disney Imagineering, the attraction is a fixture at two Disney parks : Disney 's Hollywood Studios in Florida and Walt Disney Studios Park in Paris. The attraction at Disney California Adventure previously carried the same theme, but has been altered to adopt a theme from the Guardians of the Galaxy franchise. Tokyo DisneySea in Japan has a different variation of the ride that does not carry the Twilight Zone name, due to cultural differences and constraints in licensing for the Oriental Land Company, owner and operator of the Tokyo parks. The ride also served as the inspiration for a 1997 ABC 's The Wonderful World of Disney original movie simply titled `` Tower of Terror ''. Syndication The Twilight Zone original series is currently in syndication on MeTV Network and Syfy, and the 2002 revival is syndicated on the El Rey Network. See also Horror fiction portal Television in the United States portal Science fiction on television 13 Demon Street Alcoa Presents : One Step Beyond Are You Afraid of the Dark ? 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Colorado Springs, CO : Gauntlet Press. ISBN 978 - 1 - 887368 - 52 - 0. Zicree, Marc Scott ( 1982 ). The Twilight Zone Companion. First Edition, Bantam Books. ISBN 978 - 0 - 553 - 01416 - 7. Second Edition ( 1992 ). Silman - James Press ; ISBN 978 - 1 - 879505 - 09 - 4. External links The Twilight Zone on IMDb original The Twilight Zone on IMDb revival The Twilight Zone on IMDb 2002 - 03 The Twilight Zone at Curlie ( based on DMOZ ) Encyclopedia of Television Twilight Zone Scifi.com Page The Twilight Zone Revisited Fan Site The Twilight Zone original at CVTA The Twilight Zone revival at CVTA Twilight Zone actors interviewed, October, 2015 The Twilight Zone Series ( 1959 -- 1964 ) ( 1985 -- 1989 ) ( 2002 -- 2003 ) See also Episodes Guest stars The Movie ( 1983 ) Rod Serling 's Lost Classics ( 1994 ) Literature 19 Original Stories on the 50th Anniversary Radio series Night Gallery Accident John Landis Vic Morrow Pinball Tower of Terror The Twilight Zone ( 1959 ) episodes Season 1 `` Where Is Everybody ? '' `` One for the Angels '' `` Mr. Denton on Doomsday '' `` The Sixteen - Millimeter Shrine '' `` Walking Distance '' `` Escape Clause '' `` The Lonely '' `` Time Enough at Last '' `` Perchance to Dream '' `` Judgment Night '' `` And When the Sky Was Opened '' `` What You Need '' `` The Four of Us Are Dying '' `` Third from the Sun '' `` I Shot an Arrow into the Air '' `` The Hitch - Hiker '' `` The Fever '' `` The Last Flight '' `` The Purple Testament '' `` Elegy '' `` Mirror Image '' `` The Monsters Are Due on Maple Street '' `` A World of Difference '' `` Long Live Walter Jameson '' `` People Are Alike All Over '' `` Execution '' `` The Big Tall Wish '' `` A Nice Place to Visit '' `` Nightmare as a Child '' `` A Stop at Willoughby '' `` The Chaser '' `` A Passage for Trumpet '' `` Mr. Bevis '' `` The After Hours '' `` The Mighty Casey '' `` A World of His Own '' Season 2 `` King Nine Will Not Return '' `` The Man in the Bottle '' `` Nervous Man in a Four Dollar Room '' `` A Thing About Machines '' `` The Howling Man '' `` The Eye of the Beholder '' `` Nick of Time '' `` The Lateness of the Hour '' `` The Trouble with Templeton '' `` A Most Unusual Camera '' `` The Night of the Meek '' `` Dust '' `` Back There '' `` The Whole Truth '' `` The Invaders '' `` A Penny for Your Thoughts '' `` Twenty Two '' `` The Odyssey of Flight 33 '' `` Mr. Dingle, the Strong '' `` Static '' `` The Prime Mover '' `` Long Distance Call '' `` A Hundred Yards Over the Rim '' `` The Rip Van Winkle Caper '' `` The Silence '' `` Shadow Play '' `` The Mind and the Matter '' `` Will the Real Martian Please Stand Up ? '' `` The Obsolete Man '' Season 3 `` Two '' `` The Arrival '' `` The Shelter '' `` The Passersby '' `` A Game of Pool '' `` The Mirror '' `` The Grave '' `` It 's a Good Life '' `` Deaths - Head Revisited '' `` The Midnight Sun '' `` Still Valley '' `` The Jungle '' `` Once Upon a Time '' `` Five Characters in Search of an Exit '' `` A Quality of Mercy '' `` Nothing in the Dark '' `` One More Pallbearer '' `` Dead Man 's Shoes '' `` The Hunt '' `` Showdown with Rance McGrew '' `` Kick the Can '' `` A Piano in the House '' `` The Last Rites of Jeff Myrtlebank '' `` To Serve Man '' `` The Fugitive '' `` Little Girl Lost '' `` Person or Persons Unknown '' `` The Little People '' `` Four O'Clock '' `` Hocus - Pocus and Frisby '' `` The Trade - Ins '' `` The Gift '' `` The Dummy '' `` Young Man 's Fancy '' `` I Sing the Body Electric '' `` Cavender Is Coming '' `` The Changing of the Guard '' Season 4 `` In His Image '' `` The Thirty - Fathom Grave '' `` Valley of the Shadow '' `` He 's Alive '' `` Mute '' `` Death Ship '' `` Jess - Belle '' `` Miniature '' `` Printer 's Devil '' `` No Time Like the Past '' `` The Parallel '' `` I Dream of Genie '' `` The New Exhibit '' `` Of Late I Think of Cliffordville '' `` The Incredible World of Horace Ford '' `` On Thursday We Leave for Home '' `` Passage on the Lady Anne '' `` The Bard '' Season 5 `` In Praise of Pip '' `` Steel '' `` Nightmare at 20,000 Feet '' `` A Kind of a Stopwatch '' `` The Last Night of a Jockey '' `` Living Doll '' `` The Old Man in the Cave '' `` Uncle Simon '' `` Probe 7, Over and Out '' `` The 7th Is Made Up of Phantoms '' `` A Short Drink from a Certain Fountain '' `` Ninety Years Without Slumbering '' `` Ring - a-Ding Girl '' `` You Drive '' `` The Long Morrow '' `` The Self - Improvement of Salvadore Ross '' `` Number 12 Looks Just Like You '' `` Black Leather Jackets '' `` Night Call '' `` From Agnes -- With Love '' `` Spur of the Moment '' `` An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge '' `` Queen of the Nile '' `` What 's in the Box '' `` The Masks '' `` I Am the Night -- Color Me Black '' `` Sounds and Silences '' `` Caesar and Me '' `` The Jeopardy Room '' `` Stopover in a Quiet Town '' `` The Encounter '' `` Mr. Garrity and the Graves '' `` The Brain Center at Whipple 's '' `` Come Wander with Me '' `` The Fear '' `` The Bewitchin ' Pool '' The Twilight Zone ( 1985 ) episodes Season 1 `` Shatterday '' `` A Little Peace and Quiet '' `` Wordplay '' `` Dreams for Sale '' `` Chameleon '' `` Healer '' `` Children 's Zoo '' `` Kentucky Rye '' `` Little Boy Lost '' `` Wish Bank '' `` Nightcrawlers '' `` If She Dies '' `` Ye Gods '' `` Examination Day '' `` A Message from Charity '' `` Teacher 's Aide '' `` Paladin of the Lost Hour '' `` Act Break '' `` The Burning Man '' `` Dealer 's Choice '' `` Dead Woman 's Shoes '' `` Wong 's Lost and Found Emporium '' `` The Shadow Man '' `` The Uncle Devil Show '' `` Opening Day '' `` The Beacon '' `` One Life, Furnished in Early Poverty '' `` Her Pilgrim Soul '' `` I of Newton '' `` Night of the Meek '' `` But Can She Type ? '' `` The Star '' `` Still Life '' `` The Little People of Killany Woods '' `` The Misfortune Cookie '' `` Monsters ! '' `` A Small Talent for War '' `` A Matter of Minutes '' `` The Elevator '' `` To See the Invisible Man '' `` Tooth and Consequences '' `` Welcome to Winfield '' `` Quarantine '' `` Gramma '' `` Personal Demons '' `` Cold Reading '' `` The Leprechaun - Artist '' `` Dead Run '' `` Profile in Silver '' `` Button, Button '' `` Need to Know '' `` Red Snow '' `` Take My Life... Please ! '' `` Devil 's Alphabet '' `` The Library '' `` Shadow Play '' `` Grace Note '' `` A Day in Beaumont '' `` The Last Defender of Camelot '' Season 2 `` The Once and Future King '' `` A Saucer of Loneliness '' `` What Are Friends For ? '' `` Aqua Vita '' `` The Storyteller '' `` Nightsong '' `` The After Hours '' `` Lost and Found '' `` The World Next Door '' `` The Toys of Caliban '' `` The Convict 's Piano '' `` The Road Less Traveled '' `` The Card '' `` The Junction '' `` Joy Ride '' `` Shelter Skelter '' `` Private Channel '' `` Time and Teresa Golowitz '' `` Voices in the Earth '' `` Song of the Younger World '' `` The Girl I Married '' Season 3 `` The Curious Case of Edgar Witherspoon '' `` Extra Innings '' `` The Crossing '' `` The Hunters '' `` Dream Me a Life '' `` Memories '' `` The Hellgramite Method '' `` Our Selena Is Dying '' `` The Call '' `` The Trance '' `` Acts of Terror '' `` 20 / 20 Vision '' `` There Was an Old Woman '' `` The Trunk '' `` Appointment on Route 17 '' `` The Cold Equations '' `` Stranger in Possum Meadows '' `` Street of Shadows '' `` Something in the Walls '' `` A Game of Pool '' `` Room 2426 '' `` The Mind of Simon Foster '' `` The Wall '' `` Cat and Mouse '' `` Rendezvous in a Dark Place '' `` Many, Many Monkeys '' `` Love Is Blind '' `` Crazy as a Soup Sandwich '' `` Special Service '' `` Father and Son Game '' Retrieved from `` https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=The_Twilight_Zone&oldid=850029069 '' Categories : The Twilight Zone 1950s American science fiction television series 1960s American science fiction television series American anthology television series American horror fiction television series American mystery television series Black - and - white television programs Dell Comics titles English - language television programs Gold Key Comics titles Suspense television series Television franchises Television programs adapted into comics Television programs adapted into films Television programs adapted into novels Television programs adapted into plays Television programs adapted into radio programs Television programs adapted into video games Television series by 20th Century Fox Television Television series by CBS Television Studios Television series by MGM Television Hidden categories : Articles needing additional references from February 2013 All articles needing additional references Articles needing additional references from May 2013 Articles needing additional references from March 2015 Articles with Curlie links Talk Contents About Wikipedia Hrvatski Polski 中文 Edit links This page was last edited on 13 July 2018, at 02 : 58 ( UTC ). 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Question: who owns the rights to the twilight zone
Answer: Warner Bros.