The series garnered an honorable mention in the HorrorMovie.ca list of "Top Ten Horror Anthology Series.".The series made the list of " Best Cult Shows Ever" at, placing at #9 on the list.The 1961 Unit Award for Outstanding Contributions to Better Race Relations.A Producers Guild Award (Buck Houghton for Best Produced Series).Three World Science Fiction Convention Hugo Awards (for Dramatic Presentation: 1960, 1961, 1962).Three Emmy Awards ( Rod Serling, twice, for Outstanding Writing Achievement in Drama, and George Clemens for Outstanding Achievement in Cinematography).May 1965-September 1965 Sunday 9:00-10:00 ĭuring the show's five-year, 156-episode run on CBS (1959-64) the program received numerous awards:.List of Twilight Zone (original series) episodes.During the first season (except for the season's final episode) Serling's narrations were off-camera voice-overs he only appeared on-camera at the end of each show to promote the next episode (footage that was removed from syndicated versions but restored for a DVD release, although some of these promotions exist today only in audio format).
Orson Welles was originally considered as host, but the producers felt he asked for too much money. He was also the show's host, delivering on-or-off-screen monologues at the beginning and end of each episode. Rod Serling served as executive producer and head writer, having written 92 of the show's 156 episodes. As an anthology series, each episode presented its own separate story, often a morality play, involving people who face unusual or extraordinary circumstances, therefore entering the "Twilight Zone". The original series ran for five seasons on CBS from 1959 to 1964 and remains syndicated to this day. It aired on the Sci-Fi channel in 2016.The Twilight Zone is a science-fiction/fantasy anthology television series created by Rod Serling. " The Encounter" was pulled from the network and syndication for years due to either being too violent and disturbing, or having offensive Asian stereotypes.A well-done and amazing soundtrack that perfectly fits the show’s tone, especially the twisted-sounding theme music played by Marius Constant.The idea of a making an anthology show that consists of nightmare fuel, creative twists and decent morals is very original.The episodes endings are probably the best partabout the show due to them having a always having some kind of creepy and unpredictable twist.It has been renewed and rebooted several times and managed to keep it’s charm throughout most of it.The eerie black-and-white cinematography is great and captures the tone of the show very well.Most of the shows have some good morals that go good with the episode it’s centering around.Many unexpected twists and turns that’ll leave the viewer shocked, horrified and built up with suspense.
Each and everyone of the actors on this show give wonderful performances.Rod Serling gives some amazing monologues in both the openings and endings of each episode that are delivered in a very eerie manner.An amazing mixture genre of horror, psychological, sci-fi, suspense and thriller.Actors such as Burt Reynolds, Roddy McDowell and Robert Redford made appearances in some of the more well-known stories. Serling introduced each episode, and many of the black and white episodes concluded with a surprise ending. It's a strange mix of horror, science-fiction, drama, comedy and superstition.
The Twilight Zone was the brainchild of Emmy Award-winner Rod Serling, who served as host and wrote more than 80 episodes of the original show's 150-plus episode run.
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