(Season 1 – first broadcast March 4 1960)
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Alfred Hitchcock also tried to buy the story to use on his own anthology TV series, Alfred Hitchcock Presents, but was turned down. Serling ultimately bought and adapted it, but Lucille Fletcher was unhappy about him changing the protagonist from male to female. Serling himself had heard the play when it was broadcast in 1941, with Orson Welles playing the lead part. “First on the Brooklyn Bridge and then on the Pulaski Skyway. “We saw an odd-looking man,” she later said. The Dimension Behind It: The original story was a radio play written by Lucille Fletcher, inspired by a cross-country journey she’d taken with her husband Bernard Herrmann (composer for not only Twilight Zone episodes but Psycho). When he emerges, he finds that a nuclear apocalypse has destroyed the rest of humanity. The Story: Mr Bevis (Burgess Meredith), a bookworm, locks himself in the vault of the bank where he works, so that he can read without being disturbed by other people. (Season 1 – first broadcast November 20 1959) Who the f-k’s going to believe this, Rod?” 2. One person who was less impressed with the time-travel wish-fulfilment plot was CBS vice-president William Dozier, who baulked at the ending. “On occasion I will go back to my old hometown, and walk through the streets and the places that I grew up in, and feel a sense of great loss and wish I could recapture it, you simply cannot go home again – it’s quite impossible.” As recalled in Nicholas Parisi’s 2018 book Rod Serling, His Life, Work and Imagination, Serling once described a “tremendous bittersweet, poignant feeling about wanting to go back to another time”. The Dimension Behind It: This wistful, melancholic story came from Serling’s own “hunger to be young again”.
But he realises he’s travelled back in time and comes face-to-face with himself as a child. The Story: Stressed advertising exec Martin Sloane (Gig Young) takes a nostalgic stroll to his hometown.
(Season 1 – first broadcast October 30 1959) Here are the ten essential episodes of the original Twilight Zone – and the stories behind them. Created, hosted and largely written by the iconic Rod Serling, its stories of science-fiction and horror were famous for their twist endings, unnerving theme tune, and fourth-wall breaking tricks – still influential 60 years on.īut The Twilight Zone’s mysteries and monsters also tapped into the anxieties of its days, thanks to Serling’s liberal, sharp-minded commentary on the shifting social and political landscape: a Cold War, civil rights-era America. The original Twilight Zone ran for five seasons between 19. A brand-new 10-episode season of The Twilight Zone, co-produced and hosted by Us writer-director Jordan Peele, is airing on Syfy on Tuesdays from February 25. Prepare to enter the Fifth Dimension all over again.
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