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"The Twilight Zone" (1959): :  -- A soldier gets a new perspective on war when he is forced to experience it from the enemy's point of view.
"The Twilight Zone" (1959): :  -- A clown, a hobo, a ballet dancer, a bagpipe player and an army major are trapped together in an enormous cylinder. They don't know who they are or how they got there. But when the major tries to escape, they finally learn the truth.
"The Twilight Zone" (1959): Season 3: Episode 37 -- Donald Pleasance is Professor Ellis Fowler forced to retire after 51 years of teaching. Feeling his life has been worthless, Fowler is startled by the ghostly appearance of former students.
"The Twilight Zone" (1959): Season 3: Episode 36 -- Carol Burnnett stars as Agnes Grep in this tale of a klutzy usherette "rescued" from poverty by a guardian angel. This charming episode was considered as a pilot for a new TV show.
"The Twilight Zone" (1959): Season 3: Episode 35 -- Ann must learn to understand and accept that her new grandmother can be tender, loving, thoughtful and caring. Even if she is a robot.

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Seasons:
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Release Date:
2 October 1959 (USA) more
Plot:
Rod Serling's seminal anthology series focused on ordinary folks who suddenly found themselves in extraordinary, usually supernatural, situations. The stories would typically end with an ironic twist that would see the guilty punished.
Awards:
Won Golden Globe. Another 6 wins & 8 nominations more
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Cast

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Rod Serling ... Narrator / ... (156 episodes, 1959-1964)
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Additional Details

Also Known As:
The Twilight Zone: The Original Series (Australia)
Twilight Zone (USA) (new title)
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Runtime:
51 min (18 episodes) (season 4) | 25 min (138 episodes) (season 1-3 and season 5)
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Aspect Ratio:
1.33 : 1 more
Sound Mix:
Mono (Westrex Recording System)
Certification:
USA:TV-PG | Australia:M (some episodes) | Australia:PG (some episodes) | Argentina:13

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Trivia:
Due to budgetary constraints in its second season, the network decided to cut costs by shooting some episodes on videotape rather than film. Because videotape was a relatively primitive medium in the early 1960s, the editing of tape was next to impossible. Thus, each of the 6 episodes was "camera-cut" as in live TV, on a studio sound stage, using a total of four cameras. The requisite multicamera setup of the videotape experiment, pretty much precluded location shooting, severely limiting the potential scope of the story-lines, and so, the short-lived experiment was ultimately abandoned. The 6 videotaped episodes were titled: "The Twilight Zone: The Lateness of the Hour (#2.8)" (1960); "The Twilight Zone: Static (#2.20)" (1961); "The Twilight Zone: The Whole Truth (#2.14)" (1961); "The Twilight Zone: The Night of the Meek (#2.11)" (1960); "The Twilight Zone: Twenty Two (#2.17)" (1961); "The Twilight Zone: Long Distance Call (#2.22)" (1961). more
Quotes:
[Opening narration (season 1)]
Narrator: 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.
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FAQ

Is the pilot episode, Where Is Everybody, part of season 1?
Why are some episodes an hour long?
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39 out of 43 people found the following comment useful.
A Show of Depth Well Ahead of it's Time, 7 December 2002
Author: yarborough from northridge, ca

"The Twilight Zone" brought a complexity and maturity to television that had never existed before and probably hasn't been seen since. The stories were always ironic, briliant, and fascinating, and they often came with a moral lesson. Episodes like "A Kind of a Stopwatch", with Richard Erdmann, "Time Enough At Last", with Burgess Meredith, "Nightmare at 20,00 Feet", with William Shatner, and "Where is Everybody," with Earl Holliman, dove into concepts and situations no other show would have even touched. The entertainment brought on by "The Twilight Zone" was as vast as the Zone itself. Its principal writers, Sterling, Beaumont, and Matheson, were the best of their era. For sheer television entertainment, nothing compares to the brilliant, heavyweight stories of "The Twilight Zone." TO be frank, "The Twilight Zone" was the first show that didn't insult the viewer's intelligence.

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