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The Twilight Zone: Season 01
Running Time: 30 min.
Even non-devotees of The Twilight Zone are able to distinguish the series' first-season episodes from the later installments. Instead of the familiar "dee-dee-dee-doo, dee-dee-dee-doo" theme music by Marius Constant, each season-one Twilight Zone was introduced with a more lugubrious, string-dominated theme by the great Bernard Herrmann, who also composed the incidental music for such classic first-season episodes as "The Lonely" and "Walking Distance." Also, series creator and host narrator Rod Serling does not appear on camera to deliver his opening and closing narration -- except for a delightful gag appearance at the end of the season's final episode, "A World of His Own." The series' two most frequent guest stars make their inaugural Twilight Zone appearances in the course of season one. Burgess Meredith is poignantly cast as a myopic bookworm who ends up a sole survivor of a nuclear holocaust in "Time Enough at Last," while Jack Klugman is seen as a luckless musician whose life is turned around by a remarkable near-death experience in "A Passage for Trumpet." Other notable actors appearing in this season's 36 episodes include Martin Landau, Fritz Weaver, Ed Wynn, David Wayne, Vera Miles, Ida Lupino, Anne Francis, and Roddy McDowall. Among the best and most memorable episodes of the first-season Twilight Zone crop are "Third From the Sun," "The Monsters Are Due on Maple Street," "People Are Alike All Over," and "A Stop at Willoughby." Lesser episodes, though still worthy of special mention, include the series opener "Where Is Everybody?," one of the few Zones with a "logical" rather than supernatural ending; "The Hitch-Hiker," a haunting adaptation of Lucille Fletcher's classic radio play; "The Mighty Casey," a baseball fantasy which had to be filmed twice so that Jack Warden could replace the original story by Paul Douglas, who fell ill during shooting and died shortly afterward; and "Mr. Bevis," which Rod Serling intended as the pilot for a series about a bumbling guardian angel. All Movie Guide
The Twilight Zone: Season 01 Cast and Crew:
 Rod Serling - (Host) |
The Twilight Zone: Season 01 Episodes:
The Twilight Zone: Where is Everybody?
The Twilight Zone: One For the Angels
The Twilight Zone: Mr. Denton on Doomsday
The Twilight Zone: The Sixteen-Millimeter Shrine
The Twilight Zone: Walking Distance
The Twilight Zone: Escape Clause
The Twilight Zone: The Lonely
The Twilight Zone: Time Enough at Last
The Twilight Zone: Perchance to Dream
The Twilight Zone: Judgment Night
The Twilight Zone: And When the Sky Was Opened
The Twilight Zone: What You Need
The Twilight Zone: The Four of Us Are Dying
The Twilight Zone: Third From the Sun
The Twilight Zone: I Shot an Arrow Into the Air
The Twilight Zone: The Hitch-Hiker
The Twilight Zone: The Fever
The Twilight Zone: The Last Flight
The Twilight Zone: The Purple Testament
The Twilight Zone: Elegy
The Twilight Zone: Mirror Image
The Twilight Zone: The Monsters Are Due on Maple Street
The Twilight Zone: A World of Difference
The Twilight Zone: Long Live Walter Jameson
The Twilight Zone: People are Alike All Over
The Twilight Zone: Execution
The Twilight Zone: The Big Tall Wish
The Twilight Zone: Nightmare as a Child
The Twilight Zone: A Stop at Willoughby
The Twilight Zone: The Chaser
The Twilight Zone: A Passage for Trumpet
The Twilight Zone: Mr. Bevis
The Twilight Zone: The After Hours
The Twilight Zone: The Mighty Casey
The Twilight Zone: A World of His Own
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