{"id":45644,"date":"2014-10-03T13:18:13","date_gmt":"2014-10-03T19:18:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2014\/10\/03\/you-just-crossed-over-55-years-ago-into-the-twilight-zone.html"},"modified":"2014-10-13T14:19:29","modified_gmt":"2014-10-13T20:19:29","slug":"you-just-crossed-over-55-years-ago-into-the-twilight-zone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2014\/10\/03\/you-just-crossed-over-55-years-ago-into-the-twilight-zone.html","title":{"rendered":"You just crossed over (55 years ago) into the Twilight Zone"},"content":{"rendered":"

Submitted for your approval, a television show that, 55 years after its premiere, still has some of the best and memorable genre story telling that was ever packaged in a half-hour anthology format.<\/p>\n

With as many episodes as TZ had, inevitably there were clunkers. But by and large, it was an amazing SF\/Fantasy show, with original stories by (or adaptations of) some of the great names in the biz.<\/p>\n

Of course, TZ was often about the "twist ending" — that was Serlin's speciality, as well as Richard Matheson, who also wrote flocks of the segments. The twist ending sometimes feels a bit of a cheat, as if it were a half-hour morbid joke building up to a punch line. But it was almost always you remembered afterwards.<\/p>\n

And it was a show that featured a lot of folk who would go on to later TV fame. William Shatner had a couple of great episodes (the famous "gremlin on the wing" and the devilish prediction box in the diner), as did Burgess Meredith (the inveterate reader), Agnes Moorehead (fighting a silent alient invasion), Jack Klugman (on the trumpet), and Robert Redford (as a cop comforting an old woman afraid of death). Heck, pretty much every person working TV in Hollywood at the time showed up on one episode or another. <\/p>\n

Hmmmm. It's been a long time since I watched much of "The Twilight Zone." Maybe that should change.<\/p>\n

Originally shared by +Les Jenkins<\/a>:<\/span><\/p>\n

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Still one of the best sci-fi shows to ever air on television.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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\nRemembering Rod Serling And the Debut of The Twilight Zone<\/a><\/span>
\nOn this day in 1959, American TV audiences embarked on a trip to a dimension as vast as space and as timeless as infinity. This first journey to the middle ground between light and shadow was a powerful voyage we still haven’t forgotten. It was the first time we caught a glimpse of The Twilight Zone.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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