The Twilight Zone only had five seasons, but it packed a ton of episodes into them. The result is a fairly mixed bag: some episodes are okay, some are forgettable, some are good, and some are ...
Sometimes, lack of sleep can get those creative juices flowing, as writer Jerome Bixby learned in the early 1950s when the idea for one of the greatest and most terrifying short stories came to him ...
What follows are the top examples of how a The Twilight Zone episode could work even without Serling serving as the ground up architect of its narrative. Note that, even if it wasn’t a Serling ...
During its original run, The Twilight Zone was known for its many scary and creepy episodes. From 1959 to 1964, the Rod Serling-narrated science fiction horror anthology terrified viewers with ...
Rod Serling faces the camera in the closing narration for The Twilight Zone's "A World of His Own". Image via CBS Rod Serling's The Twilight Zone is an iconic anthology series that defied the ...
There is always more to explore in The Twilight Zone. Over the course of its original five-season run, this anthology series built up quite an expansive mythology. Even enthusiastic fans of The ...
What Houghton makes clear in his reveal of The Twilight Zone‘s story patterns is that Serling actually had the formula figured out from the first episode, so we’ll use that as our guide for breaking ...