50 Years of the Twilight Zone 104
pickens writes "Fifty years ago on October 2, American television viewers first heard the words: 'You're moving into a land of both shadow and substance, of things and ideas. You've just crossed over into... the Twilight Zone.' Like the time-space warps that anchored so many of the show's plots, Rod Serling's veiled commentary remains as soul-baring today as it did a half-century ago, and the show's popularity endures in multiple facets of American pop culture, appearing nearly uninterrupted through television, syndication and DVD releases and under license to air in 30 countries. 'The whole idea of "The Twilight Zone" jumped off the television screen and became a catchphrase, a buzzword for something much beyond the TV show itself,' says Robert Thompson, director of the Center for the Study of Popular Television at Syracuse University. 'When you say Twilight Zone, it's its own genre.' The original show ran just five seasons, 1959 to 1964, with 156 episodes filmed; Serling wrote 92 of them, and other contributors included Richard Matheson and Ray Bradbury. Anniversary observances were held at Ithaca College in New York, where Serling taught from 1967 until his death in 1975, and which keeps Serling's archives; and also at Antioch College in Ohio, where Serling was a student."
Re:GRRM (Score:2, Informative)
Um, considering GRRM's age, I think you mean that he wrote some of the early scripts for the 1980's revamp of The Twilight Zone.
Re:Favorite Twilight Episodes (Score:3, Informative)
Another good one was "Two," with Charles Bronson and Elizabeth Montgomery.
Watch old TZ online! (Score:3, Informative)
http://www.cbs.com/classics/the_twilight_zone/video/video.php [cbs.com] (region blocked to non-Americans I believe).
Original Intro... (Score:2, Informative)
Actually, The original intro played and the one people would have heard 50 years ago was:
"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"
Anne Serling, key writers, and actors interviewed (Score:2, Informative)
www.coasttocoastam.com/show/2009/10/02
Just listened to this the other night at work--worth finding in U-space. ;-)