Twilight Zone

My personal picks on what were the freakiest 'Twilight Zone' episodes ever created.

The choice for a director for the new "Twilight Zone" movie has been made. "Clovefield" and "Let Me In" director Matt Reeves is the man for the job.

Economic suffering continues all over the world

The Twilight Zone was created over fifty years ago and aired on CBS. These four episodes were standouts with great storytelling, suspense, and acting.

This epic fantasy anthology placed ordinary people in extraordinary circumstances, keeping viewers in suspense. Hundreds of actors--who later went on to be megastars--participated in the series.

You may know that 'The Twilight Zone' was a killer thriller TV series. You may know that Rod Serling created The Twilight Zone, movie and comic series. You doubtless recognize the TZ theme song. Here are some little known facts about the Twilight Zone.

Rod Serling's voice lured us into, "The Twilight Zone." Should Warner Bros. and DiCaprio even attempt to re-enter the Zone? Only twilight time will tell.

During the first season of the first revival of the iconic television series 'The Twilight Zone' I appeared as an extra. It was the episode titled "Take My Life...Please!" The audience in the nightclub would decide the fate of a stand-up comedian.

A look at Disney Hollywood Studio's Twilight Zone Tower of Terror thrill ride at Walt Disney World in Orlando, Florida,

A simple Twilight Zone episode made me stop and think about my own life, the world, and the powerful effects of hate.

The Twilight Zone's enduring impact has been appropriately noted during this series of articles commemorating one of the most intelligent, esteemed, and bold series in the history of television.

Most "best-of" Twilight Zone polls will find To Serve Man resting comfortably on top, and it might very well appear on a number of composite lists documenting television's best episodes overall.

"The problem is simply that the plane is going too fast and there is nothing within the realm of knowledge or at least logic to explain it."

A Stop at Willoughby is the Twilight Zone episode for all who stepped on that career treadmill early in life, ascended to a position, assumed the natural family responsibilities, and then realized they were trapped in a cycle of despair.

2009's "The Box" is one of the best sci-fi thrillers to come along in a while now, drawing much inspiration from a Richard Matheson short story and a 'Twilight Zone' episode.

"Happily, tangible manifestation is very often left as evidence of trespass, even from so intangible a quarter as the Twilight Zone."

"Long Live Walter Jameson," is another provocative Twilight Zone effort probing life's imponderable uncertainties. It's #5 on this "best of" list, the result of an unscientific poll of 250 people asked to rank their favorite Twilight Zone episodes.

In yet another distinctive pass at an allegory about the human spirit, its foibles and resourcefulness, Rod Serling authored "On Thursday We Leave For Home," #6 on the list of the 25 best Twilight Zone episodes.

When one summons their thoughts and memories of the Twilight Zone, they are unlikely to include charm, sentimentality, and compassion as characteristics of story lines and the characters inhabiting them.

Burgess Meredith's so-aptly named character, Romney Wordsworth, is about to suffer the ultimate end at the hands of a government that does not condone individuality.

"Walking Distance" is an early Rod Serling Twilight Zone script, only the fifth program aired in this extraordinary five year series. Like many Serling-penned efforts, it captures so eloquently and precisely the human condition.

"Will the Real Martian Please Stand Up?" checks in at number 10, a creepy, unsettling one-set stage teleplay that invites feelings of isolation, anxiety, and uncertainty.

"Eye of the Beholder" is the perfect characterization of the cliché which informs it. Its quality is less about the suitably restrained performances, and the typically extraordinary writing, than it is about the story line and its impact on viewers.

The entry that stands at number 12 on this impressive list is the story of the fictional Carl Lanser, a German U-boat commander who somehow finds himself on board the British freighter, the S.S. Queen of Glasgow, in 1942 at the height of World War II.

"Dachau. Why does it still stand? Why do we keep it standing?"

"Mirror Image" contains all the elements of a classic Twilight Zone...a compelling script, provocative subject matter, and truly gifted performances.

As people fall asleep, they enter a 'hypnagogic' state, a strange time when they are neither fully asleep nor fully awake and when they might see visions or hear voices.

After all, who's to say we're not part of someone else's dream or nightmare...or they are not a product of our own?

A list of the finest Twilight Zone had to offer!

As the 50th anniversary year of "The Twilight Zone" continues on, it is appropriate to provide a mid-survey review of the groundbreaking program's 25 best episodes.

Here, Rod Taylor plays Colonel Clegg Forbes, who returns with two other astronauts from a test flight...or does he?...or do they?

Thirty-four years before Tom Hanks and Tim Allen breathed life into Woody and Buzz Lightyear in "Toy Story," the definitive fantasy characterization of a toy's life when no one else is around, Rod Serling wrote "Five Characters in Search of an Exit."

The Twilight Zone, which aired from 1959 to 1964, continues to rock. Now, we will take a look at 5 provocative stories that focus on time travel.