The Twilight Zone
This show is based on Rod Serling's classic TV anthology show, The Twilight Zone. Redoing some episodes and doing new ones 20 years laters after the originals, these are made in color and in one-hour episodes. Most of the episodes contained two or three stories, and were broken up in half hour episodes for syndication. CBS cancelled the show in its second season, but it was picked up by a Canadian producer and aired in syndication in a half-hour format.
The show contains mostly ironic or special situations with a twist at the end, which show the human nature, coupled with science fiction, horror or fantasy. Some of the show's writers are well known: Harlan Ellison, Stephen King, Ray Bradbury, Richard Matheson, Sidney Sheldon and J. Michael Straczynski. The opening and closing music was done by The Grateful Dead.
Charles Aidman | Narrator | |
Lisa Jane Persky | Sandra (segment The Once and Future King) | |
James Whitmore Jr. | Ira Richman (segment The Girl I Married) | |
Geoff Witcher | Anchorman (segment A Saucer of Loneliness) | |
Ellen Albertini Dow | Old Woman (segment The Storyteller) | |
John Dennis Johnston | Charlie (segment The Junction) | |
Jeffrey Tambor | Milton (segment The World Next Door) | |
Christopher McDonald | Delivery Man (segment Aqua Vita) | |
Robert Knepper | Alonzo (segment Joy Ride) | |
Tom Skerritt | Alex Mattingly (segment What Are Friends For?) | |
Jon Gries | Nick Gatlin (segment Shelter Skelter) | |
Joan Allen | Sally Dobbs (segment Shelter Skelter) | |
Ned Bellamy | Man (segment The After Hours) | |
Joe Mantegna | Harry Dobbs (segment Shelter Skelter) | |
Lukas Haas | Mike (segment What Are Friends For?) | |
Cliff De Young | Jeff McDowell | |
Roberts Blossom | Mordecai Hawkline (segment Song of the Younger World) | |
Andrew Robinson | Mr. Williams (segment Private Channel) | |
Raye Birk | Time-Traveller (segment Lost and Found) | |
George Wendt | Barney Schlesinger (segment The World Next Door) | |
Fred Savage | Jeff Mattingly (segment What Are Friends For?) | |
Mimi Kennedy | Christie Copperfield (segment Aqua Vita) | |
Randy Hall | Fireman (segment Joy Ride) | |
Akosua Busia | Jennifer Templeton (segment Lost and Found) | |
Alex Daniels | Host (segment Private Channel) |
"The Once and Future King": Elvis impersonator Gary Pitkin finds himself transported back to Elvis' time after a car accident. "A Saucer of Loneliness": Shy, lonely Margaret receives a private message from a flying saucer.
Alex Mattingly wonders whether his son Jeff's new friend Mike is real or imaginary. / Television newscaster Christie Copperfield discovers a fountain of youth in the form of bottled water and takes a liking to it, but then the price rises.
The Storyteller: Adolescent Micah Frost keeps his great-great-great-grandfather alive by making up serialized stories that continue night after night. Nightsong: Disc jockey Andrea Fields plays an obscure record made by her lost lover Simon Locke, who mysteriously reappears after a long absence.
The After Hours: Marsha Cole detects shadowy figures and mysterious voices around her during a trip to a local shopping mall. Lost and Found: College student Jennifer Templeton finds out why her possessions have been vanishing. The World Next Door: Would-be inventor Barney Schlessinger is bored with his life until he meets another inventor in a parallel world.
Elderly Ernie Ross and his wife Mary live in fear of their son Toby, who has the magical ability to turn any imagined item into reality.
Ricky Frost has been wrongly convicted of murder and sent to prison, but his musical talent might see him free if he continues to play a certain piano.
Vietnam-era draft dodger Jeff McDowell sees something familiar about a wheelchair-bound man who has appeared in his house unexpectedly.
"The Card": Severe penalties await shopper Linda Wolfe when she fails to pay her credit card bills on time. "The Junction": John Parker and Ray Dobson are trapped inside the local mine. But when one is rescued, the other disappears.
"Joy Ride": The joy ride that two couples take in a stolen car is disrupted by the car's deceased owner, who isn't done with the car yet. "Shelter Skelter": Two men race to a private fallout shelter at the onset of a nuclear blast. For months, they battle cabin fever and loneliness until one decides to venture out of the shelter and faces a horrific landscape of destruction and darkness - yet everything is not as it may seem. "Private Channel": An accident turns an obnoxious young man's radio headset into a receiver of other people's thoughts.
"Time and Teresa Golowitz": Offered any wish by the Devil at his death, a musician travels back in time to make love to a girl as he regretted not doing before, but then learns one of the guests committed suicide that night. "Voices in the Earth": Professor Donald Knowles travels back to Earth with other members of an expedition, and is deeply affected by the Earthlings of centuries earlier.
Song of the Younger World: In the early 20th century, reform school inmate Tanner Smith tempts fate by falling in love with puritanical Warden Mordecai Hawkline's daughter Amy. The Girl I Maried: Middle-aged corporate lawyer Ira Richman misses young Valerie, the girl he married twenty years ago and is surprised to see her materialize.