Tag: The Twilight Zone
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The Masks’ Director Made Twilight Zone History In More Ways Than One
In the fifth season episode of “The Twilight Zone,” called “The Masks”, an elderly millionaire named Jason Foster (Robert Keith) has gathered his daughter, her husband, and their two adult children for a Mardi Gras gathering. Jason, attended by his doctor (Willis Bouchey), is dying. He expects he’ll be dead by morning. Jason also hates…
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This ‘Twilight Zone’ Episode Was Banned From Syndication for Over 50 Years
Though The Twilight Zone has never been a stranger to tackling weighty social themes, one episode handled its subject matter in such a way that led to it becoming pulled from syndication by CBS for over 50 years. The episode in question was Season 5’s “The Encounter,” a story of wartime trauma, suppressed prejudice, and…
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The Twilight Zone Needed A Favor From A Disney Great To Make The Dummy Work
One thing you can always count on from horror anthology shows is that eventually, they’ll get to an episode about ventriloquist dolls. Don Rickles starred in an episode of “Tales from the Crypt” about a ventriloquist and his dummy and the granddaddy of them all, “The Twilight Zone,” had multiple episodes centered around a ventriloquist…
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10 Best Anthology Series on Netflix, Ranked
Though the 1949 series Fireside Theater and others are often credited with being the first successful anthology series, the format began to gain popularity with shows like The Twilight Zone and The Outer Limits. These series feature separate standalone stories and characters that may be thematically connected and are typically based on the horror or…
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Steven Spielberg’s Night Gallery Short Appalled Executives So Much It Had To Be Reshot
Rod Serling’s horror anthology series “Night Gallery,” a spiritual follow-up to his hit show “The Twilight Zone,” began its life as a 1969 TV movie, consisting of three separate episodes directed by Boris Sagal, Barry Shear, and an up-and-coming novice named Steven Spielberg. Sagal and Shear were a long-term TV veterans at the time, having…
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The Cloverfield Franchise Was an Odd Monster That Failed to Deliver
Nothing is simultaneously as exciting and disappointing as J.J. Abrams’ Cloverield franchise. In a sea of film franchises, this is one of the good ones… well, sort of. The Cloverfield banner acts more like The Twilight Zone than anything, a name which audiences can look to and expect a certain brand of Sci-fi Horror storytelling,…
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Rod Serling Looked To His Real-Life Experience For The Title Of The Twilight Zone
“The Twilight Zone” is an absolutely foundational piece of American media. Its influences on the science fiction and horror genres are incalculable. The show, which ran on CBS from 1959 to 1964 in its original run, was the brainchild of Rod Serling, who served as both the host of the show and its head writer.Every…
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Censorship Was The Spark That Sent Rod Serling To The Twilight Zone
There are plenty of lessons to learn from the ’60s anthology TV show “The Twilight Zone.” Lessons like “don’t judge a book by its cover,” and “make sure you have a second pair of glasses.” Perhaps more noteworthy was the way it used its speculative elements to tackle larger social issues, using the speculative elements…
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Nehemiah Persoff, Character Actor Known For Yentl, The Twilight Zone, Some Like It Hot, Dies At 102
As reported today by Variety, Nehemiah Persoff, a prolific Hollywood character actor whose career spanned six decades, has passed away at the age of 102 in San Luis Obispo, CA. Persoff began acting in films in 1948 with an uncredited walk-on role in “The Naked City,” and would also play various roles in the 1959 TV adaptation.…