The Twilight Zone

Production
The Twilight Zone original opening.
Genre	Science Fiction, Horror, Fantasy, Mystery, Drama, Speculative fiction
Format	Anthology
Created by	Rod Serling
Starring	Host: Rod Serling Various guests
Composer(s)	Bernard Herrmann
Country of origin	United States
No. of seasons	5
No. of episodes	156 (List of episodes)
Executive producer(s)	Rod Serling
Producer(s)	Buck Houghton (1959-62) Herbert Hirschman (1963) Bert Granet (1963-64) William Froug (1963-64)
Cinematography	George T. Clemens
Running time	approx. 30 min. (Seasons 1-3,5); approx. 60 min. (Season 4)
Production company(s)	Cayuga Productions CBS Television Studios
Broadcast
Original channel	CBS
Original run	October 2, 1959 – June 19, 1964
Chronology
Followed by	The Twilight Zone

Description

The Twilight Zone is an American anthology television series created by Rod Serling, which ran for five seasons on CBS from 1959 to 1964 and remains syndicated to this day. The show consisted of unrelated vignettes depicting paranormal, futuristic, dystopian, or simply disturbing events, usually brought to closure with some sort of moral. Rod Serling served as executive producer and head writer, having written 92 of the show`s 156 episodes. He was also the show`s host, delivering on-or-off-screen monologues at the beginning and end of each episode. During the first season, except for the season`s final episode, Serling`s narrations were off-camera voiceovers; he only appeared on-camera at the end of each show to promote the next episode (footage that was removed from syndicated versions but restored for DVD release, although some of these promotions exist today only in audio format). The "twilight zone" itself is not presented as being a tangible plane, but rather a metaphor for the strange circumstances befalling the protagonists. Serling`s opening and closing narrations usually summarized the episode`s events in a cryptic, dramatized manner, thus demonstrating how the episode`s main character had "entered the Twilight Zone."