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''The Twilight Zone'' is the second of three
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's original 1959–64 television series. It aired for one season on the
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assuming Serling's role as narrator and on-screen host. It premiered on September 18, 2002, and aired its final episode on May 21, 2003.


Series history

Broadcast in an hour format with two half-hour stories, it was canceled after one season. Reruns continue to air in syndication and have aired on MyNetworkTV since summer 2008. The opening theme music was provided by Jonathan Davis (singer of the band
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). The series tended to address contemporary issues head-on; e.g. terrorism, racism, gender roles, sexuality, and stalking. Noteworthy episodes featured
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wanting to retire from harvesting souls, Lou Diamond Phillips as a swimming pool cleaner being shot repeatedly in his dreams, Susanna Thompson as a woman whose stated wish results in an "upgrading" of her family,
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as a police officer being bothered by telephone calls from beyond the grave, Brian Austin Green as a businessman who encounters items from his past that somehow reappear, Jeffrey Combs as a hypochondriac whose diseases become reality, and
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playing a woman who went back in time on a suicide mission to kill the infant
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. The series also includes remakes and updates of stories presented in the original ''Twilight Zone'' television series, including the famous " Eye of the Beholder" starring Molly Sims. One of the updates, "The Monsters Are on Maple Street", is a modernized version of the classic episode similarly called " The Monsters Are Due on Maple Street". The original show was about the paranoia surrounding a neighborhood-wide blackout. In the course of the episode, somebody suggests an alien invasion being the cause of the blackouts, and that one of the neighbors may be an alien. The anti-alien hysteria is an allegory for the anti-communist paranoia of the time, and the 2003 remake, starring Andrew McCarthy and Titus Welliver, replaces aliens with terrorists. The show also contains " It's Still a Good Life", a sequel to the events of "
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", an episode of the original series produced 41 years earlier. Bill Mumy returned to play the adult version of Anthony, the demonic child he had played in the original story, with Mumy's daughter,
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, appearing as Anthony's daughter, a more benevolent but even more powerful child. Cloris Leachman also returned as Anthony's mother. Mumy went on to serve as a screenwriter for other episodes in the revival. Other guest stars include: Penn Badgley,
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, Gil Bellows,
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, Sean Patrick Flanery,
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, Jonathan Jackson, Moira Kelly,
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, Dylan Walsh, Frank Whaley, Alicia Witt, and
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. McDonald, Langham, Xander Berkeley, and Haas had all previously guest starred in the 1980s revival. The series did not enjoy the same level of critical or ratings success as the original series or the 1980s revival, and only lasted one season.


Episodes


Home media

The complete series was released on DVD by
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in a six disc box set on September 7, 2004. The episodes are presented in their production order, not their broadcast order.


See also

* ''
The Twilight Zone ''The Twilight Zone'' is an American media franchise based on the anthology television series created by Rod Serling. The episodes are in various genres, including fantasy, science fiction, absurdism, dystopian fiction, suspense, horror, su ...
'' * ''The Twilight Zone'' (1959 TV series) * ''The Twilight Zone'' (1985 TV series) * ''The Twilight Zone'' (2019 TV series)


References


External links

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