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Fan of the Twilight Zone? Join me, Rod Serling Memorial Foundation board member Paul Gallagher, for daily quotes and facts from TZ, Night Gallery, and Serling's other works. On X as @TheNightGallery and at thenightgallery.org.
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May 23, 1963: Twilight Zone wraps Season 4 with its last hour-long episode, "The Bard." A hack TV writer (Jack Weston) uses black magic to conjure the ultimate ghostwriter: William Shakespeare (John Williams). It's no classic, but seeing Burt Reynolds do Marlon Brando *is* fun.

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May 20, 1960: Twilight Zone's "A Passage for Trumpet" airs. A depressed musician attempts suicide, then gets a new perspective on life from an angel who knows music well. Written by Rod Serling. Stars Jack Klugman and John Anderson. Both would eventually star in four TZs.

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May 19, 1994: CBS airs "Twilight Zone: Rod Serling's Lost Classics," with 2 stories Carol Serling found after her husband's death. Richard Matheson scripted the 1st, "The Theatre," from a Serling outline. The 2nd, "Where The Dead Are," was a complete script Serling wrote in 1968.

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May 18, 1962: Twilight Zone's 100th episode, "I Sing the Body Electric," first airs. Three motherless children get to construct the perfect grandmother — from a robot-maker. Written by Ray Bradbury. Stars Josephine Hutchinson, David White, Vaughn Taylor, and Veronica Cartwright.

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May 15, 1964: Twilight Zone's "The Brain Center at Whipple's" airs. A company owner's zest for replacing workers with machines comes back to haunt him. Written by Rod Serling. Stars Richard Deacon (like Serling, a Binghamton, NY native). The final TZ role for Robby the Robot. 🤖

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May 13, 1973: Night Gallery’s “Whisper” airs. A man seeks help for his wife, who can channel the spirits of the dead. Stars Sally Field and Dean Stockwell. Not streaming, alas, but it's on disc (US): tinyurl.com/2cppbahs

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May 13, 1960: Twilight Zone’s “The Chaser” airs. A man desperate to woo a beautiful woman buys a love potion, then finds that it works TOO well. What now? Written by Robert Presnell, Jr. Stars George Grizzard, John McIntyre, and Patricia Barry.

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The real “National Twilight Zone Day” is October 2, the anniversary of its debut in 1959: thenightgallery.wordpress.com/2015/05/11/t... But many people think it’s May 11. That's why Syfy is airing a TZ marathon from 8am EST on Sunday until 7am on Monday. Right on Mother's Day! 😜

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May 6, 1960: Twilight Zone's "A Stop at Willoughby" airs. A stressed-out businessman feels drawn to an idyllic train stop that keeps appearing on his daily commute. Who can't relate to this one on some level? A bittersweet classic. Written by Rod Serling. Stars James Daly.

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May 5, 1961: Twilight Zone's "Shadow Play" airs. A murder convict sits on death row, but insists that it's all just a recurring nightmare. Stars Dennis Weaver, Harry Townes, Wright King, and William Edmonson. Written by Charles Beaumont. Pairs well with his "Perchance to Dream"!

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May 4, 1962: Twilight Zone's "The Dummy" airs. A ventriloquist insists that his dummy is alive — and determined to take over the act. Is he crazy, or... ? Written by Rod Serling (based on an unpublished story by Lee Polk). Stars Cliff Robertson, Frank Sutton, and George Murdock.

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May 2, 1963: Twilight Zone's "On Thursday We Leave for Home" airs. A group from Earth who tried for decades to colonize a desert planet is finally being brought home. But their leader refuses to give up control. Written by Rod Serling. Stars James Whitmore and Tim O'Connor.

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May 1, 1964: Twilight Zone's "The Encounter" airs. An American WWII vet and a young Japanese-American wind up fighting over a mysterious samurai sword. One of four TZs left out of TZ's initial syndication package. A tough watch, but here's my take: thenightgallery.wordpress.com/2021/09/01/a...

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April 29, 1945: Dachau is liberated. "This trial is over, Captain Lutze. You have been found guilty. It's time to pronounce sentence." #S3E9 Twilight Zone's "Deaths-Head Revisited" by Rod Serling stars Oscar Beregi and Joseph Schildkraut.

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April 29, 1960: Twilight Zone's "Nightmare as a Child" airs. A woman meets a girl who claims to be her when she was 10 years old — and pushes her to confront a painful memory. Written by Rod Serling. Stars Janice Rule and Terry Burnham.

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April 28, 1961: Twilight Zone's "The Silence" airs. A financially strapped man accepts a unique bet: if he stays silent for a year, he'll win $500,000. Stars Franchot Tone, Liam Sullivan (later in TZ's "The Changing of the Guard") & Jonathan Harris (who’d been in “Twenty-Two”).

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April 27, 1962: Twilight Zone's "The Gift" airs. The residents of a small Mexican village are terrified when a UFO lands nearby, bearing a visitor with a mysterious gift. Written by Rod Serling. Stars Geoffrey Horne, Nico Minardos, Edmund Vargas, and Vladimir Sokoloff.

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Ida Lupino directing The Twilight Zone episode The Masks, written by Rod Serling. 📺 Air date - March 20th, 1964.

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April 25, 1956: U.S. Steel Hour airs Serling's live teleplay "Noon on Doomsday," a tough look at prejudice inspired by the Emmett Till case, a horrific case of racism and murder: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emmett_... Starred future TZ alums Everett Sloane, Jack Warden and Albert Salmi.

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April 24, 1964: Twilight Zone's "Stopover in a Quiet Town" debuts. A couple wakes up in a strange town, devoid of people, and finds that everything is a prop. And where's that girlish laughter coming from? Written by Earl Hamner, Jr. Stars Barry Nelson and Nancy Malone.

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