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The Twilight Zone @thenightgallery.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

"Steel" (October 4, 1963), a Season 5 Twilight Zone episode about a future when only robots can box, represented a second trip to the fifth dimension for both of its main stars. Joe Mantell was in "Nervous Man in a Four-Dollar Room," while Lee Marvin was in "The Grave."

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The Twilight Zone @thenightgallery.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Excellent choices. Many are high on my list as well.

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The Twilight Zone @thenightgallery.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

It’s an amazing story. That poor crew.

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The Twilight Zone @thenightgallery.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

"Best wishes for success as Twilight Zone premieres on CBS." — @CBS head Frank Stanton in an October 2, 1959 telegram to Serling The groundbreaking series premiered 67 years ago today with "Where is Everybody?" starring Earl Holliman. Hope can enjoy some TZ today!

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The Twilight Zone @thenightgallery.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

September 30, 1960: Season 2 of Twilight Zone opens with "King Nine Will Not Return." A WWII pilot (Robert Cummings) awakens alone next to his wrecked plane in the desert — and searches for his missing crew. Inspired by the true story of the World War II plane "Lady Be Good."

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The Twilight Zone @thenightgallery.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Ah, yes. “Time Enough at Last.” 🤓

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The Twilight Zone @thenightgallery.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Yep! That’s when you know you have a great writer — and a great cast.

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The Twilight Zone @thenightgallery.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Right? That’s a mark of true beauty.

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The Twilight Zone @thenightgallery.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Ha, happy to have helped! I guess he must be a western fan (as am I). If so, he should love it. :)

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The Twilight Zone @thenightgallery.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Well worth checking out. You can find it on YouTube, and it’s also available very inexpensively on DVD.

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The Twilight Zone @thenightgallery.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

It’s a special one, no question. Very touching.

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The Twilight Zone @thenightgallery.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

"So now there's no more bets, and there's no more bottles, but oh, there's no more Pip, either." September 27, 1963: "In Praise of Pip" opens Twilight Zone's fifth season. A father (Jack Klugman) yearns for a chance to spend time with his dying son—and maybe save his life.

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The Twilight Zone @thenightgallery.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

"We filmed on the MGM backlot, which I knew almost as well as the neighborhood I grew up in. They did not have to do much to prepare since the script called for everything to be fake. The tree, the phone, and the food." — Barry Nelson, Twilight Zone's "Stopover in a Quiet Town"

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The Twilight Zone @thenightgallery.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

September 22, 1971: One of Night Gallery's best episodes features E.G. Marshall as a strange undertaker ("A Death in the Family"), and Vincent Price as a teacher at a bizarre school ("Class of '99"), in two top-notch Serling scripts.

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The Twilight Zone @thenightgallery.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

September 22, 1961: Twilight Zone's "The Arrival" airs. An air-traffic investigator tries to figure out how a large passenger plane could have landed perfectly with no one aboard — including pilots. Written by Rod Serling. Stars Harold J. Stone, Fredd Wayne, and Noah Keen.

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The Twilight Zone @thenightgallery.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

It lasted only one season, unfortunately, but you can get it on DVD for under $15: www.amazon.com/gp/product/B...

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The Twilight Zone @thenightgallery.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

"I sometimes think that a man can die from killing as well as from being killed." September 18, 1965: Rod Serling's first post-Twilight Zone series, "The Loner," debuts. Lloyd Bridges starred as a former Union cavalry officer roaming the Wild West and defending the underdog.

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The Twilight Zone @thenightgallery.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Excellent! I was lucky enough to see a lot of Hitchcock’s films on big-screen rerelease when I was in my 20s. Nothing beats seeing them that way, and Strangers on a Train is one of his best. Love that tagline, too: “It’s off the beaten track!”

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The Twilight Zone @thenightgallery.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

September 15, 1971: Season 2 of Night Gallery, now a regular weekly series, debuts. The line-up: “The Boy Who Predicted Earthquakes” (with Clint Howard), “Miss Lovecraft Sent Me,” “The Hand of Borgus Weems” (with Ray Milland), and “Phantom of What Opera?” (with Leslie Nielsen).

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The Twilight Zone @thenightgallery.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

September 15, 1961: Season 3 of The Twilight Zone opens with "Two." Two soldiers from opposing armies must learn to get along in a post-nuclear-war world where they appear to be the lone survivors. Stars Charles Bronson and Elizabeth Montgomery.

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The Twilight Zone @thenightgallery.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

"It was probably the happiest moment of my professional career." — Rod Serling on winning his 4th #Emmy (and the 1st of two for Twilight Zone) in 1960 He still holds the record for the most Emmys won by a writer (6).

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The Twilight Zone @thenightgallery.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

There’s never a bad time for a random TZ marathon!

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The Twilight Zone @thenightgallery.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

I appreciate that! Wow, from the beginning, huh? 2010. In fact, I started that page exactly 16 years ago today. Ha, I’d almost forgotten to take note of it, so it’s a good thing you said that. 😁 Thanks for sticking with me!

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The Twilight Zone @thenightgallery.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

How true. Praying for peace for you and your family …

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The Twilight Zone @thenightgallery.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Well, if she doesn’t just scream “bad news,” I don’t know who does … 😁

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The Twilight Zone @thenightgallery.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Interesting thread! I obviously need to check out more silent movies.

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The Twilight Zone @thenightgallery.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

I really need to give it a read. I’ve been remiss! My experiences with Alan, though few and far between, have all been pleasant.

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The Twilight Zone @thenightgallery.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

"It's eternal. I swear, after we're all gone, people will be looking at this show. You can revisit and revisit, and you don't tire. I've seen every episode so many times, and it never ceases to amaze me how I can always catch something that I haven't before." — Shelley Berman

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The Twilight Zone @thenightgallery.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

"In your wildest flight of imagination, you'll never quite catch up with what worms out of Rod Serling's typewriter. Your nightmares even pale by comparison. Yet they are so well done that Twilight Zone is becoming a Friday night habit in millions of homes." — @Variety, 1959

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The Twilight Zone @thenightgallery.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

"The day Star Trek was cancelled, I could have cut off heads at the network. It was a marvelous show." — Rod Serling Happy 60th, Star Trek!

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The Twilight Zone @thenightgallery.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

"I was doing so many voices for so many cartoons by the time they wanted me to be Talky Tina that it was just another job. Now I get calls and letters from fans all the time about Talky Tina." — June Foray on Twilight Zone's "Living Doll"

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The Twilight Zone @thenightgallery.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

"I was bold enough to ask him for a part in a Twilight Zone, and he said there might be an opening. A few friends were with me, and I remember them laughing at me, but I showed them, didn’t I?" — Mariette Hartley of TZ's "The Long Morrow," on meeting Rod Serling on the MGM lot

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The Twilight Zone @thenightgallery.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

For its first season (which consisted of only six episodes), "Rod Serling's Night Gallery" was part of NBC's Four-In-One, taking its turn in a group that included "McCloud," "San Francisco Airport," and "The Psychiatrist." NG's popularity led to its own weekly series in Season 2.

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The Twilight Zone @thenightgallery.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

"In the view of this man, Professor Samuel Kittridge, Walter Jameson has access to knowledge that couldn't come out of a volume of history, but rather from a book on black magic—which is to say that this nightmare begins at noon." Twilight Zone's "Long Live Walter Jameson"

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The Twilight Zone @thenightgallery.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

"The reactions to the show have been incredible. The mail pull has been phenomenal. and the word of mouth unusually positive and extensive." — from a letter Rod Serling sent to Damon Knight, who wrote the short story that Twilight Zone's "To Serve Man" was based on

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The Twilight Zone @thenightgallery.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

Neville Brand was originally cast as Caswell in Twilight Zone's "Execution." When he became sick the day filming was to begin, Albert Salmi took his place. Salmi returned in "A Quality of Mercy" and "Of Late I Think of Cliffordville." Brand later starred in "The Encounter."

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The Twilight Zone @thenightgallery.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

"In my early years with Rush, we were thrilled to find television channels that showed reruns of The Twilight Zone. Our youthful fascination with the show was rekindled, and we wrote a song for our 2112 album titled after the show and in tribute to it." — Neil Peart

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The Twilight Zone @thenightgallery.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

"When I put it to my lips, it comes out jewels, it comes out a symphony, comes out the smell of fresh flowers in summer." #S1E32 Twilight Zone's "A Passage for Trumpet" by Rod Serling stars Jack Klugman.

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The Twilight Zone @thenightgallery.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

The world knew Shelley Fabares mostly for The Donna Reed Show & Coach, not for Twilight Zone's "Black Leather Jackets." Considering how unpopular that episode is, it's probably just as well. But she did lend an innocent charm to it. May she rest in peace: www.latimes.com/obituaries/s...

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The Twilight Zone @thenightgallery.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

"I had the feeling [Serling] was getting something off his chest. He was getting bedeviled by the CBS brass... so he was kind of getting back at them. He made Howard Smith, who played the boss, a really miserable human being." — Jason Wingreen (conductor), "A Stop at Willoughby"

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The Twilight Zone @thenightgallery.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

John Brahm (pictured here on set with Burgess Meredith) directed more Twilight Zone episodes (12) than any other director. The first: "Time Enough at Last." The last: "Queen of the Nile." #S1E8

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