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unusual facts about Twilight Zone


Liar's Club

Liar's Club was first seen during the 1969-70 season with Rod Serling (of Twilight Zone fame) as host, and returned for a three-season run from 1976–79, after airing as a local series on Los Angeles' KTLA during the 1974-75 season.


Barry Atwater

By 1960, he had achieved enough stature to be named by host Rod Serling in the on-screen promo as one of the stars of the well-known CBS Twilight Zone episode "The Monsters Are Due on Maple Street".

Def. Con. One

"Def. Con. One" is a single by Pop Will Eat Itself released in 1988 from the album This Is the Day...This Is the Hour...This Is This!, It samples the songs "I Wanna Be Your Dog" by The Stooges, Funkytown by disco band Lipps Inc, Crazy Horses, a 1972 hit by The Osmonds and the Twilight Zone theme tune.

Don Weis

Weis began directing for television in 1954 and worked on such series as M*A*S*H, Ironside, It Takes a Thief, Twilight Zone, Happy Days, Starsky and Hutch, CHiPs, The Courtship of Eddie's Father, and Hawaii Five-O among others.

George Folsey, Jr.

He also edited the movie, "Hot Tub Time Machine" Folsey was acquitted in a manslaughter case brought over the deaths of actor Vic Morrow and two others in a helicopter accident on the set of Twilight Zone: The Movie.

Harland Braun

His cases have included successfully defending John Landis and his co-defendant George Folsey, Jr. in the Twilight Zone manslaughter trial, defending Rep. Bobbi Fiedler against bribery charges, successfully defending state criminal charges against one of the officers charged in the Rodney King beating who was convicted in the subsequent federal trial, and defending several officers in the Rampart scandal.

Horowitz Horror

He becomes bored with the idyllic existence, and wants to move to Hell- but it is revealed he was there all along (this story is similar to the Twilight Zone episode A Nice Place to Visit).

Maggie McNamara

She guest-starred on an episode of Ben Casey and starred as the title character in the Season 5 Twilight Zone episode "Ring-a-Ding Girl".

Malcolm Jameson

His novella "Blind Alley", first published in the June 1943 issue of Unknown, was the basis for the 1963 Twilight Zone episode "Of Late I Think of Cliffordville" starring Albert Salmi, John Anderson, and Julie Newmar.

Paul Newlan

Newlan portrayed General Prichard on the ABC war series Twelve O'Clock High and appearances on series such as Gunsmoke, The Deputy, Thriller (4 episodes), Wagon Train and most notable the 1964 Twilight Zone episode "The Brain Center at Whipple's".

Priscilla Pointer

Pointer has appeared in many films, including Carrie (1976), in which she played the onscreen mother of her real-life daughter Amy Irving, The Onion Field (1979), Mommie Dearest (1981), Twilight Zone: The Movie (1983), A Nightmare on Elm Street 3: Dream Warriors (1987), David Lynch's Blue Velvet and Coyote Moon (1999).

Richard Erdman

In a career that has spanned seven decades, his best known roles are that of the barracks chief Hoffy in Stalag 17, and McNulty in the classic Twilight Zone episode "A Kind of a Stopwatch".

Saul of the Mole Men

The Mole Men's perception of Fallopia's appearance is not unlike the Twilight Zone episode "The Eye of the Beholder".

The Number Twelve Looks Like You

They then soon changed their name to The Number Twelve Looks Like You, a name taken from the title of a Twilight Zone episode which was named "Number 12 Looks Just Like You".


see also

A Little Peace and Quiet

That story was adapted for television by Tales of Tomorrow, a forerunner to the original Twilight Zone series.

Allie Kingston

Also in the season 4 episode "Twilight Zone" Allie attempts to call her mother after talking to Matt Ryan about his father but the number that she called was disconnected.

Arlene Martel

She also appeared in the season-one episode of The Twilight Zone "What You Need".

Ernest Truex

In another Twilight Zone episode, "What You Need", he played a traveling peddler who just happened to have exactly what people needed just before they knew they needed it.

Louise Hearman

Clarice Beckett has been identified by Australian arts writer, critic and broadcaster Bruce James as a possible influence on Hearman, James writing in The Sydney Morning Herald in 2002 that "Hearman's interest in uncanny situations and mind states can surely trace its pedigree back to Beckett's twilight zone.".

Nightmare Cafe

Creator Wes Craven's original concept for the series involved standalone episodes akin to The Twilight Zone or Amazing Stories, but with regular characters bookending the tales ("like Twilight Zone meets Cheers", as Craven often said in interviews).

Patpong

Patpong: Bangkok's Twilight Zone (2001, ISBN 0-9537438-2-9) by Nick Nostitz is a personal photographic depiction of aspects of the Patpong night life.

The Big Tall Wish

Originally cast in the lead role was champion boxer Archie Moore, who would later exclaim, "Man, I was in the Twilight Zone!" when describing the knockout punch delivered by his opponent Yvon Durelle in a 1961 match.

The Curious Case of Edgar Witherspoon

This was the first Twilight Zone aired to be shot in Toronto.

The Lateness of the Hour

Jack Smight (1925–2003), a director of numerous TV episodes, made-for-TV movies and theatrical films, helmed four Twilight Zone episodes, including three of the six videotaped ones.

The Principle of Doubt

# "Twilight Zone ('Lord Fouls Hort', Chapter 8 Taken from the 'Chronicle of Doubt')" (Marius Constant) - 3:29 (theme from The Twilight Zone)

The Quality of Mercy

"A Quality of Mercy", an episode of the science-fiction television series Twilight Zone

Westminster Senior High School

2006-2007: Night of January 16th; "Odds and Evens": Excerpts from The Twilight Zone; The Pajama Game

Will the Real Martian Please Stand Up?

On the "2112 / Moving Pictures" episode of the television series Classic Albums, Rush drummer/lyricist Neil Peart commented on the writing of the song "The Twilight Zone," featured on 2112.