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February 21, 1964: Twilight Zone's "Spur of the Moment" airs. An engaged heiress can't understand why she is repeatedly being chased by a mysterious horse-rider in black.
Richard Matheson's final script for TZ.
February 16, 1972: Night Gallery airs "I'll Never Leave You, Ever" (with Lois Nettleton of TZ's "The Midnight Sun") and "There Aren't Any More MacBanes", featuring a cameo by a pre-Star Wars Mark
@HamillHimself.
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It's on DVD: https://t.co/x5qcayO2Ro
"We seem to be living with something evil in our midst. And we gotta put a stop to it."
#ZoneQuotes #S3E23
"The Last Rites of Jeff Myrtlebank" by Montgomery Pittman is on @netflix, @hulu,
@PrimeVideo, and DVD/Blu-ray.
https://t.co/sF7WvkHbZu
Reginald Rose, writer of Twilight Zone's "The Incredible World of Horace Ford", gained fame for scripting "12 Angry Men", a live teleplay starring Bob Cummings (who went on to star in TZ's "King Nine Will Not Return") & later filmed as a movie with Henry Fonda.
#ZoneFacts #S4E15
January 24, 1963: Twilight Zone's "He's Alive" airs. A neo-Nazi leader gets expert coaching from a shadowy figure with a familiar German accent.
Serling considered releasing an extended cut of "He's Alive" as a theatrical movie before using a shorter version as a TZ.
#ZoneFacts
January 15, 1963: Rod Serling appears on the Jack Benny show in a spoof of the Twilight Zone: https://t.co/NHLyEQWmyd
"My wife and I saw a fortune-telling machine like that in a coffee shop." — writer Richard Matheson on the origins of "Nick of Time"
And credit the art department for coming up with the devil's head. It wasn't described in Matheson's script.
#TwilightZoneMarathon #ZoneFacts
Charles Beaumont adapted his own short story for "The Howling Man" -- and changed the ending completely.
You can read it and many other classic tales right here: https://t.co/dMT9d7ve4L
#ZoneFacts #TwilightZoneMarathon
"Five Characters In Search Of An Exit" is the 1st Twilight Zone I ever saw (as a rerun). So it'll always be a sentimental favorite!
The name of the episode, btw, was based on Luigi Pirandello's 1921 play "Six Characters in Search of an Author."
#ZoneFacts #TwilightZoneMarathon
Ever heard the Leader's FULL speech in "Eye of the Beholder"? It's chilling: https://t.co/aSMEfhge1F
#TwilightZoneMarathon