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|---|---|
| Running time | 40 minutes |
| Country of origin | United States |
| Language(s) | English |
| Starring | Various |
| Announcer | Doug James |
| Created by | Carl Amari |
| Written by | Dennis Etchison |
| Directed by | Roger Wolski |
| Narrated by | Stacy Keach |
| Original release | October 2002 – 2012 |
| No. of seasons | 18 |
| No. of episodes | 176 |
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The Twilight Zone is a nationally syndicated radio drama series featuring radio play adaptations of the classic 1959–1964 television series The Twilight Zone. The series was produced for the British digital radio station BBC Radio 4 Extra airing for 176 episodes between October 2002[1] and 2012. In the United States, it aired on nearly 200 radio stations including WCCO, KSL, KOA, WIND, XM Satellite Radio channel 163 and Sirius XM Book Radio. Most of the stations aired two episodes each week, usually on the weekends and many times back to back.
Many of the stories are based on Rod Serling's scripts from the original Twilight Zone series, and are slightly expanded and updated to reflect contemporary technology and trends and the lack of a visual component. In addition to adapting all of the original episodes aired on the TV series, the radio series has also adapted some Twilight Zone TV scripts which were never produced, scripts from other Serling TV productions, and new stories written especially for the radio series. Taking Serling's role as narrator is Stacy Keach.[2]
Different Hollywood actors, such as Blair Underwood and Jim Caviezel, take the lead role in each radio drama. In addition, several stars who appeared on the original TV series, such as H.M. Wynant, Orson Bean and Morgan Brittany, appear, although purposely not in the roles they originated on television. The series features a full cast, music and sound effects and is produced in the flavor of classic radio dramas but using today's technology. In addition to being an homage to the original Twilight Zone TV series, the radio dramas pay tribute to the era of classic radio drama, including allusions to radio dramas such as Gunsmoke, the presence of radio legend Stan Freberg in many episodes, and the sons (Stacy Keach, Ed Begley Jr.) of radio drama personalities Stacy Keach Sr. and Ed Begley as stars in the series.
Licensed by CBS Enterprises and The Rod Serling Estate, The Twilight Zone radio series is produced by Carl Amari, CEO of Falcon Picture Group who hosts his own weekly nationally syndicated radio series, featuring classic radio, called Hollywood 360.[3] The scripts from the original Twilight Zone were adapted by Dennis Etchison and others, including one episode by Chas Holloway and several by British writer M. J. Elliott. New stories by Etchison and others that are not based on the original TV series are also featured.
The sound mix was produced at Falcon Picture Group studios and later at the Cerny Sound-to-Picture studio at Cerny American Creative in Chicago. The sound engineers that work on the series include Roger Wolski, Bob Benson, Craig Lee, Tim Cerny and Jason Rizzo. The episodes are produced and directed by Carl Amari.
Episodes
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The following episodes include stories that were adapted for radio from the original Twilight Zone television scripts, as well as original stories produced exclusively for this radio series.
Volume 1
| Title | Starring | Adapted for radio by | Originally written by |
|---|---|---|---|
| "A Kind of a Stopwatch" | Lou Diamond Phillips | Dennis Etchison | Rod Serling[a] |
| "The Lateness of the Hour" | Jane Seymour and James Keach |
Rod Serling | |
| "The Thirty-Fathom Grave" | Blair Underwood | ||
| "The Man in the Bottle" | Ed Begley Jr. | ||
| "The Night of the Meek" | Christopher McDonald | ||
| "The After Hours" | Kim Fields | ||
| "Mr. Dingle, the Strong" | Tim Kazurinsky | ||
| "A Stop at Willoughby" | Chelcie Ross | ||
| "The Lonely" | Mike Starr | ||
| "Of Late I Think of Cliffordville" | H. M. Wynant | Rod Serling[b] |
Volume 2
| Title | Starring | Adapted for radio by | Originally written by |
|---|---|---|---|
| "The Obsolete Man" | Jason Alexander | Dennis Etchison | Rod Serling |
| "The Bard" | John Ratzenberger & Stacy Keach | ||
| "Back There" | Jim Caviezel | ||
| "A Short Drink From a Certain Fountain" | Adam West | Rod Serling[a] | |
| "Nervous Man in a Four Dollar Room" | Adam Baldwin | Rod Serling | |
| "The Monsters Are Due on Maple Street" | Frank John Hughes | ||
| "Mr. Garrity and the Graves" | Christopher McDonald | Rod Serling[b] | |
| "Escape Clause" | Mike Starr | Rod Serling | |
| "Four O'Clock" | Stan Freberg | Rod Serling[c] | |
| "Uncle Simon" | Peter Mark Richman & Beverly Garland |
Rod Serling |
Volume 3
| Title | Starring | Adapted for radio by | Originally written by |
|---|---|---|---|
| "The Fear" | Jane Seymour and James Keach |
Dennis Etchison | Rod Serling |
| "The Parallel" | Lou Diamond Phillips | ||
| "A Hundred Yards Over the Rim" | Jim Caviezel | ||
| "One for the Angels" | Ed Begley Jr. | ||
| "The Midnight Sun" | Kim Fields | ||
| "The Rip Van Winkle Caper" | Tim Kazurinsky | ||
| "A Most Unusual Camera" | Mike Starr | ||
| "Twenty Two" | Andrea Evans | Rod Serling[a] | |
| "Walking Distance" | Chelcie Ross | Rod Serling | |
| "The Passersby" | Morgan Brittany |
- ^ Based on an anecdote from Bennett Cerf's "Famous Ghost Stories"
Volume 4
| Title | Starring | Adapted for radio by | Originally written by |
|---|---|---|---|
| "The Dummy" | Bruno Kirby | Dennis Etchison | Rod Serling[a] |
| "No Time Like the Past" | Jason Alexander | Rod Serling | |
| "Still Valley" | Adam West | Rod Serling[b] | |
| "King Nine Will Not Return" | Adam Baldwin | Rod Serling | |
| "I Am the Night—Color Me Black" | John Ratzenberger | ||
| "The Incredible World of Horace Ford" | Mike Starr | Reginald Rose | |
| "One More Pallbearer" | Chelcie Ross | Rod Serling | |
| "The Little People" | Daniel J. Travanti | ||
| "Cavender Is Coming" | Andrea Evans | ||
| "Hocus-Pocus and Frisby" | Shelley Berman | Rod Serling[c] |
Volume 5
| Title | Starring | Adapted for radio by | Originally written by |
|---|---|---|---|
| "Living Doll" | Tim Kazurinsky | Dennis Etchison | Jerry Sohl[a] |
| "The Big Tall Wish" | Blair Underwood | Rod Serling | |
| "The Fever" | Stacy Keach and Kathy Garver | ||
| "The Last Night of a Jockey" | Bruno Kirby | ||
| "A Thing About Machines" | Mike Starr | ||
| "Mirror Image" | Morgan Brittany and Frank John Hughes | ||
| "The 7th Is Made Up of Phantoms" | Richard Grieco | ||
| "The Long Morrow" | Kathy Garver | ||
| "Will the Real Martian Please Stand Up?" | Richard Kind | Chaz Holloway and Dennis Etchison | |
| "The Trade-Ins" | H. M. Wynant and Peggy Webber |
Dennis Etchison |
- ^ Credited to Charles Beaumont
Volume 6
| Title | Starring | Adapted for radio by | Originally written by |
|---|---|---|---|
| "Time Enough at Last" | Tim Kazurinsky | Dennis Etchison | Rod Serling[a] |
| "A Passage for Trumpet" | Mike Starr | Rod Serling | |
| "I Shot an Arrow Into the Air" | Chelcie Ross | Rod Serling[b] | |
| "The Brain Center at Whipple's" | Stan Freberg | Rod Serling | |
| "The Grave" | Michael Rooker | Montgomery Pittman | |
| "The Hitch-Hiker" | Kate Jackson | Rod Serling[c] | |
| "Mr. Denton on Doomsday" | Adam Baldwin | Rod Serling | |
| "Sounds and Silences" | Richard Kind | ||
| "The Odyssey of Flight 33" | Daniel J. Travanti | ||
| "The Changing of the Guard" | Orson Bean |
Volume 7
| Title | Starring | Adapted for radio by | Originally written by |
|---|---|---|---|
| "Five Characters in Search of an Exit" | Jason Alexander | Dennis Etchison | Rod Serling[a] |
| "The Arrival" | Blair Underwood | Rod Serling | |
| "Queen of the Nile" | Kate Jackson | Jerry Sohl[b] | |
| "I Dream of Genie" | Hal Sparks | John Furia Jr. | |
| "It's a Good Life" | Mike Starr | Rod Serling[c] | |
| "The Masks" | Stan Freberg | Rod Serling | |
| "Mr. Bevis" | Bruno Kirby | ||
| "Showdown with Rance McGrew" | Christopher McDonald | Rod Serling[d] | |
| "The Old Man in the Cave" | Adam Baldwin | Rod Serling[e] | |
| "Ninety Years Without Slumbering" | Bill Erwin | Richard De Roy[f] |
- ^ Based on a story by Marvin Petal
- ^ Credited to Charles Beaumont
- ^ Based on a story by Jerome Bixby
- ^ Based on an idea by Frederic Louis Fox
- ^ Based on the short story "The Old Man" by Henry Slesar
- ^ Based on a story by George Clayton Johnson; radio version incorrectly credits Rod Serling as teleplay writer