The Twilight Zone (1985 TV series)
The Twilight Zone is an anthology television series which was constructed from September 27, 1985 to April 15, 1989. It is the first of three revivals of Rod Serling's acclaimed 1959–64 television series, and like the original it featured a variety of speculative fiction, commonly containing characters from a seemingly normal world stumbling into paranormal circumstances. Unlike the original, however, most episodes contained multiple self-contained stories instead of just one. The voice-over narrations were still present, but were not a regular feature as they were in the original series; some episodes had only an opening narration, some had only a closing narration, and some had no narration at all. The multi-segment format liberated the series from the usual time constraints of episodic television, allowing stories ranging in length from 8-minutes to 40-minute mini-movies. The series ran for two seasons on CBS before producing a final season for syndication.
| The Twilight Zone | |
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| Genre | |
| Created by | Rod Serling |
| Narrated by | Charles Aidman Robin Ward |
| Theme music composer | Jerry Garcia Bob Weir Brent Mydland Phil Lesh Mickey Hart Bill Kreutzmann Merl Saunders Marius Constant (original theme) |
| Opening theme | Performed by Grateful Dead |
| Country of origin | United States Canada |
| Original language | English |
| No. of seasons | 3 |
| No. of episodes | 65 (list of episodes) |
| Production | |
| Running time | 45 & 48 min. (season 1 & 2) 22–24 min. (four episodes from season 2, and all of season 3) |
| Production companies | CBS Entertainment Productions (1985–87) (seasons 1–2) Persistence of Vision (1985–87) (seasons 1–2) London Films (1986-89) (seasons 2-3; U.S. reruns of all seasons) CBS Broadcast International (1988–89) (season 3) Atlantis Films (1988–89) (season 3) |
| Release | |
| Original network | CBS (seasons 1-2) First-run syndication (season 3) |
| Audio format | Stereo |
| Original release | September 27, 1985 – April 15, 1989 |