Twilight Zone

“The Twilight Zone” is an American television TV series created by Rod Serling. It is a series of unrelated stories containing drama, psychological thriller, fantasy, science fiction, suspense, and/or horror, often concluding with a macabre or unexpected twist.

I am so enchanted with these old black and twilight episodes , I can remember watching these as a child with my dad (reruns as I am not that old..lol) so there is a big nostalgic influence here too. Some evenings if we were really lucky they would show two episodes back to back…good memories!!!

There was also a first revival of the Twilight zone running between 1985-1989, then the lost classics 1994 followed by the second revival 2002-2003, I have them all on DVD but none beat the original series IMHO.

The creator Rod Serling (1924-1975) was an American screenwriter born into a Jewish family in Syracuse, New York. Serling drew on his own experience for many episodes, frequently about boxing, military life, and airplane pilots. The Twilight Zone incorporated his liberal social views on racial relations, somewhat veiled in the science fiction and fantasy elements of the shows. Occasionally, the point was quite blunt, such as in the episode "I Am the Night—Color Me Black", in which racism and hatred causes a dark cloud to form in the American South, before spreading across the world. He also held liberal views on gender roles, and many Twilight Zone stories featured quick-thinking, resilient women as well as shrewish, nagging wives. The Twilight Zone aired for five seasons (the first three presented half-hour episodes, the fourth hour-long episodes and the fifth returned to the half-hour format).