“You unlock this door with the key of imagination. Beyond it is another dimension. A dimension of sound. A dimension of sight. A dimension of mind. You are moving into a land of both shadows and substance, of things and ideas. You have just crossed over into…the Twilight Zone.”
If you are a lover of the cult TV show The Twilight Zone, then you need nothing more than this ominous opening by Rod Serling for the fourth season of the show to get you in the mood.
The Twilight Zone ran from 1959 through 1964 and can still be seen on various television stations today. The purpose of the show? To place “normal” people in supernatural, creepy situations. Whether the episode has a futuristic, apocalyptic or paranormal theme, each of them worked hard to make the audience squirm. And at the end of the episode? A moral, of course. Face it—back in the ‘60s, every show had to have a lesson learned.
I can’t even remember the first time I watched an episode of The Twilight Zone. I was extremely young (my parents were sci-fi and horror nuts, so it was never too early to expose their children to these types of stories and programs), and I loved it. Obviously I wasn’t the only one who fell in love with this vintage show.
Over the years, a number of spin-offs were created. There were two more The Twilight Zone television series (1985-1989 and 2002-2003), a Twilight Zone pinball machine, the notorious Twilight Zone: The Movie (1983), a ride called The Twilight Zone Tower of Terror, and more.
But no matter how many spin-offs were created, none were nearly as disturbing and authentic as the original. Try as I might, I can watch the movie and other, more recent television episodes, but they’re hit or miss. When the show comes on in black and white, I know it’s going to be a gem.
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