"A Game of Pool (The Twilight Zone, 1959) ""A Game of Pool"" is episode 70 of the American television anthology series ""The Twilight Zone"". It originally aired on October 13, 1961, on CBS. According to Rod Serling, it is ""the story of the best pool player living and the best pool player dead."" It is after hours at Lister's Pool Room in Chicago, and once more pool shark Jesse Cardiff (Jack Klugman) is alone, polishing his game. Jesse bitterly muses that he would be considered the greatest pool player of all time, if it were not for the memory of"
"repeats. The original openings have since been restored for those episodes. Segments of the original first season intro continued to be used as an intermission graphic up through season three. <onlyinclude> </onlyinclude> The Twilight Zone (1959 TV series) (season 1) The first season of ""The Twilight Zone"" aired Fridays at 10:00–10:30 pm (EST) on CBS from October 2, 1959 to July 1, 1960. There are 36 episodes, including the pilot, ""Where Is Everybody?"". The theme music for this season, written by Bernard Herrmann, is different from the music most commonly associated with the series, written by Marius Constant for the"
"1950s. Several of these scripts were rewritten for later use on national network TV. A copy of an episode is located in the Cincinnati Museum Center Historical Cincinnati Library on videotape. On October 2, 1959, the classic ""Twilight Zone"" series, created by Serling, premiered on CBS. For this series, Serling fought hard to get and maintain creative control. He hired scriptwriters he respected, such as Richard Matheson and Charles Beaumont. In an interview, Serling said the show's science fiction format would not be controversial with sponsors, network executives or the general public and would escape censorship, unlike the earlier script"
"these Herrmann's theme music continued to be played for the closing credits. <onlyinclude> </onlyinclude> The Twilight Zone (1959 TV series) (season 2) The second season of ""The Twilight Zone"" aired Fridays at 10:00–10:30 pm (EST) on CBS from September 30, 1960 to June 2, 1961. There are 29 episodes. This season debuted the theme music by Marius Constant most often associated with ""The Twilight Zone"", replacing the first season music written by Bernard Herrmann. The graphics used for the intro were a hybrid of the two sets of graphics used for the first season, with some slight modifications to Rod"
"by Rod Serling. ""The Twilight Zone"" began life as a one-off pilot, commissioned after the success of a science-fiction episode of the general drama anthology series ""Westinghouse-Desilu Playhouse"". In its original form, the series ran for five years, from September 1959 until September 1964, with 156 episodes aired during that time. Presenting a vast array of science-fiction and horror concepts, its run included many memorable episodes whose imagery still lingers in American popular consciousness. One of its most enduring motifs has been its theme music, which is now recognized internationally. ""The Twilight Zone"" was the bedrock of the more grown-up"
"of October 2, 1959, to rave reviews. """"Twilight Zone"" is about the only show on the air that I actually look forward to seeing. It's the one series that I will let interfere with other plans"", said Terry Turner for the ""Chicago Daily News"". Others agreed. ""Daily Variety"" ranked it with ""the best that has ever been accomplished in half-hour filmed television"" and the ""New York Herald Tribune"" found the show to be ""certainly the best and most original anthology series of the year"". Even as the show proved popular to television's critics, it struggled to find a receptive audience"
"television series ""The Twilight Zone"", the third reboot of the original 1959-64 anthology series that aired on CBS, for CBS All Access. The show will premiere in 2019, with Peele, Simon Kinberg and Marco Ramirez as executive producers. On June 28, 2018, it was announced that YouTube will release ""Weird City"", which is executive produced by Peele, Charlie Sanders, Adam Bernstein, Win Rosenfeld, Tom Lesinski, Jenna Santoianni, Sam Hansen, Jimmy Miller, Keith Raskin, and Linda Morel. On April 5, 2018, it was announced that Amazon Video had given a series order to ""Lorena"" consisting of four episodes. The series is"
"was a member of the Phi Kappa Psi fraternity. While attending high school and college, he helped out backstage on several films by Cecil B. DeMille, along with his close friend and classmate Horace Hahn. He was the father of Jim Houghton and Mona Houghton. Houghton died in Los Angeles. He was suffering from emphysema and Lou Gehrig's disease. Buck Houghton Archible Ernest ""Buck"" Houghton (May 4, 1915 – May 14, 1999) was an American television producer and writer best known for producing the first three seasons of ""The Twilight Zone"", as well as many other television programs from the"
"television, however, occurred on the popular ""Batman"" series on ABC. He directed 15 episodes of the show from 1966 to 1967. At the very end of his directorial career, Clark directed four episodes of the long-running television series ""Lassie,"" two each in 1969 and 1971. Clark also had a brief career as an ""associate director"" on television. It began in 1960 on the anthology television series ""The Twilight Zone (1959 TV series)"". Five weeks into ""The Twilight Zone""'s second season, the show's budget was showing a deficit. The total number of new episodes was projected at 29, more than half"
"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). It won many TV and drama awards and drew critical acclaim for Serling and his co-workers. Though it had loyal fans, ""The Twilight Zone"" had only moderate ratings and was twice canceled and revived. After five years and 156 episodes (92 written by Serling), he grew weary of the series. In 1964, he decided to not oppose its third and final cancellation. Serling sold the rights to ""The Twilight Zone"" to CBS. His wife later claimed"
"of mind. A journey into a wondrous land whose boundaries are that of imagination. Your next stop—""The Twilight Zone""."" Some subtle changes in the opening's acoustics were made beginning with ""Little Girl Lost"". <onlyinclude> </onlyinclude> The Twilight Zone (1959 TV series) (season 3) The third season of ""The Twilight Zone"" aired Fridays at 10:00–10:30 pm (EST) on CBS from September 15, 1961 to June 1, 1962. There are 37 episodes. Continuing with Marius Constant's theme music, a different set of graphics was used for the opening, consisting of a rotating cone with concentric circles suggesting a spiral, receding into a"
"a land of both shadow and substance, of things and ideas. You've just crossed over into the ""Twilight Zone""."" An intermission graphic based on this opening was used for the fourth and fifth seasons as well. <onlyinclude> </onlyinclude> The Twilight Zone (1959 TV series) (season 4) The fourth season of ""The Twilight Zone"" aired Thursdays at 9:00–10:00 pm on CBS from January 3 to May 23, 1963. This season broke with the previous seasons in presenting hour-long episodes instead of the earlier half-hour episodes. A very different and more complex set of graphics was used for the intro, and Rod"
"of this, the story seemed fresh and new and powerful. There was one compromise, but it was made for the purpose of selling the series. Where Is Everybody? ""Where Is Everybody?"" is the first episode of the American television anthology series ""The Twilight Zone"". It was first broadcast on October 2, 1959. A man finds himself alone on a dirt road, walking towards a diner. Inside he finds a jukebox playing loudly, and a pot of hot coffee on the stove, but there are no other people. He inquires about some breakfast, but no chef or waitress is to be"
"half-hour episodes at fifty-two episodes per year. Many notable actors appeared as guest stars including Anthony Quinn, Peter Lorre, Vincent Price, Walter Brennan, Ronald Reagan, Rod Steiger, Charles Bronson, and James Dean. Self moved on to produce ""The Frank Sinatra Show"" in 1957. Later that year, he accepted the post of Program Executive for CBS Television Network where his assignment was to develop new television series. The first pilot he produced was Rod Serling's ""The Twilight Zone"". Self was hired in 1959 by 20th Century Fox where he remained for 15 years. During this period, Self piloted Fox television from"
"and the planned revival. In February 2016, it was reported that Ken Levine would write and direct the pilot episode of the revival series. It was also reported that the series would be interactive. In November 2017, it was reported that Jordan Peele was developing a reboot of the series for streaming service CBS All Access with Marco Ramirez serving as potential showrunner. In December 2017, CBS All Access ordered the third ""The Twilight Zone"" revival to series. It was announced that the series would be produced by CBS Television Studios in association with Monkeypaw Productions and Genre Films. Jordan"
"with the hearse's coachman eventually revealed to be the operator of a medical building elevator that plummets when its cables break. In the 1944 film, ""Dead of Night,"" the protagonist is again male, also with the name Hugh Grainger, haunted by a man driving a hearse, and has a premonition about a fatal bus crash. As the ""Twilight Zone""s second season began, the production was informed by CBS that, at about $65,000 per episode, the show was exceeding its budget. By November 1960, 16 episodes, more than half of the projected 29, were already filmed, and five of those had"
"Serling (whose image appears fleetingly in the revival's opening credits) and Forest Whitaker, host of the 2002 revival, neither Aidman nor Ward appeared on screen. ""The Twilight Zone"" debuted the night of September 27, 1985 to a generally warm reception: it would win its Friday-night time slot in four of its first five weeks. Episodes featured adaptations of stories by Harlan Ellison (whose ""Shatterday"" launched the new series), Greg Bear, Ray Bradbury, Arthur C. Clarke, Robert McCammon, and Stephen King. A new batch of scripts was supplemented with remakes of classic ""Twilight Zone"" episodes like ""Dead Man’s Shoes"", ""Shadow Play"","
"Bob Braun, Wally Phillips, Jean Shepherd, NBC sportscasters Cris Collinsworth and Al Michaels, ""Sportstalk"" host Bob Trumpy, Dale Sommers (better known as the ""Truckin' Bozo"" and whose son Steve Sommers continues to hold the overnight slot to the present day), J. R. Gach, Gary Burbank (comedy talk host, impressionist, and creator of the nationally syndicated Earl Pitts monologues), former program director and personality Darryl Parks and former Clear Channel radio CEO Randy Michaels. Rod Serling, the creator of the classic TV series ""The Twilight Zone"", worked for WLW from 1947 to 1948 producing historical documentaries, community profiles and commercials, before"
"Buck Houghton Archible Ernest ""Buck"" Houghton (May 4, 1915 – May 14, 1999) was an American television producer and writer best known for producing the first three seasons of ""The Twilight Zone"", as well as many other television programs from the 1950s through the 1990s. His collaboration with dramatist Clifford Odets, ""The Richard Boone Show"" (1963–64) was the only repertory company on television, in which a resident cast of actors played different roles in a TV play every week. Houghton graduated from Los Angeles High School in 1933, where he was known as Arch Houghton. He attended UCLA, where he"
"Serling the leverage to convince CBS to give the go-ahead to Serling's concept for a science fiction/fantasy anthology series (which was what Serling had in mind when writing ""The Time Element"") that he called ""The Twilight Zone"" which debuted in the fall of 1959. In April 1959, ""Desilu Playhouse"" aired a two-part drama called ""The Untouchables"". Paul Monash adapted the 1947 memoirs of treasury agent Eliot Ness, played by Robert Stack. After CBS passed on the idea to produce a weekly version, ""The Untouchables"" became a hit series on ABC and ran for four seasons (1959–1963). Stack was selected only"
"She was also the only woman to direct an episode of ""The Twilight Zone"". The Masks ""The Masks"" is episode 145 of the American television series ""The Twilight Zone"". It originally aired on March 20, 1964 on CBS. In this episode, set on Mardi Gras, a dying man coerces his relatives into wearing grotesque masks that reflect their true personalities. A wealthy old man named Jason Foster, who is dying, has just been visited by Dr. Sam Thorne on the night of Mardi Gras. Cranky and candid, Jason is not cheered by a visit from his daughter Emily Harper and"
"who said I'd be great for this. I'd just gotten married and needed a job, so they faked a typing test for me. Then I could do these shows. About six months later, the music department heard what I did, liked it, and gave me a job."" He later progressed into scoring such live CBS television shows as ""Climax!"" and ""Playhouse 90"". He also scored multiple episodes of the television series ""The Twilight Zone"". He remained at CBS until 1960, after which he moved on to Revue Studios and then to MGM Studios for producer Norman Felton, whom he had"
"""The Twilight Zone"" creator Rod Serling, though it was finally rejected for a number of reasons. A prime concern was cost, as the technologically advanced ape society portrayed by Serling's script would have involved expensive sets, props, and special effects. The previously blacklisted screenwriter Michael Wilson was brought in to rewrite Serling's script and, as suggested by director Franklin J. Schaffner, the ape society was made more primitive as a way of reducing costs. Serling's stylized twist ending was retained, and became one of the most famous movie endings of all time. The exact location and state of decay of"
"(""Twenty Two"", ""Static"", ""The Whole Truth"", ""The Lateness of the Hour"", ""The Night of the Meek"", and ""Long Distance Call""). The original series contains 156 episodes. The episodes in seasons one through three are 30 minutes long. Season four (1962–63) consists of one-hour episodes. Season five returned to the half-hour format. It was Serling's decision to sell his share of the series back to the network that eventually allowed for a ""Twilight Zone"" revival. As an in-house production, CBS stood to earn more money producing ""The Twilight Zone"" than it could by purchasing a new series produced by an outside"
"drama. In a September 22, 1959, interview with Serling, Mike Wallace asked a question illustrative of the times: ""...[Y]ou're going to be, obviously, working so hard on ""The Twilight Zone"" that, in essence, for the time being and for the foreseeable future, you've given up on writing anything important for television, right?"" While Serling's appearances on the show became one of its most distinctive features, with his clipped delivery still widely imitated today, he was reportedly nervous about it and had to be persuaded to appear on camera. Serling often steps into the middle of the action while the characters"
"series #5 in their 2013 list of the 60 greatest shows of all time and #4 in their list of the 60 greatest dramas. In December 2017, CBS All Access officially ordered the third ""Twilight Zone"" revival to series, which will be helmed by Jordan Peele. It is slated for a 2019 premiere. As a boy, Rod Serling was a fan of pulp fiction stories. As an adult, he sought topics with themes such as racism, government, war, society, and human nature in general. Serling decided to combine these two interests as a way to broach these subjects on television"
"""I can see why people who were expecting ""The Twilight Zone"" were disappointed with it,"" said staff writer Michael Cassutt of the show's low ratings. ""...our show always seemed uneven to me. There were episodes perfectly in keeping with ""The Twilight Zone"" spirit, and then others that could have been from ""The Outer Limits"" or from anything."" Thanks to such successes and despite poor ratings, ""The Twilight Zone"" was renewed for a second season in early 1986. The series debuted in an hour-long format, but was put on hiatus only a few weeks into the season. CBS had moved the"
"a busy schedule of television guest appearances as well as feature film roles. Her earlier performance was in one of the first season's most unsettling episodes, ""The Hitch-Hiker"", in which she played another tormented character, a lone driver who meets her inexorable fate in the personification of death. The Lateness of the Hour ""The Lateness of the Hour"" is episode 44 of the American television anthology series ""The Twilight Zone"". It originally aired on December 2, 1960 on CBS. Jana, the sensitive daughter of a creative genius, Dr. William Loren, is distraught over her parents' reliance on her father's five"
"and Chuck Hogan, which concluded with the fourth season in 2017. They were two of the series' eight executive producers. Bradley Thompson Bradley Thompson is an American television writer and producer known for episodes of """" (1996–1999), ""The Twilight Zone"" (2002–2003), ""Battlestar Galactica"" (2004–2009), """" (2009-2011), ""Falling Skies"" (2011-2013), and ""The Strain"" (2014-2017) with writing partner David Weddle. They also wrote for the short-lived series ""Ghost Stories"" (1997) and ""The Fearing Mind"" (2000). Thompson graduated from the USC School of Cinema, as did writing partner David Weddle, whom he originally met in an acting class. Weddle and Thompson first pitched"
"Rod Serling Rodman Edward ""Rod"" Serling (December 25, 1924 – June 28, 1975) was an American screenwriter, playwright, television producer, and narrator known for his live television dramas of the 1950s and his science-fiction anthology TV series, ""The Twilight Zone"". Serling was active in politics, both on and off the screen, and helped form television industry standards. He was known as the ""angry young man"" of Hollywood, clashing with television executives and sponsors over a wide range of issues including censorship, racism, and war. Serling was born on December 25, 1924, in Syracuse, New York, to a Jewish family. He"
"Montgomery Pittman Montgomery Pittman (March 1, 1917 – June 26, 1962) was a television writer, director, and actor. Among his notable credits are his work writing and directing various episodes of ""The Twilight Zone"", ""Maverick"" and ""77 Sunset Strip"". According to his own account, Pittman was born in Louisiana in 1917 and reared in Arkansas. No independent verification of this seems to exist, and Pittman's actual birth name and birth date may differ from his claim. Again, according to his own account, Pittman left home and joined a carnival as a snake oil salesman. He eventually made his way to"
"paired by the network with the similar ""The Twilight Zone"" for Friday evening broadcasts, running from March through July 1961 at 9:30 p.m. Eastern time. The show's primary sponsor was Liggett & Myers (L&M cigarettes). Writers included Larry Cohen and Sumner Locke Elliott. The only adaptation from one of Dahl's own short stories was the premiere episode, ""William and Mary"", a tale of a wife's posthumous revenge on her husband's disembodied brain kept alive in a bowl. In ""Dissolve to Black"", an actress (Kathleen Widdoes) cast as a murder victim at a television studio goes through a rehearsal, but the"
"to the café. Joe tells Mary Lou that Horn simply vanished; all they found was Horn's rifle on the ground where he dropped it. Looking at it, they see that it now shows the effects of more than 100 years of exposure to the sun, its metal corroded and its wooden parts falling to pieces at their touch. A Hundred Yards Over the Rim ""A Hundred Yards Over the Rim"" is episode 59 of the American television anthology series ""The Twilight Zone"". It originally aired on April 7, 1961, on CBS. In the year 1847, Chris Horn is the leader"