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Serling @ 100: The Life & Legacy of Rod Serling (1924–1975)

Serling @ 100 Curated Collection

Curated by Terry Harpold (UF Dept. of English) and Jeanne Ewert (Smathers Libraries), with the assistance of Dani Ellsworth and Hélène Huet (Smathers Libraries).

Twilight Zone Marathon (Jan. 23, 2025)

Join us for a marathon screening of 24 classic episodes of the original Twilight Zone series (1959–1964), curated and presented by Terry Harpold (UF Dept. of English). This event is free and open to the public. (Some episodes may be too intense for young children. Parental discretion is advised.)

Marathon Episodes & Schedule

Episode Production Notes*

“Walking Distance” (ep. 5, initial broadcast: Oct. 30, 1959)

Written by Rod Serling
Producer: Buck Houghton
Director: Robert Stevens
Director of Photography: George T. Clemens
Music: Bernard Herrmann

Cast

Martin Sloan: Gig Young
Martin’s Father: Frank Overton
Martin’s Mother: Irene Tedrow
Martin as a boy: Michael Montgomery

Episode introduction

“Martin Sloan, age thirty-six. Occupation: vice-president, ad agency, in charge of media. This is not just a Sunday drive for Martin Sloan. He perhaps doesn’t know it at the time – but it’s an exodus. Somewhere up the road he’s looking for sanity. And somewhere up the road, he’ll find something else.”

“The Lonely” (ep. 7, initial broadcast: Nov. 13, 1959)

Written by Rod Serling
Producer: Buck Houghton
Director: Jack Smight
Director of Photography: George T. Clemens
Music: Bernard Herrmann

Cast

James A. Corry: Jack Warden
Alicia: Jean Marsh
Capt. Allenby: John Dehner
Adams: Ted Knight
Carstairs: James Turley

Episode introduction

“Witness if you will a dungeon, made out of mountains, salt flats and sand that stretch to infinity. The dungeon has an inmate: James A. Corry. And this is his residence: a metal shack. An old touring car that squats in the sun and goes nowhere, for there is nowhere to go. For the record let it be known that James A. Corry is a convicted criminal placed in solitary confinement. Confinement in this case stretches as far as the eye can see, because this particular dungeon is on an asteroid nine million miles from the Earth. Now witness if you will a man’s mind and body shriveling in the sun … a man dying of loneliness.”

“Time Enough at Last” (ep. 8, initial broadcast: Nov. 20, 1959)

Teleplay by Rod Serling, based on Lynn Venable’s short story “Time Enough At Last”
Producer: Buck Houghton
Director: John Brahm
Director of Photography: George T. Clemens
Music: Leith Stevens

Cast

Henry Bemis: Burgess Meredith
Mr. Carsville: Vaughn Taylor
Helen Bemis: Jacqueline deWit
Woman in Bank: Lela Bliss

Episode introduction

“Witness Mr. Henry Bemis, a charter member in the fraternity of dreamers. A bookish little man whose passion is the printed page but who is conspired against by a bank president and a wife and a world full of tongue-cluckers and the unrelenting hands of a clock. But in just a moment Mr. Bemis will enter a world without bank presidents or wives or clocks or anything else. He’ll have a world all to himself – without anyone.”

“And When the Sky Was Opened” (ep. 11, initial broadcast: Dec. 11, 1959)

Teleplay by Rod Serling, based on Richard Matheson’s short story “Disappearing Act”
Producer: Buck Houghton
Director: Douglas Heyes
Director of Photography: George T. Clemens
Music: Leonard Rosenman

Cast

Col. Clegg Forbes: Rod Taylor
Col. Ed Harrington: Charles Aidman
Maj. William Gart: James Hutton
Amy: Maxine Cooper
Girl in Bar: Gloria Pall
Bartender: Paul Bryar
Nurse: Sue Randall
Investigator: Logan Field
Officer: Oliver McGowan
Medical Officer: Joe Bassett
Mr. Harrington: S. John Launer
Nurse Two: Elizabeth Fielding

Episode introduction

“Her name: X-20. Her type: an experimental interceptor. Recent history: a crash landing in the Mojave Desert after a thirty-one-hour flight, nine hundred miles into space. Incidental data: the ship, with the men who flew her, disappeared from the radar screen for twenty-four hours. But the shrouds that cover mysteries are not always made out of a tarpaulin, as this man will soon find out on the other side of a hospital door.”

“The Hitch-Hiker” (ep. 16, initial broadcast: Jan. 22, 1960)

Teleplay by Rod Serling, based on Lucille Fletcher’s radio play “The Hitch-Hiker”
Producer: Buck Houghton
Director: Alvin Ganzer
Director of Photography: George T. Clemens

Cast

Nan Adams: Inger Stevens
Hitch-Hiker: Leonard Strong
Sailor: Adam Williams
Mechanic: Lew Gallo
Highway Flag Man: Dwight Townsend
Counterman: Russ Bender
Waitress: Mitzi McCall
Gas Station Man: George Mitchell
Mrs. Whitney: Eleanor Audley

Episode introduction

“Her name is Nan Adams. She’s twenty-seven years old. Her occupation: buyer at a New York department store, at present on vacation, driving cross-country to Los Angeles, California, from Manhattan … Minor incident on Highway 11 in Pennsylvania, perhaps to be filed away under accidents you walk away from. But from this moment on, Nan Adams’s companion on a trip to California will be terror; her route – fear; her destination – quite unknown.”

“Mirror Image” (ep. 21, initial broadcast: Feb. 26, 1960)

Written by Rod Serling
Producer: Buck Houghton
Director: John Brahm
Director of Photography: George T. Clemens

Cast

Millicent Barnes: Vera Miles
Paul Grinstead: Martin Milner
Ticket Agent: Joe Hamilton
Woman Attendant: Naomi Stevens
Husband: Ferris Taylor
Old Woman: Terese Lyon
Bus Driver: Edwin Rand

Episode introduction

“Millicent Barnes, age twenty-five, young woman waiting for a bus on a rainy November night. Not a very imaginative type is Miss Barnes; not given to undue anxiety or fears, or for that matter even the most temporal flights of fancy. Like most young career women, she has a generic classification as a, quote, girl with a head on her shoulders, end of quote. All of which is mentioned now because in just a moment the head on Miss Barnes’s shoulders will be put to a test. Circumstances will assault her sense of reality and a chain of nightmares will put her sanity on a block. Millicent Barnes, who in one minute will wonder if she’s going mad.”

“The Monsters Are Due on Maple Street” (ep. 22, initial broadcast: March 4, 1960)

Written by Rod Serling
Producer: Buck Houghton
Director: Ronald Winston
Director of Photography: George T. Clemens
Music: composed by René Garriguenc, conducted by Lud Gluskin

Cast

Steve Brand: Claude Akins
Charlie: Jack Weston
Mr. Goodman: Barry Atwater
Tommy: Jan Handzlik
Tommy’s Mother: Mary Gregory
Mrs. Brand: Anne Barton
Mrs. Goodman: Lea Waggner
Pete Van Horn: Ben Erway
Don: Burt Metcalfe
Charlie’s Wife: Lyn Guild
Woman Next Door: Joan Sudlow
Man One: Jason Johnson
Woman One: Amzie Strickland
First Alien: Sheldon Allman
Second Alien: William Walsh

Episode introduction

“Maple Street, USA, late summer. A tree-lined little road of front porch gliders, barbecues, the laughter of children, and the bell of an ice-cream vendor. At the sound of the roar and the flash of light, it will be precisely 6:43 PM on Maple Street … This is Maple Street on a late Saturday afternoon, in the last calm and reflective moment – before the monsters came.”

“The After Hours” (ep. 34, initial broadcast: June. 10, 1960)

Written by Rod Serling
Producer: Buck Houghton
Director: Douglas Heyes
Director of Photography: George T. Clemens
Makeup: William Tuttle

Cast

Marsha White: Anne Francis
Saleswoman: Elizabeth Allen
Armbruster: James Millhollin
Elevator Operator: John Conwell
Miss Pettigrew: Nancy Rennick
Sloan: Patrick Whyte

Episode introduction

“Express elevator to the ninth floor of a department store, carrying Miss Marsha White on a most prosaic, ordinary, run-of-the-mill errand … Miss Marsha White on the ninth floor, specialty department, looking for a gold thimble. The odds are that she’ll find it – but there are even better odds that she’ll find something else, because this isn’t just a department store. This happens to be … the Twilight Zone.”

“The Eye of the Beholder” (ep. 42, initial broadcast: Nov. 11, 1960)

Written by Rod Serling
Producer: Buck Houghton
Director: Douglas Heyes
Director of Photography: George T. Clemens
Music: Bernard Herrmann
Makeup: William Tuttle

Cast

Janet Tyler (under bandages): Maxine Stuart
Janet Tyler (revealed): Donna Douglas
Doctor: William D. Gordon
Janet’s Nurse: Jennifer Howard
Leader: George Keymas
Reception Nurse: Joanna Heyes
Walter Smith: Edson Stroll

Episode introduction

“Suspended in time and space for a moment, your introduction to Miss Janet Tyler, who lives in a very private world of darkness, a universe whose dimensions are the size, thickness, length of a swath of bandages that cover her face. In a moment we’ll go back into this room and also in a moment we’ll look under those bandages, keeping in mind, of course, that we’re not to be surprised by what we see, because this isn’t just a hospital, and patient 307 is not just a woman. This happens to be the Twilight Zone, and Miss Tyler, with you, is about to enter it.”

“The Night of the Meek” (ep. 47, initial broadcast: Dec. 23, 1960)

Written by Rod Serling
Producer: Buck Houghton
Director: Jack Smight

Cast

Henry Corwin: Art Carney
Mr. Dundee: John Fiedler
Burt: Burt Mustin
Officer Flaherty: Robert Lieb
Sister Florence: Meg Wyllie
Bartender: Val Avery
Elf: Larrian Gillespie

Episode introduction

“This is Mr. Henry Corwin, normally unemployed, who once a year takes the lead role in the uniquely American institution, that of department-store Santa Claus in a road-company version of ‘The Night Before Christmas.’ But in just a moment Mr. Henry Corwin, ersatz Santa Claus, will enter a strange kind of North Pole which is one part the wondrous spirit of Christmas and one part the magic that can only be found in … the Twilight Zone.”

“The Invaders” (ep. 51, initial broadcast: Jan. 27, 1961)

Written by Richard Matheson
Producer: Buck Houghton
Director: Douglas Heyes
Director of Photography: George T. Clemens
Music: Jerry Goldsmith

Cast

Woman: Agnes Moorhead
Voice of Astronaut: Douglas Heyes

Episode introduction

“This is one of the out-of-the-way places, the unvisited places – bleak, wasted, dying. This is a farmhouse, handmade, crude, a house without electricity or gas, a house untouched by progress. This is the woman who lives in the house, a woman who’s been alone for many years, a strong, simple woman whose only problem up until this moment has been that of acquiring enough food to eat, a woman about to face terror which is even now coming at her from … the Twilight Zone.”

“A Hundred Yards Over the Rim” (ep. 59, initial broadcast: April 7, 1961)

Written by Rod Serling
Producer: Buck Houghton
Director: Buzz Kulik
Director of Photography: George T. Clemens
Music: Fred Steiner

Cast

Christian Horn: Cliff Robertson
Joe: John Crawford
Mary Lou: Evans Evans
Doctor: Ed Platt
Martha Horn: Miranda Jones
Sheriff: Robert L. McCord III
Charlie: John Astin

Episode introduction

“The year is 1847, the place is the territory of New Mexico, the people are a tiny handful of men and women with a dream. Eleven months ago, they started out from Ohio and headed west. Someone told them about a place called California, about a warm sun and a blue sky, about rich land and fresh air, and at this moment almost a year later they’ve seen nothing but cold, heat, exhaustion, hunger, and sickness. This man’s name is Christian Horn. He has a dying eight-year-old son and a heartsick wife, and he’s the only one remaining who has even a fragment of the dream left. Mr. Chris Horn, who’s going over the top of a rim to look for water and sustenance and in a moment will move into … the Twilight Zone.”

“The Silence” (ep. 61, initial broadcast: April 28, 1961)

Written by Rod Serling
Producer: Buck Houghton
Director: Boris Sagal
Director of Photography: George T. Clemens

Cast

Col. Archie Taylor: Franchot Tone
Jamie Tennyson: Liam Sullivan
George Alfred: Jonathan Harris
Franklin: Cyril Delevanti

Episode introduction

“The note that this man is carrying across a club room is in the form of a proposed wager, but it’s the kind of wager that comes without precedent. It stands alone in the annals of bet-making as the strangest game of chance ever offered by one man to another. In just a moment, we’ll see the terms of the wager and what young Mr. Tennyson does about it. And in the process, we’ll witness all parties spin a wheel of chance in a very bizarre casino called the Twilight Zone.”

“Will the Real Martian Please Stand Up?” (ep. 64, initial broadcast: May 26, 1961)

Written by Rod Serling
Producer: Buck Houghton
Director: Montgomery Pittman
Director of Photography: George T. Clemens
Makeup: William Tuttle

Cast

Ross: John Hoyt
Haley: Barney Phillips
Avery: Jack Elam
Trooper Dan Perry: Morgan Jones
Trooper Bill Padgett: John Archer
Olmstead: Bill Kendis
Ethel McConnell: Jean Willes
Peter Kramer: Bill Erwin
Rose Kramer: Gertrude Flynn
George Prince: Ron Kipling
Connie Prince: Jill Ellis

Episode introduction

“Wintry February night, the present. Order of events: a phone call from a frightened woman notating the arrival of an unidentified flying object, and the check-out you’ve just witnessed with two state troopers verifying the event, but with nothing more enlightening to add beyond evidence of some tracks leading across the highway to a diner. You’ve heard of trying to find a needle in a haystack? Well, stay with us now and you’ll be part of an investigating team whose mission is not to find that proverbial needle, no, their task is even harder. They’ve got to find a Martian in a diner, and in just a moment you’ll search with them, because you’ve just landed in the Twilight Zone.”

“The Obsolete Man” (ep. 65, initial broadcast: June 2, 1961)

Written by Rod Serling
Producer: Buck Houghton
Director: Elliot Silverstein
Director of Photography: George T. Clemens

Cast

Romney Wordsworth:
Burgess Meredith
Chancellor: Fritz Weaver
Subaltern: Joseph Elic
Guard: Harry Fleer

Episode introduction

“You walk into this room at your own risk, because it leads to the future, not a future that will be but one that might be. This is not a new world, it is simply an extension of what began in the old one. It has patterned itself after every dictator who has ever planted the ripping imprint of a boot on the pages of history since the beginning of time. It has refinements, technological advances, and a more sophisticated approach to the destruction of human freedom. But like every one of the superstates that preceded it, it has one iron rule: logic is an enemy and truth is a menace … This is Mr. Romney Wordsworth, in his last forty-eight hours on Earth. He’s a citizen of the State but will soon have to be eliminated, because he’s built out of flesh and because he has a mind. Mr. Romney Wordsworth, who will draw his last breaths in the Twilight Zone.”

“It’s a Good Life” (ep. 73, initial broadcast: Nov. 3, 1961)

Teleplay by Rod Serling, based on Jerome Bixby’s short story “It’s a Good Life”
Producer: Buck Houghton
Director: James Sheldon
Director of Photography: George T. Clemens

Cast

Anthony Fremont: Billy Mumy
Mr. Fremont: John Larch
Mrs. Fremont: Cloris Leachman
Aunt Amy: Alice Frost
Dan Hollis: Don Keefer
Ethel Hollis: Jeanne Bates
Pat Riley: Casey Adams
Bill Soames: Tom Hatcher
Thelma Dunn: Lenore Kingston

Episode introduction

“Tonight’s story on The Twilight Zone is somewhat unique and calls for a different kind of introduction. This, as you may recognize, is a map of the United States, and there’s a little town there called Peaksville. On a given morning not too long ago, the rest of the world disappeared and Peaksville was left all alone. Its inhabitants were never sure whether the world was destroyed and only Peaksville left untouched or whether the village had somehow been taken away. They were, on the other hand, sure of one thing: the cause. A monster had arrived in the village. Just by using his mind, he took away the automobiles, the electricity, the machines – because they displeased him – and he moved an entire community back into the dark ages – just by using his mind. Now I’d like to introduce you to some of the people in Peaksville, Ohio. This is Mr. Fremont. It’s in his farmhouse that the monster resides. This is Mrs. Fremont. And this is Aunt Amy, who probably had more control over the monster in the beginning than almost anyone. But one day she forgot; she began to sing aloud. Now, the monster doesn’t like singing, so his mind snapped at her, turned her into the smiling, vacant thing you’re looking at now. She sings no more. And you’ll note that the people in Peaksville, Ohio, have to smile; they have to think happy thoughts and say happy things because, once displeased, the monster can wish them into a cornfield or change them into a grotesque, walking horror. This particular monster can read minds, you see. He knows ever y thought, he can feel every emotion. Oh yes, I did forget something, didn’t I? I forgot to introduce you to the monster. This is the monster. His name is Anthony Fremont. He’s six years old, with a cute little-boy face and blue, guileless eyes. But when those eyes look at you, you’d better start thinking happy thoughts, because the mind behind them is absolutely in charge. This is the Twilight Zone.”

“The Midnight Sun” (ep. 75, initial broadcast: Nov. 17, 1961)

Written by Rod Serling
Producer: Buck Houghton
Director: Anton Leader
Director of Photography: George T. Clemens
Music: Van Cleave

Cast

Norma: Lois Nettleton
Mrs. Bronson: Betty Garde
Intruder: Tom Reese
Neighbor: Jason Wingreen
Neighbor’s Wife: June Ellis
Refrigerator Repairman: Ned Glass
Policeman: John McLiam
Doctor: William Keene
Announcer: Robert J. Stevenson

Episode introduction

“The word that Mrs. Bronson is unable to put into the hot, still, sodden air is ‘doomed,’ because the people you’ve just seen have been handed a death sentence. One month ago, the Earth suddenly changed its elliptical orbit and in doing so began to follow a path which gradually, moment by moment, day by day, took it closer to the sun. And all of man’s little devices to stir up the air are now no longer luxuries – they happen to be pitiful and panicky keys to survival. The time is five minutes to twelve, midnight. There is no more darkness. The place is New York City and this is the eve of the end, because even at midnight it’s high noon, the hottest day in history, and you’re about to spend it in the Twilight Zone.”

“Five Characters in Search of An Exit” (ep. 79, initial broadcast: Dec. 22, 1961)

Teleplay by Rod Serling, based on Marvin Petal’s short story “The Depository”
Producer: Buck Houghton
Director: Lamont Johnson
Director of Photography: George T. Clemens
Makeup: William Tuttle

Cast

The Major: William Windom
The Clown: Murray Matheson
The Ballerina: Susan Harrison
The Tramp: Kelton Garwood
The Bagpipe Player: Clark Allen
Little Girl: Mona Houghton
Woman: Carol Hill

Episode introduction

“Clown, hobo, ballet dancer, bagpiper, and an army major – a collection of question marks. Five improbable entities stuck together into a pit of darkness. No logic, no reason, no explanation; just a prolonged nightmare in which fear, loneliness and the unexplainable walk hand in hand through the shadows. In a moment we’ll start collecting clues as to the whys, the whats and the wheres. We will not end the nightmare, we’ll only explain it – because this is the Twilight Zone.”

“To Serve Man” (ep. 89, initial broadcast: March 2, 1961)

Teleplay by Rod Serling, based on Damon Knight’s short story “To Serve Man”
Producer: Buck Houghton
Director: Richard L. Bare
Director of Photography: George T. Clemens

Cast

Chambers: Lloyd Bochner
Kanamit: Richard Kiel
Pat: Susan Cummings
Citizen Gregori: Theodore Marcuse
Reporter # 1: Will J. White
Reporter #2: Gene Benton
Colonel # 1: Bartlett Robinson
Colonel #2: Carlton Young
Secy. General: Hardie Albright
Senor Valdes: Robert Tafur
M. Leveque: Lomax Study
Scientist: Nelson Olmstead

Episode introduction

“Respectfully submitted for your perusal – a Kanamit. Height: a little over nine feet. Weight: in the neighborhood of three hundred and fifty pounds. Origin: unknown. Motives? Therein hangs the tale, for in just a moment we’re going to ask you to shake hands, figuratively, with a Christopher Columbus from another galaxy and another time. This is the Twilight Zone.”

“The Dummy” (ep. 98, initial broadcast: May 4, 1962)

Teleplay by Rod Serling, based on an unpublished story by Lee Polk
Producer: Buck Houghton
Director: Abner Biberman
Director of Photography: George T. Clemens

Cast

Jerry Etherson: Cliff Robertson
Frank: Frank Sutton
Willy (as ventriloquist): George Murdock
Georgie: John Harmon
Noreen: Sandra Warner
M.e.: Rudy Dolan
Doorkeeper: Ralph Manza
Chorus Girl: Bethelynn Grey
Chorus Girl: Edy Williams

Episode introduction

“You’re watching a ventriloquist named Jerry Etherson, a voice-thrower par excellence. His alter ego, sitting atop his lap, is a brash stick of kindling with the sobriquet ‘Willy.’ In a moment, Mr. Etherson and his knotty-pine partner will be booked in one of the out-of-the-way bistros, that small, dark, intimate place known as the Twilight Zone.”

“Living Doll” (ep. 126, initial broadcast: Nov. 1, 1963)

Teleplay by Jerry Sohl, based on an original story idea by Charles Beaumont
Producer: William Froug
Director: Richard C. Sarafian
Director of Photography: Robert W. Pittack
Music: Bernard Herrmann

Cast

Erich Streator: Telly Savalas
Annabelle: Mary LaRoche
Christie: Tracy Stratford
Voice of Talky Tina: June Foray

Episode introduction

“Talky Tina, a doll that does everything, a lifelike creation of plastic and springs and painted smile. To Erich Streator, she is a most unwelcome addition to his household – but without her he’d never enter … the Twilight Zone.”

“Number 12 Looks Just Like You” (ep. 137, initial broadcast: Jan. 24, 1964)

Teleplay by John Tomerlin (credited to Charles Beaumont), based on Charles Beaumont’s short story “The Beautiful People”
Producer: William Froug
Director: Abner Biberman
Director of Photography: Charles Wheeler

Cast

Marilyn Cuberle: Collin Wilcox
Lana Cuberle/Simmons/Doe/Grace/Jane/Patient/#12: Suzy Parker
Uncle Rick/Dr. Rex/Sigmund Friend/Dr. Tom/Attendant: Richard Long
Valerie/Marilyn (after operation), #8: Pam Austin

Episode introduction

“Given the chance, what young girl wouldn’t happily exchange a plain face for a lovely one? What girl could ref use the opportunity to be beautiful? For want of a better estimate, let’s call it the year 2000. At any rate, imagine a time in the future when science has developed a means of giving everyone the face and body he dreams of. It may not happen tomorrow – but it happens now in the Twilight Zone.”

“I Am the Night – Color Me Black” (ep. 146, initial broadcast: March 27, 1963)

Written by Rod Serling
Producer: William Froug
Director: Abner Biberman
Director of Photography: George T. Clemens

Cast

Sheriff Charlie Koch: Michael Constantine
Colbey: Paul Fix
Jagger: Terry Becker
Deputy Pierce: George Lindsey
Rev. Anderson: Ivan Dixon
Ella Koch: Eve McVeagh

Episode introduction

“Sheriff Charlie Koch on the morning of an execution. As a matter of fact, it’s seven-thirty in the morning. Logic and natural laws dictate that at this hour there should be daylight. It is a simple rule of physical science that the sun should rise at a certain moment and supersede the darkness. But at this given moment, Sheriff Charlie Koch, a deputy named Pierce, a condemned man named Jagger and a small, inconsequential village will shortly find out that there are causes and effects that have no precedent. Such is usually the case – in the Twilight Zone.”

“Nightmare at 20,000 Feet” (ep. 123, initial broadcast: Oct. 11, 1963)

Written by Richard Matheson, based on Matheson’s short story “Nightmare at 20,000 Feet”
Producer: Bert Granet
Director: Richard Donner
Director of Photography: Robert W. Pittack
Makeup: William Tuttle

Cast

Bob Wilson: William Shatner
Ruth Wilson: Christine White
Gremlin: Nick Cravat
Flight Engineer: Edward Kemmer
Stewardess: Asa Maynor

Episode introduction

“Portrait of a frightened man: Mr. Robert Wilson, thirty-seven, husband, father, and salesman on sick leave. Mr. Wilson has just been discharged from a sanitarium where he spent the last six months recovering from a nervous breakdown, the onset of which took place on an evening not dissimilar to this one, on an airliner very much like the one in which Mr. Wilson is about to be flown home – the difference being that, on that evening half a year ago, Mr. Wilson’s flight was terminated by the onslaught of his mental breakdown. Tonight, he’s travelling all the way to his appointed destination which, contrary to Mr. Wilson’s plan, happens to be in the darkest corner of the Twilight Zone.”

* Sources for episode production notes: Martin Grams, Jr., The Twilight Zone: Unlocking the Door to a Television Classic (OTR Publishing, 2014), Don Presnell and Marty McGee, A Critical History of Television’s The Twilight Zone 1959–1964 (McFarland & Company, 2008); and Marc Scott Zicree, The Twilight Zone Companion, 2nd edition (Bantam Books, 1989).

“Serling @ 100” is co-sponsored by the George A. Smathers Libraries, the J. Wayne Reitz Union, the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, the UF Department of English, and the Science Fiction Working Group.