A Dimension of Sound:

A Look at The Twilight Zone Radio Dramas

          The Twilight Zone Radio Dramas were developed by actor, producer, director, and syndicated radio host Carl Amari. Growing up in Chicago in the 1960’s and 1970’s, Amari became enamored with old-time radio and began amassing a collection of radio programs in any format he could find. Over the next thirty years, Amari licensed thousands of old-time radio programs in order to create a radio series which explored radio's golden past. His first venture in this direction was a local Chicago program titled, “When Radio Was.” Dick Brescia, a former CBS Radio executive, heard Amari’s program by chance on an airplane flight and took “When Radio Was” nationwide under the production banner of Dick Brescia, Associates. Amari and Brescia formed a professional partnership which carried into The Twilight Zone Radio Dramas.

          Amari’s interest in old-time radio culminated in the formation of Radio Spirits, the world’s largest marketer and distributor of old-time radio programs. Though Amari sold the company in 1998 to Audio Book Club, Radio Spirits products can still be found in libraries and bookstores nationwide. Amari hosts the nationally syndicated radio program, “Hollywood 360,” and has worked as a writer and producer on such properties as Fangoria Presents: Dreadtime Stories.  

In 2001, Amari formed Falcon Picture Group, a production company designed to produce family-friendly video and audio recordings. The company's most impressive achievement is The Word of Promise Audio Bible, a project three years in the making which features more than 600 actors, many of whom are notable Hollywood celebrities. Amari moved into licensing television programs through Falcon Picture Group by acquiring the rights to such programs as Suspense (based on the classic radio program), The Life and Legend of Wyatt Earp, The Adventures of Jim Bowie, and Man With a Camera, a series produced by Buck Houghton and starring Charles Bronson, both of whom would later work on The Twilight Zone.

Dean Jagger in "Static"

An initial property that Amari pursued for production was The Twilight Zone. Amari envisioned adapting the episodes from the classic television series into engaging radio dramas. Working in association with CBS Enterprises and the Rod Serling Estate, Amari set about making this vision a reality. Though The Twilight Zone Radio Dramas are very faithful to the television series, including the excellent use of original music from the series, the program does not feel dated in the least. There was no attempt to either emulate the feel of old-time radio drama or the time period of the 1960's. Amari and Cerny Creative in Chicago present engagingly acted, directed, and written audio dramas with high production values.

One of the key components in the development of the series was finding a writer to adapt the scripts from the original television series into engaging radio dramas. Amari hired World Fantasy Award-winning writer Dennis Etchison for the task of adapting what is generally considered one of the most well-written television series in the history of the medium. Etchison had been a young, aspiring writer living in Stockton, California when the original television series was on the air, and he had the fortune of taking a night class at UCLA taught by prolific Zone writer Charles Beaumont. One of the interesting aspects of that class was that Beaumont often brought in friends to help teach the class with workshops and demonstrations. Etchison remembers William Shatner appearing to perform a dramatic reading of a student's writing, as well as professional writers such as Ray Bradbury and William F. Nolan dropping by to give encouragement and advice to the young writers in the class. Etchison published one of his early stories, "The Fires of the Night" in the William F. Nolan-edited volume, The Pseudo-People (Sherbourne, 1965), and another, "Wet Season," in the short-lived, Group-edited fiction digest, Gamma (Star Press, 1965). He went on to a highly accomplished career as a writer of speculative fiction, winning awards for his unique brand of psychological horror story.

Instead of using Rod Serling's original opening and closing narrations from the television series, Amari hired actor Stacy Keach to host the series and record new opening and closing narrations. Keach is an accomplished actor with a long career on both stage and screen, as well as frequent provider of voice-over narration. Keach is likely best known for his portrayal of Mickey Spillane's tough-guy private eye Mike Hammer in the 1984 television series Mikey Spillane's Mike Hammer, as well as portraying Hammer in a number of television films. In 2008, Amari and Keach teamed again to produce new Mike Hammer radio dramas written by Spillane protégé and award-winning writer Max Allan Collins.

With all the pieces in place, episodes of The Twilight Zone Radio Dramas began rolling out to the public in 2002, and would eventually adapt 155 of the 156 original series episodes as well as “The Time Element” into the audio drama format (the fifth season episode, “Come Wander With Me” would not be adapted). The series eventually topped out at 18 volumes (unit distribution) and 176 episodes. A listener familiar with the original television series will immediately notice several things upon listening to the radio dramas. The first is that the time allotted to the radio dramas was roughly forty minutes, sixteen minutes or so longer than the half-hour episodes and about eight or so minutes shorter than the hour-long fourth season episodes. Etchison was required to add material to the half-hour episodes and to slightly compress the hour-long episodes. Etchison was able to consult the original scripts rather than just the original episodes. The added material is highly interesting, as it often contains character moments left unrealized on the original series episode (such as in "The Midnight Sun") or works to further illustrate a setting or situation. Rod Serling's opening and closing narrations were often changed, typically by making the narrations longer to cover the difference in run time or reflecting changes to the original script.  

An interesting aspect of The Twilight Zone Radio Dramas is that many of the finest episodes of the original television series do not translate all that well to the radio medium, whereas several of the less successful television episodes play out wonderfully in the audio format. The original television series was often reliant upon a visual motif or a visual reveal at the end of an episode. This type of reveal is extremely difficult to pull off in the audio medium and thus episodes such as "Will the Real Martian Please Stand Up?" and "The Dummy" suffer greatly in translation. Consider also the number of original series episodes which were highly experimental in nature, episodes with little to no dialogue or with only one or two characters. Imagine the difficulty of adapting "The Invaders" or "Two" to the audio format. It is a testament to the talent of both the original series writers and Dennis Etchison that these experimental episodes translate as well as they do. What comes through most forcefully in the audio adaptations are the intimate character moments in episodes such as "The Obsolete Man" or "Five Characters in Search of an Exit." The format also forces the listener to notice details they may not have noticed as a viewer of the television episode. One particularly interesting episode is "The Hitch-Hiker," starring Kate Jackson, which is adapted from a teleplay by Rod Serling, which was itself adapted from a radio play by Lucille Fletcher.

Another interesting component is that the radio series explored unproduced material from the original television series, beginning with volume 11 and Charles Beaumont's unproduced teleplay adaptation of his short story, "Gentlemen, Be Seated." The series would produce three additional episodes from Charles Beaumont & Jerry Sohl which never saw the light of day on the original series. By volume 16, the series was showcasing original episodes written expressly for the audio medium. To help in this regard, Amari brought in a writing partner he’d worked with before on Fangoria Presents: Dreadtime Stories, M.J. Elliott. Elliott also provided adaptations of the original series episodes in the later volumes, tackling some of the show's most celebrated offerings, such as an exceptional adaptation of George Clayton Johnson's "Nothing in the Dark." 

         The radio series also utilized performers from the original Twilight Zone television series. H.M. Wynant, who appeared in the second season Twilight Zone episode "The Howling Man," appeared in three radio episodes: "Of Late I Think of Cliffordville," "The Trade-Ins," and "Deaths-Head Revisited." Shelley Berman, star of the second season episode "The Mind and the Matter," appeared in the radio adaptations of "Hocus-Pocus and Frisby," "Kick the Can," and "The Hunt." Bill Erwin, who appeared on television in "Mr. Denton on Doomsday," "Walking Distance," and "Will the Real Martian Please Stand Up?" appeared in the radio adaptation of "Ninety Years Without Slumbering." Beverly Garland, who appeared in "The Four of Us Are Dying," appeared in the radio adaptation of "Uncle Simon." Orson Bean, Twilight Zone's "Mr. Bevis," appeared in the radio adaptation of "The Changing of the Guard." Morgan Brittany (aka Suzanne (Susanne) Cupito), who appeared as a child in the television episodes "Nightmare as a Child" (uncredited), "Valley of the Shadow," and, most memorably, "Caesar and Me," returned to The Twilight Zone for the radio episodes "The Passersby" and "Mirror Image." 

A word about format. The longevity of The Twilight Zone Radio Dramas meant that the series went through a number of format changes in terms of distribution. The early volumes were offered on both cassette and compact disc, with the series moving to only offering compact disc, to offering both compact disc and digital download, to finally only offering the later volumes as digital downloads. The series has had a long life on both Sirius and XM Radio (now Sirius XM Radio) and can currently be heard be heard on BBC Radio 4 Extra (use the BBC iPlayer app to listen here in the States).

In all, the radio dramas are uniformly excellent in production and always engaging. Carl Amari and JoBe Cerny do an incredible job with the sound design and production, and Dennis Etchison admirably completes the monumental task of adapting the entire series to a different medium, managing to present a new way of looking at the episodes without changing the narrative magic of the original series.

-Grateful acknowledgement is made to Dennis Etchison for his introduction to Charles Beaumont's story "Free Dirt" in Charles Beaumont: Selected Stories, edited by Roger Anker (Dark Harvest, 1988).

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-JP

The Twilight Zone Radio Dramas (18 volumes)

Produced in association with CBS Enterprises & the Rod Serling Estate

Produced by: Falcon Picture Group (in association with Dick Bresica Associates and Westwood One)

Distributor: Blackstone Audio

Host: Stacy Keach

Producer/Director: Carl Amari (with JoBe Cerny)

Sound Mixing and Foley Effects: Cerny American Creative

Credit Narration: Doug James

Note: It took several actors to bring each episode to life and Falcon Picture Group and Cerny Creative used a regular staff of talented voice actors. The Twilight Zone Radio Dramas typically list only one or two actors/actresses per show, these typically being the guest actors, and these listings are replicated below from the official website of the series.

Volume 1:

1.)  “A Kind of Stopwatch,” starring Lou Diamond Phillips

Based on a story by Michael D. Rosenthal and a teleplay by Rod Serling

2.) “The Lateness of the Hour,” starring Jane Seymour and James Keach

          Based on a teleplay by Rod Serling

3.) “The Thirty-Fathom Grave,” starring Blair Underwood

          Based on a teleplay by Rod Serling

4.) “The Man in the Bottle,” starring Ed Begley, Jr.

          Based on a teleplay by Rod Serling

5.) “The Night of the Meek,” starring Christopher McDonald

          Based on a teleplay by Rod Serling

6.) “The After Hours,” starring Kim Fields

          Based on a teleplay by Rod Serling

7.) “Mr. Dingle, the Strong,” starring Tim Kazurinsky

          Based on a teleplay by Rod Serling

8.) “A Stop at Willoughby,” starring Chelcie Ross

          Based on a teleplay by Rod Serling

9.) “The Lonely,” starring Mike Starr

          Based on a teleplay by Rod Serling

10.) “Of Late I Think of Cliffordville,” starring Christopher McDonald & H.M. Wynant

          Based on “Blind Alley” by Malcolm Jameson and a teleplay by Rod Serling
           Note: H.M. Wynant appeared in the original series episode, "The Howling Man." 

Volume 2:

11.) “The Obsolete Man,” starring Jason Alexander

          Based on a teleplay by Rod Serling

12.) “The Bard,” starring John Ratzenberger and Stacy Keach

          Based on a teleplay by Rod Serling

13.) “Back There,” starring Jim Caviezel

          Based on a teleplay by Rod Serling

14.) “A Short Drink from a Certain Fountain,” starring Adam West

          Based on a teleplay by Rod Serling

15.) “Nervous Man in a Four Dollar Room,” starring Adam Baldwin

          Based on a teleplay by Rod Serling

16.) “The Monsters are Due on Maple Street,” starring Frank John Hughes

          Based on a teleplay by Rod Serling

17.) “Mr. Garrity and the Graves,” starring Christopher McDonald

          Based on a story by Mike Korologos and a teleplay by Rod Serling

18.) “Escape Clause,” starring Mike Starr

          Based on a teleplay by Rod Serling

19.) “Four O’Clock,” starring Stan Freberg

          Based on a story by Price Day and a teleplay by Rod Serling

20.) “Uncle Simon,” starring Peter Mark Richman and Beverly Garland

          Based on a teleplay by Rod Serling

Note: Beverly Garland appeared in the original episode, “The Four of Us Are Dying”

Volume 3:

21.) “The Fear,” starring Jane Seymour and James Keach

          Based on a teleplay by Rod Serling

22.) “The Parallel,” starring Lou Diamond Phillips

          Based on a teleplay by Rod Serling

23.) “A Hundred Yards Over the Rim,” starring Jim Caviezel

          Based on a teleplay by Rod Serling

24.) “One for the Angels,” starring Ed Begley, Jr.

          Based on a teleplay by Rod Serling

25.) “The Midnight Sun,” starring Kim Fields

          Based on a teleplay by Rod Serling

26.) “The Rip Van Winkle Caper,” starring Tim Kazurinsky

          Based on a teleplay by Rod Serling

27.) “A Most Unusual Camera,” starring Mike Starr

          Based on a teleplay by Rod Serling

28.) “Twenty-Two,” starring Andrea Evans

          Based on a teleplay by Rod Serling

29.) “Walking Distance,” starring Chelcie Ross

          Based on a teleplay by Rod Serling

30.) “The Passersby,” starring Morgan Brittany

          Based on a teleplay by Rod Serling
          Note: Morgan Brittany appeared (as Suzanne (Susanne) Cupito) on The Twilight Zone in "Nightmare as a Child" (uncredited), "Valley of the Shadow," and "Caesar and Me." 

Volume 4:

31.) “The Dummy,” starring Bruno Kirby

          Based on a story by Lee Polk and a teleplay by Rod Serling

32.) “No Time Like the Past,” starring Jason Alexander

          Based on a teleplay by Rod Serling

33.) “Still Valley,” starring Adam West

Based on “The Valley Was Still” by Manly Wade Wellman and a teleplay by Rod Serling

34.) “King Nine Will Not Return,” starring Adam Baldwin

          Based on a teleplay by Rod Serling

35.) “I Am the Night-Color Me Black,” starring Tim Ratzenberger

          Based on a teleplay by Rod Serling

36.) “The Incredible World of Horace Ford,” starring Mike Starr

          Based on a teleplay by Reginald Rose

          Note: This is the first episode produced not based on a Rod Serling teleplay

37.) “One More Pallbearer,” starring Chelcie Ross

          Based on a teleplay by Rod Serling

38.) “The Little People,” starring Daniel J. Travanti

          Based on a teleplay by Rod Serling

39.) “Cavender Is Coming,” starring Andrea Evans

          Based on a teleplay by Rod Serling

40.) “Hocus-Pocus and Frisby,” starring Shelley Berman

          Based on a story by Fredric L. Fox and a teleplay by Rod Serling

Note: Shelley Berman appeared in the original episode, “The Mind and the Matter”

Volume 5:

41.) “Living Doll,” starring Tim Kazurinsky

          Based on a teleplay by Jerry Sohl

42.) “The Big Tall Wish,” starring Blair Underwood

          Based on a teleplay by Rod Serling

43.) “The Fever,” starring Stacy Keach and Kathy Garver

          Based on a teleplay by Rod Serling

44.) “The Last Night of a Jockey,” starring Bruno Kirby

          Based on a teleplay by Rod Serling

45.) “A Thing About Machines,” starring Mike Starr

          Based on a teleplay by Rod Serling

46.) “Mirror Image,” starring Morgan Brittany and Frank John Hughes

          Based on a teleplay by Rod Serling
          Note: Morgan Brittany appeared (as Suzanne (Susanne) Cupito) in the original episodes "Nightmare as a Child" (uncredited), "Valley of the Shadow," and "Caesar and Me." 
47.) “The 7^th Is Made Up of Phantoms,” starring Richard Grieco

          Based on a teleplay by Rod Serling

48.) “The Long Morrow,” starring Kathy Garver

          Based on a teleplay by Rod Serling

49.) “Will the Real Martian Please Stand Up?” starring Richard Kind

          Based on a teleplay by Rod Serling

50.) “The Trade-Ins,” starring H.M. Wynant and Peggy Webber

          Based on a teleplay by Rod Serling

          Note: H.M. Wynant appeared in the original episode “The Howling Man”

Volume 6:

51.) “Time Enough at Last,” starring Tim Kazurinsky

          Based on the story by Lyn Venable and a teleplay by Rod Serling

52.) “A Passage for Trumpet,” starring Mike Starr

          Based on a teleplay by Rod Serling

53.) “I Shot an Arrow Into the Air,” starring Chelcie Ross

          Based on a story by Madelon Champion and a teleplay by Rod Serling

54.) “The Brain Center at Whipple’s,” starring Stan Freberg

          Based on a teleplay by Rod Serling

55.) “The Grave,” starring Michael Rooker

          Based on a teleplay by Montgomery Pittman

56.) “The Hitch-Hiker,” starring Kate Jackson

          Based on a radio play by Lucille Fletcher and a teleplay by Rod Serling

57.) “Mr. Denton on Doomsday,” starring Adam Baldwin

          Based on a teleplay by Rod Serling

58.) “Sounds and Silences,” starring Richard Kind

          Based on a teleplay by Rod Serling

59.) “The Odyssey of Flight 33,” starring Daniel J. Travanti

          Based on a teleplay by Rod Serling

60.) “The Changing of the Guard,” starring Orson Bean

          Based on a teleplay by Rod Serling

          Note: Orson Bean appeared in the original episode, “Mr. Bevis”

Volume 7:

61.) “Five Characters in Search of an Exit,” starring Jason Alexander

          Based on “The Depository” by Marvin Petal and a teleplay by Rod Serling

62.) “The Arrival,” starring Blair Underwood

          Based on a teleplay by Rod Serling

63.) “Queen of the Nile,” starring Kate Jackson

          Based on the teleplay by Jerry Sohl

64.) “I Dream of Genie,” starring Hal Sparks

          Based on the teleplay by John Furia, Jr.

65.) “It’s a Good Life,” starring Mike Starr

          Based on the story by Jerome Bixby and a teleplay by Rod Serling

66.) “The Masks,” starring Stan Freberg

          Based on the teleplay by Rod Serling

67.) “Mr. Bevis,” starring Bruno Kirby

          Based on the teleplay by Rod Serling

68.) “Showdown with Rance McGrew,” starring Christopher McDonald

          Based on a story by Fredric L. Fox and a teleplay by Rod Serling

69.) “The Old Man in the Cave,” starring Adam Baldwin

          Based on “The Old Man” by Henry Slesar and a teleplay by Rod Serling

70.) “Ninety Years Without Slumbering,” starring Bill Erwin

Based on a story by George Clayton Johnson and a teleplay by Richard de Roy

Note: Bill Erwin appeared in the original episodes, “Mr. Denton on Doomsday,” “Walking Distance,” “Will the Real Martian Please Stand Up?,” and “Mute”

Volume 8:

71.) “The Howling Man,” starring Fred Willard

          Based on the story and teleplay by Charles Beaumont

Note: The first episode adapted from the work of the show’s second most prolific writer.

72.) “Caesar and Me,” starring Jason Alexander

          Based on a teleplay by Adele T. Strassfield

73.) “The Self-Improvement of Salvadore Ross,” starring Luke Perry

          Based on a story by Henry Slesar and a teleplay by Jerry McNeely

74.) “The Time Element,” starring Bobby Slayton

          Based on a teleplay by Rod Serling

75.) “The Mind and the Matter,” starring Hal Sparks

          Based on a teleplay by Rod Serling

76.) “People Are Alike All Over,” starring Blair Underwood

Based on “Brothers Beyond the Void” by Paul W. Fairman and teleplay by Rod Serling

77.) “What You Need,” starring Bruno Kirby and Bruce Kirby

Based on the story by Henry Kuttner and C.L. Moore and a teleplay by Rod Serling

78.) “Dead Man’s Shoes,” starring Bill Smitrovich

Based on a story by OCee Ritch and a teleplay by Ritch and Charles Beaumont

79.) “What’s in the Box,” starring Mike Starr

          Based on a teleplay by Martin M. Goldsmith

80.) “Deaths-Head Revisited,” starring H.M. Wynant

          Based on the teleplay by Rod Serling

          Note: Wynant appeared in the original episode, “The Howling Man”

Volume 9:

81.) “To Serve Man,” starring Blair Underwood

          Based on the story by Damon Knight and a teleplay by Rod Serling

82.) “A World of Difference,” starring Luke Perry

          Based on a teleplay by Richard Matheson

83.) “From Agnes-With Love,” starring Ed Begley, Jr.

          Based on a teleplay by Bernard C. Shoenfield

84.) “Perchance to Dream,” starring Fred Willard

          Based on the story and teleplay by Charles Beaumont

85.) “The Purple Testament,” starring Michael Rooker

          Based on the teleplay by Rod Serling

86.) “Printer’s Devil,” starring Bobby Slayton

Based on the story “The Devil, You Say?” and a teleplay by Charles Beaumont

87.) “Dust,” starring Bill Smitrovich

          Based on a teleplay by Rod Serling

88.) “The Jeopardy Room,” starring Yasen Peyankov

          Based on a teleplay by Rod Serling

89.) “The Fugitive,” starring Stan Freberg

          Based on the teleplay by Charles Beaumont

90.) “The Silence,” starring Christopher McDonald

          Based on the teleplay by Rod Serling

Volume 10:

91.) “Miniature,” starring Lou Diamond Phillips

          Based on the teleplay by Charles Beaumont

92.) “The Jungle,” starring Ed Begley, Jr.

          Based on the story and teleplay by Charles Beaumont

93.) “The Mighty Casey,” starring Paul Dooley

          Based on the teleplay by Rod Serling

94.) “Ring-a-Ding Girl,” starring Sarah Wayne Callies

          Based on the teleplay by Earl Hamner, Jr.

95.) “Mute,” starring Wade Williams

          Based on the story and teleplay by Richard Matheson

96.) “Black Leather Jackets,” starring Marshall Allman

          Based on a teleplay by Earl Hamner, Jr.

97.) “A Quality of Mercy,” starring Robert Knepper

          Based on a teleplay by Rod Serling

98.) “Where is Everybody?” starring John Schneider

          Based on a teleplay by Rod Serling

Note: This was the premier episode of the original series but was not adapted for audio until nearly a hundred episodes in

99.) “A Nice Place to Visit,” starring Hal Sparks

          Based on the teleplay by Charles Beaumont

100.) “In His Image,” starring John Heard

          Based on the story and teleplay by Charles Beaumont

Volume 11:

101.) “Nightmare at 20,000 Feet,” starring John Schneider

          Based on the story and teleplay by Richard Matheson

102.) “Elegy,” starring Blair Underwood

          Based on the story and teleplay by Charles Beaumont

103.) “The Last Rites of Jeff Myrtlebank,” starring Rober Knepper

          Based on the teleplay by Montgomery Pittman

104.) “Spur of the Moment,” starring Sarah Wayne Callies   

          Based on a teleplay by Richard Matheson

105.) “He’s Alive,” starring Marshall Allman

          Based on a teleplay by Rod Serling

106.) “Long Distance Call,” starring Hal Sparks

Based on a story by William Idelson and a teleplay by Idelson and Charles Beaumont

107.) “The Gift,” starring Danny Goldring

          Based on a teleplay by Rod Serling

108.) “Gentlemen, Be Seated,” starring Stan Freberg

          Based on the story and unproduced teleplay by Charles Beaumont

109.) “You Drive,” starring John Heard

          Based on the teleplay by Earl Hamner, Jr.

110.) “In Praise of Pip,” starring Fred Willard

          Based on the teleplay by Rod Serling

Volume 12:

111.) “The Last Flight,” starring Charles Shaughnessy

          Based on a teleplay by Richard Matheson

112.) “Long Live Walter Jameson,” starring Lou Diamond Phillips

          Based on a teleplay by Charles Beaumont

113.) “Person or Persons Unknown,” starring John Schneider

          Based on the teleplay by Charles Beaumont

114.) “The Whole Truth,” starring Henry Rollins         

          Based on the teleplay by Rod Serling

115.) “Stopover in a Quiet Town,” starring Stephanie Weir

          Based on the teleplay by Earl Hamner, Jr.

116.) “Judgment Night,” starring Chelcie Ross

          Based on the teleplay by Rod Serling

117.) “The Chaser,” starring Stephen Tobolowsky

          Based on the story by John Collier and a teleplay by Robert Presnell, Jr.

118.) “Shadow Play,” starring Ernie Hudson

          Based on “Traumerei” and a teleplay by Charles Beaumont

119.) “Nick of Time,” starring Marshall Allman

          Based on the teleplay by Richard Matheson

120.) “Static,” starring Stan Freberg

          Based on a story by OCee Ritch and a teleplay by Charles Beaumont

Volume 13:

121.) “Death Ship,” starring John Schneider

          Based on the story and teleplay by Richard Matheson

122.) “Pattern for Doomsday,” starring Henry Rollins

Based on an idea by Charles Beaumont and an unproduced teleplay by Jerry Sohl

123.) “Nightmare as a Child,” starring Bonnie Somerville

          Based on the teleplay by Rod Serling

124.) “And When the Sky Was Opened,” starring Barry Bostwick

Based on “Disappearing Act” by Richard Matheson and a teleplay by Rod Serling

125.) “Little Girl Lost,” starring Stephen Tobolowsky

          Based on the story and teleplay by Richard Matheson

126.) “Jess-Belle,” starring Stephanie Weir

          Based on the teleplay by Earl Hamner, Jr.

127.) “The Encounter,” starring Stacy Keach and Byron Mann

          Based on the teleplay by Martin M. Goldsmith

128). “A World of His Own,” starring Charles Shaughnessy

          Based on the teleplay by Richard Matheson

129.) “The New Exhibit,” starring JoBe Cerny

          Based on an idea by Charles Beaumont and a teleplay by Jerry Sohl

130.) “Valley of the Shadow,” starring Chelcie Ross

          Based on a teleplay by Charles Beaumont

Volume 14:

131.) “Night Call,” starring Mariette Hartley

          Based on “Long Distance Call” and a teleplay by Richard Matheson

132.) “Kick the Can,” starring Shelley Berman and Stan Freberg

          Based on the teleplay by George Clayton Johnson

          Note: Berman appeared in the original episode, “The Mind and the Matter”

133.) “A Game of Pool,” starring Wade Williams

          Based on a teleplay by George Clayton Johnson

134.) “A Penny for Your Thoughts,” starring David Eigenberg

          Based on a teleplay by George Clayton Johnson

135.) “Free Dirt,” starring Eric Bogosian

          Based on the story by Charles Beaumont

136.) “Number Twelve Looks Just Like You,” starring Bonnie Somerville

Based on “The Beautiful People” by Charles Beaumont and a teleplay by  John Tomerlin

137.) “On Thursday We Leave for Home,” starring Barry Bostwick

          Based on a teleplay by Rod Serling

138.) “Third from the Sun,” starring Fred Willard

          Based on the story by Richard Matheson and a teleplay by Rod Serling

139.) “The Trouble with Templeton,” starring Michael York

          Based on a teleplay by E. Jack Neuman

140.) “The Mirror,” starring Tony Plana

          Based on a teleplay by Rod Serling

Volume 15:

141.) “The Prime Mover,” starring David Eigenberg

Based on a story by George Clayton Johnson and a teleplay by Charles Beaumont

142.) “A Piano in the House,” starring Michael York

          Based on a teleplay by Earl Hamner, Jr.

143.) “The Four of Us Are Dying,” starring Eric Bogosian

Based on “All of Us Are Dying” by George Clayton Johnson and a teleplay by Rod Serling

144.) “The Sixteen Millimeter Shrine,” starring Kathy Garver and Charles

          Shaughnessy

          Based on a teleplay by Rod Serling

145.)  “The Shelter,” starring Ernie Hudson

          Based on the teleplay by Rod Serling

146.) “Young Man’s Fancy,” starring Tony Plana

          Based on a teleplay by Rod Serling

147.) “Probe 7, Over and Out,” starring Louis Gossett, Jr.

          Based on a teleplay by Rod Serling

148.) “Two,” starring Don Johnson

          Based on a teleplay by Montgomery Pittman

149.) “Who Am I?” starring Sean Astin

          Based on an unproduced teleplay by Jerry Sohl

150.) “The Bewitchin’ Pool,” starring Karen Black

          Based on a teleplay by Earl Hamner, Jr.

          Note: This was the final broadcast episode of the original series

Volume 16:

151.) “The Hunt,” starring Shelley Berman and Karen Black

          Based on a teleplay by Earl Hamner, Jr.

          Note: Berman appeared in the original episode, “The Mind and the Matter”

152.) “Passage on the Lady Anne,” starring Martin Jarvis and Rosalind Ayres

          Based on “Song for a Lady” and a teleplay by Charles Beaumont

153.) “Execution,” starring Don Johnson

          Based on a story by George Clayton Johnson and a teleplay by Rod Serling

154.) “Steel,” starring Louis Gossett, Jr.

          Based on the story and teleplay by Richard Matheson

155.) “The Amazing Dr. Kyle Powers,” starring Sean Astin

          An original radio play

156.) “Nothing in the Dark,” starring Marshall Allman

          Based on a teleplay by George Clayton Johnson

157.) “There Goes the Neighborhood,” starring Tim Kazurinsky

          An original radio play

158.) “The Walk-Abouts,” starring Mike Starr

          An original radio play

159.) “An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge,” starring Christian Stolte

          Based on a story by Ambrose Bierce and a screenplay by Robert Enrico

160.) “Now You Hear It, Now You Don’t,” starring Dee Wallace

          An original radio play

Volume 17:

161.) “Once Upon a Time,” starring John Rhys-Davies

          Based on a teleplay by Richard Matheson

162.) “The Invaders,” starring Kathy Garver

          Based on a teleplay by Richard Matheson

163.) “Beewinjapeedee,” starring Sean Astin

          An original radio play

164.) “Eye of the Beholder,” starring Virginia Williams

          Based on a teleplay by Rod Serling

165.) “I Sing the Body Electric,” starring Dee Wallace

          Based on a teleplay by Ray Bradbury

166.) “Mrs. Pierce is Praying for Me,” starring Tim Kazurinsky

          An original radio play

167.) “The Time of Your Life,” starring John Rhys-Davies

          An original radio play

168.) “Ten Days,” starring Ned Bellamy

          An original radio play

169.) “Snow Angel,” starring Sean Astin

          An original radio play

170.) “The Nanobots,” starring David Pasquesi

          An original radio play

Volume 18:

171.) “Twenty-Twelve,” starring Christian Stolte

          An original radio play

172.) “. . .And Cauldron Bubble,” staring Virginia Williams

          An original radio play

173.) “Missing, Presumed Dead,” starring Danny Goldrin

          An original radio play

174.) “Rest Stop,” starring Brandon Eels

          An original radio play

175.) “The 25^th Hour,” starring Mike Nussbaum

          An original radio play

176.) “Another Place in Time,” starring Malcolm McDowell

          An original radio play

Note: This final episode featured McDowell, who hosted another Carl Amari production, Fangoria Presents: Dreadtime Stories