Season Two (1960-1961)

"You're traveling through another dimension. . . "

Contemporary New York Times article (June 7, 1960)
detailing Serling's struggles on the series

            Rod Serling battled fickle corporate sponsors and an attempt by CBS to bring in a bigger name as host and narrator (namely, Orson Welles, who turned down the offer) to come back stronger for The Twilight Zone's second season. Though never a ratings champion, the series developed a dedicated viewership (many of whom, to the surprise of both Rod Serling and producer Buck Houghton, were children and young adults) that pushed ratings high enough to keep the series afloat in its 10:00 EST time slot on Friday nights. The problem which constantly dogged the series was an inability to hold on to sponsors. It remains a testament to their talent and determination that Rod Serling, Buck Hougton, and company continued to produce quality material on a series which always seemed to be tottering on the brink of cancellation. 

              Rod Serling gradually became more visible as a television personality, prompting CBS, in a fortuitous turnaround after its failed attempt to lure Welles to the series, to increase Serling's exposure on The Twilight Zone. For the second season of the series, Serling made the transition from an off-screen voice to an on-screen host, not only for the preview segments but before and after each play. In April, 1960, Rod Serling returned to The Westinghouse Desilu Playhouse (venue for Serling's "The Time Element"), this time playing himself in the segment "The Man in the Funny Suit," which detailed actor Ed Wynn's difficult transition from comedy to drama for Serling's Emmy Award-winning Playhouse 90 episode, "Requiem for a Heavyweight" (1956).  

              The Twilight Zone became not only an entertainment property but a commercial opportunity quickly seized upon by the CBS marketing department, which loaned out the name and images from the show to a number of media ventures.  1960 would see a book of short stories adapted by Rod Serling from his teleplays and published by Bantam Books (Stories from the Twilight Zone) just as the first season finished its initial broadcast. The following year saw the series turned into a comic feature for the Dell Four Color series, which eventually grew into a proper Twilight Zone comic book which enjoyed a successful run from Dell & Gold Key Comics until 1982. Eventually, The Twilight Zone gave life to further books, buttons, records, trading cards, toys, and a 1964 board game from Ideal Games. Among the awards given to the series for its impressive premiere season were the Hugo Award, given out at the World Science Fiction Convention, and an Emmy Award for Rod Serling for Outstanding Writing Achievement in the field of Drama. 

                Upon entering Season Two, Rod Serling and producer Buck Houghton decided that several changes needed to be made in order for the show to craft the voice for which it had been searching.  For starters, they felt the show needed a more aggressive opening theme in order to grab the audience’s attention. They found what they were looking for in two pieces from French composer Marius Constant.  When combined, Constant's music became a highly unusual twenty-eight second theme song which perfectly fit the atmosphere of the show. This music would eventually become one of the most iconic pieces of music in the history of television. Since Constant's song is shorter than Bernard Hermann's theme for Season One, the opening animation segment needed to be cut down as well.  Another noticeable aspect that changed was Serling’s appearance at the beginning of every episode. In the previous season the host only appeared in the promos for the following week’s episodes (the one exception was the season finale “A World of His Own” in which he appeared as a gag at the end of the episode).  Dressed in a sharp, dark suit with a cigarette wedged between his fingers, his calm demeanor and teeth-clenched opening monologues became one of the defining characteristics of the show.  Serling also decided to change his official title at the start of the second season. Instead of “Executive Producer for Cayuga Productions” the closing credits now read “The Twilight Zone created by Rod Serling.”

                The new season saw many new faces on both the production and creative sides of the program.  To help with the hectic production schedule, Del Reisman was brought on as associate producer.  E. Darrell Hallenback and Lesley Parson, Jr. joined the crew as the regular assistant directors.  In the art department George W. Davis continued on from Season One with the help of newly hired Phil Barber.  Henry Grace remained the senior set director with the help of W. Web Arrowsmith.  Franklin Milton remained the senior sound engineer with Charles Sheid and Bill Edmondson working with him.  Ethel Winant was brought on as the new casting director.  Among the new directors in Season Two were Buzz Kulik, James Sheldon, Justus Addiss, Montgomery Pittman, and Elliot Silverstein, all of whom would become regulars on the program.  Season Two also saw the first script by author George Clayton Johnson, “A Penny for Your Thoughts.”  Johnson had already seen two of his stories adapted by Rod Serling during Season One but this was his official introduction as a regular writer on the show.  He would see two more of his stories adapted and would script a total of four episodes himself, several of which are regarded by fans and critics as some of the best of the series.

                Though the series was hitting its creative stride, Season Two was not without its setbacks.  As a cost-cutting measure initiated by CBS, the number of episodes was reduced from 36 to 29, with six episodes to be shot on videotape. The videotape form was in its infancy at the time* and the result was of such poor production quality that it was quickly decided videotape was not a feasible method for shooting the series.  Aside from this, the second season of The Twilight Zone marks arguably the most successful creative period during the show's five season run and offers a handful of gems that became some of the most recognizable images in television history.

Episodes shot on videotape:

“The Lateness of the Hour”

“Static”
“The Whole Truth”
“Night of the Meek”
“Twenty-Two”
“Long Distance Call”

Rod Serling’s Intro to Season Two:

“You’re traveling through another dimension.  A dimension not only of sight and sound but of mind.  A journey into a wondrous land whose boundaries are that of imagination. That’s the sign post up ahead, your next stop: the Twilight Zone.”

Note: For the first three episodes of the season a slightly shorter version of this intro is used.

*The videotape method required no director of photography since it was a standard four camera setup. It also required no editor since editing was accomplished virtually on the spot by switching from one camera to another in order to achieve the desired angle. Videotape did not allow for exterior photography, thus greatly limiting the type of shows Rod Serling and company could write for the videotaped episodes. The videotaped episodes had a different shooting schedule as well, requiring more days for rehearsal and fewer days for actual shooting. The videotaped episodes were transferred to 35mm film for broadcasting and storage. 

--Brian Durant and Jordan Prejean

"The Time Element"

William Bendix as reluctant time traveler Peter Jenson

"The Time Element"
from The Westinghouse Desilu Playhouse

Original Air Date: November 10, 1958

Cast:

Peter Jenson: William Bendix

Dr. Arnold Gillespie: Martin Balsam

Ensign Janoski: Darryl Hickman

Mrs. Janoski: Caroline Kearney

Bartender: Jesse White

Newspaper Editor: Bartlett Robinson

Newspaper Reporter: Don Keefer

Army Doctor: Alan Baxter

Drunk Man at Bar: Joe de Rita

Bartender at Andy's: Paul Bryar
Maid: Jesslyn Fax
Host: Desi Arnaz

Crew:

Writer: Rod Serling (original teleplay)

Director: Allen Reisner

Producer: Bert Granet
Production Supervisor: W. Argyle Nelson
Production Manager: James Paisley

Associate Producer: Jack Aldworth

Director of Photography: Nick Musuraca
Art Direction: Ralph Berger and Gabriel Scognamillo
Set Decoration: Sandy Grace
Assistant Director: John E. Burch
Casting: Kerwin Coughlin 
Film Editor: John Foley
Editorial Supervisor: Bill Heath
Story Editor: Dorothy Hechtlinger
Sound Editor: Jack A. Finlay
Sound Engineeer: Cam McCulloch
Theme Music: Johnny Green
Music Supervisor: E.C. Norton
Music Editor: Arnold Schwarzwald
Property Master: Kenneth Wescott
Wardrobe Design: Edward Stevenson 
Costumer: Della Fox

Makeup: Charles Gemora
Hair: Jane Shugrue 

Photographic Effects: Howard Anderson, Co.
Sound Effects: Glen Glenn Sound, Co.
Desi Arnaz in charge of production

Desi Arnaz's Opening Narration:

"Good evening, ladies and gentlemen, and welcome to another Westinghouse Desilu Playhouse. Tonight we're going to see a story written by Rod Serling and starring William Bendix. Our story begins in a doctor's office. A patient is sitting there. He walked into this office nine minutes ago."

Uncredited Voice-Over Narration:

"Once upon a time there was a psychiatrist named Arnold Gillespie and a patient whose name was Peter Jenson. Mr. Jenson walked into the office nine minutes ago. It is eleven o'clock, Saturday morning, October 4th, 1958. It is perhaps chronologically trite to be so specific about an hour and a date but involved in this story is a time element."

Summary:

            Peter Jenson visits Dr. Arnold Gillespie in hopes that the psychiatrist can help him alleviate the overburdening fear that his dreams of time travel may not be dreams at all. Jenson is extremely defensive about his situation being that he feels everyone will perceive him as crazy. Gillespie, however, simply urges Jenson to talk. Jenson tells Gillespie of a series of experiences that appear to be recurring dreams but that Jenson knows to be much more than that. Every night Jenson dreams the same thing. Here the audience "wakes up" with Jenson within his "dream." Jenson wakes up with a stunning hangover in an unfamiliar hotel room. He takes a moment to look around and out the window before calling the front desk. The front desk clerk tells Jenson that he is staying in the Hawaiian Imperial Hotel. Jenson gets up from his bed and finds a calendar which reads December 6. Suddenly, there is a knock at the door and a hotel maid enters the room. Jenson, confused and hungover, angrily interrogates the woman as to what he did last night and about what Jenson believes to be a joke at his expense. When the maid tells him that it's not October 4 as Jenson remembers but rather December 6, Jenson refuses to believe her. He is even more incredulous to the situation when the maid discloses that they aren't in New York City as Jenson remembers but rather in Honolulu, Hawaii. After shooing the maid from the room, Jenson decides that it’s time for a bit of the hair of the dog and goes downstairs to find the hotel bar. At this point, the only thing Jenson has a choice to believe is that he went on a two month bender and somehow wound up in Hawaii.

            Jenson's rough manner puts him at odds with the bartender but Jenson quickly makes friends with a young married couple next to him, Mr. and Mrs. Janoski. He buys the couple champagne. Jenson's mood quickly darkens when two things happen. First, Jenson learns that young Mr. Janoski is a sailor on the U.S.S. Arizona, a naval warship sunk by Japanese bombers in the attack on Pearl Harbor. Jenson has memory of this while no one else at the bar does. Second, Jenson gets into an argument with the bartender about the date. The bartender states that it is the year 1941 while Jenson, still fighting against the logic of his unlikely situation, insists that it is 1958. It takes Jenson seeing a newspaper nearby to really hit the situation home for him and, after making an embarrassing scene, runs panicked from the hotel bar.

            Back in Dr. Gillespie's office, Jenson continues his tale. He ran outside the hotel and looked at all cars in the parking lot and none of them were models newer than ‘41. Dr. Gillespie continues to play the skeptic. At this point, Jenson makes it very clear what he is saying.  When he dreams, it is real and when he "wakes up" it is still real. He is not just dreaming that he is going back in time; he actually is going back in time.

            Back in Jenson's "dream," we see him frantically placing numerous bets with various bookies on future sporting events that he now knows to be sure bets. Jenson is visited by the sailor Mr. Janoski. It seems Janoski and his wife are concerned about Jenson after his episode at the bar when he saw the newspaper with the headline about the impending war. By this time Jenson has learned to control his reactions and to play it cool when it comes to revealing that he is actually from 1958. He watches Janoski leave his room and meet his wife in the hallway and a change comes over him. He now realizes that he must attempt to save people like this young couple and decides to contact the local newspaper to reveal what he knows about the attack on Pearl Harbor.

            This proves to be an enormous miscalculation. As Jenson spills everything he knows about the imminent attack, he is ridiculed by the newspaper editor that warns Jenson against what he, the editor, believes to be a dangerous joke. Jenson and the editor eventually come to blows. An army doctor is called in to examine Jenson. This goes equally disastrous. Jenson checks out physically okay but when the doctor questions Jenson on subjects like the president and vice president of the United States, Jenson stumbles as he struggles to remember seventeen years prior to his present, 1958. Jenson runs out of the newspaper office and winds up back at the hotel bar.

              Here, Jenson again meets with Mr. and Mrs. Janoski. Having a little drink in him, Jenson begins to open up about what is going to happen the next day when the Japanese attack Pearl Harbor. He tries to warn the young naval officer not to board the U.S.S. Arizona the next day. He even tells the young couple about his travels backwards in time. He pleads with them but is only met with hostility and fear. As the couple tries to leave, Jenson completely breaks down and begins telling the young bride that her husband is going to die if he boards the ship the next day. Janoski punches Jenson and knocks him backwards into the jukebox. When Jenson begins scaring the rest of the people in the bar, the bartender knocks Jenson out cold. Jenson awakens in his bed to the sound of fighter planes flying overhead. He gets up and runs to the window.

            Back in Dr. Gillespie's office, the doctor gives Jenson a rundown of how time travel, and, specifically, how one person's actions in the past, will affect the future. Jenson, in an effort to prove to Dr. Gillespie that his is actually traveling back in time, tells a story of how he attempted to prove to himself that he actually had been back in Hawaii right before Pearl Harbor. When back in 1958, Jenson called for Janoski in the small town the couple mentioned having come from. Jenson got Janoski's mother on the phone and she informed Jenson that Janoski and his wife both died in the attack on Pearl Harbor.

            Voice-Over Narration: "Dr. Gillespie's patient lay on the

couch, almost in a stupor. They've been talking for hours. It was Saturday and Gillespie had planned to close early and go play golf. At that moment, he'd forgotten golf. He was concerned only with the fascinating and unbelievable story that this man in front of him had told him. And then, as he looked at him lying there on the couch, Dr. Gillespie knew that Jenson was falling asleep. He could tell by the look on the face that he was far from resting though his eyes were closed and he was no longer aware of him."

            Dr. Gillespie, looking down on Jenson, sees the man struggling in his sleep. Then we see a montage projected upon Jenson's head showing all that had transpired in the episode and the progression of events from Jenson's point of view. Jenson screams once and Dr. Gillespie is unable to wake him.
            Jenson awakens on December 7, 1941, to the sound of fighter planes flying over his hotel room. He rushes to the window, looks out, and keeps repeating "I told you," over and over. Then, in a particularly violent moment, the planes open fire upon the hotel. Bullets crash through the window to Jenson's room and kill him instantly.

            Dr. Gillespie is left alone in his office, confused as to what just happened. Jenson has vanished from the present because he died in the past. Gillespie looks around his office as though trying to remember something which he can't seem to grasp. Gillespie decides to go to a bar. There, he makes a toast to "happy dreams." Then he sees a picture of Jenson framed on the wall. When he asks the bartender who the man in the picture is, the bartender tells him that it's Peter Jenson. Jenson used to tend bar at this establishment. Gillespie says he looks familiar but the name doesn't ring a bell. When Gillespie asks the bartender what happened to Jenson, the bartender tells him that he died at Pearl Harbor.

            Voice-Over Narration: "It is October 4th, 1958, Saturday, 12:10 p.m. If anyone is remotely interested in the element of time."

             Desi Arnaz's Closing Narration: "As you can see, the pendulum has stopped. We wonder if Pete Jenson did go back in time or if he ever existed. My personal answer is that the doctor has seen Jenson's picture at the bar some time before and had a dream. Any of you out there have any other answers? Let me know. We'd like to thank Mr. William Bendix and the entire cast for their wonderful performance tonight." (Arnaz then previews next week's show and helps sell a Westinghouse refrigerator. This closing narration was excised from the syndicated version of the episode.)   

Commentary:

            "The Time Element" is, by general consent, the true pilot episode of the The Twilight Zone. Though "Where is Everybody?" is an excellent episode which does much to establish the thematic tone of the series, the episode was written and produced in such a way to garner approval from network executives and potential sponsors for the show. This is thought to be because Rod Serling planned to use fantasy elements to camouflage the social and political commentary found in his teleplays. However, in both "The Time Element" and "Where is Everybody?" this social-political commentary is nearly absent. It is important to note that though Serling's work is often remembered for its hard-lined commentary on the ills of society, he was also simply a lover of fantasy fiction who could write a fantasy script for the sake of it, evidenced  by "The Time Element."

            Serling's purpose, other than simply writing an entertaining show, was to display to both sponsors and network executives that a serious fantasy anthology show could achieve the same combination of viewer response and positive critical reception that any other type of show achieved. Serling previously attempted to sell CBS a fantasy anthology series using an hour-long script titled "I Shot an Arrow Into the Air," a tale of an alien encounter in a remote village which Serling recycled for the third season Twilight Zone episode "The Gift."* CBS passed on the script. 
            Serling tried again with another one-hour script, "The Time Element." Serling initially envisioned his proposed series as utilizing the one-hour format common to dramatic anthology programs of the time. CBS once again passed on Serling's pitch, not understanding the appeal of a fantasy drama or the likelihood of an audience receptive to such a show. They apparently found "The Time Element" script appealing enough, however, to buy it from Serling and then promptly shelve it. Though fantasy was occasionally featured on anthology shows from the earliest days of television, often for comedic purposes, networks were reluctant to devote an entire anthology show to this subject. The idea that fantasy and science fiction television could also be engaging drama simply did not exist in the minds of network executives in the 1950s. Serling hoped to change that with "The Time Element," and the combination of great script, cast, and production team got the job done well enough for CBS to take on Serling's new show, The Twilight Zone, just a few months later. 
            In all likelihood, the network reacted to the extremely positive audience response to "The Time Element" rather than to any inherent quality in the production itself. "The Time Element" became a shining moment for The Westinghouse Desilu Playhouse, as its broadcast engineered an overwhelmingly positive response from viewers and brought in a flood of letters to the network offices. Though something of a rarity these days, the episode has been shown in syndication, including as part of The Museum of Television and Radio Showcase. If nothing else, "The Time Element" proved not only was the public ready for quality fantasy and science fiction on television, but that they hungered for it. Though popular radio shows of the 1940's, such as Lights Out and Suspense, made the transition to television, and forerunners such as Tales of Tomorrow and Science Fiction Theatre enjoyed brief runs, in just a few short years television would see the greatest influx of this type of quality programming in its history as shows such as The Twilight Zone, The Outer Limits, One Step Beyond, 'Way Out, Thriller, and, ultimately, Star Trek invaded the small screen.

            On a thematic level, "The Time Element" resembles the main themes of The Twilight Zone as closely as the official pilot episode, "Where is Everybody?" The resemblance can be see in comparison to Charles Beaumont's first season episode "Perchance to Dream." Read more about that episode here. Beaumont adapted his teleplay from his own story published in the October, 1958 issue of Playboy, just one month before "The Time Element" premiered on The Westinghouse Desilu Playhouse. In both episodes, a man is experiencing a recurring dream that places him in a dangerous situation. Both men seek the help of a psychiatrist and are ultimately doomed by the tragedy of their situation. The obvious difference in the episodes is that in Beaumont's "Perchance to Dream" there is no element of time travel.

            "The Time Element" also closely resembles Serling's other time travel episodes in which a character journeys into the past. Most of these, such as "Walking Distance" from season one, "King Nine Will Not Return" and "Back There" from season two, and "No Time Like the Past" from season four, deal with the inability of a well-meaning character to correct a mistake or prevent a tragedy, such as the bombing of Pearl Harbor or the assassination of Abraham Lincoln. Like another Twilight Zone writer who spent a lot of time on the subject matter, Ray Bradbury, whose most famous story on the subject is "A Sound of Thunder," in which the inadvertent killing of a butterfly severely alters the future, Dr. Gillespie in Serling's script describes exactly what Bradbury indicates by explaining the process of altering the future with either action or inaction in the past. For Serling, however, it is not so much that his characters go into the past and change the future but that they find themselves faced with inevitable failure and an inability to do anything about it. In "The Time Element," Jenson is hit with resistance everywhere he goes. The more frantic he becomes the crazier he appears to others and the more resistant they become to his efforts. It is a terrifying and effectively suspenseful construct that Serling would return to again several times throughout the course of The Twilight Zone.
            Serling previously attempted a version of "The Time Element" in the early days of his writing career. In 1951, a year after graduating from Antioch College, Serling found work in Cincinnati for WLW, a radio station which focused on comedy and variety programs, for which Serling provided material but for which he had little passion. As a solution, he turned to the television arm of a rival station, WKRC-TV, which was receptive to his dramatic scripts. Serling developed a summer anthology series, The Storm, and set about displaying his talents to a regional audience. Many of the plays he wrote for The Storm would be re-imagined for his later work, including "The Time Element" and a first attempt at his Emmy Award-winning triumph "Requiem for a Heavyweight," a play with the intriguing original title "The Twilight Rounds." Serling resorted to recycling scripts from The Storm, much of which material was admittedly not up to Serling's high standards, due to the influx of offers following his Emmy Award-winning "Patterns" on Kraft Television Theatre (January 12, 1955). 

            Several members of the cast and production team for "The Time Element" would return to work with Serling on The Twilight Zone. On the production side, director Allen Reisner would return to direct the season one episode, "Mr. Denton on Doomsday." Producer Bert Granet would return to produce 18 episodes of seasons four and five of The Twilight Zone. It was Granet that pushed to get "The Time Element" in front of audiences after the script was rejected by CBS. Granet was eager to work with Serling (who was one of the most respected and in-demand television writers of the time) and pushed the fantasy drama forward on The Westinghouse Desilu Playhouse. It was not an easy task, however, as Granet faced resistance from the show's sponsor and needed the firm backing of Desi Arnaz to get the fantasy drama made. From the cast comes excellent character actor Martin Balsam who went on to feature in two Twilight Zone episodes, "The Sixteen Millimeter Shrine" from season one and "The New Exhibit" from season four. Balsam enjoyed a fruitful career as a character actor and became best known as the private investigator Arbogast, and Mother's second victim, in Alfred Hitchcock's Psycho. Don Keefer, playing the newspaper reporter in "The Time Element," returned to work with Serling on three Twilight Zone episodes, the most memorable of which was his turn as Dan Hollis, who is transformed into a grotesque jack-in-the-box by an adolescent with the power of God, Anthony (played by Bill Mumy) in the third season episode, "It's a Good Life." Keefer also featured in "Passage on the Lady Anne" from season four and "From Agnes, With Love," from the fifth season. Jesse White, in a tense and dramatic role for "The Time Element" as the gruff bartender that knocks out William Bendix's character near the end of the show, was more at home in comedic roles and was featured twice in such a capacity on The Twilight Zone in two episodes from season three: "Once Upon a Time," alongside Buster Keaton, and "Cavender is Coming," alongside Carol Burnett. 

            Though he would not work again with Rod Serling on The Twilight Zone, another interesting member of the production team is makeup artist Charles Gemora. Born Carlos Cruz Gemora in the Philippines, Gemora first found work in the days of silent cinema at Universal Studios where the young and talented artist was a sculptor for the production department. Where Gemora really found his niche, however, was as a "gorilla man." Gemora's slight frame and excellent makeup talents led him to create and perform within realistic and often frightening gorilla suits on such classic horror films as The Unholy Three, Murders in the Rue Morgue, and Island of Lost Souls, working alongside such stars as Lon Chaney, Bela Lugosi, and Charles Laughton. Though it would have been special to see what Gemora could have done with the material presented on The Twilight Zone, the show's alliance with MGM's talented makeup department, led by Academy Award winner William Tuttle, was more than capable of providing memorable special effects for the series. Read about William Tuttle's contribution to The Twilight Zone here.

             Serling revisted "The Time Element" in 1962 when he attempted to adapt the teleplay into a feature film starring Kirk Douglas and directed by John Frankenheimer. Serling sold his teleplay to Desilu Productions at the time "The Time Element" was produced for the Westinghouse Desilu Playhouse and Desilu optioned their first refusal rights on a future productions of the teleplay, essentially sinking Serling's planned feature film before it gained any traction. 
            "The Time Element" stands the test of time as an intuitive and somewhat ingenious early offering of the type of fantasy soon to be featured prominently on late 1950s and early 1960s television. It is important to remember that although the easily recognizable tropes of science fiction were standard fare in pulp magazines and book anthologies, it was a relatively novel presentation on television. Beyond Rod Serling's natural talent, his greatest contribution to fans of this type of show was simply the drive to get it on television and get it taken seriously; to put it in front of producers and network executives and sponsors and to show that this type of programming, when done with serious intention, works. Though The Twilight Zone was never a ratings winner it undoubtedly remains one of the most critically acclaimed and fondly remembered shows in television history. "The Time Element" can be considered essential along with the best of The Twilight Zone in that it upholds the same high standards representative of the best the show had to offer. The type of show that "The Time Element" represents is the type that provides both the escape and the provocation, utilizing the medium to its fullest potential. 

           

Grade: B

Grateful acknowledgement to:

-Marc Scott Zicree for information contained in his commentary on the Definitive DVD release The Twilight Zone: The 5th Dimension.

-The Cincinnati Enquirer for "'The Twilight Zone' Had Roots in Cincinnati," by John Kiesewetter (May 27, 2014).

-The Twilight Zone: Unlocking the Door to a Television Classic by Martin Grams, Jr. (OTR, 2008)

Notes:

--Allen Reisner also directed the season one episode "Mr. Denton on Doomsday."

--Martin Balsam also appeared in the season one episode "The Sixteen Millimeter Shrine" and the fourth season episode "The New Exhibit."

--Don Keefer also appeared in the season three episode "It's a Good Life," the fourth season episode "Passage on the Lady Anne," and the fifth season episode "From Agnes, With Love."

--Jesse White also appeared in the season three episodes "Once Upon a Time" and "Cavender is Coming."
--Bartlett Robinson also appeared in the second season episode "Back There" and the third season episode "To Serve Man"
--"The Time Element" was adapted into a Twilight Zone Radio Drama starring Bobby Slayton.

-JP

The Vortex Library

Welcome to the Vortex Library. Here you will find listings for books, audio books, magazines, comic books, films, source material, and miscellaneous literary items related to The Twilight Zone and Rod Serling's Night Gallery. Items in bold are favorite and/or important/essential titles. 

See also: Podcasts of Interest

Series Guides & Critical Works:

--The Twilight Zone Companion by Marc Scott Zicree (Bantam Books, 1982; Revised 2^nd edition, 1989 (Silman-James Press, 1992); Revised 3rd edition, Silman-James, 2018).  

--The Twilight Zone: Unlocking the Door to a Television Classic by Martin Grams, Jr. (OTR, 2008)

--Dimensions Behind the Twilight Zone: A Backstage Tribute to Television’s Groundbreaking Series by Stewart T. Stanyard (ECW, 2007)

--Rod Serling and the Twilight Zone: the 50^th Anniversary Tribute by Douglas Brode and Carol Serling (Barricade Books, 2009)

--Trivia from the Twilight Zone by Bill Devoe (BearManor Media, 2008)

--A Critical History of Television’s The Twilight Zone, 1959-1964 by Don Presnell and Marty McGee (McFarland, 1998)

--The Twilight Zone FAQ: All That’s Left to Know About the Fifth Dimension and Beyond by Dave Thompson (Applause Theatre & Cinema Books, 2015)

--The Twilight Zone: Rod Serling’s Wondrous Land by Kenneth Reynolds (iUniverse, 2014)

--Everything I Need to Know I Learned in the Twilight Zone: A Fifth Dimension Guide to Life by Mark Dawidziak (Thomas Dunne Books, 2017)

--The Twilight Zone Encyclopedia by Steven Jay Rubin (Chicago Review Press, 2017)

--A Dimension of Sound: Music in the Twilight Zone by Reba Wissner (Pendragon Press, 2013)

--Visions from the Twilight Zone by Arlen Schumer (Chronicle Books, 1991)

--Philosophy in the Twilight Zone, edited by Noel Carroll and Lester Hunt (Wiley-Blackwell, 2009)

--Irony In the Twilight Zone: How the Series Critiqued Postwar American Culture by David Melbye (Rowman & Littlefield, 2015)

--The Twilight Zone and Philosophy: A Dangerous Dimension to Visit, edited by Heather L. Rivera and Alexander E. Hooke (Open Court, 2018)

--The Twilight Zone: The Series by Scott V. Palmer (Cypress Hill Press, 2017)

--The Twilight Zone (TV Milestones) by Barry Keith Grant (Wayne State University Press, 2020)

--The Twilight Zone: Revisited and Reviewed, Volume One by Bob Nearenberg, K.J. Batten, Linn Carpenter, and Ken Ardizzone (Wasteland Press, 2020)

--The Binge-Watcher's Guide to The Twilight Zone by Jacob Trusell (Riverdale Avenue Books, 2021)

--The Many Lives of The Twilight Zone: Essays on the Television and Film Franchise, edited by Ron Riekki and Kevin J. Wetmore, Jr. (McFarland & Co., 2022)

--Fantastic Television by Gary Gerani and Paul H. Schulman (Harmony Books, 1977)

Teleplays: 

--As Timeless as Infinity: The Complete Twilight Zone Scripts of Rod Serling (10 volumes), edited by Tony Albarella and published annually by Gauntlet Press between 2004 and 2013. The contents of these volumes were not compiled chronologically, but rather in an order determined by the editor, presumably to ensure each volume had one or more of Serling's stronger scripts, or at least one or more scripts from notable episodes of the series. The contents of each volume are listed below. 

Volume 1:

"Where Is Everybody?"

"Eye of the Beholder"

"Third from the Sun"
"The Purple Testament"

"The Big, Tall Wish"

"A Most Unusual Camera" (two versions)

"The Mind and the Matter"

"The Dummy"

Volume 2:

"Walking Distance"

"Judgment Night"

"King Nine Will Not Return"

"The Silence" (two versions)

"The Passersby"

"The Trade-Ins"

"Of Late I Think of Cliffordville"

"A Short Drink from a Certain Fountain"

"I Am the Night - Color Me Black"

Volume 3:

"One for the Angels"

"Time Enough at Last"

"The Four of Us Are Dying"

"Twenty-Two"

"Deaths-Head Revisited"

"The Changing of the Guard"

"On Thursday We Leave for Home"

"A Kind of Stopwatch" (two versions)

"The Long Morrow"

Volume 4:

"The Fever" 

"the Monsters Are Due on Maple Street"

"The Midnight Sun"

"The Obsolete Man"

"A Hundred Yards Over the Rim"

"The Mirror"

"Four O'Clock"

"No Time Like the Past" 

"In Praise of Pip"

"The Old Man in the Cave"

Volume 5:

"Mirror Image"

"A Stop at Willoughby"

"A Passage for Trumpet"

"Nervous Man in a Four Dollar Room"

"The Odyssey of Flight 33"

"The Arrival"

"The Parallel" (two versions)

"Uncle Simon"

Volume 6:

"Escape Clause"

"And When the Sky Was Opened"
"The Hitch-Hiker"

"Still Valley"

"Showdown with Rance McGrew"

"He's Alive"

"The 7th Is Made Up of Phantoms" 

"The Masks"

"Mr. Garrity and the Graves"

Volume 7:

"Mr. Denton on Doomsday"

"The Sixteen-Millimeter Shrine"

"The Lonely"

"Mr. Bevis"

"Night of the Meek"

"The Man in the Bottle"

"Dust"

"The Whole Truth" (with alterante scenes)

"Mr. Dingle, the Strong"

"Cavender Is Coming"

Volume 8:

"What You Need"

"Nightmare as a Child"

"The Rip Van Winkle Caper"

"The Shelter"

"It's a Good Life"

"A Quality of Mercy"

"One More Pallbearer"

"The Thirty Fathom Grave"

"Sounds and Silences"

"The Jeopardy Room"

Volume 9:

"I Shot an Arrow into the Air"

"People Are Alike All Over"

"Execution"

"The Mighty Casey"

"Will the Real Martian Please Stand Up?"

"To Serve Man"

"The Little People"

"Hocus-Pocus and Frisby"

"Probe 7, Over and Out"

"The Brain Center at Whipple's"

Volume 10:

"The After Hours"

"A Thing About Machines"

"The Lateness of the Hour"

"Back There"

"Five Characters in Search of an Exit"

"The Gift"

"The Bard"

"The Last Night of a Jockey"

"The Fear"

--The Best of Rod Serling’s Twilight Zone Scripts, edited by Tony Albarella (Gauntlet Press, 2014)
Includes: "Walking Distance," "Time Enough at Last," "The Monsters Are Due on Maple Street," "A Stop at Willoughby," "A Passage for Trumpet," "The Eye of the Beholder," "The Obsolete Man," "The Shelter," "Deaths-Head Revisited," and "To Serve Man." 

--Richard Matheson’s The Twilight Zone Scripts, edited by Stanley Wiater (Cemetery Dance, 1998) Released in two paperback volumes by Gauntlet Press in 2001 & 2002. 

--The Twilight Zone Scripts of Charles Beaumont, Volume 1, edited by Roger Anker (Gauntlet Press, 2004). Volume 2 never appeared.
Includes: "Perchance to Dream," "A Nice Place to Visit," "The Howling Man," "The Prime Mover," "The Jungle," "Person or Persons Unknown," "In His Image," "Passage on the Lady Anne," "Gentlemen, Be Seated." This latter teleplay was scripted for the fifth season of the series but never filmed. 

--Writing for the Twilight Zone by George Clayton Johnson (Outré House, 1980)

--Twilight Zone Scripts and Stories by George Clayton Johnson (Streamline Pictures, 1996)

--The Twilight Zone Scripts of Earl Hamner, edited by Tony Albarella (Cumberland House, 2003)

--The Twilight Zone Scripts of Jerry Sohl, edited by Christopher Conlon (BearManor Media, 2004)

--Filet of Sohl by Jerry Sohl, edited by Christopher Conlon (BearManor Media, 2003). Contains teleplays for two unproduced episodes: “Who Am I?” and “Pattern for Doomsday.”

--Forgotten Gems from the Twilight Zone (2 volumes), edited by Andrew Ramage (BearManor Media, 2005 & 2006)

Volume one:
"Pattern for Doomsday" by Charles Beaumont (unproduced) 
"The Chaser" by Robert Presnell, Jr. 
"Long Distance Call" by William Idelson
"The Trouble With Templeton" by E. Jack Neuman
"Dead Man's Shoes" by OCee Ritch
"I Dream of Genie" by John Furia, Jr. 

Volume two:
"The Incredible World of Horace Ford" by Reginald Rose
"What's In the Box" by Martin Goldsmith
"The Encounter" by Martin Goldsmith
"Number Twelve Looks Just Like You" by John Tomerlin
"Come Wander With Me" by Anthony Wilson
"Dreamflight" by William F. Nolan & George Clayton Johnson (unproduced)

Source Stories and Adaptations:

--The Twilight Zone: The Original Stories, edited by Martin Harry Greenberg, Richard Matheson, and Charles G. Waugh (Avon, 1985 (paperback), MJF, 1985 (hardcover))
Note: does not include "The Chaser" by John Collier 

--Stories from the Twilight Zone by Rod Serling (Bantam Books, 1960)
Includes: "The Mighty Casey," "Escape Clause," "Walking Distance," "The Fever," "Where Is Everybody?" and "The Monsters Are Due on Maple Street." 

--More Stories from the Twilight Zone by Rod Serling (Bantam Books, 1961)
Includes: "The Lonely," "Mr. Dingle, the Strong," "A Thing About Machines," "The Big, Tall Wish," "A Stop at Willoughby," "The Odyssey of Flight 33," and "Dust." 

--New Stories from the Twilight Zone by Rod Serling (Bantam Books, 1962)
Includes: "The Whole Truth," "The Shelter," "Showdown with Rance McGrew," "The Night of the Meek," "The Midnight Sun," "The Rip Van Winkle Caper." 

--Stories from the Twilight Zone by Rod Serling (Bantam Spectra, 1986; omnibus edition). Issued in hardcover by TV Books in 1998.

--From the Twilight Zone by Rod Serling (Nelson Doubleday/BCE, 1962). Reprints 14 of the 19 stories from the Bantam Books. Omits “The Fever,” “Night of the Meek,” “A Thing About Machines,” “A Stop at Willoughby,” and “Showdown with Rance McGrew.”

--Rod Serling’s The Twilight Zone by Walter B. Gibson (Grosset & Dunlap, 1963). Paperback: Chilling Stories from Rod Serling’s The Twilight Zone (Tempo Books, 1965). Bold indicates adaptations of Twilight Zone episodes. 
Includes: "The Ghost of Ticonderoga," "Back There," "The Ghost-Town Ghost," "Judgment Night," "The Curse of Seven Towers," "The Tiger God," "The Avenging Ghost," "Return from Oblivion," "The House on the Square," "Death's Masquerade," "The Riddle of the Crypt," "Dead Man's Chest," and "The Thirteenth Story." 

--Rod Serling’s Twilight Zone Revisited by Walter B. Gibson (Grosset & Dunlap, 1964). Paperback: Tempo Books, 1967
Includes: "Two Live Ghosts," "The Edge of Doom," "The Fiery Spell," "The Ghost of the Dixie Belle," "The Purple Testament," "The Ghost Train," "Beyond the Rim," "The 16-Millimeter Shrine," "The Ghost of Jolly Roger," "The House on the Island," "The Man in the Bottle," "The Mirror Image," "The Man Who Dropped By." 

--Rod Serling’s Twilight Zone by Walter B. Gibson (Wings Books, 1983; omnibus edition). *Some of the stories were adapted by Gibson from episodes of his 1955 radio series Strange. 

--Stories from the Twilight Zone by Rod Serling, adapted by Horace J. Elias and illustrated by Carl Pfeufer (Skylark Illustrated Books, 1979). Comic book adaptations of Serling’s Stories from the Twilight Zone (1960).

--Rod Serling’s The Twilight Zone: Walking Distance, adapted by Mark Kneece and illustrated by Dove McHargue (Walker, 2008)

--Rod Serling’s The Twilight Zone: The After Hours, adapted by Mark Kneece and illustrated by Rebekah Issacs (Walker, 2008)

--Rod Serling’s The Twilight Zone: The Odyssey of Flight 33, adapted by Mark Kneece and illustrated by Robert Grabe (Walker, 2008)

--Rod Serling’s The Twilight Zone: The Monsters Are Due on Maple Street, adapted by Mark Kneece and illustrated by Rich Ellis (Walker, 2008)

--Rod Serling’s The Twilight Zone: The Midnight Sun, adapted by Mark Kneece and illustrated Anthony Spay (Walker, 2009)

--Rod Serling’s The Twilight Zone: Deaths-Head Revisited, adapted by Mark Kneece and illustrated Chris Lie (Walker, 2009)

--Rod Serling’s The Twilight Zone: Will the Real Martian Please Stand Up? Adapted by Mark Kneece and illustrated by Rich Ellis (Walker, 2009)

--Rod Serling’s The Twilight Zone: The Big Tall Wish, adapted by Mark Kneece and illustrated by Chris Lie (Walker, 2009)

--The Twilight Zone by Anne Washburn, adapted from the work of Rod Serling, Charles Beaumont, and Richard Matheson (Oberon Books (Oberon Modern Plays) 2017). Text of the 2017 UK stage production from Your Next Stop Limited.  
Adapts elements from: "And When the Sky Was Opened," "Eye of the Beholder," "Little Girl Lost," "The Long Morrow," "Nightmare as a Child," "Perchance to Dream," "The Shelter," and "Will the Real Martian Please Stand Up?" 

*See bottom of post for information on individual source stories. 

Audio:

--The Twilight Zone: The Mighty Casey, written by Rod Serling, performed by Fritz Weaver (Harper Audio, 1992)

--The Twilight Zone: Walking Distance, written by Rod Serling, performed by Cliff Robertson (Harper Audio, 1992)

--The Twilight Zone: The Odyssey of Flight 33, written by Rod Serling, performed by Roddy McDowall (Harper Audio, 1993)

--The Twilight Zone: The Midnight Sun, written by Rod Serling, performed by Lois Nettleton (Harper Audio, 1993)

--The Twilight Zone: The Monsters Are Due on Maple Street, written by Rod Serling, performed by Theodore Bikel (Harper Audio, 1993)

--The Twilight Zone: The Lonely, written by Rod Serling, performed by Jean Marsh (Harper Audio, 1993). 

--The Twilight Zone Radio Dramas (18 volumes, 176 episodes), developed and produced by Carl Amari for Falcon Picture Group. Read our history and guide here.

Books and Films by and about Rod Serling:

--Rod Serling: Submitted for Your Approval, written by John F. Goff and Thomas Wagner, directed by Susan Lacy (PBS, 1995). A documentary film, part of PBS American Masters series.

--As I Knew Him: My Dad, Rod Serling by Anne Serling (Citadel, 2013)

--Rod Serling: His Life, Work, and Imagination by Nicholas Parisi (University Press of Mississippi, 2018)

--Rod Serling: The Dreams and Nightmares of Life in the Twilight Zone by Joel Engel (Contemporary Books, 1989); reprinted as: Last Stop, The Twilight Zone: The Biography of Rod Serling (Antenna Books, 2019)

­--Serling: The Rise and Twilight of Television’s Last Angry Man by Gordon F. Sander (Dutton, 1992)

--In the Zone: The Twilight Worlds of Rod Serling by Peter Wolfe (Popular Press, 1997)

--Unknown Serling: An Episodic History, the Bradbury, Kennedy, Pentagon, and WWII Stories by Amy Boyle Johnston (Cayuga, 2015; e-book, 2017)

--Spaceships and Politics: The Political Theory of Rod Serling by Leslie Dale Feldman (Lexington Books, 2010)

--The Twilight Man: Rod Serling and the Birth of Television by Koren Shadmi (Life Drawn, 2019). A graphic novel biography.

--Rod Serling at 100: One Writer's Acknowledgement by Joseph Dougherty (Tucker DS Press, 2024)

 --The Season to be Wary by Rod Serling (Little, Brown, 1967). Paperback: Bantam, 1968.  
Includes: "The Escape Route," "Color Scheme," and "Eyes." 
Two stories, “The Escape Route” and “Eyes,” were later adapted by Serling for the Night Gallery pilot film (1969). 

--Rod Serling’s Triple W: Witches, Warlocks, and Werewolves, ghost-edited by Gordon R. Dickson (Bantam Books, 1963)
Includes: 
"The Amulet" by Gordon R. Dickson
"The Story of Sidi Nonman" by Anonymous 
"The Final Ingredient" by Jack Sharkey
"Blind Alley" by Malcolm Jameson (adapted for TZ as "Of Late I Think of Cliffordville")
"Young Goodman Brown" by Nathaniel Hawthorne
"The Chestnut Beads" by Jane Roberts
"Hatchery of Dreams" by Fritz Leiber
"The Mark of the Beast" by Rudyard Kipling
"And Not Quite Human" by Joe L. Hensley 
"Wolves Don't Cry" by Bruce Elliott
"The Black Retriever" by Charles G. Finney
"Witch Trials and the Law" by Charles Mackay

--Rod Serling’s Devils and Demons, ghost-edited by Gordon R. Dickson (Bantam Books, 1967)
Includes: 
"The Montavarde Camera" by Avram Davidson
"The Coach" by Violet Hunt
"Adapted" by Carol Emshwiller
"Death Cannot Wither" by Judith Merril
"The Story of the Goblins Who Stole a Sexton" by Charles Dickens
"Pollock and the Porroh Man" by H.G. Wells
"Stars, Won't You Hide Me?" by Ben Bova
"The Bottle Imp" by Robert Louis Stevenson
"The Adventure of the German Student" by Washington Irving
"The Four-Fifteen Express" by Amelia B. Edwards
"The Blue Sphere" by Theodore Dreiser 
"The Bisara of Pooree" by Rudyard Kipling
"A Time to Keep" by Kate Wilhelm 
"Brother Coelestin" by Yaroslav Vrchliky 

--Rod Serling’s Other Worlds, with story notes by Jack C. Haldeman II (Bantam Books, 1978)
Includes: 
"They" by Robert A. Heinlein 
"Fifteen Miles" by Ben Bova
"Dolphin's Way" by Gordon R. Dickson
"The Royal Opera House" by Carl Jacobi
"Special Aptitude" by Theodore Sturgeon
"The Underdweller" by William F. Nolan
"I'm in Marsport Without Hilda" by Isaac Asimov
"A Nice, Shady Place" by Dennis Etchison
"Construction Shack" by Clifford D. Simak
"A Little Journey" by Ray Bradbury 
"The Visible Man" by Gardner Dozois
"Mister Magister" by Thomas F. Monteleone 
"What Johnny Did on His Summer Vacation" by Joe Haldeman & Robert Thurston
"Little Old Miss Macbeth" by Fritz Leiber 

--Patterns: Four Television Plays With the Author’s Personal Commentaries (Bantam Books, 1957). Includes: “Patterns,” “The Rack,” “Old Macdonald Had a Curve,” and “Requiem for a Heavyweight.”

--Twilight Zone: Rod Serling’s Lost Classics (CBS, 1994), written by Rod Serling (with Richard Matheson), directed by Robert Markowitz, produced by Carol Serling. Television film based on previously unproduced Serling scripts “The Theatre” and “Where the Dead Are,” hosted by James Earl Jones and starring Gary Cole, Amy Irving, Jack Palance, and Patrick Bergen.

 Books and Films about Charles Beaumont:

--The Work of Charles Beaumont: An Annotated Bibliography and Guide by William F. Nolan (Borgo Press, 1986; revised ed. 1990). #6 in the Bibliographies of Modern Authors series

--Running From the Hunter: The Life and Works of Charles Beaumont by Lee Prosser (Borgo Press, 1996). #68 in The Milford Series: Popular Writers of Today

--Charles Beaumont: The Short Life of Twilight Zone’s Magic Man, directed by Jason V. Brock (JaSunni Productions, 2010)

Books about Richard Matheson:

--The Richard Matheson Companion, edited by Stanley Wiater, Matthew R. Bradley, and Paul Stuve (Gauntlet Press, 2008)

--The Twilight and Other Zones: The Dark Worlds of Richard Matheson, edited by Stanley Wiater, Matthew R. Bradley, and Paul Stuve (Citadel, 2009). A revised edition of The Richard Matheson Companion.

--Richard Matheson on Screen: A History of the Filmed Works by Matthew R. Bradley (McFarland, 2010)

--Richard Matheson’s Monsters: Gender in the Stories, Scripts, Novels, and Twilight Zone Episodes by June M. Pulliam and Anthony J. Fonseca (Rowman & Littlefield, 2016)

Books about George Clayton Johnson:

--George Clayton Johnson, Fictioneer: From Ocean’s 11, Through The Twilight Zone, to Logan’s Run, and Beyond by Vivien Cooper (BearManor Media, 2013)

--George's Run: A Writer's Journey Through the Twilight Zone by Henry Chamberlain (Rutger's University Press, 2023). A graphic novel biography. 

Selected Books about Ray Bradbury:

--The Ray Bradbury Companion by William F. Nolan (Gale, 1975)

--Bradbury: An Illustrated Life: A Journey to Far Metaphor by Jerry Weist (William Morrow, 2002)

--The Bradbury Chronicles: The Life of Ray Bradbury by Sam Weller (William Morrow, 2005)

--Listen to the Echoes: The Ray Bradbury Interviews by Sam Weller (Stopsmiling Books, 2010). 

--Becoming Ray Bradbury by Jonathan R. Eller (University of Illinois Press, 2011)

--Ray Bradbury Unbound by Jonathan R. Eller (University of Illinois Press, 2014)

--Ray Bradbury: Beyond Apollo by Jonathan R. Eller (University of Illinois Press, 2020)

--Nolan on Bradbury: Sixty Years of Writing About the Master of Science Fiction by William F. Nolan (ed. S.T. Joshi) (Hippocampus Press, 2013)

--Remembrance: Selected Correspondence of Ray Bradbury ed. Jonathan R. Eller (Simon & Schuster, 2023). 

Additional books about Ray Bradbury can be found here. 

Books about Earl Hamner:

--Earl Hamner: From Walton’s Mountain to Tomorrow by James E. Person, Jr. (Cumberland House, 2005)

Books by producer Buck Houghton:

­­--What a Producer Does: The Art of Moviemaking (Not the Business) by Buck Houghton (Silman-James, 1991)

Books by producer William Froug:

--The Screenwriter Looks at the Screenwriter (Silman-James, 1972). Revised and expanded as The New Screenwriter Looks at the New Screenwriter (1992). Froug authored and contributed to several additional books on screenwriting. 

--How I Escaped Gilligan’s Island: And Other Misadventures of a Hollywood Writer-Producer by William Froug (Popular Press, 2005). 

Books related to the first Twilight Zone revival series (1985-1989):

--New Stories from the Twilight Zone, edited by Martin Harry Greenberg (Avon, 1991). Re-released in 1997 by MJF as The New Twilight Zone.
Collects the source stories for the first revival series. 

--Tales from the New Twilight Zone by J. Michael Straczynski (Bantam Spectra, 1989)
Prose adaptations of teleplays for the first revival series. 
Includes: "The Mind of Simon Foster," "The Curious Case of Edgar Witherspoon," "Dream Me a Life," "The Call," "Acts of Terror," "Special Service," "The Wall," "The Trance," "Rendezvous in a Dark Place," "Something in the Walls," and "Our Selena Is Dying" (with Rod Serling). 

Books related to the second Twilight Zone revival series (2002):

--The Twilight Zone: The Pool Guy/Memphis by Jay Russell (Black Flame, 2004)

--The Twilight Zone: Upgrade/Sensuous Cindy by Pat Cadigan (Black Flame, 2004)

--The Twilight Zone: Sunrise/Into the Woods by Paul Woods (Black Flame, 2004)

--The Twilight Zone: Chosen/The Placebo Effect by K.C. Winters (Black Flame, 2005)

--The Twilight Zone: Burned/One Night at Mercy by Christa Faust (Black Flame, 2005)

Books related to Twilight Zone: The Movie (1983):

--Twilight Zone: The Movie by Robert Bloch (Warner Books, 1983). A novelization of the film script. Read our review here.

--Special Effects: Disaster at “Twilight Zone,” the Tragedy and the Trial by Ron LaBrecque (Scribner, 1988)

--Outrageous Conduct: Art, Ego, and the Twilight Zone Case by Stephen Farber and Marc Green (Arbor House, 1988)

--Apocalypse on the Set: Nine Disastrous Film Productions by Ben Taylor (Overlook Duckworth, 2012)

--Fly By Night: The Secret Story of Steven Spielberg, Warner Bros., and The Twilight Zone Deaths by Steven Chain (TrineDay Star, 2021)

Books and audio books related to Rod Serling’s Night Gallery:

--Night Gallery by Rod Serling (Bantam Books, 1971)
Includes: "The Sole Survivor" (filmed as "Lone Survivor"), "Make Me Laugh," "Pamela's Voice," "Does the Name Grimsby Do Anything to You?" (never filmed), "Clean Kills and Other Trophies," and "They're Tearing Down Tim Riley's Bar." 

--Night Gallery 2 by Rod Serling (Bantam Books, 1972)
Includes: "Collector's Items" (filmed as "Rare Objects"), "The Messiah on Mott Street," "The Different Ones," "Lindemann's Catch," and "Suggestion" (filmed as "Finnegan's Flight"). 

--Rod Serling’s Night Gallery Reader, edited by Carol Serling, Charles G. Waugh, and Martin H. Greenberg (Dembner Books, 1987); paperback: Knightsbridge Publishing, 1990
Collects some of the source stories for the series. For a full list of source stories for the series, see bottom of post. 
Includes: 
"The Escape Route" by Rod Serling
"The Dead Man" by Fritz Leiber
"The Little Black Bag" by C.M. Kornbluth
"The House" by Andre Maurois 
"The Boy Who Predicted Earthquakes" by Margaret St. Clair
"The Academy" by David Ely
"The Devil Is Not Mocked" by Manly Wade Wellman
"Brenda" by Margaret St. Clair
"Big Surprise" by Richard Matheson
"House - With Ghost" by August Derleth
"The Dark Boy" by August Derleth
"Pickman's Model" by H.P. Lovecraft
"Cool Air" by H.P. Lovecraft
"Sorworth Place" by Russell Kirk
"The Return of the Sorcerer" by Clark Ashton Smith
"The Girl With the Hungry Eyes" by Fritz Leiber
"The Horsehair Trunk" by Davis Grubb
"The Ring With the Velvet Ropes" by Edward D. Hoch

--Tomorrow: Science Fiction and the Future, edited by Alan L. Madsen (Scholastic, 1973). Contains Rod Serling's "Class of '99." 

--Rod Serling’s Night Gallery: An After-Hours Tour by Scott Skelton and Jim Benson (Syracuse University Press, 1998) 

--Rod Serling's Night Gallery: The Art of Darkness by Scott Skelton and Jim Benson (Creature Features, 2020); a lavish art book displaying every painting created for Night Gallery. 

--Rod Serling’s Night Gallery Reader, Volume 1 (Pharaoh Audio, 1992). Includes: “The Little Black Bag” by C.M. Kornbluth, “The Boy Who Predicted Earthquakes” by Margaret St. Clair, “The Dark Boy” by August Derleth.

--Rod Serling’s Night Gallery Reader, Volume 2 (Pharaoh Audio, 1993). Contains: “The Escape Route” by Rod Serling.

--Rod Serling’s Night Gallery Reader, Volume 3 (Pharaoh Audio, 1993). Contains: “The Girl With the Hungry Eyes” by Fritz Leiber, “House – With Ghost” by August Derleth, “The Horsehair Trunk” by Davis Grubb, “The Ring With the Velvet Ropes” by Edward D. Hoch, and “Big Surprise” by Richard Matheson.

--Rod Serling’s Night Gallery Reader, Volume 4 (Pharaoh Audio, 1993). Contains: “Pickman’s Model” by H.P. Lovecraft, “The Return of the Sorcerer” by Clark Ashton Smith, “Sorworth Place” by Russell Kirk, and “Brenda” by Margaret St. Clair.

*As the Night Gallery audio book series is currently unavailable to me I have compiled the contents lists from library catalog listings and therefore these may be incomplete or inaccurate. -JP

Magazines:

--Rod Serling’s The Twilight Zone Magazine (TZ Publications; April, 1981 – June, 1989). Edited in succession by T.E.D. Klein, Michael Blaine, Robin Bromley, and Tappan King.  Find a history and checklist here.

--Night Cry (from the editors of Rod Serling’s The Twilight Zone Magazine) (TZ Publications, 1984-1987). Edited in succession by T.E.D. Klein and Alan Rodgers. Find a short history of Night Cry and a cover gallery here. 

*Access the directory (sidebar) label Twilight Zone Magazine for our ongoing issue-by-issue guide to Rod Serling's The Twilight Zone Magazine. 

See Also: List of related periodicals at the bottom of the post 

Comic Books:

--The Twilight Zone (Dell/Western Publishing, 1961 – 1982).

--The Twilight Zone (NOW Comics, 1990-1993)

--The Twilight Zone (Dynamite Entertainment, 2014-2016)

Find our history and checklist of The Twilight Zone comics here.   

Miscellaneous Books:

--Journeys to the Twilight Zone, edited by Carol Serling (DAW, 1993). Issued in hardcover by MJF in 1996.
Includes: 
"The Field Trip" by Elizabeth Ann Scarborough
"Goodfood" by W. Warren Wagar 
"Laying Veneer" by Alan Dean Foster
"I, Monster" by Henry Slesar
"Good Boy" by Jane M. Lindskold
"Mists" by Kristine Kathryn Rusch & Dean Wesley Smith
"Another Kind of Enchanted Cottage" by Hugh B. Cave
"On Harper's Road" by William F. Nolan
"Outside the Windows" by Pamela Sargent
"The Extra" by Jack Dann
"Inside Out" by Karen Haber
"Soul to Take" by Vanessa Crouther
"Standing Orders" by Barry N. Malzberg
"Coming of Age" by Susan Casper
"Waifs and Strays" by Charles de Lint
"Suggestion" by Rod Serling 

--Return to the Twilight Zone, edited by Carol Serling (DAW, 1994). Issued in hardcover by MJF in 1997.
Includes: 
"Survival Song" by Ray Russell (poem)
"Night of the Living Bra" by K.D. Wentworth
"The Kaleidoscope" by Don D'Ammassa
"Big Roots" by Pamela Sargent
"The Midnight El" by Robert Weinberg
"Maybe Tomorrow" by Barry Hoffman
"The Food Court" by John Maclay 
"The Garden" by Barbara Delaplace
"Gordie's Pets" by Hugh B. Cave
"Lady in the Cream-Colored Chiffon" by Elizabeth Anderson & Margaret Maron
"The Praying Lady" by Charles L. Fontenay
"The Cure" by Phyllis C. Jennings 
"Still Waters" by Barry B. Longyear
"Messenger" by Adam-Troy Castro
"The Duke of Demolition Goes to Hell" by John Gregory Betancourt 
"Salt" by P.D. Cacek 
"Always, in the Dark" by Charles L. Grant
"Afternoon Ghost" by Jack Dann and George Zebrowski
"The Sole Survivor" by Rod Serling 

--Adventures in the Twilight Zone, edited by Carol Serling (DAW, 1995)
Includes:
"The Repossessed" by J. Neil Schulman
"Ballad of the Outer Life" by Margaret Ball
"Desert Passage" by Randall Peterson 
"A Death in the Valley" by Robert Sampson
"The Sacrifice of Shadows" by Billie Sue Mosiman
"Darkened Roads" by Richard Gilliam 
"Dead and Naked" by Pamela Sargent
"My Mother and I Go Shopping" by Lawrence Watt-Evans
"The Knight of Greenwich Village" by Don D'Ammassa
"Peace on Earth" by Terry Beatty & Wendi Lee
"A Breeze from a Distant Shore" by Peter Crowther 
"My Wiccan, Wiccan Ways" by Brad Linaweaver
"Dark Secrets" by Edward E. Kramer
"Reality" by Steve Antczak
"Marticora" by Brian McNaughton
"The Shackles of Buried Sins" by Lois Tilton
"Sorcerer's Mate" by M.E. Beckett
"Daddy's Girl" by Kimberly Rufer-Bach
"Something Shiny for Mrs. Cauldwell" by Fred Olen Ray
"Hope as an Element of Cold Dark Matter" by Rick Wilber
"Mittens and Hotfoot" by Lawrence Watt-Evans (as by Walter Vance Awsten)
"The House at the Edge of the World" by Juleen Brantingham 
"Baby Girl Diamond" by Adam-Troy Castro
"Lindemann's Catch" by Rod Serling 

--Twilight Zone: 19 Original Stories on the 50^th Anniversary, edited by Carol Serling (Tor, 2009)
Includes: 
"Genesis" by David Hagberg
"A Haunted House of Her Own" by Kelley Armstrong
"On the Road" by William F. Wu
"The Art of the Miniature" by Earl Hamner
"Benchwarmer" by Mike Resnik & Lezli Robyn 
"Truth or Consequences" by Carole Nelson Douglas 
"Puowaina" by Alan Brennert 
"Torn Away" by Joe R. Lansdale
"Vampin' Down the Avenue" by Timothy Zahn
"A Chance of a Ghost" by Lucia St. Clair Robson
"The Street that Time Forgot" by Deborah Chester
"The Wrong Room" by R.L. Stine
"Ghost Writer" by Robert J. Serling
"The Soldier He Needed to Be" by Jim DeFelice
"Ants" by Tad Williams
"Your Last Breath, Inc." by John Miller
"Family Man" by Laura Lippman 
"The Good Neighbor" by Whitley Streiber
"El Moe" by Rod Serling 

--More Stories from the Twilight Zone, edited by Carol Serling (Tor, 2010)
Includes:
"Curve" by Loren D. Estleman
"Reversal of Fortune" by Robert J. Serling
"By the Book" by Nancy Holder
"Earthfall" by John Farris
"Dead Post Bumper" by Dean Wesley Smith
"Thoughtful Breaths" by Peter Crowther
"Obsession" by David Black
"Sales of a Deathman" by David Gerrold
"The Writing on the Washroom Wall" by Jane Lindskold
"Stanley's Statistics" by Jean Rabe
"The Mystery of History" by Lee Lawless
"I Believe I'll Have Another" by Loren L. Coleman
"The Ides of Texas" by Douglas Brode
"The Bloodthirstiness of Great Beauty" by M. Tara Crowl
"Eye for an Eye" by Susan Slater
"The Couch" by Peter Farris
"Where No Man Pursueth" by Norman Spinrad
"The Last Christmas Letter" by Kristine Kathryn-Rusch
"An Odyssey, or Whatever You Call It, Concerning Baseball" by Rod Serling 

--The Twilight Zone: Shades of Night, Falling by John J. Miller (Twilight Zone novel #1; ibooks, 2003). First in a series of interconnected novels released at the time of the second revival series but not directly related to that series.

--The Twilight Zone: A Gathering of Shadows by Russell Davis (Twilight Zone novel #2; ibooks, 2003)

--The Twilight Zone: Deep in the Dark by John Helfers (Twilight Zone novel #3; ibooks, 2004)

--Providence After Dark and Other Writings by T.E.D. Klein (Hippocampus Press, 2019). 
-Klein served as editor of Rod Serling's The Twilight Zone Magazine from its first issue (April, 1981) until the July/August, 1985 issue. He also developed and stewarded its sister publication, Night Cry, through its first three issues (1984-1985). Providence After Dark is a collection of Klein's various non-fiction pieces (essays, introductions, etc.) and includes a generous section of Klein's writings related to The Twilight Zone and Rod Serling's The Twilight Zone Magazine.

To explore an illustrated list of source stories, visit the Twilight Zone Art Gallery. 

Be sure to also visit the Rod Serling Memorial Foundation for a variety of resources on the creator of The Twilight Zone.

Source Stories Checklist (in order of original broadcast)

Note: First English language publication is provided. Some stories were sold to the series unpublished and were not published until many years later. Prose adaptations of teleplays are listed at the end of the initial list. This list is limited to stories which have seen publication, either before adaptation or afterwards. Stories which have never been published are not included in this list. Stories whose publication could not be verified have not been included.

The Twilight Zone (1959-1964)

Season 1:

"Time Enough at Last" by Lyn Venable (IF, Jan, 1953) 

"Perchance to Dream" by Charles Beaumont (Playboy, Oct, 1958) 

"Disappearing Act" by Richard Matheson (The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, March, 1953). Adapted as "And When the Sky Was Opened." 

"What You Need" by Henry Kuttner & C.L. Moore (as by Lewis Padgett) (Astounding, Oct, 1945)

"All of Us Are Dying" by George Clayton Johnson (Rogue, Oct, 1961) Adapted as "The Four of Us Are Dying." 

"Third from the Sun" by Richard Matheson (Galaxy, Oct, 1950) 

"Elegy" by Charles Beaumont (Imagination, Feb, 1953) 

"Brothers Beyond the Void" by Paul W. Fairman (Fantastic Adventures, March, 1952) Adapted as "People are Alike All Over."

"Execution" by George Clayton Johnson (Twilight Zone Scripts & Stories, 1996)

"The Chaser" by John Collier (The New Yorker, Dec 28, 1940)

Season 2:

"The Howling Man" by Charles Beaumont (as by C.B. Lovehill) (Rogue, Nov, 1959)

"The Prime Mover" by George Clayton Johnson (Twilight Zone Scripts & Stories, 1996)

"Traumerei" by Charles Beaumont (Infinity Science Fiction, Feb, 1956) Adapted (uncredited) as "Shadow Play."

Season 3:

"It's a Good Life" by Jerome Bixby (Star Science Fiction Stories No. 2, 1953)

"The Valley Was Still" by Manly Wade Wellman (Weird Tales, Aug, 1939) Adapted as "Still Valley."

"The Jungle" by Charles Beaumont (IF, Dec, 1954) 

"To Serve Man" by Damon Knight (Galaxy, Nov, 1950) 

"Little Girl Lost" by Richard Matheson (Amazing Stories, Oct-Nov, 1953) 

"Four O'clock" by Price Day (Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine, April, 1958) 

Season 4:

"The Man Who Made Himself" by Charles Beaumont (Imagination, Feb, 1957) Adapted as "In His Image."

"Mute" by Richard Matheson (The Fiend In You, ed. Charles Beaumont, 1962) 

"Death Ship" by Richard Matheson (Fantastic Story Magazine, March, 1953) 

"The Devil, You Say?" by Charles Beaumont (Amazing Stories, Jan, 1951) Adapted as "Printer's Devil."

"Blind Alley" by Malcolm Jameson (Unknown Worlds, June, 1943) Adapted as "Of Late I Think of Cliffordville."

"Song for a Lady" by Charles Beaumont (Night Ride and Other Journeys, 1960) Adapted as "Passage on the Lady Anne."

Season 5:

"Steel" by Richard Matheson (The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, May, 1956) 

"Nightmare at 20,000 Feet" by Richard Matheson (Alone by Night, ed. Don Congdon, 1962) 

"The Old Man" by Henry Slesar (Diners' Club Magazine, September, 1962) Adapted as "The Old Man in the Cave."

"The Self-Improvement of Salvadore Ross" by Henry Slesar (The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, May, 1961) 

"The Beautiful People" by Charles Beaumont (IF, Sept, 1952) Adapted as "Number Twelve Looks Just Like You."

"Sorry, Right Number" by Richard Matheson (Beyond Fantasy Fiction, Nov, 1953) Adapted as "Night Call."

"An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge" by Ambrose Bierce (San Francisco Examiner, July 13, 1890)

The Twilight Zone (1985-1989)

Season 1:

"Shatterday" by Harlan Ellison (Shatterday, 1980) 

"Nightcrawlers" by Robert McCammon (Masques, 1984) 

"Examination Day" by Henry Slesar (Playboy, Feb, 1958) 

"A Message from Charity" by William M. Lee (The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, Nov, 1967)

"Paladin of the Lost Hour" by Harlan Ellison (Universe 15, 1985) 

"The Burning Man" by Ray Bradbury (Long After Midnight, 1976) 

"Wong's Lost and Found Emporium" by William F. Wu (Amazing Science Fiction, May, 1983) 

"One Life, Furnished in Early Poverty" by Harlan Ellison (Orbit 8, ed. Damon Knight, 1970)

"I of Newton" by Joe Haldeman (Fantastic, June, 1970) 

"The Star" by Arthur C. Clarke (Infinity Science Fiction, Nov, 1955) 

"The Misfortune Cookie" by Charles E. Fritch (The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, Nov, 1970) 

"Yesterday Was Monday" by Theodore Sturgeon (Unknown Fantasy Fiction, June, 1941) Adapted as "A Matter of Minutes."

"To See the Invisible Man" by Robert Silverberg (Worlds of Tomorrow, April, 1963) 

"Gramma" by Stephen King (Weirdbook 19, Spring, 1984) 

"Dead Run" by Greg Bear (Omni, April, 1985) 

"Button, Button" by Richard Matheson (Playboy, June, 1970) 

"The Everlasting Club" by Arthur Gray (The Cambridge Review, Oct 27, 1910) Adapted as "Devil's Alphabet."

"Traumerei" by Charles Beaumont Adapted as "Shadow Play."

"The Last Defender of Camelot" by Roger Zelazny (Asimov's SF Adventure Magazine, Summer, 1979)

Season 2:

"A Saucer of Loneliness" by Theodore Sturgeon (E Pluribus Unicorn, 1953)

"Lost and Found" by Phyllis Eisenstein (Analog, Oct, 1978) 

"The Toys of Caliban" by Terry Matz (Subterranean #1, 2005) 

"Influencing the Hell Out of Time and Teresa Golowitz" by Parke Godwin (Rod Serling's The Twilight Zone Magazine, Jan, 1982) Adapted as "Time and Teresa Golowitz."

Season 3:

"The Cold Equations" by Tom Godwin (Astounding Science Fiction, Aug, 1954) 

"Crazy as a Soup Sandwich" by Harlan Ellison (Pulphouse #3, Spring, 1989)

The Twilight Zone (2002)

"It's a Good Life" by Jerome Bixby (inspiration for "It's Still a Good Life')

Rod Serling's Night Gallery

Pilot:

"Eyes" by Rod Serling (The Season to Be Wary, 1967)

"The Escape Route" by Rod Serling (The Season to Be Wary, 1967)

Season 1:

"The Dead Man" by Fritz Leiber (Weird Tales, Nov, 1950) 

"Room With a View" by Hal Dresner (Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine, July, 1962) 

"The Little Black Bag" by C.M. Kornbluth (Astounding Science Fiction, July, 1950) 

"The House" by André Maurois (Creeps by Night, ed. Dashiell Hammett, 1931) 

"The Shadows on the Wall" by Mary E. Wilkins Freeman (Everybody's Magazine, March, 1903) Adapted as "Certain Shadows on the Wall."

"The Doll" by Algernon Blackwood (The Doll and One Other, Arkham House, 1946) 

"The Horsehair Trunk" by Davis Grubb (Collier's, May 25, 1946) Adapted as "The Last Laurel."

Season 2:

"The Boy Who Predicted Earthquakes" by Margaret St. Clair (Maclean's, June 15, 1950) 

"The Other Hand" by George Langelaan (The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, Oct, 1961) Adapted as "The Hand of Borgus Weems." 

"A Death in the Family" by Miriam Allen deFord (Dude, Nov, 1961) 

"The Witch" by A.E. Van Vogt (Unknown Worlds, Feb, 1943) Adapted as "Since Aunt Ada Came to Stay."

"The Spider" by Elizabeth Walter (The Second Fontana Book of Great Horror Stories, 1967) Adapted as "A Fear of Spiders."

"Marmalade Wine" by Joan Aiken (Suspense, Sept, 1958) 

"The Academy" by David Ely (Playboy, June, 1965) 

"The Phantom Farmhouse" by Seabury Quinn (Weird Tales, Oct, 1923) 

"Silent Snow, Secret Snow" by Conrad Aiken (The Virginia Quarterly Review, Oct, 1932) 

"A Question of Fear" by Bryan Lewis (The Eleven Pan Book of Horror Stories, 1970) 

"The Devil is Not Mocked" by Manly Wade Wellman (Unknown Worlds, June, 1943) 

"Brenda" by Margaret St. Clair (Weird Tales, March, 1954) 

"What Was in the Box" by Richard Matheson (Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine, April, 1959) Adapted as "Big Surprise." 

"House-With Ghost" by August Derleth (Lonesome Places, 1962) 

"Hell's Bells" by Harry Turner (The Eleventh Pan Book of Horror Stories, 1970) 

"The Dark Boy" by August Derleth (The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, Feb, 1957) 

"Pickman's Model" by H.P. Lovecraft (Weird Tales, Oct, 1927) 

"The Dear Departed" by Alice-Mary Schnirring (Weird Tales, May, 1944) 

"Cool Air" by H.P. Lovecraft (Tales of Magic and Mystery, ed. Walter B. Gibson, 1928) 

"Camera Obscura" by Basil Copper (The Sixth Pan Book of Horror Stories, 1965) 

"The Painted Mirror" by Donald Wandrei (Esquire, May, 1937) 

"Tell David. . . " by Penelope Wallace (More Tales of Unease, ed. John Burke, 1969) 

"Logoda's Heads" by August Derleth (Strange Stories, April, 1939) 

"Green Fingers" by R.C. Cook (The Third Fontana Book of Great Horror Stories, 1968) 

"The Funeral" by Richard Matheson (The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, April, 1955)

"The Tune in Dan's Café" by Shamus Frazer (Lie Ten Nights Awake, ed. Herbert van Thal, 1967) 

"The Flat Male" by Frank Sisk (filmed as "The Late Mr. Peddington")

"The Fur Brooch" by Dulcie Gray (The Seventh Pan Book of Horror Stories, 1966) Adapted as "A Feast of Blood."

"Old Place of Sorworth" by Russell Kirk (London Mystery #14, 1952) Adapted as "The Ghost of Sorworth Place."

"Out of the Eons" by Hazel Heald and H.P. Lovecraft (Weird Tales, April, 1935) Adapted as "Last Rites for a Dead Druid."

"Out of the Country" by Shaun Usher (as by Jeffry Scott) (Tales of Unease, ed. John Burke, 1966) 

"I'll Never Leave You-Ever" by Rene Morris (The Seventh Pan Book of Horror Stories, 1966) 

"Stop Killing Me" by Hal Dresner (Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine, Nov, 1963) 

"By One, by Two and by Three" by Adrian Ross (as by Stephen Hall) (Temple Bar, Dec, 1887) Adapted as "There Aren't Any More MacBanes."

"The Sins of the Fathers" by Christianna Brand (The Fifth Pan Book of Horror Stories, 1964)
"Boomerang" by Oscar Cook (Switch on the Light, ed. Christine Campbell Thompson, 1931) Adapted as "The Caterpillar."

"Little Girl Lost" by E.C. Tubb (New Worlds, Oct, 1955) 

"Year-End Clearance" by Mary Linn Roby (Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine, Jan, 1968) Adapted as "Die Now, Pay Later."

Season 3:

"The Return of the Sorcerer" by Clark Ashton Smith (Strange Tales of Mystery and Terror, Sept, 1931)

"The Girl With the Hungry Eyes" by Fritz Leiber (The Girl With the Hungry Eyes and Other Stories, 1949)

"The Secret of the Vault" by J. Wesley Rosenquest (Weird Tales, May, 1938) Adapted as "You Can Come Up Now, Mrs.         Millikan." 

"She'll Be Company for You" by Andrea Newman (More Tales of Unease, ed. John Burke, 1969) 

"The Ring With the Velvet Ropes" by Edward D. Hoch (With Malice Toward All, ed. Robert L. Fish, 1968) Adapted as "The Ring With the Red Velvet Ropes." 

"Housebound" by R. Chetywynd-Hayes (The Third Fontana Book of Great Horror Stories, 1968) Adapted as "Something in the Woodwork." 

"The Canal" by Everil Worrell (Weird Tales, Dec, 1927) Adapted as "Death on a Barge." 

"Whisper" by Martin Waddell (Lie Ten Nights Awake, ed. Herbert van Thal, 1967) 

"The Doll of Death" by Vivian Meik (Devils' Drums, 1933) 

Prose Adaptations of Teleplays:

Rod Serling:

Stories from the Twilight Zone (Bantam, 1960):

            "The Mighty Casey"

            "Escape Clause"

            "Walking Distance"

            "The Fever"

            "Where is Everybody?"

            "The Monsters are Due on Maple Street"

More Stories from the Twilight Zone (Bantam, 1961): 

            "The Lonely"

            "Mr. Dingle, the Strong"

            "A Thing About Machines"

            "The Big, Tall Wish"

            "A Stop at Willoughby"

            "The Odyssey of Flight 33"

            "Dust"

New Stories from the Twilight Zone (Bantam, 1962): 

            "The Whole Truth"

            "The Shelter"

            "Showdown with Rance McGrew"

            "The Night of the Meek"

            "The Midnight Sun"

            "The Rip Van Winkle Caper"

Night Gallery (Bantam, 1971): 

            "Sole Survivor" (aka "Lone Survivor")

            "Make Me Laugh"

            "Pamela's Voice"

            "Does the Name Grimsby Do Anything to You?" (unproduced teleplay) 

            "Clean Kills and Other Trophies"

            "They're Tearing Down Tim Riley's Bar"

Night Gallery 2 (Bantam, 1972): 

            "Collector's Items"

            "The Messiah on Mott Street"

            "The Different Ones"

            "Lindemann's Catch"

            "Suggestion"

            "The Class of '99" (Tomorrow: Science Fiction and the Future, ed. Alan L. Madsen, 1973)

           

Anne Serling (as by Anne Serling-Sutton):

The Twilight Zone: The Original Stories, 1985: 

            "One for the Angels"

            "The Changing of the Guard"     

Ray Bradbury:

            "The Beautiful One is Here," a prose adaptation of "I Sing the Body Electric" (McCall's, Aug, 1969)

The Twilight Zone Periodicals:

The Twilight Zone, Rod Serling, and the other writers on the series have been featured or mentioned in perhaps hundreds of issues of periodicals, ranging from extensive retrospectives to advertisements to brief passages. This is especially true for long-running titles such as Starlog and Fangoria. Below I’ve included a selected list of magazines of interest. This should not be considered a complete listing of magazines containing features on The Twilight Zone, Rod Serling, or any of the writers on the series. Instead, this is a listing of those issues that provide a substantial and useful amount of content on the show and/or its writers. The bibliographies listed on individual posts will have additional magazines of interest. 

See also: The Vortex Art Gallery for information on additional publications of interest.

Starlog #15 (Aug, 1978); Rod Serling/The Twilight Zone Special Section

Starlog #135 (Oct, 1988); career retrospective on Jerry Sohl, continued in Starlog #136 (Nov, 1988)

Starlog #203 (June, 1994); Rod Serling Special Section

Filmfax #75/76 (2000); Double-sized The Twilight Zone/The Group Special 

FilmFax #119 (2008); Feature on Associate Producer Del Reisman

Outré #24 (2001); William F. Nolan on Charles Beaumont

The Dark Side #181 (2017); Richard Matheson/The Twilight Zone lead feature

We Belong Dead #24 (2021); cover feature on The Twilight Zone

Rue Morgue #35 (Halloween, 2003); Richard Matheson Special

Fangoria #30 (October, 1983); Twilight Zone: The Movie Feature

Fangoria #301 (March, 2011); Richard Matheson Special 

Starburst #62 (October, 1983); Twilight Zone: The Movie Special Section

Famous Monsters of Filmland #259 (Jan/Feb, 2012); The Twilight Zone Special

Famous Monsters of Filmland #272 (March/April, 2014); Richard Matheson Special

Scholastic Scope (March 22, 1979); Special Rod Serling Issue

Dark Discoveries #14 (August, 2009); The Group/The Twilight Zone Special Issue

The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction (June, 1967); Charles Beaumont Special

Bonus: Marc Scott Zicree’s “Best of The Twilight Zone”

In issue #19 of the UK science fiction magazine Infinity (2019), Marc Scott Zicree, author of The Twilight Zone Companion (now in its third edition), selected what he considers the best episodes of the series. Zicree provides a short commentary for each selection and writes: “In these few pages, we can’t present all the Twilight Zone episodes worth watching – that took my entire book, The Twilight Zone Companion – but we can give you a taste spoon of some of the best.”

“The Lonely”

“Long Live Walter Jameson”

“Walking Distance”

“A Stop at Willoughby”

“The Hitch-Hiker”

“Time Enough at Last”

“Third From the Sun”

“The Four of Us Are Dying”

“The Purple Testament”

“The Monsters Are Due on Maple Street”

“The Big Tall Wish”

“The After Hours”

“The Eye of the Beholder”

“Nick of Time”

“The Howling Man”

“The Invaders”

“Night of the Meek”

“Will the Real Martian Please Stand Up?”

“The Obsolete Man”

“Two”

“Nothing in the Dark”

“To Serve Man”
“It’s a Good Life”

“Deaths-Head Revisited”

“The Hunt”

“A Game of Pool”

“Kick the Can”
“I Sing the Body Electric”

“Little Girl Lost”

“Jess-Belle”

“Death Ship”

“Miniature”

“On Thursday We Leave for Home”

“In Praise of Pip”

“Steel”

“Night Call”

“Nightmare at 20,000 Feet”

“Living Doll”
“The Encounter”

--JP & BD