Thursday, January 18, 2007

Imagery XIV – TV SERIES I - THE TWILIGHT ZONE





The Twilight Zone (CBS, 1959-64) stands as the role model for TV anthologies. Its trenchant Sci-Fi/Fantasy parables explore humanity's hopes, despairs, prides and prejudices in metaphoric ways conventional drama cannot.

Creator Rod Serling wrote the majority of the scripts. The series featured such soon-to-be-famous actors as Robert Redford, William Shatner, Burt Reynolds, Robert Duvall, Dennis Hopper, Carol Burnett, James Coburn, Charles Bronson, Lee Marvin, Peter Falk and Bill Mumy, as well as such established stars as silent-film giant Buster Keaton, Art Carney, Mickey Rooney, Ida Lupino and John Carradine.

By the way, I was in love with the blond actor on the picture: Doug McClure