Underplayed Gems

The Twilight Zone (1985)

The Twilight Zone poster
Genre
anthology series, science fiction television series, fantasy television series
Country
United States
Length
3 seasons, 110 episodes
Rated
TV-14
Rating
7.7 of 10 from 255 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb
The 3D catalogue: film cases on wooden shelves, with the cat sitting at the counter next to its greeting.

The catalogue in 3D

The film shelves have a room of their own that you can walk around in. The cat behind the counter is the AI Catbot, and they pick real films from the same catalogue when you tell them what you feel like watching. Nothing is for sale, here or in there. Go in from here and this series is already out on the counter, with more like it waiting on the shelf next to it.

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How it feels

This series revives the classic anthology format where ordinary people stumble into strange and paranormal events. Each episode contains one or more self-contained stories that explore speculative fiction and supernatural twists.

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What happens

The Twilight Zone is an anthology television series that aired from September 27, 1985, to April 15, 1989. It is the first of three revivals of Rod Serling's 1959–64 television series, and like the original it featured a variety of speculative fiction, commonly containing characters from a seemingly normal world stumbling into paranormal circumstances. Unlike the original, however, most episodes contained multiple self-contained stories instead of just one. The voice-over narrations were still present, but were not a regular feature as they were in the original series; some episodes had only an opening narration, some had only a closing narration, and some had no narration at all. The multi-segment format liberated the series from the usual time constraints of episodic television, allowing stories ranging in length from eight minutes to 40 minutes. The series ran for two seasons on CBS before producing a final season for syndication. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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