The Twilight Zone is an American anthology television series which aired from September 27, 1985, to April 15, 1989. It is the first of three revivals of Rod Serling's acclaimed 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 8-minutes to 40-minute mini-movies. The series ran for two seasons on CBS before producing a final season for syndication.
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Opening theme | Performed by Grateful Dead
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Country of origin | United States
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Original language | English
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No. of seasons | 3
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No. of episodes | 65 (list of episodes)
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Running time | 45–48 min. (season 1 & 2)
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Production company | CBS Productions
(1985–87) (seasons 1–2) Persistence of Vision Productions (1985–87) (seasons 1–2) London Films CBS Broadcast International (1988–89) (season 3) Atlantis Films (1988–89) (season 3) |
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Original release | September 27, 1985
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Preceded by | The Twilight Zone (1959–64)
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Followed by | The Twilight Zone (2002–03)
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