johng@zaphod.UUCP (John Glass) (03/12/85)
I am looking for some information about the hour long versions of Twilight Zone. I realize that only a few episodes were made. I would like to know how many and what their titles are. When were these shows made? Were hour long episodes only made for one season? Thanks, John.
lauren@vortex.UUCP (Lauren Weinstein) (03/13/85)
The hour long episodes were all in one short season (the next to the last season of the show). They were mostly pretty poor, and the show went back to 1/2 hour for the last season. I have them all listed in my Twilight Zone Episode Guide -- but I don't have it online right now (perhaps someone else does? It was pretty widely distributed). There were a couple of hour long shows with some redeeming value, but that was about it. "Printer's Demon," starring Burgess M., was one of the decent hour episodes. For a very long time the hour episodes were not in syndication, but that is no longer the case--virtually all of them are now available for syndication buys. --Lauren--
waltt@tekecs.UUCP (Walt Tucker) (03/13/85)
> > I am looking for some information about the hour long versions > of Twilight Zone. I realize that only a few episodes were made. I would > like to know how many and what their titles are. When were these > shows made? Were hour long episodes only made for one season? > Here in Portland, Oregon, one of the local television stations shows the hour long episodes on Saturday night (prior to the 11:00 showing of the traditional half-hour episodes). Yes, there weren't that many of them, and I have probably seen most of them by now. I believe the Twilight Zone had hour-long episodes for one year, the 1962-63 season, if I remember correctly. The reason for going back to 1/2 hr shows after this year of hour episodes (TZ lasted until 1965, when it was cancelled) was that while the plot lines made nice 1/2 hour episodes, the television programming powers-that-be thought that making the show an additional 1/2 hour added too much fluff to the basic story line and was costing viewership (i.e. - they moved back to the formula that worked). BTW, TZ was on from either 1958 to 1965 or 1957 to 1965. -- Walt
broehl@wateng.UUCP (Bernie Roehl) (03/15/85)
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No, the Twilight Zone was *not* on from '57 or '58; it ran five seasons,
so if it ended in '65, it couldn't have started earlier that '60 (or possibly
'59).
Also, "the networks" didn't have much say in it; Rod Serling himself wasn't
pleased with the one-hour format, and strongly advised going back to half-hours.
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-Bernie Roehl (University of Waterloo)
...decvax!watmath!wateng!broehlrick@cadtec.UUCP (Rick Auricchio) (03/16/85)
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That was "Printer's Devil" with Burgess Merideth, *not* Printer's Demon.
You've been around UN*X too long... (:-)
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