The Twilight Zone (radio series)

"The Twilight Zone Radio Dramas" is a nationally syndicated radio adaptation of the classic television series "The Twilight Zone", launched in October 2002. Many of the stories are based on Rod Serling's scripts from the original "Twilight Zone" series, and are slightly expanded and updated to reflect contemporary technology and trends (e.g., the mention of "cell phones" and "CD-ROMs" which, of course, weren't around when the television show aired in the 1960s). Taking Serling's role as narrator is Stacy Keach. A different Hollywood actor and actress, such as Blair Underwood and James Caviezel, take the lead role in each radio drama. In addition, several stars who appeared on the original TV series, such as H.M. Wynant, Orson Bean and Morgan Brittany, appear, although purposely not in the roles they originated on television.

The radio series is produced by the Falcon Picture Group and scripts from the original Twilight Zone are adapted by Dennis Etchison (one episode by Chas Holloway). In Britain it has been heard on the digital channel BBC 7. In the United States, it airs mainly in small markets (with the occasional large market, the largest currently being WGN in Chicago) late at night. It also airs regularly on Sirius satellite radio channel 118, "Radio Classics" and on XM satellite radio channel 163, Sonic Theater. The show continues to be syndicated and airs weekly (in some markets, two episodes air per week; sometimes back to back). Originally distributed by Dick Brescia Associates, and later by Syndication Networks, beginning in August of 2007 the series became distributed through Westwood One. To date eight episodes have also been released to CD in two volumes by CBS Special Products; as of the summer of 2007, the releases (more have been announced) are being sold exclusively at Movie Gallery and Hollywood Video stores in the US and Canada.

Production continued in 2006 with Falcon Picture Group and sound design done by Cerny American Creative's Bob Benson, Craig Lee, Jason Rizzo and Michael Slaboch.

Episodes

The following episodes from the original "Twilight Zone" series were remade for radio:

Volume 1

*"A Kind of a Stopwatch" - Starring: Lou Diamond Phillips
*"The Lateness of the Hour" - Starring: Jane Seymour and James Keach
*"The Thirty-Fathom Grave" - Starring: Blair Underwood
*"The Man in the Bottle" - Starring: Ed Begley, Jr.
*"Night of the Meek" - Starring: Chris McDonald
*"The After Hours" - Starring: Kim Fields
*"Mr. Dingle, the Strong" - Starring: Tim Kazurinsky
*"A Stop at Willoughby" - Starring: Chelcie Ross
*"The Lonely" - Starring: Mike Starr
*"Of Late I Think of Cliffordville" - Starring: Chris McDonald

Volume 2

*"The Obsolete Man" - Starring: Jason Alexander
*"The Bard" - Starring: John Ratzenberger & Stacy Keach
*"Back There" - Starring: Jim Caviezel
*"A Short Drink From a Certain Fountain" - Starring: Adam West
*"Nervous Man in a Four Dollar Room" - Starring: Adam Baldwin
*"The Monsters Are Due on Maple Street" - Starring: Frank John Hughes
*"Mr. Garrity and the Graves" - Starring: Chris McDonald
*"Escape Clause" - Starring: Mike Starr
*"Four O'Clock" - Starring: Stan Freberg
*"Uncle Simon" - Starring: Peter Mark Richman & Beverly Garland

Volume 3

*"The Fear" - Starring: Jane Seymour and James Keach
*"The Parallel" - Starring: Lou Diamond Phillips
*"A Hundred Yards Over the Rim" - Starring: Jim Caviezel
*"One for the Angels" - Starring: Ed Begley, Jr.
*"The Midnight Sun" - Starring: Kim Fields
*"The Rip Van Winkle Caper" - Starring: Tim Kazurinsky
*"A Most Unusual Camera" - Starring: Mike Starr
*"Twenty-Two" - Starring: Andrea Evans
*"Walking Distance" - Starring: Chelcie Ross
*"The Passersby" - Starring: Morgan Brittany

Volume 4

*"The Dummy" - Starring: Bruno Kirby
*"No Time Like the Past" - Starring: Jason Alexander
*"Still Valley" - Starring: Adam West
*"King Nine Will Not Return" - Starring: Adam Baldwin
*"I Am the Night—Color Me Black" - Starring: John Ratzenberger
*"The Incredible World of Horace Ford" - Starring: Mike Starr
*"One More Pallbearer" - Starring: Chelcie Ross
*"The Little People" - Starring: Daniel J. Travanti
*"Cavender Is Coming" - Starring: Andrea Evans
*"Hocus-Pocus and Frisby" - Starring: Shelley Berman

Volume 5

*"Living Doll" - Starring: Tim Kazurinsky
*"The Big Tall Wish" - Starring: Blair Underwood
*"The Fever" - Starring: Stacy Keach and Kathy Garver
*"The Last Night of a Jockey" - Starring: Bruno Kirby
*"A Thing About Machines" - Starring: Mike Starr
*"Mirror Image" - Starring: Morgan Brittany and Frank John Hughes
*"The 7th Is Made Up of Phantoms" - Starring: Richard Grieco
*"The Long Morrow" - Starring: Kathy Garver
*"Will the Real Martian Please Stand Up?" - Starring: Richard Kind
*"The Trade-Ins" - Starring: H.M. Wynant and Peggy Webber

Volume 6

*"Time Enough at Last" - Starring: Tim Kazurinsky
*"A Passage for Trumpet" - Starring: Mike Starr
*"I Shot an Arrow Into the Air" - Starring: Chelcie Ross
*"The Brain Center at Whipple's" - Starring: Stan Freberg
*"The Grave" - Starring: Michael Rooker
*"The Hitch-Hiker" - Starring: Kate Jackson
*"Mr. Denton on Doomsday" - Starring: Adam Baldwin
*"Sounds and Silences" - Starring: Richard Kind
*"The Odyssey of Flight 33" - Starring: David J. Travanti
*"The Changing of the Guard" - Starring: Orson Bean

Volume 7

*"Five Characters in Search of an Exit" - Starring: Jason Alexander
*"The Arrival" - Starring: Blair Underwood
*"Queen of the Nile" - Starring: Kate Jackson
*"I Dream of Genie" - Starring: Hal Sparks
*"It's a Good Life" - Starring: Mike Starr
*"The Masks" - Starring: Stan Freberg
*"Mr. Bevis" - Starring: Bruno Kirby
*"Showdown with Rance McGrew" - Starring: Chris McDonald
*"The Old Man in the Cave" - Starring: Adam Baldwin
*"Ninety Years Without Slumbering" - Starring: Bill Erwin

Volume 8

*"The Howling Man" - Starring: Fred Willard
*"Caesar and Me" - Starring: Jason Alexander
*"The Self-Improvement of Salvadore Ross" - Starring: Luke Perry
*"The Time Element" - Starring: Bobby Slayton
*"The Mind and the Matter" - Starring: Hal Sparks
*"People Are Alike All Over" - Starring: Blair Underwood
*"What You Need" - Starring: Bruno Kirby and Bruce Kirby
*"Dead Man's Shoes" - Starring: Bill Smitrovich
*"What's in the Box" - Starring: Mike Starr
*"Deaths-Head Revisited" - Starring: H.M. Wynant

Volume 9

*"To Serve Man" - Starring: Blair Underwood
*"A World of Difference" - Starring: Luke Perry
*"From Agnes—With Love" - Starring: Ed Begley, Jr.
*"Perchance to Dream" - Starring: Fred Willard
*"The Purple Testament" - Starring: Michael Rooker
*"Printer's Devil" - Starring: Bobby Slayton
*"Dust" - Starring: Bill Smitrovich
*"The Jeopardy Room" - Starring: Yasen Peyankov
*"The Fugitive" - Starring: Stan Freberg
*"The Silence" - Starring: Chris McDonald

Volume 10

*"Miniature" - Starring: Lou Diamon Phillips
*"The Jungle" - Starring: Ed Begley, Jr.
*"The Mighty Casey" - Starring: Paul Dooley
*"Ring-a-Ding Girl" - Starring: Sarah Wayne Callies
*"Mute" - Starring: Wade Williams
*"Black Leather Jackets" - Starring: Marshall Allman
*"A Quality of Mercy" - Starring: Robert Knepper
*"Where Is Everybody?" - Starring: John Schneider
*"A Nice Place to Visit" - Starring: Hal Sparks
*"In His Image" - Starring: John Heard

Volume 11

*"Nightmare at 20,000 Feet" - Starring: John Schneider
*"Elegy" - Starring: Blair Underwood
*"The Last Rites of Jeff Myrtlebank" - Starring: Robert Knepper
*"Spur of the Moment" - Starring: Sarah Wayne Callies
*"He's Alive" - Starring: Marshall Allman
*"Long Distance Call" - Starring: Hal Sparks
*"The Gift" - Starring: Danny Goldring
*"Gentlemen, Be Seated" - Starring: Stan Freberg
*"You Drive" - Starring: John Heard
*"In Praise of Pip" - Starring: Fred Willard

Volume 12

*"The Last Flight" - Starring: Charles Shaughnessy
*"Long Live Walter Jameson" - Starring: Lou Diamond Phillips
*"Person or Persons Unknown" - Starring: John Schneider
*"The Whole Truth" - Starring: Henry Rollins
*"Stopover in a Quiet Town" - Starring: Stephanie Weir
*"Judgment Night" - Starring: Chelcie Ross
*"The Chaser" - Starring: Stephen Tobolowsky
*"Shadow Play" - Starring: Ernie Hudson
*"Nick of Time" - Starring: Marshall Allman
*"Static" - Starring: Stan Freberg

Volume 13

*"Death Ship" - Starring: John Schneider
*"Pattern of Doomsday" - Starring: Henry Rollins
*"Nightmare as a Child" - Starring: Bonnie Somerville
*"And When the Sky Was Opened" - Starring: Barry Bostwick
*"Little Girl Lost" - Starring: Stephen Tobolowsky
*"Jess-Belle" - Starring: Stephanie Weir
*"The Encounter" - Starring: Stacy Keach & Byron Mann
*"A World of His Own" - Starring: Charles Shaughnessy
*"The New Exhibit" - Starring: JoBe Cerny
*"Valley of the Shadow" - Starring: Chelcie Ross

References

* [http://www.twilightzoneradio.com/index.html The Twilight Zone Radio Dramas]
* [http://wgnradio.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=blogcategory&id=223&Itemid=381 Episode guide]