Media1959

The Twilight Zone premieres on CBS

When: 2 Oct 1959
Sources: 2 public sources

CBS photo of Rod Serling and family issued for The Twilight Zone premiere in 1959 CBS Television via the Bureau of Industrial Service, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons

CBS premiered Rod Serling's anthology series The Twilight Zone with the episode Where Is Everybody? The original series ran five seasons to 1964, and several of its stories about alien visitors became reference points in later popular culture.

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Other"The Twilight Zone" premieres on TV (opens in a new tab)HISTORY (A&E Television Networks)
OtherTwilight Zone, The (opens in a new tab)The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction (Clute and Langford)

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