Scripted series · UPN
The Twilight Zone
Check your reality at the door.
Who's in it
Cast
The principal ensemble across the run of the series.
Forest Whitaker
Self - Host
43 eps
Eriq La Salle
Ray Ellison
1 eps
Marisol Nichols
Joanne Yarrow
1 eps
Usher
Eric Boggs
1 eps
Claudette Mink
Lea
1 eps
Christopher McDonald
Rick
1 eps
Cloris Leachman
Agnes Fremont
1 eps
Devon Gummersall
George Straitton
1 eps
Shannon Elizabeth
Sondra
1 eps
Greg Germann
Ben Barker
1 eps
Ethan Embry
Zack Walker
1 eps
Ben Bass
Trevor Black
1 eps
Christopher Titus
Gabe O'Brien
1 eps
Moira Kelly
Elizabeth Carter
1 eps
Adrian Holmes
String
1 eps
Warren Christie
Devin
1 eps
Paula Shaw
Judge
1 eps
Rory Culkin
Craig Hansen
1 eps
Ian McShane
Chandler
1 eps
Kyle Labine
Ben Jordan
1 eps
Heather McEwen
New Tess
1 eps
Blu Mankuma
Thomas Sumner
1 eps
Vincent Laresca
Buddy
1 eps
Jonathan Jackson
Martin
1 eps
Dean Winters
Gordon
1 eps
Alicia Witt
Liz
1 eps
Ione Skye
Melina Kroner
1 eps
Nicki Aycox
Ricki
1 eps
Clifton Collins Jr.
Andy Perez
1 eps
Wayne Knight
Nick Dark
1 eps
Robin Tunney
Edie Durant
1 eps
Yan-Kay Crystal Lowe
Groupie
1 eps
Kristi Angus
Holly Marshall
1 eps
Ashley Edner
Danielle Randall
1 eps
Wood Harris
Marvin Gardens / Dwayne Grant
1 eps
Lindy Booth
Shannon
1 eps
Erik King
Lenny
1 eps
Jessica Amlee
Carrie
1 eps
Nicholas Turturro
Speed
1 eps
Scott Bairstow
Jeffrey Freed
1 eps
The Nutevio profile
TV DNA
How The Twilight Zone actually feels to watch, measured on the traits our editors track across every series.
Signature profile
The Twilight Zone reads strongest on Character Depth, World Building and Bingeability.
How fully written and psychologically layered the ensemble is.
The scale, internal logic and texture of the world.
How hard it is to stop after one episode.
How much the series is designed to affect you.
How often an episode ends on a hook you can't ignore.
The sustained pressure the series keeps you under.
Visual ambition — scale, craft and set-piece filmmaking.
How much each hour depends on the one before it.
How often the series is genuinely funny, by design.
The story
What it's about
A 2002 revival of Rod Serling's 1950/60s television series, The Twilight Zone, with actor Forest Whitaker assuming Serling's role as narrator and on-screen host.
Where the series peaks
Best Episodes
The hours that define the show, ranked by audience response and editorial signal.
S01E05
Cradle of Darkness
Hoping to undo the horrors of WWII, a woman, Andre, sacrifices her own future when she goes back in time to stop Adolf Hitler by killing him when he is a baby.
- Directed by Jean de Segonzac
- Written by Kamran Pasha
S01E34
The Placebo Effect
A hypochondriac with the power to manifest his beliefs into reality poses a danger to the entire world.
- Directed by Jerry Levine
S01E09
The Pool Guy
A pool cleaner loses the ability to distinguish dreams from reality.
- Directed by Brad Turner
S01E31
The Monsters Are on Maple Street
In this remake of the original TZ's "The Monsters Are Due on Maple Street", a neighborhood is terrorized by mysterious power outages and begin to turn on each other.
- Directed by Debbie Allen
- Written by Erin Maher, Kay Reindl
S01E30
It's Still a Good Life
In this sequel to the original TZs "It's a Good Life", an adult Anthony Fremont continues to terrorize the town of Peaksville.
- Directed by Allan Kroeker
- Written by Ira Steven Behr, Jerome Bixby
S01E42
Sunrise
Several college students are thrust into a virtual nightmare when they discover an Aztec artifact that causes the sun to vanish and the only solution is a human sacrifice.
- Directed by Tim Matheson
Recently aired
Latest Episodes
S01E41
Homecoming
- Directed by Risa Bramon Garcia
- Written by Michael Angeli
S01E38
Eye of the Beholder
- Directed by David Ellis
- Written by Rod Serling
S01E39
Developing
- Directed by Allison Liddi-Brown
- Written by Moira Kirland
Behind the series
Created by
Showrunners, creators, executive producers and the writers who set the voice of the series.
Rod Serling
Showrunner
Ira Steven Behr
Writer
Bradley Thompson
Writer
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Robert Hewitt Wolfe
Writer
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Jill E. Blotevogel
Writer
Pen Densham
Writer
David Weddle
Writer
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Moira Kirland
Writer
Kamran Pasha
Writer
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Christopher Mack
Writer
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Erin Maher
Writer
Hans Beimler
Writer
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James Crocker
Writer
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Kay Reindl
Writer
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Dusty Kay
Writer
Michael Angeli
Writer
Jerome Bixby
Writer
The craft
Key Crew
Directing, writing, production, camera, music and editing.
Executive production
- Ira Steven BehrProducer
- Pen DenshamProducer
Writing
- Ira Steven BehrWriter
- Bradley ThompsonWriter
- Robert Hewitt WolfeWriter
- Rod SerlingWriter
- Jill E. BlotevogelWriter
- Pen DenshamWriter
Direction
- Bob BalabanDirector
- Brad TurnerDirector
- Allan KroekerDirector
- Jean de SegonzacDirector
- Winrich KolbeDirector
- Patrick R. NorrisDirector
Where to watch
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