The Twilight Zone (radio series)

The Twilight Zone is a nationally syndicated radio drama series featuring radio play adaptations of the classic 1959–1964 television series The Twilight Zone. The series was produced for the British digital radio station BBC Radio 4 Extra airing for 176 episodes between October 2002 and 2012. In the United States, it aired on nearly 200 radio stations including WCCO, KSL, KOA, WIND, XM Satellite Radio channel 163 and Sirius XM Book Radio. Most of the stations aired two episodes each week, usually on the weekends and many times back to back.

The Twilight Zone

Genre	Anthology Fantasy Horror Science fiction
Running time	40 minutes
Country of origin	United States
Language(s)	English
Starring	Various
Announcer	Doug James
Created by	Carl Amari
Written by	Dennis Etchison
Directed by	Roger Wolski
Narrated by	Stacy Keach
Original release	October 2002 (2002-10) – 2012 (2012)
No. of seasons	18
No. of episodes	176

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 and the lack of a visual component. In addition to adapting all of the original episodes aired on the TV series, the radio series has also adapted some Twilight Zone TV scripts which were never produced, scripts from other Serling TV productions, and new stories written especially for the radio series. Taking Serling's role as narrator is Stacy Keach.

Different Hollywood actors, such as Blair Underwood and Jim 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 series features a full cast, music and sound effects and is produced in the flavor of classic radio dramas but using today's technology. In addition to being an homage to the original Twilight Zone TV series, the radio dramas pay tribute to the era of classic radio drama, including allusions to radio dramas such as Gunsmoke, the presence of radio legend Stan Freberg in many episodes, and the sons (Stacy Keach, Ed Begley Jr.) of radio drama personalities Stacy Keach Sr. and Ed Begley as stars in the series.

Licensed by CBS Enterprises and The Rod Serling Estate, The Twilight Zone radio series is produced by Carl Amari, CEO of Falcon Picture Group who hosts his own weekly nationally syndicated radio series, featuring classic radio, called Hollywood 360. The scripts from the original Twilight Zone were adapted by Dennis Etchison and others, including one episode by Chas Holloway and several by British writer M. J. Elliott. New stories by Etchison and others that are not based on the original TV series are also featured.

The sound mix was produced at Falcon Picture Group studios and later at the Cerny Sound-to-Picture studio at Cerny American Creative in Chicago. The sound engineers that work on the series include Roger Wolski, Bob Benson, Craig Lee, Tim Cerny and Jason Rizzo. The episodes are produced and directed by Carl Amari.

Episodes

The following episodes include stories that were adapted for radio from the original Twilight Zone television scripts, as well as original stories produced exclusively for this radio series.

Volume 1

Title	Starring	Adapted for radio by	Originally written by
"A Kind of a Stopwatch"	Lou Diamond Phillips	Dennis Etchison	Rod Serling
"The Lateness of the Hour"	Jane Seymour and James Keach		Rod Serling
"The Thirty-Fathom Grave"	Blair Underwood
"The Man in the Bottle"	Ed Begley Jr.
"The Night of the Meek"	Christopher McDonald
"The After Hours"	Kim Fields
"Mr. Dingle, the Strong"	Tim Kazurinsky
"A Stop at Willoughby"	Chelcie Ross
"The Lonely"	Mike Starr
"Of Late I Think of Cliffordville"	H. M. Wynant		Rod Serling

Volume 2

Title	Starring	Adapted for radio by	Originally written by
"The Obsolete Man"	Jason Alexander	Dennis Etchison	Rod Serling
"The Bard"	John Ratzenberger & Stacy Keach
"Back There"	Jim Caviezel
"A Short Drink From a Certain Fountain"	Adam West		Rod Serling
"Nervous Man in a Four Dollar Room"	Adam Baldwin		Rod Serling
"The Monsters Are Due on Maple Street"	Frank John Hughes
"Mr. Garrity and the Graves"	Christopher McDonald		Rod Serling
"Escape Clause"	Mike Starr		Rod Serling
"Four O'Clock"	Stan Freberg		Rod Serling
"Uncle Simon"	Peter Mark Richman & Beverly Garland		Rod Serling

Volume 3

Title	Starring	Adapted for radio by	Originally written by
"The Fear"	Jane Seymour and James Keach	Dennis Etchison	Rod Serling
"The Parallel"	Lou Diamond Phillips
"A Hundred Yards Over the Rim"	Jim Caviezel
"One for the Angels"	Ed Begley Jr.
"The Midnight Sun"	Kim Fields
"The Rip Van Winkle Caper"	Tim Kazurinsky
"A Most Unusual Camera"	Mike Starr
"Twenty Two"	Andrea Evans		Rod Serling
"Walking Distance"	Chelcie Ross		Rod Serling
"The Passersby"	Morgan Brittany

Volume 4

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

Volume 5

Title	Starring	Adapted for radio by	Originally written by
"Living Doll"	Tim Kazurinsky	Dennis Etchison	Jerry Sohl
"The Big Tall Wish"	Blair Underwood		Rod Serling
"The Fever"	Stacy Keach and Kathy Garver
"The Last Night of a Jockey"	Bruno Kirby
"A Thing About Machines"	Mike Starr
"Mirror Image"	Morgan Brittany and Frank John Hughes
"The 7th Is Made Up of Phantoms"	Richard Grieco
"The Long Morrow"	Kathy Garver
"Will the Real Martian Please Stand Up?"	Richard Kind	Chaz Holloway and Dennis Etchison
"The Trade-Ins"	H. M. Wynant and Peggy Webber	Dennis Etchison

Volume 6

Title	Starring	Adapted for radio by	Originally written by
"Time Enough at Last"	Tim Kazurinsky	Dennis Etchison	Rod Serling
"A Passage for Trumpet"	Mike Starr		Rod Serling
"I Shot an Arrow Into the Air"	Chelcie Ross		Rod Serling
"The Brain Center at Whipple's"	Stan Freberg		Rod Serling
"The Grave"	Michael Rooker		Montgomery Pittman
"The Hitch-Hiker"	Kate Jackson		Rod Serling
"Mr. Denton on Doomsday"	Adam Baldwin		Rod Serling
"Sounds and Silences"	Richard Kind
"The Odyssey of Flight 33"	Daniel J. Travanti
"The Changing of the Guard"	Orson Bean

Volume 7

Title	Starring	Adapted for radio by	Originally written by
"Five Characters in Search of an Exit"	Jason Alexander	Dennis Etchison	Rod Serling
"The Arrival"	Blair Underwood		Rod Serling
"Queen of the Nile"	Kate Jackson		Jerry Sohl
"I Dream of Genie"	Hal Sparks		John Furia Jr.
"It's a Good Life"	Mike Starr		Rod Serling
"The Masks"	Stan Freberg		Rod Serling
"Mr. Bevis"	Bruno Kirby
"Showdown with Rance McGrew"	Christopher McDonald		Rod Serling
"The Old Man in the Cave"	Adam Baldwin		Rod Serling
"Ninety Years Without Slumbering"	Bill Erwin		Richard De Roy

Volume 8

Title	Starring	Adapted for radio by	Originally written by
"The Howling Man"	Fred Willard	Dennis Etchison	Charles Beaumont
"Caesar and Me"	Jason Alexander		Adele T. Strassfield
"The Self-Improvement of Salvadore Ross"	Luke Perry		Jerry McNeely
"The Time Element"	Bobby Slayton		Rod Serling
"The Mind and the Matter"	Hal Sparks
"People Are Alike All Over"	Blair Underwood		Rod Serling
"What You Need"	Bruno Kirby and Bruce Kirby		Rod Serling
"Dead Man's Shoes"	Bill Smitrovich		Charles Beaumont and Ocee Ritch
"What's in the Box"	Mike Starr		Martin Goldsmith
"Deaths-Head Revisited"	H. M. Wynant		Rod Serling

Volume 9

Title	Starring	Adapted for radio by	Originally written by
"To Serve Man"	Blair Underwood	Dennis Etchison	Rod Serling
"A World of Difference"	Luke Perry		Richard Matheson
"From Agnes—With Love"	Ed Begley Jr.		Bernard C. Schoenfeld
"Perchance to Dream"	Fred Willard		Charles Beaumont
"The Purple Testament"	Michael Rooker		Rod Serling
"Printer's Devil"	Bobby Slayton		Charles Beaumont
"Dust"	Bill Smitrovich		Rod Serling
"The Jeopardy Room"	Stacy Keach
"The Fugitive"	Stan Freberg		Charles Beaumont
"The Silence"	Christopher McDonald		Rod Serling

Volume 10

Title	Starring	Adapted for radio by	Originally written by
"Miniature"	Lou Diamond Phillips	Dennis Etchison	Charles Beaumont
"The Jungle"	Ed Begley Jr.
"The Mighty Casey"	Paul Dooley		Rod Serling
"Ring-a-Ding Girl"	Sarah Wayne Callies		Earl Hamner Jr.
"Mute"	Wade Williams		Richard Matheson
"Black Leather Jackets"	Marshall Allman		Earl Hamner Jr.
"A Quality of Mercy"	Robert Knepper		Rod Serling
"Where Is Everybody?"	John Schneider		Rod Serling
"A Nice Place to Visit"	Hal Sparks		Charles Beaumont
"In His Image"	John Heard

Volume 11

Title	Starring	Adapted for radio by	Originally written by
"Nightmare at 20,000 Feet"	John Schneider	Dennis Etchison	Richard Matheson
"Elegy"	Blair Underwood		Charles Beaumont
"The Last Rites of Jeff Myrtlebank"	Robert Knepper		Montgomery Pittman
"Spur of the Moment"	Sarah Wayne Callies		Richard Matheson
"He's Alive"	Peter Mark Richman and Marshall Allman		Rod Serling
"Long Distance Call"	Hal Sparks		Charles Beaumont and William Idelson
"The Gift"	Danny Goldring		Rod Serling
"Gentlemen, Be Seated"	Stan Freberg and Mike Starr		Charles Beaumont
"You Drive"	John Heard		Earl Hamner Jr.
"In Praise of Pip"	Fred Willard		Rod Serling

Volume 12

Title	Starring	Adapted for radio by	Originally written by
"The Last Flight"	Charles Shaughnessy	Dennis Etchison	Richard Matheson
"Long Live Walter Jameson"	Lou Diamond Phillips		Charles Beaumont
"Person or Persons Unknown"	John Schneider
"The Whole Truth"	Henry Rollins		Rod Serling
"Stopover in a Quiet Town"	Stephnie Weir		Earl Hamner Jr.
"Judgment Night"	Chelcie Ross		Rod Serling
"The Chaser"	Stephen Tobolowsky		Robert Presnell Jr.
"Shadow Play"	Ernie Hudson		Charles Beaumont
"Nick of Time"	Marshall Allman and Jamie Brown		Richard Matheson
"Static"	Stan Freberg		Charles Beaumont

Volume 13

Title	Starring	Adapted for radio by	Originally written by
"Death Ship"	John Schneider	Dennis Etchison	Richard Matheson
"Pattern for Doomsday"	Henry Rollins		Jerry Sohl
"Nightmare as a Child"	Bonnie Somerville		Rod Serling
"And When the Sky Was Opened"	Barry Bostwick		Rod Serling
"Little Girl Lost"	Stephen Tobolowsky		Richard Matheson
"Jess-Belle"	Stephnie Weir		Earl Hamner Jr.
"The Encounter"	Stacy Keach & Byron Mann		Martin Goldsmith
"A World of His Own"	Charles Shaughnessy		Richard Matheson
"The New Exhibit"	JoBe Cerny	Dennis Etchison and JoBe Cerny	Jerry Sohl and Charles Beaumont
"Valley of the Shadow"	Chelcie Ross	Dennis Etchison	Charles Beaumont

Volume 14

This collection was only released as an online digital download, rather than on CD.

Title	Starring	Adapted for radio by	Originally written by
"Night Call"	Mariette Hartley	Dennis Etchison	Richard Matheson
"Kick the Can"	Shelley Berman & Stan Freberg		George Clayton Johnson
"A Game of Pool"	Wade Williams	Dennis Etchison and JoBe Cerny
"A Penny For Your Thoughts"	David Eigenberg	Dennis Etchison
"Free Dirt"	Eric Bogosian		Charles Beaumont
"Number 12 Looks Just Like You"	Bonnie Somerville & Charles Shaughnessy		Charles Beaumont and John Tomerlin
"On Thursday We Leave for Home"	Barry Bostwick		Rod Serling
"Third from the Sun"	Fred Willard		Rod Serling
"The Trouble with Templeton"	Michael York		E. Jack Neuman
"The Mirror"	Tony Plana		Rod Serling

Volume 15

This collection was only released as an online digital download, rather than on CD.

Title	Starring	Adapted for radio by	Originally written by
"The Prime Mover"	David Eigenberg	Dennis Etchison	Charles Beaumont
"A Piano in the House"	Michael York		Earl Hamner Jr.
"The Four of Us Are Dying"	Eric Bogosian		Rod Serling
"The Sixteen-Millimeter Shrine"	Kathy Garver		Rod Serling
"The Shelter"	Ernie Hudson
"Young Man's Fancy"	Tony Plana		Richard Matheson
"Probe 7, Over and Out"	Louis Gossett Jr.		Rod Serling
"Two"	Don Johnson		Montgomery Pittman
"Who Am I?"	Sean Astin		Jerry Sohl
"The Bewitchin' Pool"	Karen Black		Earl Hamner Jr.

Volume 16

This collection was only released as an online digital download, rather than on CD.

Title	Starring	Adapted for radio by	Originally written by
"The Hunt"	Shelley Berman & Karen Black	Dennis Etchison	Earl Hamner Jr.
"Passage on the Lady Anne"	Martin Jarvis & Rosalind Ayres		Charles Beaumont
"Execution"	Don Johnson		Rod Serling
"Steel"	Louis Gossett Jr.	Dennis Etchison and JoBe Cerny	Richard Matheson
"The Amazing Dr. Kyle Powers"	Sean Astin	Barry Rickard
"Nothing in the Dark"	Marshall Allman	M.J. Elliott	George Clayton Johnson
"There Goes the Neighborhood"	Tim Kazurinsky	Barry Rickard
"The Walk-Abouts"	Mike Starr	Steve Newby
"An Occurrence At Owl Creek Bridge"	Christian Stolte	M.J. Elliott	Robert Enrico
"Now You Hear It, Now You Don't"	Dee Wallace	Dennis Etchison

Volume 17

This collection was only released as an online digital download, rather than on CD.

Title	Starring	Adapted for radio by	Originally written by
"Once Upon a Time"	John Rhys-Davies	M.J. Elliott	Richard Matheson
"The Invaders"	Kathy Garver	Barry Rickard
"Beewinjapeedee"	Sean Astin	JoBe Cerny
"Eye of the Beholder"	Virginia Williams	Barry Rickard	Rod Serling
"I Sing the Body Electric"	Dee Wallace	Dennis Etchison	Ray Bradbury
"Mrs. Pierce is Praying for Me"	Tim Kazurinsky	Dennis Etchison
"The Time of Your Life"	John Rhys-Davies	Matthew Elliott
"Ten Days"	Ned Bellamy	Mark Valente
"Snow Angel"	Sean Astin	JoBe Cerny
"The Nanobots"	David Pasquesi	Steve Newby

Volume 18

This collection was only released as an online digital download, rather than on CD.

Title	Starring	Written by
"Two Thousand-Twelve"	Christian Stolte	Steve Newby
"...And Cauldron Bubble"	Virginia Williams	Christine Watson
"Missing, Presumed Dead"	Danny Goldring	Dennis Etchison
"Rest Stop"	Brandon Eels	Steve Newby
"The 25th Hour"	Mike Nussbaum	Dennis Etchison
"Another Place in Time"	Malcolm McDowell	Steve Newby

Releases

CD and digital

The Twilight Zone Radio Dramas were initially produced in 2002 and made available for sale on-line with the launch of the Twilight Zone Radio website. They were originally available in audio cassette tape and CD "collections" of 4 episodes apiece. Eight episodes were produced in 2002, and eight more in 2003. By late 2004, after the first 24 episodes were released between 6 numbered collections, the series would no longer be made available on cassette and new CD "volumes" comprising 10 episodes each were introduced with the release of six additional episodes, ending the year with 14 episodes for 30 in total, which were reorganized and shuffled between these first 3 volumes.

In 2006, volumes 4 through 9 were released (60 episodes), then volumes 10 through 12 appeared in 2007 (30 episodes), and volume 13 in 2008 (10 episodes) would be the last volume made available on CD. Beginning in 2007, the shows were made available for individual MP3 download at $1.95 each, with most of volumes 14 through 17 released in 2009 and 2010 (38 episodes), and the last 8 episodes were produced between 2011 and 2012; leaving volume 18 incomplete with only 6 episodes. The final episode is titled "Another Place in Time" with no plans for further production.

By mid 2015, the website moved to hollywood360radio.net and in 2016 the website went completely offline, and with the domain redirecting to www.classicradiostore.com.

CDs and digital downloads of the shows can be purchased on Amazon and Audible from a variety of sources, with no real consistency in show or volume or collection composition and several differing from the CD version. These two excerpts from "A Hundred Yards Over the Rim" (volume 3 episode 3) are an example.

"A Hundred Yards Over the Rim" CD version

"A Hundred Yards Over the Rim" download version

DVD and Blu-ray

Some episodes of the radio drama were included on the DVD and Blu-ray releases of the TV series as special features alongside the original episodes. Although 155 out of 156 episodes of the TV series were remade as radio dramas (the exception being "Come Wander with Me"), only 30 are included on the DVD releases and 81 on the Blu-rays.

The radio episodes included on the Blu-rays are listed below in TV series order.

Season 1

• "Where Is Everybody?"
• "One for the Angels" (also on DVD)
• "Walking Distance"
• "Escape Clause"
• "The Lonely" (also on DVD)
• "Time Enough at Last"
• "Perchance to Dream"
• "I Shot an Arrow into the Air" (also on DVD)
• "The Hitch-Hiker"
• "The Fever"
• "The Last Flight"
• "Mirror Image"
• "The Monsters Are Due on Maple Street" (also on DVD)
• "Long Live Walter Jameson"
• "People Are Alike All Over"
• "The Big Tall Wish" (also on DVD)
• "The After Hours" (also on DVD)
• "The Mighty Casey"

Season 2

• "The Man in the Bottle"
• "Nervous Man in a Four Dollar Room" (also on DVD)
• "The Howling Man"
• "Nick of Time"
• "The Lateness of the Hour" (also on DVD)
• "The Trouble with Templeton"
• "The Night of the Meek"
• "Back There"
• "The Whole Truth"
• "The Odyssey of Flight 33" (also on DVD)
• "Static"
• "A Hundred Yards Over the Rim" (also on DVD)
• "The Silence"
• "Will the Real Martian Please Stand Up?" (also on DVD)
• "The Obsolete Man" (also on DVD)

Season 3

• "Two"
• "The Arrival"
• "The Shelter"
• "The Passersby" (also on DVD)
• "The Mirror"
• "The Grave"
• "Deaths-Head Revisited" (also on DVD)
• "Still Valley" (also on DVD)
• "The Jungle"
• "Five Characters in Search of an Exit"
• "One More Pallbearer" (also on DVD)
• "Dead Man's Shoes"
• "Kick the Can"
• "A Piano in the House"
• "To Serve Man"
• "Four O'Clock" (also on DVD)
• "The Trade-Ins"
• "The Dummy" (also on DVD)
• "The Changing of the Guard"

Season 4

• "The Thirty-Fathom Grave" (also on DVD)
• "No Time Like the Past" (also on DVD)
• "The Parallel" (also on DVD)
• "Of Late I Think of Cliffordville" (also on DVD)
• "The Incredible World of Horace Ford" (also on DVD)
• "On Thursday We Leave for Home"
• "The Bard" (also on DVD)

Season 5

• "Steel"
• "A Kind of a Stopwatch" (also on DVD)
• "Living Doll" (also on DVD)
• "The Old Man in the Cave"
• "Uncle Simon"
• "Probe 7, Over and Out"
• "The 7th Is Made Up of Phantoms" (also on DVD)
• "A Short Drink from a Certain Fountain"
• "Ninety Years Without Slumbering"
• "The Long Morrow" (also on DVD)
• "The Self-Improvement of Salvadore Ross"
• "Night Call"
• "From Agnes—With Love"
• "Queen of the Nile"
• "What's in the Box"
• "The Masks"
• "Sounds and Silences" (also on DVD)
• "Caesar and Me"
• "Mr. Garrity and the Graves" (also on DVD)
• "The Brain Center at Whipple's"
• "The Fear"
• "The Bewitchin' Pool"

External links

• The Twilight Zone Radio Dramas at IMDb