Submitted for your approval: To discuss television's greatest anthology series whose title has become pop culture shorthand for the bizarre and supernatural is to immediately become like Albert Brooks and Dan Aykroyd in Twilight Zone: The Movie; a can-you-top-this recall of famous shocks and favorite twists. Several essential episodes hail from this season, among them, "Time Enough at Last" starring Burgess Meredith as a bespectacled bookworm who is the lone survivor of an atomic blast; "The After-Hours" starring Anne Francis as a department store shopper haunted by mannequins; and the profoundly disturbing "The Monsters Are Due on Maple Street," in which fear and prejudice turns neighbor against neighbor (and, by the by, whose alien observers inspired Kang and Kodos on The Simpsons).

Cast and Characters

• Rod Sterling

Broadcast History

First Telecast: October 1, 1959
Last Telecast: June 1, 1964
Number of Seasons: 5
Number of Episodes: 156
Original Network: CBS
Original Primetime TV Schedule:

• October 1959- September 1962, CBS, Friday 10:00-10:30pm
• January 1963- September 1963, CBS, Thursday 9:00-10:00pm
• September 1963- September 1964, CBS, Friday 9:30-10:00pm
• May 1965- September 1965, CBS, Sunday 9:00-10:00pm

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