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''The Twilight Zone'' (1985) is the first of two revivals of Rod Serling's acclaimed 1950s television series of the same name. It ran for two seasons on CBS before producing a final season for syndication. ==Series history== It was Serling's decision to sell his share of the series back to the network that eventually allowed for a ''Twilight Zone'' revival. As an in-house production, CBS stood to earn more money producing ''The Twilight Zone'' than it could by purchasing a new series produced by an outside company. Even so, the network was slow to consider a revival, shooting down offers from the original production team of Rod Serling and Buck Houghton and later from American filmmaker Francis Ford Coppola. Their hesitation stemmed from concerns familiar to the original series: ''Twilight Zone'' had never been the breakaway hit CBS wanted, so they should not expect it to do better in a second run. "We were looking at the success of the original series in syndication and the enormous popularity of the Steven Spielberg films," said CBS program chief Harvey Shepard. "Many of them (such as ''E.T.'' or ''Poltergeist'') deal with elements of the show. Perhaps the public is ready for it again." Despite the lukewarm response to ''Twilight Zone: The Movie'', Spielberg's theatrical homage to the original series, CBS gave the new ''Twilight Zone'' a greenlight in 1984 under the supervision of Carla Singer, then Vice President of Drama Development. "''Twilight Zone'' was a series I always liked as a kid," said Singer, "...and at that point it sounded like an interesting challenge for me personally." These sentiments were seconded by a number of young filmmakers eager to make their mark on a series which had proved influential to their life and work—people like writers Harlan Ellison, George R. R. Martin, Rockne S. O'Bannon, Jeremy Bertrand Finch, Paul Chitlik and directors Wes Craven and William Friedkin. Casts featured stars including Bruce Willis, Helen Mirren, Season Hubley, Morgan Freeman, Martin Landau, Jonathan Frakes, and Fred Savage. New theme music was composed by Jerry Garcia and performed by The Grateful Dead. Filling in for Serling (who died in 1975) as narrator was Charles Aidman, himself the star of two classic ''Twilight Zone'' episodes. ''The Twilight Zone'' ran for two seasons on CBS. For most of the network run the series was one hour in length, but rather unusually (and in a departure from the original series), presented two or three stories within the one-hour time slot. For part of season 2, the show presented half-hour episodes. An additional third season of half-hour programs was produced in 1988 to "pad" the series' syndication package. Robin Ward replaced Aidman as the narrator of these Canadian-produced episodes. Unlike Serling (whose image appears fleetingly in the revival's opening credits) and Forest Whitaker, host of the 2002 revival, neither Aidman nor Ward appeared on screen. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「The Twilight Zone (1985 TV series)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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