How many episodes of the original Twilight Zone were made?
The majority of the episodes were written by Serling himself, although other writers such as Richard Matheson, Charles Beaumont, George Clayton Johnson and Earl Hamner, Jr also contributed scripts to the series — a number of which would be based on existing short stories. With accompanying narration from Serling topping and tailing every episode, each of the first three seasons consisted of thirty-minute episodes. Season Four saw a change of direction as the programme changed to a sixty-minute format. The final year, Season Five, saw a return to thirty-minute episodes. Two years later and The Twilight Zone series returned to its true home on television when CBS picked up a new version of the series. However, unlike the original series which had consisted of a single story in either a thirty or sixty-minute timeslot, the revival was made up of two, or sometimes even three stories within a sixty-minute episode. The series unsurprisingly retained its familiar theme tune (reworked by Merl
