For questions about the original 1959 Twilight Zone series and the 1985 and 2002 revivals.
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Why do the lights go out when someone enters the dining room on this ship?
In the tenth episode of the first season of The Twilight Zone named Judgment Night which takes place during the 2nd World War a civilian ship is on its way from London to New York and is trying to escape a submarine attack from the Germans.
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Was Cliff Robertson a Real Ventriloquist?
In the Twilight Zone episode The Dummy, there's a scene where "Jerry and Willie" (Robertson's character and the titular ventriloquist dummy) are performing and it looks like the actor's lips move a bit while he's doing the voice of the dummy.
What…
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Did any stories of The Twilight Zone end with a happy ending and no twist or shocking ending?
The web series Longbox of the Damned reviewed the comic Twilight Zone #4, published by Gold Key. The final story involved a navy pilot who crashed into the water and is found by merfolk. After winning his freedom, the story ends with something I…
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Did the previous owner of "A Kind of Stopwatch" know that it could stop time?
In the 1963 Twilight Zone episode "A Kind of Stopwatch", the main character Patrick McNulty meets a strange man in a bar named Potts. The latter seems to have a foreign accent, and uses outdated phrases such as "E. pluribus unum" and "54-40 or…
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Nightmare at 20,000 Feet: which airplane?
In several of the still images from the Twilight Zone episode "Nightmare at 20,000 Feet" (the one with William Shatner and the gremlin), the window of the plane looks unusually square when compared to modern planes.
What type of plane does the story…
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The Twilight Zone: Only fiction show of the 1950s and 1960s to mention the current year?
I am extremely familiar with the television of the 1950s and 1960s. For shows that were set in the present, unlike science fiction shows where they used the year (sometime laughably close, like less than 20 years hence) to establish that it was…
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