The Twilight Zone (2002 TV series)
| The Twilight Zone | |
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| Genre |
Science fiction Fantasy Horror Mystery |
| Created by |
Rod Serling (a second revival of the 1959 TV series) |
| Presented by | Forest Whitaker |
| Composer(s) | Mark Snow |
| Country of origin | United States |
| Original language(s) | English |
| No. of seasons | 1 |
| No. of episodes | 43(list of episodes) |
| Production | |
| Executive producer(s) | John Watson Mark Stern Ira Steven Behr Pen Densham |
| Location(s) | Vancouver, British Columbia |
| Running time | 22 minutes |
| Production company(s) |
New Line Television Spirit Dance Entertainment Trilogy Entertainment Group Joshmax Productions Services |
| Distributor | Warner Bros. Television Distribution |
| Release | |
| Original network | UPN |
| Audio format | 5.1 Surround Sound |
| Original release | September 18, 2002 – May 21, 2003 |
| Chronology | |
| Preceded by | The Twilight Zone (1985 series) |
The Twilight Zone is a 2002 revival of Rod Serling's 1959-64 television series. It aired for one season on the UPN network, with actor Forest Whitaker assuming Serling's role as narrator and on-screen host.
Broadcast in an hour format with two half-hour stories, it was canceled after one season. Reruns continue to air in syndication, and have aired on MyNetworkTV since summer 2008. The opening theme music was provided by Jonathan Davis (singer of the band Korn).
The series tended to address contemporary issues head-on; i.e. terrorism, racism, gender roles, sexuality, and stalking. Noteworthy episodes featured Jason Alexander as Death wanting to retire from harvesting souls, Lou Diamond Phillips as a swimming pool cleaner being shot repeatedly in his dreams, Susanna Thompson as a woman whose stated wish results in an "upgrading" of her family, Usher as a police officer being bothered by telephone calls from beyond the grave, Brian Austin Green as a businessman who encounters items from his past that somehow reappear, Jeffrey Combs as a hypochondriac whose diseases become reality, and Katherine Heigl playing a woman who went back in time to do a suicide mission to kill the infant Adolf Hitler.
The series also includes remakes and updates of stories presented in the original Twilight Zone television series, including the famous "The Eye of the Beholder" starring Molly Sims. One of the updates, "The Monsters Are on Maple Street", is a modernized version of the classic episode similarly called "The Monsters Are Due on Maple Street". The original show was about the paranoia surrounding a neighborhood-wide blackout. In the course of the episode, somebody suggests an alien invasion being the cause of the blackouts, and that one of the neighbors may be an alien. The anti-alien hysteria is an allegory for the anti-communist paranoia of the time, and the 2003 remake, starring Andrew McCarthy and Titus Welliver, replaces aliens with terrorists. The show also contains "It's Still a Good Life", a sequel to the events of "It's a Good Life", an episode of the original series produced 41 years earlier. Bill Mumy returned to play the adult version of Anthony, the demonic child he had played in the original story, with Mumy's daughter, Liliana, appearing as Anthony's daughter, a more benevolent but even more powerful child. Cloris Leachman also returned as Anthony's mother. Mumy went on to serve as screenwriter for other episodes in the revival.
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