The Twilight Zone [TV Series]: Season 03 (1988)

Canceled by CBS after two seasons and 80 episodes, the 1985 revival of the classic sci-fi/fantasy anthology The Twilight Zone returned to TV as a syndicated offering in the fall of 1988. Now seen in a half-hour, "single story per week" format rather than CBS' hour-long, multistory version, the syndicated Twilight Zone was mostly comprised of network reruns, some of them abridged to accommodate the new shorter format. However, 35 new episodes were produced in Canada during the 1988-1989 season. Robin Ward is heard as narrator in the syndicated version, replacing the network version's Charles Aidman (sometimes literally, in those episodes wherein Ward's voice is dubbed over Aidman's). This season's guest roster features such luminaries as Harry Morgan, Timothy Bottoms, Michael Moriarty, Colleen Dewhurst, Dean Stockwell, and Janet Leigh. Among the new Twilight Zones filmed for syndication are such gems as the opener, "The Curious Case of Edgar Witherspoon;" "Dream Me a Life," "The Hellgramite Method," "The Trunk," "Many Many Monkeys," and Harlan Ellison's "Crazy as a Soup Sandwich." Mention should also be made of "A Game of Pool," a remake of an episode filmed for the classic Rod Serling-produced The Twilight Zone. Incidentally, several of the syndicated Zones were penned by J. Michael Straczynski, who went on to mastermind the long-running series Babylon 5. ~ Hal Erickson, Rovi