TV series
The Twilight Zone
Overview
A 2002 revival of Rod Serling's 1950/60s television series, The Twilight Zone, with actor Forest Whitaker assuming Serling's role as narrator and on-screen host.
Details
- First air date
- 2002-09-18
- Status
- Canceled
- Seasons
- 1 season
- Episodes
- 43 episodes
- Genres
- Sci-Fi & Fantasy, Mystery, Drama
- Network
- UPN
- Production
- Trilogy Entertainment Group, New Line Television, Spirit Dance Entertainment
- Country
- US
- Original language
- EN
Cast
- Forest Whitaker as Self - Host
- June B. Wilde as Nurse #2
- Eriq La Salle as Ray Ellison
- Marisol Nichols as Joanne Yarrow
- Usher as Eric Boggs
- Claudette Mink as Lea
- Christopher McDonald as Rick
- Cloris Leachman as Agnes Fremont
- Devon Gummersall as George Straitton
- Shannon Elizabeth as Sondra
- Greg Germann as Ben Barker
- Ethan Embry as Zack Walker
Creators and crew
- Rod Serling - Creator
- Ira Steven Behr - Producer
- Pen Densham - Producer
- John T. Kretchmer - Director
- Brad Turner - Director
- Allan Kroeker - Director
Episodes
Episode 1: Evergreen
When rebellious teenager Jenna and her family move into an exclusive gated community that her parents hope will help them better control the troubled teen, Jenna soon discovers the dark truth behind how her new neighbors deal with discipline problems.
Episode 2: One Night at Mercy
A young doctor meets a suicide who claims to be Death incarnate. When Death insists he wants to stop his killing ways, the doctor is forced to contemplate what life would be like without death.
Episode 3: Shades of Guilt
Matt McGreevy is driving when a black man runs up to his car and begs for help. Matt drives away as a gang falls on the man and beat him to death. When he arrives home, Matt first bleeds from the cuts the dead man suffers, then his skin changes. By the time he gets back home he has transformed into the dead man, a college professor...
Episode 4: Dream Lover
To help overcome his writer's block and make his life easier and more relaxed, an artist named Andrew wills his dream woman Sondra to life, but the lines between reality and fantasy quickly begin to blur. Sondra soon starts hitting on the cable guy and gaining a life of her own.
Episode 5: Cradle of Darkness
Hoping to undo the horrors of WWII, a woman, Andre, sacrifices her own future when she goes back in time to stop Adolf Hitler by killing him when he is a baby.
Episode 6: Night Route
A young woman's seemingly happy life unravels after a close call with a speeding car. The woman, Melina, begins to forget details of her lfie and how she met her fiance. Worse, she is haunted by strange phenomena: a mysterious bus that follows her and people who know her name that she's never met. Finally her fiance disappears without a trace, leaving her in a desolate life where she knows no one.
Episode 7: Time Lapse
After an unconscious high-security patient arrives in his ward, Doctor Zack Taylor finds himself suffering from blackouts. On each occasion he wakes up partway along a byzantine assassination plot to kill the President's daughter with a plastic gun. He gets to the target's location, pulls out his gun, and...shoots an assassin behind the girl...
Episode 8: Dead Man's Eyes
A distraught widow and former rehab patient on the verge of a total mental collapse, heavily invested in finding her husband's killer, discovers that her murdered husband's eyeglasses reveal the last moments of his life and possibly the identity of his killer...
Episode 9: The Pool Guy
A pool cleaner loses the ability to distinguish dreams from reality.
Episode 10: Azoth the Avenger is a Friend of Mine
A bullied boy, Craig, deciphers a coded message that allows him to summon his comic book hero, Azoth the Avenger. This long-haired Conan-like barbarian beats up the bullies that plague Craig, but is defenseless against his abusive father. Azoth returns to whence he came but inspires Craig to take a stand against his father - intoning the same spell as before and sending his father...somewhere, leaving him and his mother in peace.
Episode 11: The Lineman
Tyler inherits the power to hear people's thoughts after a freak lightening storm. Eventually, he begins to abuse his new gift, using it as a means of acquiring vast wealth and personal gain. But then Tyler learns that his new power comes with a price.
Believing Shannon wants a rich man, Tyler uses his ability to play the stock market, but is surprised at the consequences, especially when he tries to touch others' minds when they grow distant from him.
Episode 12: Harsh Mistress
A struggling musician named Cory purchases a rather infamous guitar, which leads to him gaining vast international stardom and wealth, but both come with a surprising price tag.
Episode 13: Upgrade
Annie fantasizes about her ideal family, a far cry from the dysfunctional group of people she sees everyday. But when her fantasies seemingly become reality, she is horrored to discover she is next on the replacement list.
Episode 14: To Protect and Serve
A young cop falls madly in love with a prostitute, and he continues to protect her even when they are both killed.
Episode 15: Chosen
A man is annoyed by two tenacious people he believes to be evangelists and refuses to listen to their claims that the day is Armageddon, but as it transpires the day is Armageddon, and the "evangelists" are Angels in need of help...
Episode 16: Sensuous Cindy
A man buys a "virtual girlfriend" online simply to satisfy his carnal needs, but ends up becoming somebody else's sex slave.
Episode 17: Hunted
A cop pursues the last known criminal in Earth's future society. But as it turns out, the criminal is fighting on the same side of the cop, to rid the world of androids.
Episode 18: Mr. Motivation
A sinister toy doll encourages a timid man to stand up to his boss and take control of his life.
Episode 19: Sanctuary
Stranded in a modern day Garden of Eden, a man and woman cannot resist the temptation of technology.
Episode 20: Future Trade
A man with a dead-end job and a dysfunctional family is lured into trading his future for that of a seemingly privileged man with his trophy wife.
Episode 21: Found and Lost
A successful businessman is given a second chance - to go back and be with his first love
Episode 22: Gabe's Story
A man suffering from consistent bad luck is given a surprising chance to change his destiny.
Episode 23: Last Lap
A terminally ill young man and his best friend take a final ride in their souped-up racer that results in unexpected consequences for both.
Episode 24: The Path
Ally, a young writer for a tabloid, meets a man who claims he sees others the path they are destined to follow. His predictions for her prove uncannily accurate and she soon becomes dependent on his predictions to guide her life. When he gets hit by a car and killed she finds herself without hope.
Episode 25: Fair Warning
Tina, a flower shop clerk, finds herself threatened by a seemingly-deranged man named George who mysteriously disappears after asking him to stop from killing her. When she finds him he has a perfect alibi and claims he doesn't know her. George keeps visiting her and no one ever sees him except Tina. Tina begins to question her sanity.
Episode 26: Another Life
Marvin Gardens, a rich and famous upcoming rap singer, begins to have visions of himself being interrogated by policemen in a shadowy room, and the visions begin to drive him crazy.
Episode 27: Rewind
Jonah, a gambler, never can beat "the house" no matter how hard he tries. But then he gets an interesting device that enables him to go back in time up to 5 minutes, and that means he has big chances for his gambling.
Episode 28: Tagged
Marcus Fisher, a talented artist and street tagger, shoots a man painting over his spot at the insistence of his gang and the wall painting starts portraying the crime and filling in that he is the one who did the shooting.
Episode 29: Into the Light
A teacher on her last few days of teaching high school suddenly starts seeing lights on peoples faces just before they die. When she starts seeing it on most of her students faces, she decides to find out what will happen.
Episode 30: It's Still a Good Life
In this sequel to the original TZs "It's a Good Life", an adult Anthony Fremont continues to terrorize the town of Peaksville.
Episode 31: The Monsters Are on Maple Street
In this remake of the original TZ's "The Monsters Are Due on Maple Street", a neighborhood is terrorized by mysterious power outages and begin to turn on each other.
Episode 32: Memphis
A dying man is transported back to the South in 1968 on the day of Martin Luther King's assassination and tries to stop the killing.
Episode 33: How Much Do You Love Your Kid?
A woman's son is kidnapped and she becomes involved in a licensed reality TV show broadcasting her attempts to recover him.
Episode 34: The Placebo Effect
A hypochondriac with the power to manifest his beliefs into reality poses a danger to the entire world.
Episode 35: Cold Fusion
When the base staff at an Alaskan research base lose contact with the outside world, the military send a team in to investigate the disappearance.
Episode 36: The Pharaoh's Curse
A young magician becomes the protégé of an elderly conjurer to learn the secret of an impossible escape - The Pharaoh's Curse.
Episode 37: The Collection
A babysitter must deal with a girl who has a collection of dolls that come to life.
Episode 38: Eye of the Beholder
Meet Mrs. Janet Tyler. She was born abnormally ugly and has undergone many plastic surgeries to change her appearance. None of them worked. Now after one last attempt the bandages are coming off. But will the latest surgery succeed where the others failed?
Episode 39: Developing
A widow finds photos of their dream house improving with each picture she takes.
Episode 40: The Executions of Grady Finch
A prisoner, Grady Finch, who insists on his innocence discovers that he can't be killed. He survives multiple execution attempts and his attorney eventually manages to get him released. Finch is elated, but as he emerges he confesses to his attorney that he was really guilty...and then he is finally killed as a statue of Nemesis, the Goddess of Vengeance, falls on top of him.
Episode 41: Homecoming
A teenager has a brief reunion with his father, returned from the war.
Episode 42: Sunrise
Several college students are thrust into a virtual nightmare when they discover an Aztec artifact that causes the sun to vanish and the only solution is a human sacrifice.
Episode 43: Burned
A crooked real estate mogul pays the price for having a building burned down to collect the insurance money.
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