Earl Hamner

It was 50 years ago that CBS announced that The Twilight Zone, an unusual new series of dramas dealing with tales stranger than fiction scripted by Rod Serling, would debut on Friday, October 2 at 10 p.m. The first episode, "Where Is Everybody?" aired that night and was the beginning of a groundbreaking television series that spanned 6 years and 156 episodes. In conjunction with the celebration of the 50th anniversary of the first broadcast episode...