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The Twilight Zone
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"The Twilight Zone wasn't just a job. It was fun. It tested your imagination all the time. It had good scripts, and that's what really made it work."
— James Sheldon, who directed six episodes, including two Billy Mumy classics, "It's a Good Life" and "Long Distance Call"
"When I did 'The After Hours,' the whole soundstage was that department store, and there was an eerie feeling because of the immensity of that stage, and the lighting and the darkness beyond. Ah, I still get the chills. But it was a lot of fun working on that."
— Anne Francis
"I thought it was creepy how they wanted me to play this nice voice and threaten Telly Savalas with killing him ... the same way Tina would say how much she loved him."
— June Foray, the voice of Talky Tina in Twilight Zone's "Living Doll"
"I loved 'Nick of Time' because I thought that both Bill Shatner and the actress who played his wife — Pat Breslin — were wonderful. It played well, was involving and moving, and had a dandy snapper ending to chill the spine."
— writer Richard Matheson
"Getting to know Rod was fun. He was a great, fun guy, and very sure of himself. He could be quite cocky if he wanted to be, but not in a negative way, just a fun way.
"If I went to him and made a suggestion he didn't like, he would contemplate it for a second and he would say, 'Let me put it
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"Every time I went on a set, my thought was always, 'What if this turns into a real place, and I can't get home because I don't know where my house is?' And that led to me coming up with that story idea."
— Richard Matheson, on his Twilight Zone episode "A World of Difference"
to you this way. You're wrong.' He was so talented and really a sweetheart of a guy."
— Earl Holliman, star of Twilight Zone's inaugural episode, "Where is Everybody?"
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