The Twilight Zone is an American television anthology series created by Rod Serling. It is a series of unrelated stories containing drama, psychological thriller, fantasy, science fiction, suspense, and/or horror, often concluding with a macabre or unexpected twist. A popular and critical success, it introduced many Americans to common science fiction and fantasy tropes. The program followed in the tradition of earlier shows like Tales of Tomorrow, which also dramatized the short story "What You Need", and Science Fiction Theatre, and radio programs like The Weird Circle, Dimension X, X Minus One and the radio work of one of Serling's inspirations, Norman Corwin. The success ... more on Wikipedia