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The Twilight Zone Scripts of Earl Hamner

by Earl Hamner

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The Twilight Zone has evolved from a groundbreaking speculative television series into a cultural phenomenon. The recently revived series on FOX averaged 4.6 million viewers on its first episode. Indeed, the title itself conjures up thoughts of fantastic stories that bridge several forms of fiction to create a unique genre of morality tales with a touch of irony, unlimited by the boundaries of conventional fiction. Broadcast from 1959 to 1964, the show has run ever since in syndication, making it one of the longest running television shows of all time, creating a new genre of shows similar to the X-Files and Twin Peaks.
Five writers created the core of the show, and together these men fashioned the bulk of the 156 original episodes: Rod Serling, Richard Matheson, Charles Beaumont, George Clayton Johnson, and Earl Hamner. All went on to other projects in film, television, theater, and print, but their involvement in the Twilight Zone is well known to fans of the series. The Twilight Zone Scripts of Earl Hamner contains reprints of the eight episodes written by Hamner, along with Albarella's commentary on each story: "The Hunt", "A Piano in the House," "Jess-Belle," "Ring-a-Ding Girl," "You Drive," "Black Leather Jackets," "Stopover in a Quiet Town," and "The Bewitchin' Pool." Also included is a "lost" Twilight Zone short story by Mr. Hamner and an interview with Albarella that covers the background details of how Hamner became involved in the series.

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Book details

Author
Earl Hamner, Tony Albarella
Imprint
Cumberland House Publishing, an imprint of Turner Publishing Company
Published
Pages
292
Formats
Paperback
Subjects
Performing Arts › Television › Screenwriting
Topics
screenwriting · television history · science fiction · speculative fiction · TV scripts · morality tales
ISBN-13
9781581823301

About the author

EARL HAMNER JR. was an American writer and television producer who created The Waltons, the semiautobiographical series that ran from 1972 to 1981, and the 1980s primetime drama Falcon Crest. He is the author of Spencer’s Mountain, adapted into a film starring Henry Fonda and Maureen O'Hara, and wrote the screenplay for the 1973 animated film Charlotte’s Web.

Hamner won an Emmy for his work on The Waltons, where he served as creator, executive producer, and narrator. The University of Cincinnati awarded him an Honorary Doctorate of Performing Arts in 2008.

Before television, Hamner worked as a radio writer for NBC, later writing scripts for The Twilight Zone. His career encompassed fiction, screenwriting, and long-form television across several decades.

Hamner was born in Schuyler, Virginia, in 1923 and died on March 24, 2016, in Los Angeles at age 92.

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