![]() There was no luxury of multiple retakes until the actor felt just right about a particular scene. The Twilight Zone had a budget, just like any other series, and often the bulk of the money per episode had to be spent on sets and special effects. Interestingly enough, many of the actors in these pieces, when interviewed decades after the fact, confessed that they weren't particularly proud of their performances. The Actors Only Got One TakeĮvery Twilight Zone fan has his or her favorite episodes, and there are a few which are universally popular and always featured in marathons. "Requiem" won a Peabody Award, the first given to an individual script, and suddenly Serling had a "name" in the industry. ![]() Serling had been a fairly successful boxer during his time in the military, and he drew from that experience to write a teleplay called "Requiem for a Heavyweight" for Playhouse 90. After graduating from Antioch College, he started penning scripts for shows such as Kraft Television Theatre, Studio One and Lux Video Theater in the then-fledgling TV market. The combination of a small-town childhood plus the horrors that he saw during the war influenced his writing. Army paratrooper in the Pacific Theater during World War II. Serling grew up in Binghamton, New York, and served as a U.S. Rod Serling, the host and brainchild behind The Twilight Zone, holds the record as the recipient of the most Emmy Awards for dramatic writing. Rod Serling Was a Boxer, a Paratrooper and a Peabody Winner (all before the show!) When The Twilight Zone was picked up for a second season, the show's producers were looking to replace the original Bernard Hermann theme, which CBS execs had described as "too down." By splicing together the two rarely-heard short pieces composed by Constant which were already owned by CBS, the network managed to create a theme song legend without having to pay a truckload of royalty fees. 2)" were two different short pieces Constant had written and recorded for the CBS music library in 1959 with a small ensemble featuring two guitars, bongo drums, a saxophone and French horns. The French avant-garde composer was never commissioned to write the theme song it was instead cobbled together from two different short "cues" he had previously written for CBS. Any time something frightening or inexplicable is mentioned in conversation, odds are someone will intone the iconic four repetitive notes composed by Marius Constant. Much like the "dum-de-DUM-dum" Dragnet theme, the opening notes of The Twilight Zone theme song have become a pop culture icon. ![]() next stop, TV-Holic's look at The Twilight Zone. You are about to enter a dimension of sight and sound.
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