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'The Twilight Zone' (1959-1964, 1985-1989, 2002-2003, CBS/UPN)

Series creator Rod Serling and his anthology program were among the first to really treat science fiction seriously. And like "Star Trek," many of its best episodes dealt with time travel and time-travel paradoxes. ... more

Gig Young strolls into his boyhood hometown, decades earlier, in "Walking Distance" (1959); a World War II fighter pilot leaps ahead in time in "The Last Flight" (1960); a modern man tries to stop the Lincoln assassination in "Back There" (1961); a janitor (Buster Keaton) travels to the future in "Once Upon a Time" (1961). We could go on and on and on ...

We won't dignify the later versions by mentioning their episodes, in particular the attempts to remake the earlier tales. Even narrator Forest Whitaker couldn't get us interested in the CBS and UPN revival, which more closely resembled "Tales From the Darkside" than Serling's classic creation.

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