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The Twilight Zone
was created by Rod Serling.

July 7, 2009: Rod Serling to be featured in stamp collection

The U.S. Postal Service has announced plans to release a collection of stamps honoring legends from the Golden Age of Television. Rod Serling will be featured, representing his iconic anthology series, The Twilight Zone Sci Fi Wire reports that the set is planned to include other such notable TV stars as Lucille Ball and Vivian Vance (from I Love Lucy), the Lone Ranger, George Burns and Gracy Allen, Ozzie and Harriet Nelson, original Tonight Show host Steve Allen, Jackie Gleason and Art Carney (from The Honeymooners), Alfred Hitchcock, Raymond Burr as Perry Mason, Jack Webb from Dragnet, , William "Hopalong Cassidy" Boyd, Lassie, Red Skelton, Milton Berle, Dinah Shore, Groucho Marx, Phil Silvers, and from the world of puppets, Kukla, Fran, and Ollie as well as Howdy Doody.

July 1, 2009: SciFi Fourth of July 2009 Marathon Schedule

This year, the network is prefacing the marathon of the original series with a marathon of the The New Twilight Zone series from 1985. The marathon starts Thursday, July 2 at 8:00 AM EST. Check the full marathon schedule for the episodes and times.

May 11, 2009: The Twilight Zone June marathons

The Sci Fi Channel has scheduled two daytime marathons for the month of June:

• Tuesday, June 9, 2009 - 8:00AM-4:00PM EST
• Wednesday, June 24, 2009 - 8:00AM-4:00PM EST

The site is also featuring a poll where visitors can submit their votes for ten episodes they want to see aired on the channel during the Fourth of July holiday marathon.

• Vote in The Twilight Zone viewers' poll

April 21, 2009: TZ Alums Making Appearances This Summer

Hollywood Show. Burbank, California. Burbank Marriott-Airport. Saturday-Sunday, April 25-26, 2009. RICHARD ERDMAN ("A Kind of a Stopwatch"), WARREN STEVENS ("Dead Man's Shoes") [1]

Mid-Atlantic Nostalgia Convention. Aberdeen, Maryland. The Clarion Hotel. Thursday-Saturday, August 27-29, 2009. JAMES BEST ("Jess-Belle", "The Last Rites of Jeff Myrtlebank", "The Grave"), BOB HASTINGS ("I Dream of Genie") [2]

Dragon-Con. Atlanta, Georgia. (see link for location details) September 4-7, 2009. LEONARD NIMOY ("A Quality of Mercy") [3]

April 20, 2009: Philosophy in the Twilight Zone book announced

Philosophy in the Twilight Zone ISBN 978-1-4051-4905-1; May 2009; $24.95, PB) by Noel Carroll and Lester H. Hunt introduces the cult classic television show (1959-1964) as a shining example of science fiction that was both popular with the public, as well as an innovative and model example of the genre. Rod Serling is given the spotlight for his role as the auteur of one of the most popular television shows of all time, where he found himself living at the edge of the aesthetic, conceptual, and artistic outer limits. The authors emphasize his “writerly” style and image as a new variety of television executive, as well as how his work shaped future forms of the genre, as well as suspense and horror films.

April 4, 2009: Maxine Cooper Gomberg dies at 84

Maxine Cooper Gomberg, an actress best known for playing the secretary in the 1955 film noir classic "Kiss Me Deadly," has died. She was 84. Gomberg, who also was a social activist, died of natural causes April 4 at her Los Angeles home, her family said...

In 1946, she went to Europe to perform in shows for soldiers. Gomberg stayed for five years, appearing in BBC-TV and theatrical productions.

Upon returning to Los Angeles, Gomberg appeared mainly on TV throughout the 1950s in such shows as "Dragnet," "Perry Mason" and "The Twilight Zone."

March 16, 2009: Ithaca College to celebrate Twilight Zone's 50th Anniversary

Scheduled for Oct. 2 and 3, at Ithaca College, a major convention in which noted scholars will deliver papers on Rod Serling and The Twilight Zone. Also many special events are planned...

January 25, 2009: New TZ book published

Barricade Books will publish Rod Serling and The Twilight Zone: The Fiftieth Anniversary Tribute by Douglas Brode and Carol Serling. The bookstore price will be $24.95. At this time, both Barricade Books and Amazon.com are selling the book...

January 6, 2009: Actor James Whitmore dies

(CNN) -- Craggy-faced film, television and stage actor James Whitmore has died at 87, the Los Angeles County, California, Sheriff's Department confirmed Saturday.

Actor James Whitmore, pictured in December 2006, had a 60-year career on stage, in films and on television.

Details of his death and funeral arrangements were not available.

Whitmore notably portrayed Harry Truman, Will Rogers and Theodore Roosevelt in one-man stage shows and created memorable characters in many movies and TV shows, including "The Twilight Zone."

...Ida Lupino, star of "The Sixteen-Millimeter Shrine", became the only woman to direct an episode of The Twilight Zone (Original Series) in directing the Season 5's "The Masks"?

...that creator of Sin City and 300, Frank Miller, got his start in The Twilight Zone comics?

...in the X-files episode, "4-D", the address of Monica Reyes' new apartment, 67 Bennett Avenue, is actually the street address for Rod Serling's childhood home in Binghamton, New York?

The episode starred Dan Duryea and Martin Landau

"Town drunk Al Denton (Dan Duryea), once a feared gunslinger but now an object of pity and scorn is forced to draw against a sadistic bully (Martin Landau). A glance from mysterious peddler Mr. Fate (Malcolm Atterbury) allows Denton to get off two miraculous shots, saving his life. Now a town hero, Denton regains his self-respect and swears off liquor. But soon, the routine that drove him to the bottle in the first place begins again -Denton is challenged to a shootout by a young hotshot (Doug McClure). Practicing, Denton finds his ability with a gun is long gone, In desperation, he turns to Fate for more magic. What Fate provides might just save Debton from a bullet...or it might do much, much more." Read More...

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Rod Serling life-size cutout, looking perturbed

• August 21, 2009: Finished episode stub articles for the complete five seasons of the original series. Reached our 400th article with the creation of Richard Matheson. Gold Key issue index over halfway completed with story articles to follow.
• July 25, 2009: Reached our 300th article with the creation of Charles Beaumont. Dell issue index completed, Gold Key issue index 1/3 completed. Infobox/sidebar colors were changed to provide a unique look to each category of articles.
• June 12, 2009: New custom skin created to provide a greater Twilight Zone feeling. It seems fairly stable, but a few kinks (for example: autosuggest, thumbnails, templates, lighter skin compatibility) remain to be ironed out. Site was added to Wikia's Entertainment Hub. Work continues on story templates to speed up the article creation process. List of interwiki prefixes added.
• June 5, 2009: Site maintenance has been concluded. All pages are open again for editing and all links that were appearing red as a result should be fixed now. Established User page policy to help in creating user pages.
• June 1, 2009: You may notice some wikilinks are not functioning properly. This is because of an ongoing site maintainence issue. Things will be reverted to normal soon. In the meantime, please do not add any information for pages with A Fifth Dimension in the title or change any links to such pages that may appear broken in any other pages. We apologize for the inconvenience.
• May 31, 2009: Deletion policy completed. Undeletion policy completed. Administrator nomination page completed. Copyright policy expanded. Essential policy and guideline pages (re: deletion, copyrights, manual of style, guide layout, etc) mostly completed.
• May 10, 2009: Work on Guidelines & Policies and Manual of Style framework continues.
• May 9, 2009: Work on Templates continues. Work on basic episode & film reference templates completed. Other subjects' templates soon.
• April 25, 2009: Rod Serling article expanded.
• April 24, 2009: Redubbed the wiki A Fifth Dimension: The Twilight Zone Wiki. CBS Video Library article created.
• April 22, 2009: Basic data for the first six episodes of The Twilight Zone (Original Series) completed.
• January 4, 2008: Wiki created

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