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From: waltt@tekecs.UUCP (Walt Tucker)
Newsgroups: net.tv
Subject: Re: Hour long Twilight Zone Episodes
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Date: Wed, 13-Mar-85 12:03:15 EST
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Posted: Wed Mar 13 12:03:15 1985
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> 
>      I am looking for some information about the hour long versions
> of Twilight Zone.  I realize that only a few episodes  were made.  I would
> like to know how many and what their titles are.  When were these
> shows made?  Were  hour long episodes only made for one season?
> 

Here in Portland, Oregon, one of the local television stations shows the 
hour long episodes on Saturday night (prior to the 11:00 showing of the
traditional half-hour episodes).   Yes, there weren't that many of them,
and I have probably seen most of them by now.

I believe the Twilight Zone had hour-long episodes for one year, the 
1962-63 season, if I remember correctly.  The reason for going back to
1/2 hr shows after this year of hour episodes (TZ lasted until 1965, when it 
was cancelled) was that while the plot lines made nice 1/2 hour episodes,
the television programming powers-that-be thought that making the show
an additional 1/2 hour added too much fluff to the basic story line
and was costing viewership (i.e. - they moved back to the formula that
worked).

BTW, TZ was on from either 1958 to 1965 or 1957 to 1965.

                             -- Walt