My 10 Favorite ‘Twilight Zone’ Narrations
The best from the show’s intros and outros
For as long as I can remember, I have been a huge fan of The Twilight Zone* and one of my favorite parts of the show is the opening and closing narration from Rod Serling, which acts as the perfect frame for each story, something that puts everything we see in the episode into perspective. And even taken out of that context, some of the intros and outros have always struck a chord with me and have been my favorites. The following are ten of them.
1. “Picture of a woman looking at a picture. Movie great of another time, once-brilliant star in a firmament no longer a part of the sky, eclipsed by the movement of earth and time. Barbara Jean Trenton, whose world is a projection room, whose dreams are made out of celluloid. Barbara Jean Trenton, struck down by hit-and-run years and lying on the unhappy pavement, trying desperately to get the license number of fleeting fame.”
Episode: “The Sixteen-Millimeter Shrine”, Season One
2. “You’re looking at Act One, Scene One, of a nightmare, one not restricted to witching hours of dark, rainswept nights. Professor Walter Jameson, popular beyond words, who talks of the past as if it were the present, who conjures up the dead as if they were alive…In the view of this man, Professor Samuel…
