The Twilight Zone

"Some robot from The Twilight Zone" was how Jessica Willamy described a Cyberman upon her first encounter with the metallic species in San Francisco in January 1967. She then added that, unlike the robots of The Twilight Zone, "this one made [her] scared." (PROSE: Wonderland)

After finding that Susan Foreman and her grandfather, the First Doctor, were not from Earth in April 1963, John Brent could not help but to make a comparison numerous times to The Twilight Zone, which was evidently popular as a concept in the 1960s. (PROSE: Time and Relative)

When the Memory offered Peri Brown her only chance of survival from drowning — becoming its god — she described her way out as "clear as the sign-post for the Twilight Zone, always so helpfully pointed out by Rod Serling, but less inviting." (PROSE: Shell Shock)

After Dwight Everson was taken for fuel by the Hervoken, Mr. Pirelli jokingly suggested that he may have been kidnapped by a Pterodactyl native to the zone. (PROSE: Forever Autumn)

Behind the scenes

• “The Twilight Zone” is an odd case in the DWU, in that practically all we know of it is its name without context, and scenarios and creatures people seemingly metaphorically compare it to. We’re not even given some idea of what the three the words “The Twilight Zone” actually refer to, we not even clear if it’s a location, a series, a generic term in the vain of ‘black market’, or even a rather oddly named being, or even merely a concept, making categorisation of this phenomenon on this wiki very difficult (currently, we are content to just describe references to it without elaboration and file it under ‘concepts’ and ‘culture’). In real life however, it is a TV show, but in the DWU the most spoken evidence seems to point towards it being a physical zone. However, all such quotes appear to be dripping with irony or at least tinged with somewhat of a smile. Until a future delves into the nature of this strange zone, not can this wiki.
• The Twilight Zone's pilot episode was produced as the Westinghouse Desilu Playhouse episode "The Time Element".
• Jean Marsh played the android Alicia in The Twilight Zone Season 1 episode "The Lonely". Harold Innocent played a board member in the Season 2 episode "The Obsolete Man". Terence de Marney played a gambler in the Season 3 episode "The Trade-Ins". George Murdock played Willie in the Season 3 episode "The Dummy".
• Hywel Bennett, Christopher Brown, Lorne Cossette, John Novak, Alan David, Carolyn Seymour, Nana Visitor, John de Lancie, Mare Winningham and Jenny Agutter appeared in the 1980s revival of the series. John Debney also composed the music for one episode.
• Michael David Simms, Mi-Jung Lee, Dave Hurtubise, Robert Moloney, Wayne Knight and Lesley Ewen appeared in the 2002 revival.
• Lucinda Dryzek and Amara Karan appeared in the 2019 revival.
• Writer Robert Shearman has cited The Twilight Zone, along with Pinter, Stoppard, Antonin Artaud, and Doctor Who itself, as influences on his work both on and off Doctor Who.