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{{short description|2002 American TV series}}
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{{Infobox television
| name = The Twilight Zone
| image = Twilight Zone 2002 logo.png
| caption =
| genre = [[Fantasy]]<br>[[Horror fiction|Horror]]<br>[[Mystery fiction|Mystery]]<br>[[Science fiction]]<br>[[Thriller (genre)|Thriller]]
| runtime = 22 minutes
| audio_format = [[5.1 Surround Sound]]
| creator = [[Rod Serling]]
| presenter = [[Forest Whitaker]]
| country = United States
| location = [[Vancouver]], British Columbia
| language = English
| executive_producer = John Watson<br>Mark Stern<br>[[Ira Steven Behr]]<br>[[Pen Densham]]
| composer = [[Mark Snow]]
| company = Spirit Dance Entertainment<br>Trilogy Entertainment Group<br>{{nowrap|Joshmax Productions Services}}<br>[[New Line Television]]
| network = [[UPN]]
| first_aired = {{Start date|2002|9|18}}
| last_aired = {{End date|2003|5|21}}
| num_seasons = 1
| num_episodes = 43<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.tvshowsondvd.com/news/Twilight-Zone/1747|title=The Twilight Zone - Cover Art & More Details for Forest Whitaker-Hosted Version|publisher=TVShowsOnDVD.com|last=Lambert|first=David|date=June 22, 2004|access-date=June 21, 2016|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160828193217/http://www.tvshowsondvd.com/news/Twilight-Zone/1747|archive-date=August 28, 2016|df=mdy-all}}</ref>
| preceded_by = [[The Twilight Zone (1985 TV series)|''The Twilight Zone'']] (1985–89)
| followed_by = ''[[The Twilight Zone (2019 TV series)|The Twilight Zone]]'' (2019–20)
}}
'''''The Twilight Zone''''' is the second of three [[Revival (television)|revivals]] of [[Rod Serling]]'s original [[The Twilight Zone (1959 TV series)|1959–64 television series]]. It aired for one season on the [[UPN]] network, with actor [[Forest Whitaker]] assuming Serling's role as narrator and on-screen host.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.thefutoncritic.com/showatch/twilight-zone/|title=Shows A-Z – twilight zone, the on upn|publisher=TheFutonCritic.com|access-date=March 14, 2011|archive-date=November 19, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201119023738/http://www.thefutoncritic.com/showatch/twilight-zone/|url-status=live}}</ref> It premiered on September 18, 2002, and aired its final episode on May 21, 2003.

==Series history==
Broadcast in an hour format with two half-hour stories, it was canceled after one season. Reruns continue to air in syndication and have aired on [[MyNetworkTV]] since summer 2008. The opening theme music was provided by [[Jonathan Davis]] (singer of the band [[Korn]]).

The series tended to address contemporary issues head-on; e.g. terrorism, racism, gender roles, sexuality, and [[stalking]]. Noteworthy episodes featured [[Jason Alexander]] as [[Death (personification)|Death]] wanting to retire from harvesting souls, [[Lou Diamond Phillips]] as a [[Swimming pool service technician|swimming pool cleaner]] being shot repeatedly in his dreams, [[Susanna Thompson]] as a woman whose stated wish results in an "upgrading" of her family, [[Usher (entertainer)|Usher]] as a police officer being bothered by telephone calls from beyond the grave, [[Brian Austin Green]] as a businessman who encounters items from his past that somehow reappear, [[Jeffrey Combs]] as a hypochondriac whose diseases become reality, and [[Katherine Heigl]] playing a woman who went back in time on a suicide mission to kill the infant [[Adolf Hitler]].

The series also includes remakes and updates of stories presented in the original ''Twilight Zone'' television series, including the famous "[[Eye of the Beholder (The Twilight Zone, 1959)|Eye of the Beholder]]" starring [[Molly Sims]]. One of the updates, "The Monsters Are on Maple Street", is a modernized version of the classic episode similarly called "[[The Monsters Are Due on Maple Street]]". The original show was about the paranoia surrounding a neighborhood-wide blackout. In the course of the episode, somebody suggests an alien invasion being the cause of the blackouts, and that one of the neighbors may be an alien. The anti-alien hysteria is an allegory for the anti-communist paranoia of the time, and the 2003 remake, starring [[Andrew McCarthy]] and [[Titus Welliver]], replaces aliens with terrorists.

The show also contains "[[It's Still a Good Life]]", a sequel to the events of "[[It's a Good Life (The Twilight Zone)|It's a Good Life]]", an episode of the original series produced 41 years earlier. [[Bill Mumy]] returned to play the adult version of Anthony, the demonic child he had played in the original story, with Mumy's daughter, [[Liliana Mumy|Liliana]], appearing as Anthony's daughter, a more benevolent but even more powerful child. [[Cloris Leachman]] also returned as Anthony's mother. Mumy went on to serve as a screenwriter for other episodes in the revival.

Other guest stars include: [[Penn Badgley]], [[Scott Bairstow]], [[Jason Bateman]], [[Gil Bellows]], [[Elizabeth Berkley]], [[Xander Berkeley]], [[Linda Cardellini]], [[Keith Hamilton Cobb]], [[Rory Culkin]], [[Reed Diamond]], [[Shannon Elizabeth]], [[Ethan Embry]], [[Sean Patrick Flanery]], [[Lukas Haas]], [[Wood Harris]], [[Hill Harper]], [[Jonathan Jackson (actor)|Jonathan Jackson]], [[Moira Kelly]], [[Erik King]], [[Wayne Knight]], [[Wallace Langham]], [[Method Man]], [[Samantha Mathis]], [[Christopher McDonald]], [[Tangi Miller]], [[Pat O'Brien (radio and television personality)|Pat O'Brien]], [[Adrian Pasdar]], [[Emily Perkins]], [[Jeremy Piven]], [[Jaime Pressly]], [[James Remar]], [[Portia de Rossi]], [[Eriq La Salle]], [[Michael Shanks]], [[Jeremy Sisto]], [[Jessica Simpson]], [[Ione Skye]], [[Amber Tamblyn]], [[Christopher Titus]], [[Robin Tunney]], [[Vincent Ventresca]], [[Dylan Walsh]], [[Frank Whaley]], [[Alicia Witt]], and [[Gordon Michael Woolvett]]. McDonald, Langham, Xander Berkeley, and Haas had all previously guest starred in the [[The Twilight Zone (1985 TV series)|1980s revival]].

The series did not enjoy the same level of critical or ratings success as the original series or the 1980s revival, and only lasted one season.

== Episodes ==
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{{Episode list
|EpisodeNumber=1
|Title=Evergreen
|DirectedBy=[[Allan Kroeker]]
|WrittenBy=Jill Blotevogel
|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|2002|9|18}}
|ProdCode=106
|ShortSummary=<div align="justify">A rebellious teenage girl ([[Amber Tamblyn]]) and her exasperated family move to a gated community with a stringent emphasis on conforming to certain norms and a unique way of dealing with troubled youths.</div>
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{{Episode list
|EpisodeNumber=2
|Title=One Night at Mercy
|DirectedBy=[[Peter O'Fallon]]
|WrittenBy=Christopher Mack
|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|2002|9|18}}
|ProdCode=103
|ShortSummary=<div align="justify">An up-and-coming medical doctor ([[Tyler Christopher (actor)|Tyler Christopher]]) suffering from severe headaches encounters a suicidal patient ([[Jason Alexander]]) claiming to be [[Death (personification)|Death]] looking to take a break from his life's work.</div>
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{{Episode list
|EpisodeNumber=3
|Title=Shades of Guilt
|DirectedBy=[[Perry Lang]]
|WrittenBy=[[Ira Steven Behr]]
|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|2002|9|25}}
|ProdCode=107
|ShortSummary=<div align="justify">A Caucasian man ([[Vincent Ventresca]]) finds himself being mistaken for an African-American man after refusing to save a college professor ([[Hill Harper]]) from being attacked and killed by skinheads.</div>
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{{Episode list
|EpisodeNumber=4
|Title=Dream Lover
|DirectedBy=Peter O'Fallon
|WrittenBy=Frederick Rappaport
|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|2002|9|25}}
|ProdCode=105
|ShortSummary=<div align="justify">A graphic novelist ([[Adrian Pasdar]]) suffering from a severe case of writer's block struggles to determine what is illusion and what is reality after bringing his ideal woman ([[Shannon Elizabeth]]) to life.</div>
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{{Episode list
|EpisodeNumber=5
|Title=Cradle of Darkness
|DirectedBy=[[Jean de Segonzac]]
|WrittenBy=[[Kamran Pasha]]
|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|2002|10|2}}
|ProdCode=104
|ShortSummary=<div align="justify">A woman ([[Katherine Heigl]]) goes back in time to 1889 Austria in a desperate attempt to rewrite history by assassinating [[Adolf Hitler]] in his infancy and preventing World War II from ever taking place.</div>
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{{Episode list
|EpisodeNumber=6
|Title=Night Route
|DirectedBy=Jean de Segonzac
|WrittenBy=Jill Blotevogel
|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|2002|10|2}}
|ProdCode=102
|ShortSummary=<div align="justify">An English professor ([[Ione Skye]]) juggles preparing for her wedding and convincing her friends and family she is being followed by a mysterious bus that started haunting her after she and her dog narrowly avoided being hit by a car.</div>
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{{Episode list
|EpisodeNumber=7
|Title=Time Lapse
|DirectedBy=[[John T. Kretchmer]]
|WrittenBy=James Crocker
|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|2002|10|9}}
|ProdCode=109
|ShortSummary=<div align="justify">An orderly ([[Ethan Embry]]) suffering from blackouts discovers his condition is the result of a police officer using his body to prevent an assassination attempt on the [[President of the United States]] and the First Daughter.</div>
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{{Episode list
|EpisodeNumber=8
|Title=Dead Man's Eyes
|DirectedBy=[[Jerry Levine]]
|WrittenBy=Frederick Rappaport
|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|2002|10|9}}
|ProdCode=108
|ShortSummary=<div align="justify">An emotionally distraught widow ([[Portia di Rossi]]) obsessed with bringing her dead husband's murderer to justice discover she can see his life and the events surrounding his death through his eyeglasses.</div>
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{{Episode list
|EpisodeNumber=9
|Title=The Pool Guy
|DirectedBy=[[Paul Shapiro (director)|Paul Shapiro]]
|WrittenBy=[[Hans Beimler (screenwriter)|Hans Beimler]]
|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|2002|10|16}}
|ProdCode=111
|ShortSummary=<div align="justify">A pool cleaner ([[Lou Diamond Phillips]]) working for a wealthy couple starts suffering from recurring nightmares involving a man ([[Mackenzie Gray]]) who approaches him, tells him to wake up, and guns him down.</div>
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{{Episode list
|EpisodeNumber=10
|Title=Azoth the Avenger Is a Friend of Mine
|DirectedBy=[[Brad Turner (director)|Brad Turner]]
|WrittenBy=Brent V. Friedman
|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|2002|10|16}}
|ProdCode=112
|ShortSummary=<div align="justify">A boy ([[Rory Culkin]]) beset by abuse from the neighborhood bullies and his alcoholic father learns a valuable life lesson about vengeance and courage after willing his favorite [[barbarian]] superhero ([[Patrick Warburton]]) to life.</div>
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{{Episode list
|EpisodeNumber=11
|Title=The Lineman
|DirectedBy=[[Jonathan Frakes]]
|WrittenBy=[[Pen Densham]]
|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|2002|10|23}}
|ProdCode=101
|ShortSummary=<div align="justify">A lineman ([[Jeremy Piven]]) gradually discovers everything comes with a price after being struck by lightning, gaining the ability to hear other people's thoughts, and using his newfound powers for personal and financial gain.</div>
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{{Episode list
|EpisodeNumber=12
|Title=Harsh Mistress
|DirectedBy=Brad Turner
|WrittenBy=[[Bradley Thompson]] & [[David Weddle]]
|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|2002|10|30}}
|ProdCode=110
|ShortSummary=<div align="justify">A talentless wannabe rock musician ([[Lukas Haas]]) gains talent, wealth, and international stardom at a surprising price tag after purchasing a classic guitar with dark powers and an equally dark past.</div>
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{{Episode list
|EpisodeNumber=13
|Title=Upgrade
|DirectedBy=[[Joe Chappelle]]
|WrittenBy=[[Robert Hewitt Wolfe]]
|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|2002|10|30}}
|ProdCode=113
|ShortSummary=<div align="justify">A housewife ([[Susanna Thompson]]) juggles moving into a new house with her dysfuctional family, fantasizing about the life she wants to live, and preventing her seemingly idyllic fantasies from becoming reality.</div>
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{{Episode list
|EpisodeNumber=14
|Title=To Protect and Serve
|DirectedBy=Joe Chappelle
|WrittenBy=Kamran Pasha
|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|2002|11|6}}
|ProdCode=115
|ShortSummary=<div align="justify">An idealistic young police officer ([[Usher (entertainer)|Usher]]) dedicates himself to doing whatever it takes to protect a prostitute and family friend ([[Samantha Becker]]) from the vindictive ghost of the pimp ([[Dion Johnstone]]) he was forced to shoot and kill in the line of duty.</div>
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{{Episode list
|EpisodeNumber=15
|Title=Chosen
|DirectedBy=[[Winrich Kolbe]]
|WrittenBy=Ira Steven Behr
|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|2002|11|6}}
|ProdCode=114
|ShortSummary=<div align="justify">A destitute man ([[Jake Busey]]) sets out to unearth what he believes to be a conspiracy after the arrival of two persistent evangelists ([[Andrew Moxham]] and [[Kim Hawthorne]]) coincides with several disappearances and a potential nuclear Armageddon.</div>
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{{Episode list
|EpisodeNumber=16
|Title=Sensuous Cindy
|DirectedBy=John T. Kretchmer
|WrittenBy=James Crocker
|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|2002|11|13}}
|ProdCode=116
|ShortSummary=<div align="justify">A magazine writer ([[Greg Germann]]) whose fiancée believes in not having sex until after marriage interacts with a woman ([[Jaime Pressly]]) from a virtual-reality simulation who wants him all to herself.</div>
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{{Episode list
|EpisodeNumber=17
|Title=Hunted
|DirectedBy=[[Patrick Norris]]
|WrittenBy=Christopher Mack
|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|2002|11|13}}
|ProdCode=117
|ShortSummary=<div align="justify">Members of an elite special forces team ([[Scott Bairstow]] and [[Marisol Nichols]]) living in a futuristic utopia that is free of violence and criminal activity sets out to track down and execute a vicious creature responsible for the deaths of several civilians.</div>
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{{Episode list
|EpisodeNumber=18
|Title=Mr. Motivation
|DirectedBy=[[Deran Sarafian]]
|WrittenBy={{StoryTeleplay|s=Steven Aspis|t=Brent V. Friedman}}
|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|2002|11|20}}
|ProdCode=118
|ShortSummary=<div align="justify">A toy doll (voiced by [[Pat O'Brien (radio and television personality)|Pat O'Brien]]) with a sinister personality encourages a timid pharmaceutical employee ([[Wallace Langham]]) to stand up to his business manager ([[Christopher McDonald]]) and take control of his life.</div>
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{{Episode list
|EpisodeNumber=19
|Title=Sanctuary
|DirectedBy=Patrick Norris
|WrittenBy=James Crocker
|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|2002|11|20}}
|ProdCode=119
|ShortSummary=<div align="justify">A sports agent ([[Rob Estes]]) and a real estate agent ([[Elizabeth Berkley]]) stranded in a modern version of the [[Garden of Eden]] struggle to keep their idyllic world from crumbling when an injured [[motorcyclist]] ([[Nicki Aycox]]) with a working cell phone arrives.</div>
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{{Episode list
|EpisodeNumber=20
|Title=Future Trade
|DirectedBy=[[Bob Balaban]]
|WrittenBy=Clyde Hayes
|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|2002|11|27}}
|ProdCode=121
|ShortSummary=<div align="justify">A man ([[Frank Whaley]]) with a dead-end job at a big-box store and a dysfunctional family learns that leading the privileged life isn't everything he hoped it would be after trading his future for that of a man with a trophy wife ([[Sofia Milos]]).</div>
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{{Episode list
|EpisodeNumber=21
|Title=Found and Lost
|DirectedBy=[[Vern Gillum]]
|WrittenBy={{StoryTeleplay|s=[[Bill Mumy]]||t=Frederick Rappaport}}
|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|2002|11|27}}
|ProdCode=120
|ShortSummary=<div align="justify">A troubled businessman ([[Brian Austin Green]]) receives an opportunity to go back in time, revisit his past, and make another attempt to win the heart of the young woman he once loved ([[Moira Kelly]]).</div>
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{{Episode list
|EpisodeNumber=22
|Title=Gabe's Story
|DirectedBy=Allan Kroeker
|WrittenBy=Dusty Kay
|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|2002|12|11}}
|ProdCode=123
|ShortSummary=<div align="justify">A deliveryman ([[Christopher Titus]]) suffering from consistent bad luck sets out to challenge fate after getting into a car accident, hitting his head, and gaining the uncanny ability to see the events surrounding his bad breaks where he sees a mysterious man in a jumpsuit ([[Kelly Perine]]).</div>
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{{Episode list
|EpisodeNumber=23
|Title=Last Lap
|DirectedBy=Brad Turner
|WrittenBy=Rob Hedden
|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|2002|12|11}}
|ProdCode=122
|ShortSummary=<div align="justify">A young man ([[Greg Serano]]) takes his terminally ill childhood friend ([[Clifton Collins, Jr.]]) to a local racetrack for a final ride in his GT street racer that results in unexpected consequences for both men.</div>
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{{Episode list
|EpisodeNumber=24
|Title=The Path
|DirectedBy=Jerry Levine
|WrittenBy=James Crocker
|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|2003|1|8}}
|ProdCode=125
|ShortSummary=<div align="justify">A dissatisfied tabloid magazine writer ([[Linda Cardellini]]) gradually becomes obsessed with relying on a fortune teller ([[Method Man]]) who provides her with uncannily accurate predictions about where her life is headed.</div>
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{{Episode list
|EpisodeNumber=25
|Title=Fair Warning
|DirectedBy=John T. Kretchmer
|WrittenBy=David Weddle & Bradley Thompson
|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|2003|1|8}}
|ProdCode=124
|ShortSummary=<div align="justify">A flower shop employee ([[Taryn Manning]]) finds herself struggling to convince people a troubled pet store employee ([[Devon Gummersall]]) suffering from dissociative identity disorder is stalking her.</div>
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{{Episode list
|EpisodeNumber=26
|Title=Another Life
|DirectedBy=Risa Bramon Garcia
|WrittenBy=[[Amir Mann]] & Brent V. Friedman
|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|2003|2|5}}
|ProdCode=126
|ShortSummary=<div align="justify">A celebrated hip-hop artist ([[Wood Harris]]) with a privileged life and a loving family experiences confusing visions that plague him to the point where the thin lines separating fantasy from reality start to blur.</div>
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{{Episode list
|EpisodeNumber=27
|Title=Rewind
|DirectedBy=[[Kevin Bray (director)|Kevin Bray]]
|WrittenBy=James Crocker
|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|2003|2|5}}
|ProdCode=127
|ShortSummary=<div align="justify">A compulsive gambler ([[Eddie Kaye Thomas]]) discovers a way to beat the local casino owner ([[Ben Bass (actor)|Ben Bass]]) after being gifted with a tape cassette recorder with the power to go back five minutes in time.</div>
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{{Episode list
|EpisodeNumber=28
|Title=Tagged
|DirectedBy=[[James Head (director)|James Head]]
|WrittenBy={{StoryTeleplay|s=Charles Largent|t=[[Michael Angeli]]}}
|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|2003|2|12}}
|ProdCode=129
|ShortSummary=<div align="justify">A gang member and street tagger ([[Todd Williams (actor)|Todd Williams]]) becomes consumed by guilt after killing a man caught painting over his mural and seeing the mural transform into a real-life portrait of the crime.</div>
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{{Episode list
|EpisodeNumber=29
|Title=Into the Light
|DirectedBy=[[Lou Diamond Phillips]]
|WrittenBy=[[Moira Kirland|Moira Kirland Dekker]]
|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|2003|2|12}}
|ProdCode=128
|ShortSummary=<div align="justify">A high school English teacher ([[Samantha Mathis]]) set on resigning due to lack of interest from her apathetic students, develops the ability to look into a person's face and predict when they are going to die.</div>
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{{Episode list
|EpisodeNumber=30
|Title=[[It's Still a Good Life]]
|DirectedBy=Allan Kroeker
|WrittenBy={{StoryTeleplay|t=Ira Steven Behr|s=[[Jerome Bixby]]|slabel=Based on characters created by}}
|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|2003|2|19}}
|ProdCode=131
|ShortSummary=<div align="justify">In a sequel to ''[[It's a Good Life (The Twilight Zone)|It's a Good Life]]'', a single father ([[Bill Mumy]]) who terrorized the residents of an Ohio town with amazing mental powers as a child discovers his young daughter ([[Liliana Mumy]]) has powers that are stronger than his.</div>
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{{Episode list
|EpisodeNumber=31
|Title=[[The Monsters Are on Maple Street]]
|DirectedBy=[[Debbie Allen]]
|WrittenBy={{StoryTeleplay|s=[[Rod Serling]]|t=Erin Maher & Kay Reindl}}
|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|2003|2|19}}
|ProdCode=130
|ShortSummary=<div align="justify">In an updated version of an episode from the original series, ''[[The Monsters Are Due on Maple Street]]'', an unexpected power and water failure prompts the residents ([[Andrew McCarthy]], [[Titus Welliver]], [[Kristi Angus]], and [[Peter Williams (actor)|Peter Williams]]) of a quiet suburban neighborhood to grow increasingly suspicious of their new neighbors and accuse them of being sleeper cell terrorists.</div>
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{{Episode list
|EpisodeNumber=32
|Title=Memphis
|DirectedBy=[[Eriq La Salle]]
|WrittenBy=Eriq La Salle
|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|2003|2|26}}
|ProdCode=133
|ShortSummary=<div align="justify">A law clerk ([[Eriq La Salle]]) with six months left to live due to an inoperable brain tumor finds himself transported back in time to [[Memphis, Tennessee]] on the day of [[Assassination of Martin Luther King Jr.|Martin Luther King Jr.'s assassination]].</div>
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{{Episode list
|EpisodeNumber=33
|Title=How Much Do You Love Your Kid?
|DirectedBy=[[Allison Liddi-Brown]]
|WrittenBy=Michael Angeli
|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|2003|2|26}}
|ProdCode=132
|ShortSummary=<div align="justify">A woman ([[Bonnie Somerville]]) contemplating divorce from her husband ([[Steve Bacic]]) finds herself forced to participate in a twisted reality game show hosted by Nick Dark ([[Wayne Knight]]) after receiving a telephone call claiming her son has been kidnapped.
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{{Episode list
|EpisodeNumber=34
|Title=The Placebo Effect
|DirectedBy=Jerry Levine
|WrittenBy={{StoryTeleplay|s=Rebecca Swanson|t=Brent V. Friedman}}
|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|2003|4|2}}
|ProdCode=134
|ShortSummary=<div align="justify">A medical practitioner ([[Sydney Tamiia Poitier]]) attempts to dissuade a hypochondriac ([[Jeffrey Combs]]) from believing he has contracted a deadly disease found in the pages of a science-fiction novel.</div>
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{{Episode list
|EpisodeNumber=35
|Title=Cold Fusion
|DirectedBy=Eli Richbourg
|WrittenBy=[[Ashley Edward Miller]] & [[Zack Stentz]]
|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|2003|4|2}}
|ProdCode=135
|ShortSummary=<div align="justify">A brilliant physicist ([[Sean Patrick Flanery]]) becomes involved in a deadly psychological struggle with a scientist ([[Ian McShane]]) after being tasked with taking part in the final start-up preparations for an infinite power source.</div>
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{{Episode list
|EpisodeNumber=36
|Title=The Pharaoh's Curse
|DirectedBy=Bob Balaban
|WrittenBy=[[Stephen Beck]]
|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|2003|4|23}}
|ProdCode=139
|ShortSummary=<div align="justify">An up-and-coming illusionist ([[Shawn Hatosy]]) insinuates himself into the lives of a reclusive veteran magician ([[Xander Berkeley]]) and his young wife ([[Lindy Booth]]) in an attempt to unlock the secrets behind a centuries-old illusion.</div>
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{{Episode list
|EpisodeNumber=37
|Title=The Collection
|DirectedBy=John T. Kretchmer
|WrittenBy=Erin Maher & Kay Reindl
|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|2003|4|23}}
|ProdCode=138
|ShortSummary=<div align="justify">A babysitter ([[Jessica Simpson]]) suspects an eerily life-like doll collection belonging to her latest client's charge (Ashley Edner) is connected to the mysterious disappearances of her previous sitters.</div>
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{{Episode list
|EpisodeNumber=38
|Title=[[Eye of the Beholder (The Twilight Zone, 2002)|Eye of the Beholder]]
|DirectedBy=[[David R. Ellis]]
|WrittenBy=Rod Serling
|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|2003|4|30}}
|ProdCode=140
|ShortSummary=<div align="justify">In a retelling of an episode from the original series, ''[[Eye of the Beholder (The Twilight Zone, 1959)|Eye of the Beholder]]'', a young woman ([[Molly Sims]]) living in a futuristic society that has labeled her hideous waits to learn if the 11th and final attempt to surgically make her look like everyone else is successful or not.</div>
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{{Episode list
|EpisodeNumber=39
|Title=Developing
|DirectedBy=Allison Liddi-Brown
|WrittenBy=Moira Kirland Dekker
|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|2003|4|30}}
|ProdCode=141
|ShortSummary=<div align="justify">A photographer ([[Robin Tunney]]) becomes convinced her deceased fiancé is attempting to contact her from beyond the grave after finding him in several photographs that could never have been taken.</div>
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{{Episode list
|EpisodeNumber=40
|Title=The Executions of Grady Finch
|DirectedBy=John Peter Kousakis
|WrittenBy={{StoryTeleplay|s=Frederick Rappaport|t=Ira Steven Behr and Brent V. Friedman}}
|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|2003|5|7}}
|ProdCode=143
|ShortSummary=<div align="justify">A death row inmate ([[Jeremy Sisto]]) sets out to convince his defense attorney ([[Alicia Witt]]) that he did not commit the crime he was convicted of as an unknown force starts interfering with his executions.</div>
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{{Episode list
|EpisodeNumber=41
|Title=Homecoming
|DirectedBy=Risa Bramon Garcia
|WrittenBy={{StoryTeleplay|s=Bradley Thompson & David Weddle|t=Michael Angeli}}
|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|2003|5|7}}
|ProdCode=142
|ShortSummary=<div align="justify">A [[Delta Force]] officer ([[Gil Bellows]]) recently discharged from combat juggles making amends with his wayward teenage son ([[Penn Badgley]]) and preventing him from unearthing a mysterious secret.</div>
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|EpisodeNumber=42
|Title=Sunrise
|DirectedBy=[[Tim Matheson]]
|WrittenBy={{StoryTeleplay|s=Katrina Cabrera Ortega|t=Frederick Rappaport}}
|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|2003|5|21}}
|ProdCode=137
|ShortSummary=<div align="justify">Five college students ([[Jonathan Jackson (actor)|Jonathan Jackson]], [[Sarah Carter]], [[Michael Peña]], [[Lauren Lee Smith]], and [[Tyler Labine]]) exploring an Aztec site struggle to decide whom they must sacrifice after knocking over a jug filled with blood and enacting a curse that causes the sun to go out.</div>
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{{Episode list
|EpisodeNumber=43
|Title=Burned
|DirectedBy=John T. Kretchmer
|WrittenBy=Seth Weisburst & Daniel Wolowicz
|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|2003|5|21}}
|ProdCode=136
|ShortSummary=<div align="justify">An agoraphobic real estate mogul ([[Jason Bateman]]) finds himself forced to confront the sins of his past when the vindictive ghosts of two young children killed in an arson fire he orchestrated start haunting him.</div>
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==Home media==
The complete series was released on DVD by [[New Line]] in a six disc box set on September 7, 2004. The episodes are presented in their production order, not their broadcast order.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.tvshowsondvd.com/reviews/Twilight-Zone-Complete-Series/3811|title=The Twilight Zone – Complete Series Review|publisher=TVShowsOnDVD.com|last=Lacey|first=Gord|date=September 7, 2004|access-date=March 14, 2011|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121018185706/http://www.tvshowsondvd.com/reviews/Twilight-Zone-Complete-Series/3811|archive-date=October 18, 2012|df=mdy-all}}</ref>

==See also==
* ''[[The Twilight Zone]]''
* [[The Twilight Zone (1959 TV series)|''The Twilight Zone'' (1959 TV series)]]
* [[The Twilight Zone (1985 TV series)|''The Twilight Zone'' (1985 TV series)]]
* [[The Twilight Zone (2019 TV series)|''The Twilight Zone'' (2019 TV series)]]

==References==
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==External links==
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*{{IMDb title|0318252|The Twilight Zone}}
*[http://www.anorakzone.com/twilightzone2002rank1.html Discussion of the episodes]
*[https://www.thetvdb.com/series/the-twilight-zone-2002/seasons/1 Episode numbers and details]

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