Tripping Through The Twilight Zone

Twilight Zone
Stages Theater Fullerton, CA
Through November 3
Directed by Darri Kristen and David Campos
Fridays 8 PM; Saturdays 2 PM and 8 PM
Created by Rod Serling
Five Scoops of Bosco

You're traveling through another dimension, a dimension not only of sight and sound but of mind; a journey into a wondrous land whose boundaries are that of imagination. That's the signpost up ahead — your next stop, the Twilight Zone. —Rod Serling

Preview By Allen Bacon, BOSCO Fullerton

When I was a teenager growing up in Southern California, one of my most frightening experiences was the night (while watching my Grandma and Grandpas house when they were on vacation) I decided to watch an episode of the Twilight Zone.

It was a cold January Friday night in the mid-70's. It was raining and the wind was howling. I had all of the lights off in my Grandma's big house and it was 11 PM. They used to show the Twilight Zone reruns on KTLA channel 5 in Los Angeles at 11 PM after the news.

This particular night they ran the episode "In The Eye of The Beholder". Remember...That was the one where the young lady had just undergone radical plastic surgery on her face and the whole show you never see her doctors or her face until a very unexpected plot twist at the very end. If you haven't seen it, I won't give away the ending...Pretty cool stuff. Not the scariest Twilight Zone I would ever see, but mixed with the darkness, the rain, the wind, being alone in a big house by myself..it was scary enough.

So, how fitting, around 40 years later, that Stages Theater in Fullerton, CA is once again recreating, on stage, live, four of the shows coolest episodes directed by Darri Kristen and David Campos.

Twilight Zone at Stages Theater Fullerton runs until November 3.

Most shows will be running on Friday and Saturday night at 8 PM with a 2 PM Saturday matinee.

If you are a fan of Twilight Zone you will absolutely love these episodes brought to life in the intimate setting of Stages Theater.

The four episodes this year are:  People Are Alike All Over, A Kind of Stopwatch, The Obsolete Man and the Living Doll.


The Twilight Zone was an American anthology television series created by Rod Serling, which ran for five seasons on CBS from 1959 to 1964. The series consisted of unrelated episodes depicting paranormal, futuristic, or disturbing events; each show typically featured a surprising plot twist and was usually brought to closure with some sort of message.

That show would also eventually spawn graphic novels, a feature length movie, a great radio anthology series, books, and now on stage plays.

The television series was also notable for featuring both established stars (e.g., Cliff Robertson, Ann Blyth, Jack Klugman) and younger actors who would later became famous (e.g., Robert Redford, William Shatner, Burt Reynolds, Mariette Hartley, Shelley Fabares, Ron Howard).

In 2002, The Twilight Zone was ranked #26 on TV Guide's 50 Greatest TV Shows of All Time.