The Twilight Zone is a series.
Night Gallery . Rod Serling , who had gained fame from an earlier series , The Twilight Zone , served both as the on-air host of Night Gallery and as a major contributor of scripts , although he did not have the same control of content and tone as he had on The Twilight Zone . The Twilight Zone . The original series , shot entirely in black and white , ran for five seasons from 1959 to 1964 . The success of the series led to a feature film , a radio series , a comic book , a magazine , and various other spin-offs that spanned five decades , including two revival television series . TV Guide ranked the original TV series # 5 in their 2013 list of the 60 greatest dramas of all time .