In the 1980s CBS brought back the programme for a run that lasted three seasons and four years. Beginning in September 1985, the new series was narrated by Charles Aidman and held amongst its stars Bruce Willis, Meg Foster and Fred Savage. Directors included Wes Craven, Tommy Lee, William Friedkin and Joe Dante, while Harlan Ellison was the script editor. Ray Bradbury, Greg Bear and Stephen King were amongst the authors whose stories were adapted, as well as some classic Zone episodes. Sadly though, after a promising start it didn't take, and the series was cancelled midway through its second season. Fourteen months later the show was back with a Canadian production to complete a syndication package, this time with Robin Ward as the narrator and an all-new production team.

While lacking the iconographic presence of the original (or even just the cool B & W shades) it wasn't bad, and one day I'll get the boxset to do a more detailed review. In the meantime, here's the episode guide:


Season 1, Episode 1: Shatterday/A Little Peace and Quiet
Original Air Date: 27 September 1985

Season 1, Episode 2: Wordplay/Dreams for Sale/Chameleon
Original Air Date: 4 October 1985

Season 1, Episode 3: Healer/Children's Zoo/Kentucky Rye
Original Air Date: 11 October 1985

Season 1, Episode 4: Little Boy Lost/Wish Bank/Nightcrawlers
Original Air Date: 18 October 1985

Season 1, Episode 5: If She Dies/Ye Gods
Original Air Date: 25 October 1985

Season 1, Episode 6: Examination Day/A Message from Charity
Original Air Date: 1 November 1985

Season 1, Episode 7: Teacher's Aide/Paladin of the Lost Hour
Original Air Date: 8 November 1985

Season 1, Episode 8: Act Break/The Burning Man/Dealer's Choice
Original Air Date: 15 November 1985

Season 1, Episode 9: Dead Woman's Shoes/Wong's Lost and Found Emporium
Original Air Date: 22 November 1985

Season 1, Episode 10: The Shadow Man/The Uncle Devil Show/Opening Day
Original Air Date: 29 November 1985

Season 1, Episode 11: The Beacon/One Life, Furnished in Early Poverty
Original Air Date: 6 December 1985

Season 1, Episode 12: Her Pilgrim Soul/I of Newton
Original Air Date: 13 December 1985

Season 1, Episode 13: Night of the Meek/But Can She Type?/The Star
Original Air Date: 20 December 1985

Season 1, Episode 14: Still Life/The Little People of Killany Woods/The Misfortune Cookie
Original Air Date: 3 January 1986

Season 1, Episode 15: Monsters!/A Small Talent for War/A Matter of Minutes
Original Air Date: 24 January 1986

Season 1, Episode 16: The Elevator/To See the Invisible Man/Tooth and Consequences
Original Air Date: 31 January 1986

Season 1, Episode 17: Welcome to Winfield/Quarantine
Original Air Date: 7 February 1986

Season 1, Episode 18: Gramma/Personal Demons/Cold Reading
Original Air Date: 14 February 1986

Season 1, Episode 19: The Leprechaun-Artist/Dead Run
Original Air Date: 21 February 1986

Season 1, Episode 20: Profile in Silver/Button, Button
Original Air Date: 7 March 1986

Season 1, Episode 21: Need to Know/Red Snow
Original Air Date: 21 March 1986

Season 1, Episode 22: Take My Life... Please!/Devil's Alphabet/The Library
Original Air Date: 28 March 1986

Season 1, Episode 23: Shadow Play/Grace Note
Original Air Date: 4 April 1986

Season 1, Episode 24: A Day in Beaumont/The Last Defender of Camelot
Original Air Date: 11 April 1986





Season 2, Episode 1: The Once and Future King
Original Air Date: 27 September 1986

Season 2, Episode 2: A Saucer of Loneliness
Original Air Date: 27 September 1986

Season 2, Episode 3: What Are Friends For?
Original Air Date: 4 October 1986

Season 2, Episode 4: Aqua Vita
Original Air Date: 4 October 1986

Season 2, Episode 5: The Storyteller
Original Air Date: 11 October 1986

Season 2, Episode 6: Nightsong
Original Air Date: 11 October 1986

Season 2, Episode 7: The After Hours
Original Air Date: 18 October 1986

Season 2, Episode 8: Lost and Found
Original Air Date: 18 October 1986

Season 2, Episode 9: The World Next Door
Original Air Date: 18 October 1986

Season 2, Episode 10: The Toys of Caliban
Original Air Date: 4 December 1986

Season 2, Episode 11: The Convict's Piano
Original Air Date: 11 December 1986

Season 2, Episode 12: The Road Less Travelled
Original Air Date: 18 December 1986

Season 2, Episode 13: The Card
Original Air Date: 21 February 1987

Season 2, Episode 14: The Junction
Original Air Date: 21 February 1987

Season 2, Episode 15: Joy Ride
Original Air Date: 21 May 1987

Season 2, Episode 16: Shelter Skelter
Original Air Date: 21 May 1987

Season 2, Episode 17: Private Channel
Original Air Date: 21 May 1987

Season 2, Episode 18: Time and Teresa Golowitz
Original Air Date: 10 July 1987

Season 2, Episode 19: Voices in the Earth
Original Air Date: 10 July 1987

Season 2, Episode 20: Song of the Younger World
Original Air Date: 17 July 1987

Season 2, Episode 21: The Girl I Married
Original Air Date: 17 July 1987





Season 3, Episode 1: The Curious Case of Edgar Witherspoon
Original Air Date: 24 September 1988

Season 3, Episode 2: Extra Innings
Original Air Date: 1 October 1988

Season 3, Episode 3: The Crossing
Original Air Date: 8 October 1988

Season 3, Episode 4: The Hunters
Original Air Date: 15 October 1988

Season 3, Episode 5: Dream Me a Life
Original Air Date: 22 October 1988

Season 3, Episode 6: Memories
Original Air Date: 29 October 1988

Season 3, Episode 7: The Hellgramite Method
Original Air Date: 5 November 1988

Season 3, Episode 8: Our Sylena Is Dying
Original Air Date: 12 November 1988

Season 3, Episode 9: The Call
Original Air Date: 19 November 1988

Season 3, Episode 10: The Trance
Original Air Date: 26 November 1988

Season 3, Episode 11: Acts of Terror
Original Air Date: 3 December 1988

Season 3, Episode 12: 20/20 Vision
Original Air Date: 10 December 1988

Season 3, Episode 13: There Was an Old Woman
Original Air Date: 17 December 1988

Season 3, Episode 14: The Trunk
Original Air Date: 24 December 1988

Season 3, Episode 15: Appointment on Route 17
Original Air Date: 31 December 1988

Season 3, Episode 16: The Cold Equations
Original Air Date: 7 January 1989

Season 3, Episode 17: Stranger in Possum Meadows
Original Air Date: 14 January 1989

Season 3, Episode 18: Street of Shadows
Original Air Date: 21 January 1989

Season 3, Episode 19: Something in the Walls
Original Air Date: 28 January 1989

Season 3, Episode 20: A Game of Pool
Original Air Date: 1989

Season 3, Episode 21: The Wall
Original Air Date: 25 February 1989

Season 3, Episode 22: Room 2426
Original Air Date: 11 February 1989

Season 3, Episode 23: The Mind of Simon Foster
Original Air Date: 18 February 1989

Season 3, Episode 24: Cat and Mouse
Original Air Date: 4 March 1989

Season 3, Episode 25: Many, Many Monkeys
Original Air Date: 18 March 1989

Season 3, Episode 26: Rendezvous in a Dark Place
Original Air Date: 12 March 1989

Season 3, Episode 27: Special Service
Original Air Date: 8 April 1989

Season 3, Episode 28: Love Is Blind
Original Air Date: 25 March 1989

Season 3, Episode 29: Crazy as a Soup Sandwich
Original Air Date: 1 April 1989

Season 3, Episode 30: Father and Son Game
Original Air Date: 15 April 1989