Charles Beaumont

...is now available. In 2004, Gauntlet Press released the first of what is to be two volumes collecting Beaumont's ''Twilight Zone '' scripts. When Beaumont was 34 and overwhelmed by numerous writing commitments, he began to suffer the...

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...who had a huge influence on the show. That didn't work out, but Bradbury sent along two proteges, Richard Matheson and Charles Beaumont. Also hired were Johnson and Hamner, who later created "The Waltons." Before "The Twilight Zone,"...

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..."normal" faces in this world resemble cubist swine masks. Yikes! An even better "down is up" episode is the relatively unsung Charles Beaumont-penned episode "Person Or Persons Unknown," in which Richard Long dreams that he's in a world...

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...on until the end of the season. With one exception ("The Chaser "), the first season featured only scripts written by Rod Serling, Charles Beaumont and Richard Matheson, a team that was eventually responsible for 127 of the show's 156...

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...away, never to be seen again. This was the last episode actually written by Charles Beaumont. Although there would be other episodes credited to Beaumont later, according to The Twilight Zone Companion, these episodes were ghostwritten...

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...Adam Simon made his directorial debut with this film working off a script he wrote based on a story by Twilight Zone writer Charles Beaumont. BRAIN DEAD makes BRAIN DAMAGE look like BRAIN DONORS. Clever, right? I mean that as crazy and...

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...blend of social allegory and family drama was influenced by Melvin Van Peebles’ “Watermelon Man” (1970) and Charles Beaumont’s 1962 “Twilight Zone” episode “Person or Persons...

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...of Truth barring the door... This was the first aired episode of the second season which was not written by Rod Serling. Charles Beaumont had originally envisioned that the monks would keep the Devil imprisoned by putting a cross in...

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...released as part of The Twilight Zone Radio Dramas - Volume 9 collection. This was the first episode aired that was written by Charles Beaumont (and also the first that was not written by Rod Serling). The title of the episode, and the...

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...the real thing. Serling wrote 92 of the series' 156 episodes, while sci-fi masters like Richard Matheson (I Am Legend) and Charles Beaumont (The 7 Faces of Dr. Lao) would also contribute. Using sci-fi to hide strong social commentary...

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