For a science fiction series, the "twilight zone" had an incredibly wide range of genres from which it was withdrawn. Military stories, space adventures, horror stories, post-apocalyptic sagas and tons of other settings have appeared in all five seasons of Rod Serling's masterpiece. The series also features several prominent episodes on Western thematic themes, each with a special twilight zone.

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Serling seemed to have a soft point for the cowboy genre. After "The Dusk Zone" ended in 1964He quickly followed a full western series in the West called "The Loner", which premiered at CBS next year. "Loner" was short -lived, but clarified the affinity that Serling had for the Wests, and the "twilight zone" has many stories of choosing a set of the Old American West.

While everyone has their own Favorite episodes of "Dusk Zone"These specific Western episodes have endured the test of time and remain excellent watches more than 60 years later.

First on our list is the episode of the middle of the season 2 "Dusk Zone", which follows a young convict to die with the hanging and his father, who intends to save his life. While drunk drunk on his wagon through the small western city where he lives, the young man (Johnon Alonzo) beats and kills a young girl. A Travel Seller (Thomas Gomez) supplies the city with a hanging rope, and then tries to make an extra dollar by bringing it ordinary dirt as "magical dust" to the young man's father (Vladimir Sokoloff).

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The seller promises that by spraying the dust around the crowded crowd, the father can soften the hearts of his neighbors and urge them to change their minds about the murder of his son. As you expect from the "twilight zone", things do not go that way, but the surprising end of the event leaves everyone involved confused and deeply affected.

Written by Serling itself, this is a classic race of the episode "Dusk Zone", where the end carries less morally than it makes a powerful sense of surreal miracle. The permanent effect is a more emotional impact than the specific message, which is often when the play is in the strongest. And the "dust" is full of kind of archetypes of the Middle Ages, working so well on Serling televers.

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No one, but two of the episodes on this list, turn around the heights in the old Western cities, and it only makes sense to discuss them one after another. "Execution" was broadcast in the first season of the show, just before the "dust", and his themes are not as cute as the characters in that later story. Subject to the hanging is OEO CASVEL (Albert Salmi), a hole and a killer whom Serling describes in storytelling Like someone who, "when the good Lord expressed conscience, heart, feeling for colleagues, had to be out of beer and miss."

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Caswell has been rescued by his execution with the sudden intervention of a scientist from the future named Manion (Russell Nsonson), who uses a time machine to miss the killer in his time. Manion becomes terrible when he realizes what kind of person who has taken time, but although Caswell initially opposes dying to die, he is driving near the madness of the mania of modern life and technology. In the end, both he and a colleague of a villain are punished by the mannion time, but not the way you can expect.

This is the irony "Dusk Zone" in the most sincere, and the episode has some interesting meditations for innocence and civilization. Plus, what is more Serling than a gender than the story of the Old West's time? While we are on this topic ...

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Did anyone say a story of Old West Time trips? Another episode of "Dusk Zone" in Season 2, "One Hundred Hards Over the Edge", takes the same genre Mashup as "execution", but puts a very different spin on it. The episode is followed by Christian Horn (winner of the Academy Academy in 1968, Cliff Robertson), a member of a wagon who leaves his entertainment to look for water and materials. With their young son extremely ill, life and death hang in balance.

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But what Horn finds above the edge is not a more natural landscape. Instead, he finds himself transported in the 1960s New Mexico. The locals help him at dinner, but believe that he is mentally good. Fortunately, they are also an opportunity for Horn to potentially save his son with some medical achievements from the future.

Another original rod, this is a great example of a person's classic "twilight zone" of one person outside of time. The show attracts some of its memorable moments from simply setting two very different epochs against each other and leaving the camera rolling. And the Oscar's pedigree on the cast of this particular episode certainly helps add the overall effect.

Maybe Most episode with Starwater "Dusk Zone" On this list, and of course the most glittering one, the "tomb" characterizes the talents of the arswives in the era like Marvin, Lee Van Cliff and Jameseshes Best. It is only worth mentioning, but the story itself is also quite attractive and more than a little haunted.

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The rental pistol Connie Miller (Marvin) is agreed to kill the evil Pinto Sikes (SEC Gary), but before having his chance in the man, Sikes was killed by a group of federal city bras. Prior to his death, Sikes said Miller avoided deliberately and was a coward. To prove it differently, Miller visits the dead man of daring, and he gets more than he does while he is there.

Written and directed by Montgomery Pitman, the "tomb" relies more in the true supernatural of the "twilight zone" that she usually did during her original race, as it was primarily a series of science fiction. However, the culmination of this episode of this season 3 accepts the genre of the ghost story with some unforgettable images and a particularly tricky ending of Serling's story: "Take this with a grain salt or shovel on earth, as a shadow or substance, we leave it to you."

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This is closed by this list with one of the first episodes "Dusk Zone". "Doomsday" Mr Doomsday brings many of the markers that will become most commonly related to the show - mysterious pedals of strange objects, look at alternative lives and ends that mix melancholy with catharsis.

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The story follows the title of Al Denton (Dan Duria), a former weapon of huge fame, who turned to drinking for many men who killed them in duels. When the intervention of the enigmatic Henry J. Hite returns Denton to something that resembles his former self, it's just a matter of time before another young gun in search of fame to come with a challenge in hand. But while mixing fate can lead to a tense calculation, the episode has a much more satisfying conclusion than it can point to the dark art of duels.

Written by Rod Serling and presenting a guest from Martin Landau, "Mr -Doomsday" gave the perfect idea back in its premiere of the type of show that viewers could expect in the "twilight zone". And maybe it's just that the first western episode of the series is still the best.

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