With our 5th round pick, Vic Mackey and the Strike Team are proud to select, The Twilight Zone which we will place in the pre-80's category for now.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0052520/
I used to stay up late to watch reruns (obviously) of this great show as a kid. It never failed to deliver creepiness or wonder. I have yet to see every episode, but hope to accomplish that one day.
Created by Rod Serling, the show ran for 5 season between 1959 and 1964. Serling wrote 148 episodes, the bulk of the series Dude. 156 episodes in all, the cast list includes Jack Klugman, Burgess Meredith, William Shatner, Lee Marvin and Martin Landau who all appeared in multiple episodes.
Serling's series was largely a television version of classic radio shows like
The Weird Circle and
X Minus One and was a first for television in its focus. The success of The Twilight Zone spawned a movie and two TV revival series, comic book, magazine and I'm sure a metal lunchbox. It also must have had influence on the creation of series such as
The Outer Limits and
The X Files.
Highly recommend it to anyone who has never seen any episodes. Great stuff!