Twilight Zone Was Almost Narrated By A Hollywood Legend Before Rod Serling

Before series creator Rod Serling was tapped for the job, The Twilight Zone was going to be narrated by a Hollywood legend. Serling created his classic anthology series The Twilight Zone as a vehicle to explore contemporary social issues through a sci-fi lens, and his opening and closing narrations ended up becoming one of the most iconic aspects of the series. The Twilight Zone ran for 156 episodes across five seasons, and Serling presented all of them (except for the original pilot). But Serling initially didn’t even want the job of narrator, and CBS executives had a more prolific Hollywood performer in mind.