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13 Ways ‘The Twilight Zone’ Transformed Sci-Fi TV

4. The Murderer’s Row of TV Writers

While it was Serling who wrote about about two-thirds of the episodes of the original run, he also drafted a group of people who would go on to influence the paths of both science fiction and television. Among the show’s original writers were esteemed sci-fi writers Charles Beaumont and Ray Bradbury, George Clayton Johnson, who wrote the first episode of Star Trek and Logan’s Run, Richard Matheson, who dropped I Am Legend, Earl Hamner, Jr., the creator of The Waltons, Reginald Rose, one of early televisions most influential writers, and Jerry Sohl, who later contributed to Alfred Hitcock Presents, The Outer Limits, and Star Trek.

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