History Series / TheTwilightZone2002

It featured the first sequel episode in ''Twilight Zone'' television history: "It's Still a Good Life", in which Creator/BillMumy and Creator/ClorisLeachman reprised their roles as Anthony Fremont and his mother Agnes 41 years after starring in "[[Recap/TheTwilightZoneS3E73ItsAGoodLife It's a Good Life]]". Mumy's [[RealLifeRelative real life daughter]] Creator/LilianaMumy played Anthony's daughter Audrey in the episode.

The series also produced [[TheRemake remakes]] of three other original series episodes: "[[Recap/TheTwilightZoneS3E83DeadMansShoes Dead Man's Shoes]]" ("Dead Man's Eyes"), "[[Recap/TheTwilightZoneS1E22TheMonstersAreDueOnMapleStreet The Monsters are Due on Maple Street]]" ("The Monsters are on Maple Street") and "[[Recap/TheTwilightZoneS2E42TheEyeOfTheBeholder Eye of the Beholder]]".

* CallBack: In "[[Recap/TheTwilightZoneS3E73ItsAGoodLife It's Still a Good Life]]", Anthony Fremont [[PlayingWithFire sets George on fire]] and {{mind rape}}s Lorna. In "It's a Good Life", it was mentioned that Teddy Reynolds and Aunt Amy suffered these respective fates.

* ContinuationFic: "[[Recap/TheTwilightZoneS3E73ItsAGoodLife It's Still a Good Life]]" is a direct continuation to the original series' "It's a Good Life", showcasing that Anthony Fremont has grown up and has a daughter named Audrey, who happens to be his SuperiorSuccessor in terms of powers. The conflict of the episode comes from the rest of town noticing this and Anthony's mother Agnes deciding to try to use her as a LaserGuidedTykeBomb to take out Anthony and his reign of terror once and for all.
* ContinuityNod: In "[[Recap/TheTwilightZoneS3E73ItsAGoodLife It's Still a Good Life]]", Lorna mentions how much Anthony loves tomatoes. In "It's a Good Life", Bill Soames brought two of the last cans of tomato soup in Peaksville to the Fremonts' house because he heard Anthony likes it.

* EnfanteTerrible: In "[[Recap/TheTwilightZoneS3E73ItsAGoodLife It's Still a Good Life]]", [[spoiler:Anthony Fremont's daughter Audrey didn't fall far from the tree. She gets fed up with her grandmother Agnes trying to use her as a LaserGuidedTykebomb against Anthony and banishes ''everybody who was still remaining in town'' to "the cornfield".]]
* EvenMoreOmnipotent: In "[[Recap/TheTwilightZoneS3E73ItsAGoodLife It's Still a Good Life]]", Audrey Fremont is [[BeyondTheImpossible even more powerful than her almighty father Anthony]], as she can do the only thing that he cannot: return things to normal. She displays it by bringing back a watch belonging to her grandmother that Anthony erased from existence. [[spoiler: In the end, she is even able to restore the entire world that Anthony caused to vanish.]]

* IronicEcho: In "[[Recap/TheTwilightZoneS3E73ItsAGoodLife It's Still a Good Life]]", Agnes Fremont tells her son Anthony that he is a bad man, a very bad man. This is the same thing that Anthony said to Dan Hollis in "It's a Good Life" over 40 years earlier.

* MindOverMatter: In "[[Recap/TheTwilightZoneS3E73ItsAGoodLife It's Still a Good Life]]", Anthony Fremont plays the piano in his house without touching the keys.
* MindRape: In "[[Recap/TheTwilightZoneS3E73ItsAGoodLife It's Still a Good Life]]", Anthony Fremont punishes Lorna for keeping the secret of Audrey's power from him by destroying her mind, a more extreme version of what he did to Aunt Amy in "It's a Good Life".
* MissingMom: In "[[Recap/TheTwilightZoneS3E73ItsAGoodLife It's Still a Good Life]]", the adult Anthony Fremont has a daughter named Audrey. His mother Agnes mentions that he sent his wife to the cornfield.

* MoralityPet: In "[[Recap/TheTwilightZoneS3E73ItsAGoodLife It's Still a Good Life]]", Audrey Fremont seems to be the only thing capable of stopping her father Anthony from sending people to the cornfield.

* NoChallengeEqualsNoSatisfaction: In "[[Recap/TheTwilightZoneS3E73ItsAGoodLife It's Still a Good Life]]", Anthony Fremont has grown tired of always winning at bowling and challenges Joseph to a game. When Joseph deliberately sends his ball into the gutter twice in a row, Anthony becomes angry at him for letting him win. He is about to punish him but his daughter Audrey asking him to play Pinball with her stays his hand.

* PlayingWithFire: In "[[Recap/TheTwilightZoneS3E73ItsAGoodLife It's Still a Good Life]]", when Anthony Fremont confronts Timmy's father George over Timmy accidentally knocking Audrey out of a tree, George begins to say to Agnes that it was a bad idea to let the children play together. Anthony realizes that George does not like him and sets him on fire to punish him. At Agnes' urging, he soon sends George to the cornfield. Having seen everything, Timmy is naturally devastated.

* PsychicStatic: In "[[Recap/TheTwilightZoneS3E73ItsAGoodLife It's Still a Good Life]]", Agnes Fremont has developed the ability to shield her thoughts from her son Anthony after more than 40 years. She taught Audrey to do the same thing, though in her case it proved unnecessary as Anthony couldn't read her thoughts.
* PsychopathicManchild: In "[[Recap/TheTwilightZoneS3E73ItsAGoodLife It's Still a Good Life]]", Anthony Fremont has matured somewhat over the previous 40 years but he has retained his [[SpoiledBrat spoiled attitude]] and overly simplistic worldview. He is still very quick to punish people who don't like him and think mean thoughts about him.

** In "[[Recap/TheTwilightZoneS3E73ItsAGoodLife It's Still a Good Life]]", Audrey Fremont proves to be an even more powerful reality warper than her father Anthony, who made the world outside of Peaksville disappear before he was six years old. Audrey is able to do the one thing that he can't do: bring things back from the cornfield. [[spoiler: She eventually brings back the entire world.]]

** "The Monsters are on Maple Street" is a remake of "[[Recap/TheTwilightZoneS1E22TheMonstersAreDueOnMapleStreet The Monsters are Due on Maple Street]]".
** "Dead Man's Eyes" is a remake of "[[Recap/TheTwilightZoneS3E83DeadMansShoes Dead Man's Shoes]]". It was previously remade as "Dead Woman's Shoes" for the [[Series/TheTwilightZone1985 1980s revival]].
** "[[Recap/TheTwilightZoneS2E42TheEyeOfTheBeholder Eye of the Beholder]]" was remade using the same script as the original episode.

* SuperiorSuccessor: In "[[Recap/TheTwilightZoneS3E73ItsAGoodLife It's Still a Good Life]]", Anthony Fremont's daughter Audrey manages to be a SuperiorSuccessor to a nigh-omnipotent RealityWarper. She can restore things that her father has willed out of existence (which he himself cannot do) and is immune to his telepathy.

* SuddenSequelDeathSyndrome: In "[[Recap/TheTwilightZoneS3E73ItsAGoodLife It's Still a Good Life]]", Agnes Fremont mentions that her son Anthony sent his father Bill to the cornfield years earlier.

The second TV revival of ''Series/TheTwilightZone1959'', this series aired on Creator/{{UPN}} during the 2002-03 season. It aired in hour-long installments, with two half-hour episodes run back-to-back, the only exception being the one-hour episode "The Lineman". Creator/ForestWhitaker was the on-camera host. The series ran for 44 episodes.

* AdultFear: "How Much Do You Love Your Kid?" Your child may be kidnapped, and the police won't do a thing about it, because it is for a [[HollywoodLaw perfectly legal]] TV show. And there is the implied threat that if you can't find your child in an hour, you will never see them again. [[spoiler:And ''your own husband'' was the kidnapper, and thinks that doing it all was a ''favor'' to get the reward.]]

* CreepyChild: The ghost kids from "Burned".

* CreepyChild: Danielle in "The Collection". Miranda found out the painful way when the other dolls alerted her to the kid's true character.

* BabysittersNightmare: The episode "The Collection" features a preteen girl named Danielle who has gone through many babysitters in the past. As it turns out, she's not a brat, just immature as a result of being [[IJustWantToHaveFriends desperately lonely]] and the child of [[AbusiveParents controlling, overbearing parents.]] Unfortunately, Danielle thinks that the babysitters who come over are supposed to be her friends forever, and she finds a way to ensure that they stay--namely, permanently transforming them into [[LivingToys Barbie dolls]] that [[AndIMustScream can move, but not speak, and are still entirely conscious.]]

It featured the first sequel episode in ''Twilight Zone'' television history: "It's Still a Good Life", in which Bill Mumy and Creator/ClorisLeachman reprised their roles as Anthony Fremont and his mother Agnes 41 years after starring in "[[Recap/TheTwilightZoneS3E73ItsAGoodLife It's a Good Life]]". Mumy's [[RealLifeRelative real life daughter]] Creator/LilianaMumy played Anthony's daughter Audrey in the episode.

It featured the only sequel in ''Twilight Zone'' history: "It's Still a Good Life", in which Bill Mumy and Creator/ClorisLeachman reprised their roles as Anthony Fremont and his mother Agnes 41 years after starring in "[[Recap/TheTwilightZoneS3E73ItsAGoodLife It's a Good Life]]". Mumy's [[RealLifeRelative real life daughter]] Creator/LilianaMumy played Anthony's daughter Audrey in the episode.

* HeroicSacrifice: In "Into the Light", the teacher stopped one of her students from shooting his classmates after being bullied. She tries to grab his gun, which caused them to fall from the roof.

* ImmoralRealityShow: In "How Much Do You Love Your Kid?", the titular reality show kidnaps people's children and forces the parent selected as a "contestant" to RaceAgainstTime to locate the kid by answering a number of questions that will lead them to where the kid is... and a million dollars. And there's the implied threat that if the parents can't find their child in an hour, they'll never see them again. [[spoiler:It becomes more sadistic when it turns out that in order to legally allow children to be taken in such a way, at least one of the parents must agree, even with said implied risk on the line.]]

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!!Tropes:

* KarmicDeath: In "Burned" [[spoiler:the ghosts of the kids killed in an arson caused by [[CorruptCorporateExecutive Scott Crane]] get revenge by killing Crane, the arsonist, and a corrupt cop who covered it up by burning them to death.]]

* SettingUpdate: "The Monsters are on Maple Street" uses the fact that it's 2002 to add more things to the blackout that freak out people like [[CellPhonesAreUseless cell phones being unresponsive]]. It also explores the paranoia behind profiling (the only house that still receives light belongs to a Middle-Eastern man). On top of that, [[spoiler:it uses the fact that TheWarOnTerror is fresh to change the creators of said blackout from aliens to a U.S. GovernmentConspiracy that was testing how normal Americans would react to a situation that fired up their paranoia. It only takes several hours for them to turn on each other.]]

* ReedRichardsIsUseless: Lampshaded in "The Lineman." Shannon tries to convince Tyler that he can use his ability to read minds for a greater cause than just making money in the stock market. She says he could determine the truth in courts or possibly even reach people in comas. Unfortunately, Tyler has become DrunkWithPower, [[TheAlcoholic and quite literally drunk]], by that point.

* TomatoSurprise: In "Upgrade", after moving into a new house, Anne [=MacIntosh=] discovers that her dog Zonka has changed breeds and [[RippleEffectProofMemory she is the only one who realizes it]]. She soon finds that her previously obnoxious family, consisting of her husband Phillip and two children Sean and Tess, has been similarly replaced. Their physical appearances are entirely different and their personalities have become essentially perfect. Anne can't get anyone to believe her and she is eventually replaced herself. [[spoiler: The final scene reveals that Anne and her family are characters in a little girl named Lizzie's ''VideoGame/TheSims''-esque people simulator VideoGame.]]

* RaceLift: This revival was targeted towards a more African-American audience; the host Creator/ForestWhitaker was black as were a lot of the main characters in its episodes, and it featured episodes such as "Shades of Guilt" in which a racist white man slowly turns black, or Memphis, in which a dying black man who finds himself in 1968 tries to save Martin Luther King. Administrivia/TropesAreNotBad, of course, and being on Creator/{{UPN}} might have had something to do with it.

** What Craig wanted Azoth the Avenger to do to [[AbusiveParents his abusive dad]] (and it's not unusual for him (and the audience) to believe it's going to happen, with Azoth being a Literature/ConanTheBarbarian {{Expy}} and Craig's dad being a regular security guard). Turned out [[BadassNormal that it went the other way around]], and Craig's dad gives Azoth a beating with his nightstick so bad that [[ScrewThisImOuttaHere Azoth asks Craig to put him back on his home dimension immediately]] (although not before telling him that this is a situation where only Craig can save himself, if he is brave enough to confront his father).