CBS (Fri., Sept. 27, 8 p.m. ET)
Unlike the resurrected Hitchcock, the reincarnated Twilight Zone brings you mostly new stories. Thank goodness, they still have that da-da-da-dum creepy feeling of the original. The tales tell of people who suddenly find themselves alone in the world in some specially spooky way. In the premiere, Bruce (Moonlighting) Willis plays a guy who calls home and hears himself answer the phone—without benefit of answering machine. That segment wasn't made available for review. The next was; it stars Melinda Dillon as a woman who finds a way to end noise pollution (to say any more would give away the Twilight twist). Unlike Hitch, which tries to scare up goose bumps, and unlike Spielberg's Amazing Stories, which promises to get the adrenaline pumping with video pyrotechnics, Twilight is low-key and quiet; all it tries to do is make you think. In what I've seen of the show, it succeeds. But like all the new anthology shows, Twilight will have new writers, directors and stars each week. So the key to quality will be consistency—and only time will tell whether that can be maintained. The grade for now: B
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