CBS wanted Orson Welles as the narrator/host, but the producers felt that he asked for too much money. Rod Serling invited any viewers to submit a script. He was flooded with over 14,000 scripts, and he actually got around to reading 500 of them. But only two were any good, and he couldn't use them because they didn't fit the format of the show. The original version of the Twilight Zone pilot featured narration by Westbrook Van Voorhis. Van Voorhis' narration was replaced by that of Rod S ...[Read Story ]