HE swears by Bernard Herrmann‘s original theme music for The Twilight Zone, particularly the end title music and extra particularly the concluding chords heard between :57 and 1:17.
Herrmann’s music was only used, however, during the first season (10.2.59 through 7.1.60).
Herrmann’s haunting theme and layered orchestration was trashed and replaced with the start of The Twilight Zone‘s second season on 9.30.60 — the first episode was “King Nine Will Not Return”
The new theme, the plink-plink-plink-plink-plink-plink-plink-plink which I’ve never really approved of, was subcontracted by Lud Gluskin and composed by the Romanian-born, Paris-based Marius Constant.
The plink-plink was actually a blend of two Marius themes, “Milieu No. 2” and “Étrange No. 3,” that were spliced together.