(Serling loved a good Faustian parable.) While he hosted weekly visits to other planets and alternate universes, Serling asked his viewers to question authority, innovation and the role of faith in their lives.
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The series quickly developed a core of expertly juggled recurring motifs, including American history, technology, nostalgia and its trademark cautionary tales. This experience would lead Serling to fight hard to retain creative control when he later created “The Twilight Zone.” The screenplay was gutted by the network, rewritten to such a degree that most commentary was removed. A script he submitted for the anthology series “The United States Steel Hour” titled “Noon on Doomsday” was his response to the murder of Emmett Till. In the late ’50s, the screenwriter Rod Serling was experimenting with injecting political commentary into his work. Whether you’ve seen every episode or none, here’s a primer on the enduring legacy of “The Twilight Zone.” The Beginning On Monday, a new generation of viewers will get its own version of Serling’s off-kilter sensibilities when Jordan Peele’s reimagining premieres on CBS All Access.
Five seasons, several offshoots and countless imitators later, the beloved and influential anthology series that mixed sci-fi with morality tales has become an indelible part of the cultural lexicon.
With this sentence, Rod Serling introduced “The Twilight Zone” on Oct. “There is a fifth dimension beyond that which is known to man.”
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