Back There (The Twilight Zone, 1961): A patron of a gentlemen’s club finds himself transported back in time to a point shortly before the assassination of Abraham Lincoln.
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Dust (The Twilight Zone, 1961) is a Western-themed story about a conman peddling ‘magic’ dust - which he says could save a man from hanging.
Nervous Man in a Four Dollar Room (The Twilight Zone, 1960): Jackie Rhoades (Joe Mantell) makes an alarming discovery in the mirror of his cheap hotel room.
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The Man in the Bottle is episode two of the second season of The Twilight Zone, written by Rod Serling. A luckless couple - Arthur and Edna Castle - stumble upon a genie.
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2025-02-02 #VisualInspiration prompt:
Tonight, you are traveling all the way to your appointed destination, which, contrary to your feeble plans, happens to be in the darkest corner of the Twilight Zone.
Use this image as inspiration to write a very short story based on it.
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King Nine Will Not Return (1960) opened the second season of The Twilight Zone with the haunting tale of a wartime pilot, played by Bob Cummings, who’s stranded in the desert, seemingly deserted by his crew. www.speckled.band #thetwilightzone #television #tv #1960s #60s #rodserling #Supernatural
Matt Zoller Seitz has a fantastic piece up at RogerEbert.com about Rod Serling and how he used genre to write about political, social and moral concerns. https://culturalgutter.com/2025/01/21/the-metaphor-years-writing-lessons-from-the-twilight-zone/ #tv #series #RodSerling #TheTwilightZone #writing
The Cultural Gutter · “The Metaphor Years: Writing Lessons from The Twilight Zone”At RogerEbert.Com, Matt Zoller Seitz has a fantastic piece on Rod Serling and how he used genre to write about political, social and moral concerns. “‘The writer’s role is to be a menac…
Rod Serling, creator of "The Twilight Zone," believed that the arts were a vehicle for social criticism. While his famous show is now thought of as a sci-fi and fantasy anthology, it was also a way for Serling and others to critique the United States' policies. "The late 1950s and early 1960s were a time of lingering McCarthyism, Cold War paranoia, rampant racism, and relentless pressure to conform to a middle American, white, heterosexual, three-kids-and-a-suburban-house idea of normalcy," writes Matt Zoller Seitz of Roger Ebert. Here's his tribute to Serling's creative courage.
Roger Ebert · The Metaphor Years: Writing Lessons from "The Twilight Zone" | Features | Roger EbertA look back at a show that never shied away from commenting on the world around it.
On my latest “Looking Back on Genre History” segment on the #StarShipSofa #podcast (Episode 748), I revisit the brilliant #TheTwilightZone series and discuss #MonstersOnMapleStreet: The Twilight Zone and the Postwar American Dream by #DavidJBrokaw.
Here is the link!
https://shows.acast.com/starshipsofa/episodes/starshipsofa-748-jeremy-tolbert
I miss watching an episode of #TheTwilightZone before going to sleep, I have to finish it so I can start #TheOuterLimits, I also have to finish #StarTrek The Original Series so I can move on to The Next Generation. Right now I'm mostly watching Japanese stuff, most recently #ウルトラQ (#UltraQ).
New post up: The Loner, a Forgotten Series by Rod Serling https://brandons-journal.com/the-loner-a-forgotten-series-by-rod-serling/
A World of His Own (The Twilight Zone, 1960): A playwright writes characters into existence - and into oblivion.
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A Passage for Trumpet (The Twilight Zone, 1960): Jack Klugman plays Joey Crown, a broke trumpet player who finds himself in a bizarre world where he seems to be invisible.
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John Lasell Dies: ‘Dark Shadows’ And ‘The Twilight Zone’ Character Actor Was 95
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Deadline · John Lasell Dies: ‘Dark Shadows’ And ‘The Twilight Zone’ Character Actor Was 95
The Chaser (The Twilight Zone, 1960): A man turns to a purveyor of mysterious potions when the woman he loves won’t reciprocate. Starring George Grizzard, Patricia Barry and John McIntire #thetwilightzone #tv #1960s #60s #supernatural #cult #rodserling
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A Stop at Willoughby (The Twilight Zone, 1960): A wearied commuter discovers a 19th-century village on his trip home - but does it exist only in his imagination? Starring James Daly as harassed ad agency executive Gary Williams and Howard Smith as his pushy boss Oliver Misrell.
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It's #HootinTootinTuesday again! Post some jokes or funny memes under this hashtag today, and bring lots of smiles to #Mastodon.
