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Film/TV

The Twilight Zone

1959 – 1964

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Featured Excerpts

  • Rod Serling at the typewriter, at his Westport, Connecticut, home in 1956.
    Origin Story

    An Early Run-In With Censors Led Rod Serling to 'The Twilight Zone'

    His failed attempts to bring the Emmett Till tragedy to television forced him to get creative.
    by Jackie Mansky via Smithsonian on April 1, 2019
  • Black-and-white television still of man in front of a row of masks of himself, lighting a cigarette for one of them.
    Debunk

    Did the Creator of 'The Twilight Zone' Plagiarize Ray Bradbury?

    Either way, Rod Serling definitely pissed him off.
    by Emily Temple via Literary Hub on October 2, 2018

Associated Excerpts

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Depictions of possible causes of apocalypse through war, disaster, and climate change.

Apocalypse, Constantly

Humans love to imagine their own demise.
by Adam Kirsch via The Atlantic on December 31, 2024
A man alone among the rubble of a city

TV and the Bomb

During the Cold War, nuclear weapons were a frequent plot point on television shows. Fearful depictions in the 1950's became more darkly comedic in the 1960s.
by Reba A. Wissner via Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists on August 13, 2018
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