I love Twilight Zone-for its ability to tell interesting stories in a concise and entertaining manner. It ran the gamut from sci-fi to fantasy to horror.
I first saw The Twilight Zone on an old VHS compilation and was hooked. Revisiting some of these episodes recently, I was struck by how it remained prescient and relevant. An episode like The Monsters Are Due on Maple Street could be used as a demonstration of a mob mentality. That Rod Serling was able to create or co-create over 150 episodes of such consistent quality never fails to astound me.
This was the birth of modern genre television; its importance and influence can never be over-estimated. We owe it a huge debt.
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