“There is nothing in the dark that isn’t there when the lights are on.”
— Rod Serling
THE TWILIGHT ZONE debuted tonight in 1959.
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s1 ep 5, Oct 30, 1959 - Walking Distance
closing narration (abridged):
"Martin Sloan... perhaps across his mind there'll flit a little errant wish, that a man might not have to become old, never outgrow the parks and the merry-go-rounds of his youth, he'll smile then, because he'll know it is just an errant wish, some wisp of memory not too important really, some laughing ghosts that cross a man's mind, that are a part of the Twilight Zone." #classictv #classicsciencefiction
Living through the #Trump presidency has a definite #TwilightZone feel.
Twilight Zone, s1 episode 7, Nov 13, 1959 - The Lonely
closing narration:
On a microscopic piece of sand that floats through space is a fragment of a man's life. Left to rust is the place he lived in and the machines he used. Without use, they will disintegrate from the wind and the sand and the years that act upon them. All of Mr. Corry's machines, including the one made in his image, kept alive by love, but now obsolete—in The Twilight Zone.
The Twilight Zone, s1 episode 8, Nov 20, 1959 - Time Enough at Last
closing narration:
The best-laid plans of mice and men ... and Henry Bemis, the small man in the glasses who wanted nothing but time. Henry Bemis, now just a part of a smashed landscape, just a piece of the rubble, just a fragment of what man has deeded to himself. Mr. Henry Bemis, in the Twilight Zone.
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