Film/TV

The Twilight Zone

1959 – 1964

Associated Ideas, People, and Places

TV Review

Rod Serling on Doomsday

Marking the centenary of the creator of “The Twilight Zone,” who knew that dystopia was always over the nearest ridge.

by Carly Mattox via Mubi on December 25, 2024
TV Review

Night Terrors

The creator of ‘The Twilight Zone’ dramatized isolation and fear but still believed in the best of humanity.

by Andrew Delbanco via New York Review of Books
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on October 29, 2020
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 Magazine on April 1, 2019
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

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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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