What is the TV show The Twilight Zone about?
Twilight Zone- not to be confused with a more recent ( Twilight) series of occult films, is a rarity- a science fiction television show with an anthology format- that is each episode is complete in itself, and there are no continuing characters -this was and is expensive to produce, but does enhance suspense and unpredictable plots- this type of drama did not appeal to everybody and some *left hanging) episodes rather turned viewers off. Some were of immense scope. the program was produced by Rod Serling ( not sterling, as many called him) He may have derived his stage name from invertintg a well-known Journal Square Drug store title- the Silver Rod- to Rod Sterling- then altered to Serling to ( avoid confusion) with the Silver grade (.925) strictly business hours- a good memory jog- 9-5). as stated the show had no recurring characters and tended to turn some elements of the audience = off. needless to say production costs were high, after each episode- back to the drawing board- a muc