Submitted for your approval, one Rod Serling, a rumpled television writer who gained a sort of immortality by appearing on camera introducing an anthology series that would go down in history as one of the finest of all time.

His story was not an amazing story, nor did it take viewers to the outer limits.

Instead, it took them to the heart of human nature, one of the darkest corners of the

Twilight Zone.

The Incomparable.

Number 327.

November 2016.

Welcome back, everybody, to The Incomparable.

I am your host, Jason Snell, and we're here in this episode to talk about classic television series from long ago, for more than 50 years ago.

But you probably know it.

And if you haven't seen it, you know what?

You probably still know it because of all the references.

It's so influential. And funny thing, it's often rerun over the holidays in a marathon, which is

one of the reasons we're doing it right before Thanksgiving. It's the Twilight Zone. We're going

to enter our dimension, not only of sight and sound, but of mind, and

introduce my panelists.

He's fresh out of the asylum, so let's put him on an airplane. It's David Lour. Hello.

Submitted for your approval, a playwright

surrounded by Cornfields, reaping what he sowed in the Twilight Zone. Also, Steve Lutz is here. It's good

that you're here. It's really good, Steve. It's great that you're here. It's a real good podcast you're

making here, Jason. It's real good. It's real good.

Make him stop doing it.

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