You're traveling through another dimension, a dimension not only of sight and sound, but of mind, a journey into a wondrous land whose boundaries are that of imagination.

That's the signpost up ahead.

Your next stop, the Twilight Zone.

Robert Serling, the brother of Rod, once said in a BBC Radio 4 documentary that he

felt his brother would have trouble selling the Twilight Zone as it wouldn't have a regular cast.

It's one of the nice things about the Twilight Zone is that we get to see a large array of actors come and go into the fifth dimension, although there were those that came back

for a second visit.

Actors like William Shatner and Dick York are just two examples of names we'll hear on more

than one occasion as we covered the series as a whole, but there were some who kept coming

back for more.

Of course there's Burgess Meredith, a true pillar of the Twilight Zone, who had four episode appearances in the original series, and he also narrated the 1980s movie adaptation.

But there was one actor who matched Meredith's record in Twilight Zone episode, and many would tell you, was one of the finest performers to step into

Rod Serling's world of the bazaar. That man was Jack Klugman and tonight's

episode a passage for trumpet would be his first visit. Joey Crown musician

with an odd and tense face whose life is a quest for impossible things like like flowers and concrete, or like trying to pluck a note of music out of the air

and put it under glass to treasure.

Joey Crown, musician with an odd and tense face, who in a moment will try to leave the

earth and discover the middle ground, the place we call the Twilight Zone.

First broadcast on the 20th of May, 1960, written by Rod Serling and directed by Don Medford,

who will be seeing again in the upcoming episode, The Man in the Bottle, The Mirror, Death's Head Revisited, and Death Ship.

Like a lot of TV directors, he was a very busy man, and he was known for doing action shows like Barretta and the FBI, but he also worked on popular anthology shows like Alfred Hitchcock Presents and he also

helmed an impressive 36 episodes of Tales of Tomorrow, the show that predated the Twilight

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