You unlock this door with the key of imagination.

Beyond it is another dimension, a dimension of sound, and the dimension of imagination. Beyond it is another dimension. A dimension of sound,

and a dimension of sight,

a dimension of mind.

You're moving into a land of both shadow and substance

of things and ideas.

You've just crossed over into the twilight zone.

The Tonight I'm sitting here by the light whiskey.

Listening to a little radio to pass the time

before my driver arrives to take me to the airport to catch our flight for the next

episode as look would have it you're just in time to catch the next program which is an episode of a

radio show called it happens to you penned by a young writer working out of Cincinnati called Rod Serling.

Now the gimmick of the show, It Happens to You, is that the narrator of each episode speaks to you as if you're the main character in the story.

But it's an illusion that is soon shattered because, as soon as the drama begins, an actor takes up that part and interacts with the other characters.

So that's the end of that.

But as a gimmick and a kind of historical radio artifact, it is quite fun.

Now at the time of writing this particular episode, Rod Sailing was working as a freelance writer

for the radio station WLW.

And you have to remember that this is a time when performances of radio plays and even television shows weren't necessarily kept.

And because of that, shows could be performed on different dates, in different areas, because each state would have their own unique

radio and television stations. And this is one of those shows that was produced multiple times,

and it didn't actually start out on radio. In his book, Rod Serling, his life, work and imagination,

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