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.

Your next stop, the

twilight zone. In our last episode review on the Twilight Zone podcast, we said hello to a new Twilight Zone writer

who will stay with us right until the end of our Twilight Zone journey, and that writer was Elhamna Jr.

But tonight we welcome back an old favourite who is almost at the end of his Twilight Zone journey.

He's been with us since almost the beginning when his story was adapted by Rod Sailing for episode 13 of season

one with the four of us are dying and after tonight's episode he'll only actually be with us

for one more show now that writer is of course George Clayton Johnson. When we last met George Clayton Johnson,

he gifted us with the classic episode, Nothing in the Dark, an antidote of fiction that

portrays death as something to be afraid of. Often we can identify a thread through a writer's work

and it doesn't have to be there in every story

but we will see it cropping up regularly

as they wrestle with their own preoccupation with it

and for George Clayton Johnson that thread is time.

What do we do with it when we have it and what do we do when it runs out?

As you know here on the Twilight Zone podcast we like to scratch the surface a little to see what the

message is behind each episode and part of the joy of that is that I give my thoughts, then you, the friends of the show,

will often come back to me with yours.

Sometimes they're the same, sometimes different.

And that's the beauty of the Twilight Zone and our little corner of it here.

But what do we do when an episode wears its message so clearly on its

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