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

Next stop, the Twilight Zone once said in an interview with a Wisconsin newspaper, the Appleton Post Crescent.

What we do is limit ourselves to one fantasy per show, one fantasy to a customer.

Second, we utilize fantasy only when it helps to tell a story, only when it makes the drama stronger,

only when it's pertinent to the action.

With this in mind, it'll be interesting to see how closely they stick to this from now on.

But from memory I think it's quite a fair assessment of the Twilight Zone.

Some would say that the Twilight Zone is ordinary people in extraordinary situations.

I can't really argue with that, but it's the way they become extraordinary that

makes it special for me. It often seems that this element of fantasy is dropped into an ordinary

situation like a pebble into a pond, and then the ripples just radiate out, and the path of

the protagonist is forever altered by this effect

Martin Graham's Jr in unlocking the door to a television classic thinks that tonight's episode is a perfect example of this

like many Twilight Zones this episode had a longer open the narration than the one that was actually

used. And it goes like this. This is Mr. Jackie Rhodes, age 34. If there was a who's who

for nickel and dime crooks, his chronology would state most simply that he was born in

New York City, went to a boy's

reformatory at age 11, a state penal institute at age 19.

He has been picked up on every count from petty larceny to extortion to assault with

a deadly weapon.

And where some men leave a mark of their lives as a record of their

fragmentary existence on earth, this man leaves a blot, a dirty, discoloured blemish to document

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