the summertime is upon us. And if you remember last year, the podcast took a break for a few

weeks during those busy summer months. And I put out a few episodes from the After Hours Club

archives over at patreon.com slash twilight zone podcast. Now it wasn't my intention to do that again

this year. I really wanted to plow on and get

some more episodes of the main show done. But unfortunately, I'm afraid I have to admit defeat.

Rest assured, everything is fine, but there are just a lot of things that I have to take care

of at the moment. One of which is moving house, which

on its own is a big deal, but there are several things on top of that as well. And with so few

of the main show episodes left to do, I don't want to rush them out or not to do them justice.

So I thought, I'll just take June off, get what I need to do done,

and then hopefully we should get back to spare of the moment in July, at the very latest August.

Now if you remember over in the After Hours Club, you will still get new episodes looking at the outer limits

and, you know, the other things that go on over there.

Because of the support that you give me in the After Hours Club, I'm able to get an editor to put those

together for me. But the Twilight Zone podcast is a very particular thing that I need to do myself.

So thank you for your patience and tonight for your enjoyment I give to you a discussion that

I had with my good friend Al Shirdsmer about an episode of an anthology show called suspense

that featured an episode written by Rod Serling called Nightmare at Ground Zero, and I hope you enjoy it.

First broadcast on the 18th of August 1953, written by Rod Serling and directed by Robert Mulligan,

Nightmare at Ground Zero tells the story of George Vance and his long-suffering

wife Helen. Now George is supplying mannequins for use on an atomic test site, but his

obsession with mannequins and other inanimate figurines is at the expense of his relationship with Helen, and it's understandably

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