While the Twilight Zone podcast takes a short summer hiatus,

tonight I bring to you another episode from the archives over in the After Hours Club,

Patreon.com slash Twilight Zone podcast.

And if you're a new listener to the Twilight Zone podcast,

this isn't generally how the show goes.

We tend to focus more on episodes of the Twilight Zone,

but over in the After Hours Club, I diversify into all things sailing.

And on the episode that I'm going to bring to you tonight, way back in 2019, I used to do

a kind of magazine show over there called the fifth dimension

where I would look at other rod sailing related work or sometimes it would be

reading a short story but in this particular episode I join up with my friend

al Sherdsmer the presenter of presenting Alfred Hitchcock Presents, to talk about

an episode of Studio One, which was written by Rod Serling, called The Strike. And it's one of two episodes

that Al and I did looking at some really, really early sailing work. So I will put the other one out in maybe a week's time or something.

But for now, I'll hand you over to 2019 Tom Elliott to introduce you to the fifth dimension and the strike.

I'm going to begin tonight's show with a quote within a quote and I'm taking it from

Nick Parisi's book, Rod Sailing has life, work and imagination in which he puts a quote

from Mark Zichry's Twilight Zone companion in which he quotes Rod Sailing so it starts out with some

words from sailing himself and he says a lot of these early scripts were rough

underdeveloped hurried some were still pretty bad stuff and then Zickri carries on

but to be fair it should be said that if they were bad at least they were bad in the right direction a quality which could be seen in these scripts even as it can be seen in Sailing's later scripts for the twilight zone was that even the worst of them revealed a primary concern for people and their problems.

Sometimes the situations were cliched, the character's two-dimensional,

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