You are about to enter 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 song.

The... Tonight's episode of The Twilight Zone is not only one of the more popular and well-known of the series run,

but it also encapsulates what a lot of people hold dear about Rod Serling's fifth dimension.

It's an episode that provides a certain feeling and a certain state of mind.

It's an episode that should be watched alone in the dark.

It's an episode that many will remember from staying up late at night and catching the midnight replays,

frightened by any sound that may

bump while watching the episode.

It's an episode that, many will claim, is the scariest corner of the Twilight Zone.

So turn off the lights, grab a cushion to hide behind, and join Marsha White as she heads

to the ninth floor in Rod Serling's

tale of terror, the after hours.

Express elevator to the ninth floor of a department store, carrying Miss Marsha White

on a most prosaic, ordinary run-of-the-mill errand.

Ninth floor.

There must be some mistake. There's nothing here.

Miss Marshal White on the ninth floor. Specialties department looking for a gold thimble. The odds are that you'll find it. But there are even better odds that you'll find something else. Because this isn't just a department store. This happens to be the Twilight Zone. First broadcast on the 10th of June 1960, written by Rod Serling and directed by our old friend Douglas Hayes.

Now when people look back at the Twilight Zone with 21st century analysis, they tend to think of it as an incredibly forward

thinking show, but one of the most common complaints and criticisms about the show as a whole

was its portrayal of women.

Perhaps it was the chauvinistic attitudes at the time, but usually within the Twilight

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