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.

That's the signpost up ahead. Your next stop, the Twilight Zone.

It's a well-known fact now that Rod Sailing was using the Twilight Zone to tell stories

that he was unable to tell in a straight, dramatic

presentation. The science fiction and fantasy elements were helping hide in plain sight

the messages that he really wanted to get across. I think if that's the case then the story

that we're going to be discussing tonight is maybe one of the less hidden messages.

It pretty much lays its message right out there for everyone to see.

There is of course that element of fantasy there, the fantastic.

But the truth of the situation is already laid out there in quite

excruciating detail before that really comes into play.

But is it successful?

That's the main thing, so let's find out in tonight's episode of the Twilight Zone,

The Fever.

Mr. and Mrs. Franklin Gibbs, three days and two nights, all expenses paid at a Las Vegas

hotel, won by virtue of Mrs. Gibbs' knack with a phrase.

But unbeknownst to either Mr. or Mrs. Gibbs is the fact that there's a prize in their

package neither expected nor bargained for.

In just a moment, one of them will succumb to an illness worse than any virus can produce,

a most inoperative, deadly, life-shattering affliction known as the fever. first broadcast on the 29th of January 1960 written by Rod Serling and directed by Robert Florey. Now the idea for the episode actually went back to the beginning of the Twilight Zone, the signing of the contracts and the sale of the television show.

Rod Serling and Carol Sailing actually went to Las Vegas to celebrate that.

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