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The Twilight Zone Podcast

The Four of Us Are Dying

The Twilight Zone Podcast

Tom Elliot

Tv Reviews, After Shows, Tv & Film

4.8601 Ratings

🗓️ 7 June 2011

⏱️ 30 minutes

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Summary

Another episode of The Twilight Zone featuring someone with a special talent, the ability to change his face at will. George Clayton Johnson contributes his first story to The Twilight Zone.

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0:00.0

There is a fifth dimension beyond that which is known to man.

0:08.0

It is a dimension as vast as space and as timeless as infinity.

0:14.0

It is the middle ground between light and shadow, between science and superstition,

0:20.0

and it lies between the pit of man's fears

0:22.6

and the summit of his knowledge.

0:25.6

This is the dimension of imagination.

0:28.6

It is an area which we call the Twilight Zone.

0:31.6

The The Tonight's episode of the Twilight Zone introduces another name into the mix and instead of just reeling off the episodes that he wrote, I'm going to read a little passage from the book, Dimensions Behind the Twilight Zone,

1:13.8

and that's by Stuart T. Stanyard, and that's a book that I've spoke about in the past,

1:19.0

and I highly recommend that it's a book of interviews, also some essays on the Twilight Zone too.

1:24.6

So in the book there's a nice long interview with a gentleman by the name of George Clayton Johnson.

1:30.3

And Stuart Stanyard asks him the question,

1:34.3

Could you elaborate a little about each of the stories you did for the show?

1:38.3

Anything behind the scenes?

1:40.3

And George Clayton Johnson's response was,

1:43.3

I wrote, all of us are dying, a short story

1:46.8

that Rod Serling bought, that he retitled the four of us are dying, and he wrote a marvelous

1:52.7

script for it. The same thing happened with a story called execution. When I originally wrote it,

1:59.7

I called it the hanging of Jason Black.

2:02.8

Rod changed the man's name to Joe Caswell and the title to execution. The third story I sold

2:08.5

him was called C-Change, but then I had to buy it back because of censorship problems, the cutting

2:14.5

off of a man's hand. The fourth story was a penny for your thoughts in which Dick York plays the part of

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