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.

Your next stop, the Twilight Zone at its best is ordinary people in extraordinary situations.

Now I certainly didn't invent that observation but I do subscribe to it.

People in recognisable situations that we as the viewer can relate to.

Then you drop an element of the unexplained into it, like a pebble in a pond, and watch the ripples.

There are actually examples of Rod Sailing's work before the Twilight Zone where we can actually

see the pond undisturbed, where the pebble hasn't been dropped and there is just a very human drama

written by Rod Sailing for another show that is later transformed into the Twilight Zone.

We explored that in the episode called The Story of Dust.

Now there was a show called Matinee Theatre and it was one of those 1950s anthology shows

for which they seemed to create a huge amount of episodes

in a relatively short time period.

Season 1 is listed on IMDB as beginning in 1955

and that season alone had 200 episodes in it.

It seems to be a show that is for the most part lost to time

whether it sits in a vault somewhere, who knows.

And when there's not much information about a show out there, I don't hold the details on

IMDB as gospel, but you can generally get an idea of its details.

So it seems that the show went on for three seasons and a staggering

572 episodes which were broadcast more or less daily rather than weekly and perhaps the reason

it's been lost to time is for the most part it was performed live so whether

the show was actually recorded and kept I really don't know in 1958 matinee

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