If you're listening to this episode, then you might just be ready to join me on a journey through the Twilight Zone.

My name's Tom Elliott and I'm the host of the Twilight Zone podcast and I just wanted to do a short recording before you begin that journey.

Now, I'm not recording this from 2010 when I began the Twilight Zone podcast, but I'm recording it from 2019 in the 60th anniversary of the Twilight Zone.

Now it might be that that's what's brought you here to the beginning of this journey, that you've

listened to the coverage of that show, and now you want to know how it all began. So before you go on

that journey, I just want to say a couple of things. Originally my vision for the Twilight Zone

podcast was basically me watching an episode of the Twilight Zone and putting a few thoughts on a

recording and putting it out there. But the thing is, I couldn't really keep it that way.

The more I watched the show, the more I became enamoured with the show,

enamoured with the people involved with it, the stories behind it,

and of course with Rod Sailing himself.

So if it seems a little basic when you begin, it's because

this was recorded nine years ago and it was pretty basic. But what happens is it becomes

something else. The examinations become more involved. The stories behind the show become more

prevalent. I even start to get interviews with

people like Mark Zickri, the author of the Twilight Zone companion, Steve Rubin, the author of the

Twilight's own encyclopedia, and even Anne Sailing, the daughter of legendary creator Rod Sailing.

So what I'm saying is this, you know, if you're starting this

journey then, if it does seem basic, stick with it because the show evolves. My love of the

Twilight Zone increases and what starts out as me just putting a few thoughts on a recording

starts to become something else. And it goes from that

basic beginning to the award-winning Twilight Zone podcast that it is today. So keep going on that

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