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

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

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

the pit of man's fears and the summit of his knowledge. This is the dimension of imagination. It is an

area which we call the twilight zone. The

The Tonight's Twilight's own episode is another one that comes from the pen of Richard Matheson,

filtered through rod Serling.

Now we've seen it before with and when the sky was opened and in that case Sailing took

the core of Richard Matheson's idea and he moulded it into his own thing.

Now this time round the short story Thayerd from the Sun that Richard Matheson had published

in a magazine called Galaxy Science Fiction.

Sailing actually kept a basic sort of A to B of the story but he really needed to flesh

it out to actually make it something that was passable on television.

In the short story, you have a family, they wake up, we find that the world is teetering on the brink of destruction,

and through their conversations we learn that they have a plan to meet up with their neighbours,

get into an experimental aircraft and leave the planet and go to another world.

So they wake up, we hear all those things, they get on the spaceship and they leave and then we have the twist so there's

really not much to the story it's just really that is pretty much if fleshed out

to a few more pages they wake up they get on the ship and they go it's all

about the twist it there's really not much else to it and in that sense it's successful enough. You know,

it sells the twist, I suppose if you didn't quite know, so Rod Serling took that and gave us

the episode that we'll be discussing tonight. And the way Rod Serling tells it, we meet William

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